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How much rain fell in Chediston, Suffolk? Daily, weekly and monthly totals averaged over the Environment Agency rain gauges within 15km, updated every 15 minutes.
Next 24 hours: about 3.1mm of rain forecast for the area around Chediston, heaviest in the hour to 14:00 (0.8mm).
A computer model forecast (DWD ICON) for a square about 15 km across, updated 11:05 UK time. It is a forecast, not a measurement, and not a Met Office forecast. Weather data by Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).
Daily totals for UK days from the same computer model; "dry" means under 0.2mm. Forecasts further ahead are less certain.
| Gauge | Distance | Yesterday | 7 days | October | Today |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rainfall gauge nr Chediston | 0.0km | 0.2mm | 36.0mm | 65.4mm | 0.8mm |
| Rainfall gauge nr Harleston nr Harleston | 10.4km | 0.0mm | 42.8mm | 77.3mm | 1.5mm |
| Rainfall gauge nr Mid Suffolk nr Mid Suffolk | 10.9km | 0.0mm | 40.8mm | 76.2mm | 1.5mm |
Daily totals 26 Sep–25 Oct. Wettest day: 15.9mm.
16 days with at least 0.2mm of rain so far this October at Rainfall gauge nr Chediston, against a full-month average of 17.7 rain days (based on 23 months of records at this gauge).
2026 so far: 390 mm (1 Jan to 25 Oct), against 475 mm by the same date in an average year (2001–2025) — 18% drier.
One bar per calendar year, the average of 3 local rain gauges: the Environment Agency's quality-checked daily archive, then live telemetry for the latest months. Wettest: 2012 (789 mm). Driest: 2001 (426 mm). Average: 596 mm a year. Striped years have gaps in the record, so no total is shown for them.
Daily totals are the average of 3 local rain gauges, for UTC days; one gauge can catch much more than the average. A storm's figure adds up the rain measured on its dates, from our list of Met Office named storms and major floods — other weather on those days counts too.
Chediston gets about 627 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month November, 63 mm; driest April, 38 mm). That is drier than the UK as a whole, which averages 1,163 mm a year.
Monthly averages in mm. Source: Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 (5 km grid), 1.5 km from the town's gauge centre. Average rainfall: HadUK-Grid v1.3.2, Met Office. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. UK comparison: Met Office HadUK-Grid areal series, 1991-2020, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Rain gauge River gauge Storm overflow
A level is shown only when the gauge's latest reading is under 6 hours old. Distances are straight-line from the centre of Chediston's monitored area.
1 storm overflow within 5 km of the centre of Chediston's monitored area. The 1 with a live status is not discharging right now.
Event Duration Monitors show when an overflow may be spilling; they do not confirm it, and this is not advice on water quality. A live status older than two hours counts as no current status. Live status: © Anglian Water storm overflow activity data, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Annual spill figures: Environment Agency Event Duration Monitoring return, © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right, Open Government Licence (OGL) v3.0.
Village in Suffolk, England
Chediston is a village and a civil parish on the B1123 road, in the East Suffolk district, in the English county of Suffolk. It is located 2 miles west of Halesworth, its post town. The population of the civil parish as of the 2011 census was 195 and in 2018 it was estimated to be 234. Chediston shares a parish council with the nearby villages of Linstead Magna and Linstead Parva.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).
0.1mm of rain fell yesterday (25 Oct 2026), from the average of 3 rain gauges within 15km of Chediston.
October so far: 73.0mm vs 65.5mm October average — 11% wetter (the average covers the whole month; we are 26 days in). Figures are the average of 3 rain gauges within 15km.
Rainfall gauge nr Chediston is the nearest rain gauge, 0.0km from the centre of Chediston's monitored area. Rain gauges can be several kilometres from the town itself, so very local downpours may not register exactly.
16 days with at least 0.2mm of rain so far this October at Rainfall gauge nr Chediston, against a full-month average of 17.7 rain days.
2012 was the wettest year in the record since 2001, with 789 mm from the average of 3 local rain gauges, against an average of 596 mm a year. The driest was 2001, with 426 mm.
27 May 2007: 54.7 mm on average across 3 local rain gauges, and up to 67.0 mm at one of them. Records since 16 Jul 2000.
Rainfall data: Environment Agency rain gauges, synced every 15 minutes. Daily totals are computed overnight (UTC days); "today so far" is live. Gauge distances are straight-line from the centre of Chediston's monitored area — local rainfall can vary over short distances.
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