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How much rain fell in Liverpool, Liverpool City Region? Daily, weekly and monthly totals averaged over the Environment Agency rain gauges within 15km, updated every 15 minutes.
Yellow Yellow warning of rain
Heavy rain brings a high likelihood of moderate impacts from surface water flooding.
In force until 11pm Sat 24 Oct (UK time). Issued 9:05am Sat 24 Oct by the Met Office.
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A Met Office weather warning is in force here: see the warning above.
Next 24 hours: about 0.8mm of rain forecast for the area around Liverpool, heaviest in the hour to 19:00 (0.7mm).
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.
Chance of rain in Liverpool
Met Office forecast for the next 24 hours: 85% chance of more than 1 mm, 5% chance of more than 4 mm and less than 5% chance of more than 12 mm.
Next 48 hours: more than 95% chance of more than 1 mm.
Updated 16:40 on Sat 24 Oct. For the Met Office forecast point under 1 km from Liverpool. Powered by Met Office data.
| Gauge | Distance | Yesterday | 7 days | October | Today |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rainfall gauge nr Kirkby nr Kirkby | 3.2km | 28.0mm | 58.8mm | 130.7mm | 22.1mm |
| Rainfall gauge nr Moreton nr Moreton | 10.8km | 27.9mm | 59.9mm | 112.6mm | 14.2mm |
| Rainfall gauge nr Ormskirk nr Ormskirk | 14.0km | 11.2mm | 35.8mm | 96.0mm | 16.8mm |
Daily totals 24 Sep–23 Oct. Wettest day: 22.4mm.
19 days with at least 0.2mm of rain so far this October at Rainfall gauge nr Kirkby, against a full-month average of 18.5 rain days (based on 2 months of records at this gauge).
The rain gauges near Liverpool do not have a long enough daily record yet, so this is the Met Office series for the wider region.
Yearly rainfall 1986–2025, with the dashed line at the 1991–2020 average. Wettest: 2000 (1,691 mm). Driest: 1996 (1,021 mm). Source: Met Office HadUK-Grid areal series, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Liverpool gets about 895 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month October, 92 mm; driest March, 55 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), 2.4 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 Discharging now
A level is shown only when the gauge's latest reading is under 6 hours old. Distances are straight-line from the centre of Liverpool's monitored area.
17 storm overflows within 5 km of the centre of Liverpool's monitored area. 2 are discharging now, 12 report not discharging, and 3 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: © United Utilities 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.
City in Merseyside, England
Liverpool is a port city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. It is situated on the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary, near the Irish Sea, 178 miles (286 km) north-west of London. It had an estimated population of 507,915 in 2025. The city is within the larger Liverpool City Region, a combined authority area with a population of over 1.5 million.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).
22.4mm of rain fell yesterday (23 Oct 2026), from the average of 3 rain gauges within 15km of Liverpool.
October so far: 113.1mm vs 97.4mm October average — 16% wetter (the average covers the whole month; we are 24 days in). Figures are the average of 3 rain gauges within 15km.
Rainfall gauge nr Kirkby is the nearest rain gauge, 3.2km from the centre of Liverpool's monitored area. Rain gauges can be several kilometres from the town itself, so very local downpours may not register exactly.
19 days with at least 0.2mm of rain so far this October at Rainfall gauge nr Kirkby, against a full-month average of 18.5 rain days.
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 Liverpool's monitored area — local rainfall can vary over short distances.
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