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How much rain fell in Chippenham, Wiltshire? Daily, weekly and monthly totals averaged over the Environment Agency rain gauges within 15km, updated every 15 minutes.
Next 24 hours: about 3.4mm of rain forecast for the area around Chippenham, heaviest in the hour to Tue 04:00 (2.2mm).
A computer model forecast (DWD ICON) for a square about 15 km across, updated 17:05 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 Chippenham | 0.0km | 0.0mm | 72.8mm | 97.6mm | 5.0mm |
| Rainfall gauge nr Great Somerford nr Great Somerford | 9.7km | 0.0mm | 76.2mm | 101.6mm | 5.3mm |
| Rainfall gauge nr Badminton nr Badminton | 12.5km | 0.0mm | 84.7mm | 114.2mm | 6.0mm |
Daily totals 26 Sep–25 Oct. Wettest day: 18.1mm.
19 days with at least 0.2mm of rain so far this October at Rainfall gauge nr Chippenham, against a full-month average of 20.5 rain days (based on 15 months of records at this gauge).
2026 so far: 588 mm (1 Jan to 24 Oct), against 588 mm by the same date in an average year (2000–2025) — about average.
One bar per calendar year, the average of 5 local rain gauges: the Environment Agency's quality-checked daily archive, then live telemetry for the latest months. Wettest: 2024 (1,062 mm). Driest: 2011 (544 mm). Average: 774 mm a year. Striped years have gaps in the record, so no total is shown for them.
Daily totals are the average of 5 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.
Chippenham gets about 782 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month November, 86 mm; driest April, 52 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), 2.7 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 Discharging now
A level is shown only when the gauge's latest reading is under 6 hours old. Distances are straight-line from the centre of Chippenham's monitored area.
14 storm overflows within 5 km of the centre of Chippenham's monitored area. 1 is discharging now, 12 report not discharging, and 1 has no current status.
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: © Wessex 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.
Market town in Wiltshire, England
Chippenham is a market town and civil parish in north-west Wiltshire, England. It lies 13 miles (21 km) north-east of Bath, 86 miles (138 km) west of London and is near the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The town was established on a crossing of the River Avon, where some form of settlement is believed to have existed since before Roman times. It was a royal vill and probably a royal hunting lodge, under Alfred the Great. The town continued to grow when the Great Western Railway arrived in 1841. In 2021 the parish had a population of 36,548.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).
0.0mm of rain fell yesterday (25 Oct 2026), from the average of 5 rain gauges within 15km of Chippenham.
October so far: 101.4mm vs 83.8mm October average — 21% wetter (the average covers the whole month; we are 26 days in). Figures are the average of 5 rain gauges within 15km.
Rainfall gauge nr Chippenham is the nearest rain gauge, 0.0km from the centre of Chippenham's monitored area. Rain gauges can be several kilometres from the town itself, so very local downpours may not register exactly.
19 days with at least 0.2mm of rain so far this October at Rainfall gauge nr Chippenham, against a full-month average of 20.5 rain days.
2024 was the wettest year in the record since 2000, with 1,062 mm from the average of 5 local rain gauges, against an average of 774 mm a year. The driest was 2011, with 544 mm.
5 Jul 2006: 52.6 mm on average across 5 local rain gauges, and up to 65.8 mm at one of them. Records since 1 Jan 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 Chippenham's monitored area — local rainfall can vary over short distances.
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