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How much rain fell in Jacobs Well, Surrey? Daily, weekly and monthly totals averaged over the Environment Agency rain gauges within 15km, updated every 15 minutes.
Next 24 hours: about 6.4mm of rain forecast for the area around Jacobs Well, heaviest in the hour to 18:00 (3.0mm).
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 Guildford (south-west) nr Guildford | 2.5km | 20.3mm | 60.4mm | 86.5mm | 7.0mm |
| Rainfall gauge nr Guildford (north-west) nr Guildford | 5.5km | 20.8mm | 57.3mm | 80.6mm | 6.9mm |
| Rainfall gauge nr Chobham nr Chobham | 9.7km | 21.5mm | 52.0mm | 72.3mm | 5.8mm |
Daily totals 24 Sep–23 Oct. Wettest day: 23.8mm.
14 days with at least 0.2mm of rain so far this October at Rainfall gauge nr Guildford (south-west), against a full-month average of 12.0 rain days (based on 1 months of records at this gauge).
2026 so far: 525 mm (1 Jan to 23 Oct), against 581 mm by the same date in an average year (2000–2025) — 10% drier.
One bar per calendar year, the average of 6 local rain gauges: the Environment Agency's quality-checked daily archive, then live telemetry for the latest months. Wettest: 2000 (1,173 mm). Driest: 2003 (539 mm). Average: 775 mm a year.
Daily totals are the average of 6 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.
Jacobs Well gets about 730 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month November, 83 mm; driest March, 46 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), 2.5 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
Nearest gauge on it: Guildford, 2.4 km away: 1.30 m Steady.
Every gauge on the River Wey →A level is shown only when the gauge's latest reading is under 6 hours old. Distances are straight-line from the centre of Jacobs Well's monitored area.
4 storm overflows within 5 km of the centre of Jacobs Well's monitored area. None of the 3 with a live status is discharging right now, 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: © 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.
Village in Surrey, England
Jacobs Well or Jacobswell is a small village in Surrey, England, of 20th century creation, with a population of 1,171. The village forms a northern outskirt of Guildford, in the civil parish of Worplesdon which can be considered the mother village of medieval date to the west. The Stoke Hill part of Stringers Common, Slyfield Industrial Estate and a Surrey County Council general waste transfer station to the south form the narrowest of its buffer zones to all sides, separating the Slyfield part of Guildford from the village.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).
23.8mm of rain fell yesterday (23 Oct 2026), from the average of 6 rain gauges within 15km of Jacobs Well.
October so far: 89.0mm vs 87.6mm October average — 2% wetter (the average covers the whole month; we are 24 days in). Figures are the average of 6 rain gauges within 15km.
Rainfall gauge nr Guildford (south-west) is the nearest rain gauge, 2.5km from the centre of Jacobs Well's monitored area. Rain gauges can be several kilometres from the town itself, so very local downpours may not register exactly.
14 days with at least 0.2mm of rain so far this October at Rainfall gauge nr Guildford (south-west), against a full-month average of 12.0 rain days.
2000 was the wettest year in the record since 2000, with 1,173 mm from the average of 6 local rain gauges, against an average of 775 mm a year. The driest was 2003, with 539 mm.
23 Dec 2013: 48.1 mm on average across 6 local rain gauges, and up to 57.0 mm at one of them, during 2013-14 UK winter floods. 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 Jacobs Well's monitored area — local rainfall can vary over short distances.
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