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How much rain fell in St. Ives, Cambridgeshire? Daily, weekly and monthly totals averaged over the Environment Agency rain gauges within 15km, updated every 15 minutes.
Another rain gauge is also registered under the name St. Ives: St Ives Towednack (Cornwall) — see its gauge page. The figures here are for St. Ives, Cambridgeshire.
Next 24 hours: little or no rain forecast for the area around St. Ives (under 0.2mm).
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.
Chance of rain in St. Ives
Met Office forecast for the next 24 hours: less than 5% chance of more than 1 mm, less than 5% chance of more than 4 mm and less than 5% chance of more than 12 mm.
Next 48 hours: less than 5% chance of more than 1 mm.
Updated 04:40 on Tue 27 Oct. For the Met Office forecast point 1.7 km from St. Ives. Powered by Met Office data.
| Gauge | Distance | Yesterday | 7 days | October | Today |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rainfall gauge nr St. Ives | 0.0km | 2.6mm | 32.8mm | 58.6mm | 1.4mm |
| Rainfall gauge nr Swavesey nr Swavesey | 9.4km | 2.6mm | 39.7mm | 72.5mm | 3.5mm |
| Rainfall gauge nr Brampton nr Brampton | 9.6km | 3.7mm | 38.1mm | 68.5mm | 2.4mm |
Daily totals 27 Sep–26 Oct. Wettest day: 10.6mm.
16 days with at least 0.2mm of rain so far this October at Rainfall gauge nr St. Ives, against a full-month average of 15.8 rain days (based on 19 months of records at this gauge).
2026 so far: 352 mm (1 Jan to 26 Oct), against 398 mm by the same date in an average year (2000–2025) — 12% drier.
One bar per calendar year, the average of 3 local rain gauges: the Environment Agency's quality-checked daily archive, then live telemetry for the latest months. Wettest: 2014 (720 mm). Driest: 2003 (218 mm). Average: 498 mm a year. Striped years have gaps in the record, so no total is shown for them.
Daily totals are the average of 3 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.
St. Ives gets about 562 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month October, 59 mm; driest March, 33 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), 1.3 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
Nearest gauge on it: St Ives, 2.8 km away: no recent reading.
Every gauge on the River Great Ouse →A level is shown only when the gauge's latest reading is under 6 hours old. Distances are straight-line from the centre of St. Ives's monitored area.
9 storm overflows within 5 km of the centre of St. Ives's monitored area. None of the 9 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.
Market town in Cambridgeshire, England
St Ives is a medieval market town and civil parish in the Huntingdonshire district of Cambridgeshire, England. It is located on the River Great Ouse, and there is a historic stone bridge dating from 1425. The bridge has an unusual chapel incorporated into the structure. The nearby Quayside offers pleasing views of the river and the bridge.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).
3.0mm of rain fell yesterday (26 Oct 2026), from the average of 3 rain gauges within 15km of St. Ives.
October so far: 66.5mm vs 56.0mm October average — 19% wetter (the average covers the whole month; we are 27 days in). Figures are the average of 3 rain gauges within 15km.
Rainfall gauge nr St. Ives is the nearest rain gauge, 0.0km from the centre of St. Ives'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 St. Ives, against a full-month average of 15.8 rain days.
2014 was the wettest year in the record since 2000, with 720 mm from the average of 3 local rain gauges, against an average of 498 mm a year. The driest was 2003, with 218 mm.
8 Aug 2014: 73.0 mm on average across 3 local rain gauges, and up to 140.1 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 St. Ives's monitored area — local rainfall can vary over short distances.
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