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How much rain fell in March, Cambridgeshire? Daily, weekly and monthly totals averaged over the Environment Agency rain gauges within 15km, updated every 15 minutes.
Next 24 hours: about 0.6mm of rain forecast for the area around March, heaviest in the hour to Tue 06:00 (0.6mm).
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 March | 0.0km | 0.2mm | 39.4mm | 67.6mm | 3.0mm |
| Rainfall gauge nr Chatteris nr Chatteris | 12.7km | 0.0mm | 34.1mm | 60.9mm | 2.7mm |
| Rainfall gauge nr King's Lynn and West Norfolk nr King's Lynn and West Norfolk | 15.0km | 0.0mm | 51.5mm | 79.2mm | 3.9mm |
Daily totals 26 Sep–25 Oct. Wettest day: 11.6mm.
16 days with at least 0.2mm of rain so far this October at Rainfall gauge nr March, against a full-month average of 16.1 rain days (based on 26 months of records at this gauge).
2026 so far: 367 mm (1 Jan to 25 Oct), against 458 mm by the same date in an average year (2001–2025) — 20% drier.
One bar per calendar year, the average of 2 local rain gauges: the Environment Agency's quality-checked daily archive, then live telemetry for the latest months. Wettest: 2014 (760 mm). Driest: 2011 (367 mm). Average: 577 mm a year. Striped years have gaps in the record, so no total is shown for them.
Daily totals are the average of 2 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.
March gets about 580 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month October, 59 mm; driest February, 34 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), 2.3 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
A level is shown only when the gauge's latest reading is under 6 hours old. Distances are straight-line from the centre of March's monitored area.
8 storm overflows within 5 km of the centre of March's monitored area. None of the 8 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.
Town and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England
March is a Fenland market town and civil parish in the Isle of Ely area of Cambridgeshire, England. It was the county town of the Isle of Ely which was a separate administrative county from 1889 to 1965. The administrative centre of Fenland District Council is located in the town.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).
0.1mm of rain fell yesterday (25 Oct 2026), from the average of 2 rain gauges within 15km of March.
October so far: 64.3mm vs 60.1mm October average — 7% wetter (the average covers the whole month; we are 26 days in). Figures are the average of 2 rain gauges within 15km.
Rainfall gauge nr March is the nearest rain gauge, 0.0km from the centre of March'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 March, against a full-month average of 16.1 rain days.
2014 was the wettest year in the record since 2001, with 760 mm from the average of 2 local rain gauges, against an average of 577 mm a year. The driest was 2011, with 367 mm.
8 Aug 2014: 68.4 mm on average across 2 local rain gauges, and up to 71.2 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 March's monitored area — local rainfall can vary over short distances.
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