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How much rain fell in Great Gidding, Cambridgeshire? Daily, weekly and monthly totals averaged over the Environment Agency rain gauges within 15km, updated every 15 minutes.
Next 24 hours: little or no rain forecast for the area around Great Gidding (under 0.2mm).
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 Great Gidding | 0.0km | 4.0mm | 44.9mm | 81.8mm | 0.4mm |
| Rainfall gauge nr Cotterstock nr Cotterstock | 10.9km | 4.1mm | 11.4mm | 14.1mm | 1.1mm |
| Rainfall gauge nr Chesterton nr Chesterton | 12.2km | 3.8mm | 44.2mm | 78.0mm | 1.4mm |
Daily totals 27 Sep–26 Oct. Wettest day: 10.8mm.
15 days with at least 0.2mm of rain so far this October at Rainfall gauge nr Great Gidding, against a full-month average of 15.9 rain days (based on 15 months of records at this gauge).
2026 so far: 437 mm (1 Jan to 26 Oct), against 470 mm by the same date in an average year (2000–2025) — 7% 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 (846 mm). Driest: 2011 (333 mm). Average: 593 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.
Great Gidding gets about 624 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month October, 64 mm; driest March, 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), 0.6 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: Hamerton, 0.0 km away: 1.06 m Steady.
Every gauge on the Alconbury Brook →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 Gidding's monitored area.
1 storm overflow within 5 km of the centre of Great Gidding'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 Cambridgeshire, England
Great Gidding is a village and civil parish in the Huntingdonshire district of Cambridgeshire, England.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).
4.0mm of rain fell yesterday (26 Oct 2026), from the average of 3 rain gauges within 15km of Great Gidding.
October so far: 58.0mm vs 72.4mm October average — 20% drier (the average covers the whole month; we are 27 days in). Figures are the average of 3 rain gauges within 15km.
Rainfall gauge nr Great Gidding is the nearest rain gauge, 0.0km from the centre of Great Gidding'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 Gidding, against a full-month average of 15.9 rain days.
2012 was the wettest year in the record since 2000, with 846 mm from the average of 3 local rain gauges, against an average of 593 mm a year. The driest was 2011, with 333 mm.
9 Aug 2004: 115.3 mm on average across 3 local rain gauges, and up to 123.0 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 Gidding's monitored area — local rainfall can vary over short distances.
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