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How much rain fell in Hatfield, Hertfordshire? Daily, weekly and monthly totals averaged over the Environment Agency rain gauges within 15km, updated every 15 minutes.
Next 24 hours: about 4.6mm of rain forecast for the area around Hatfield, heaviest in the hour to Tue 07:00 (3.4mm).
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 Hatfield | 0.0km | 0.0mm | 45.8mm | 63.4mm | 3.1mm |
| Rainfall gauge nr North Mymms nr North Mymms | 6.5km | 0.0mm | 50.0mm | 69.6mm | 3.6mm |
| Rainfall gauge nr St Albans nr St Albans | 6.5km | 0.0mm | 50.6mm | 66.6mm | 3.0mm |
Daily totals 26 Sep–25 Oct. Wettest day: 17.6mm.
15 days with at least 0.2mm of rain so far this October at Rainfall gauge nr Hatfield, against a full-month average of 16.1 rain days (based on 2 months of records at this gauge).
2026 so far: 430 mm (1 Jan to 25 Oct), against 499 mm by the same date in an average year (2000–2025) — 14% 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: 2000 (883 mm). Driest: 2005 (451 mm). Average: 643 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.
Hatfield gets about 658 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month October, 70 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), 3.1 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: Waterhall, 5.4 km away: 0.15 m Steady.
Every gauge on the River Lee →A level is shown only when the gauge's latest reading is under 6 hours old. Distances are straight-line from the centre of Hatfield's monitored area.
3 storm overflows within 5 km of the centre of Hatfield's monitored area. The 1 with a live status is not discharging right now, and 2 have 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: © 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 Hertfordshire, England
Hatfield is a town and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England, in the borough of Welwyn Hatfield. It had a population of 29,616 in 2001, 39,201 at the 2011 census, and 41,265 at the 2021 census. The settlement is of Saxon origin. Hatfield House, home of the Marquess of Salisbury, forms the nucleus of the old town. From the 1930s when de Havilland opened a factory, until the 1990s when British Aerospace closed it, aircraft design and manufacture employed more people there than any other industry. Hatfield was one of the post-war New Towns built around London and has much modernist architecture from the period. The University of Hertfordshire is based there.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).
0.0mm of rain fell yesterday (25 Oct 2026), from the average of 11 rain gauges within 15km of Hatfield.
October so far: 70.2mm vs 67.1mm October average — 5% wetter (the average covers the whole month; we are 26 days in). Figures are the average of 11 rain gauges within 15km.
Rainfall gauge nr Hatfield is the nearest rain gauge, 0.0km from the centre of Hatfield'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 Hatfield, against a full-month average of 16.1 rain days.
2000 was the wettest year in the record since 2000, with 883 mm from the average of 8 local rain gauges, against an average of 643 mm a year. The driest was 2005, with 451 mm.
2 Oct 2020: 46.7 mm on average across 8 local rain gauges, and up to 64.6 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 Hatfield's monitored area — local rainfall can vary over short distances.
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