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How much rain fell in Great Dunmow, Essex? Daily, weekly and monthly totals averaged over the Environment Agency rain gauges within 15km, updated every 15 minutes.
Next 24 hours: about 0.4mm of rain forecast for the area around Great Dunmow, heaviest in the hour to Tue 08:00 (0.3mm).
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 Great Dunmow | 0.5km | 0.0mm | 37.4mm | 66.5mm | 3.6mm |
| Rainfall gauge nr Great Saling nr Great Saling | 6.2km | 0.2mm | 33.5mm | 66.6mm | 3.4mm |
| Rainfall gauge nr Takeley Street nr Takeley Street | 8.5km | 0.2mm | 28.0mm | 53.4mm | 2.4mm |
Daily totals 26 Sep–25 Oct. Wettest day: 13.4mm.
15 days with at least 0.2mm of rain so far this October at Rainfall gauge nr Great Dunmow, against a full-month average of 15.0 rain days (based on 2 months of records at this gauge).
2026 so far: 381 mm (1 Jan to 25 Oct), against 476 mm by the same date in an average year (2001–2025) — 20% drier.
One bar per calendar year, the average of 8 local rain gauges: the Environment Agency's quality-checked daily archive, then live telemetry for the latest months. Wettest: 2014 (773 mm). Driest: 2005 (448 mm). Average: 604 mm a year.
Daily totals are the average of 8 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.
Great Dunmow gets about 622 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month October, 66 mm; driest March, 39 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), 1.0 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
Nearest gauge on it: Churchend, 1.7 km away: 0.18 m Steady.
Every gauge on the River Chelmer →A level is shown only when the gauge's latest reading is under 6 hours old. Distances are straight-line from the centre of Great Dunmow's monitored area.
6 storm overflows within 5 km of the centre of Great Dunmow's monitored area. None of the 6 with a live status is 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. Live status: © Thames 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.
Town in Essex, England
Great Dunmow or Dunmow is a historic market town and civil parish in the Uttlesford district of Essex, England. It lies to the north of the A120 road, approximately midway between Bishop's Stortford and Braintree, 5 miles (8 km) east of London Stansted Airport. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 10,630 and the built-up area had a population of 10,395. The town is on the site of a Roman settlement on Stane Street, in the upper valley of the river Chelmer.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).
0.1mm of rain fell yesterday (25 Oct 2026), from the average of 9 rain gauges within 15km of Great Dunmow.
October so far: 64.4mm vs 61.0mm October average — 6% wetter (the average covers the whole month; we are 26 days in). Figures are the average of 9 rain gauges within 15km.
Rainfall gauge nr Great Dunmow is the nearest rain gauge, 0.5km from the centre of Great Dunmow's monitored area. Rain gauges can be several kilometres from the town itself, so very local downpours may not register exactly.
15 days with at least 0.2mm of rain so far this October at Rainfall gauge nr Great Dunmow, against a full-month average of 15.0 rain days.
2014 was the wettest year in the record since 2001, with 773 mm from the average of 8 local rain gauges, against an average of 604 mm a year. The driest was 2005, with 448 mm.
17 Jan 2022: 48.6 mm on average across 8 local rain gauges, and up to 194.4 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 Great Dunmow's monitored area — local rainfall can vary over short distances.
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