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How much rain fell in Kirtling, Cambridgeshire? Daily, weekly and monthly totals averaged over the Environment Agency rain gauges within 15km, updated every 15 minutes.
Next 24 hours: about 0.8mm of rain forecast for the area around Kirtling, heaviest in the hour to Tue 08:00 (0.7mm).
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 Kirtling | 0.0km | 0.0mm | 51.8mm | 86.7mm | 3.1mm |
| Rainfall gauge nr Burrough Green nr Burrough Green | 3.9km | 0.0mm | 47.9mm | 73.2mm | 2.6mm |
| Rainfall gauge nr West Suffolk nr West Suffolk | 7.0km | 0.0mm | 47.5mm | 77.9mm | 2.8mm |
Daily totals 26 Sep–25 Oct. Wettest day: 14.5mm.
16 days with at least 0.2mm of rain so far this October at Rainfall gauge nr Kirtling, against a full-month average of 18.9 rain days (based on 2 months of records at this gauge).
2026 so far: 317 mm (1 Jan to 25 Oct), against 469 mm by the same date in an average year (2002–2025) — 32% 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: 2012 (763 mm). Driest: 2003 (403 mm). Average: 593 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.
Kirtling gets about 638 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month August, 68 mm; driest March, 40 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), 1.5 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: Ousden, 5.5 km away: 0.22 m Steady.
Every gauge on the River Kennett →A level is shown only when the gauge's latest reading is under 6 hours old. Distances are straight-line from the centre of Kirtling's monitored area.
2 storm overflows within 5 km of the centre of Kirtling's monitored area. None of the 2 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. Annual spill figures: Environment Agency Event Duration Monitoring return, © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right, Open Government Licence (OGL) v3.0.
Settlement in Cambridgeshire, England
Kirtling, together with Kirtling Green and Kirtling Towers, is a scattered settlement in the south-eastern edge of the English county of Cambridgeshire. It forms a civil parish with the nearby village of Upend to its north. The population of the settlement is included in the civil parish of Woodditton.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).
0.0mm of rain fell yesterday (25 Oct 2026), from the average of 6 rain gauges within 15km of Kirtling.
October so far: 70.8mm vs 60.5mm October average — 17% wetter (the average covers the whole month; we are 26 days in). Figures are the average of 6 rain gauges within 15km.
Rainfall gauge nr Kirtling is the nearest rain gauge, 0.0km from the centre of Kirtling's monitored area. Rain gauges can be several kilometres from the town itself, so very local downpours may not register exactly.
16 days with at least 0.2mm of rain so far this October at Rainfall gauge nr Kirtling, against a full-month average of 18.9 rain days.
2012 was the wettest year in the record since 2002, with 763 mm from the average of 6 local rain gauges, against an average of 593 mm a year. The driest was 2003, with 403 mm.
27 Jun 2017: 40.5 mm on average across 6 local rain gauges, and up to 50.6 mm at one of them. Records since 4 Jul 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 Kirtling's monitored area — local rainfall can vary over short distances.
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