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How much rain fell in West Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire? Daily, weekly and monthly totals averaged over the Environment Agency rain gauges within 15km, updated every 15 minutes.
Next 24 hours: about 9.1mm of rain forecast for the area around West Oxfordshire, heaviest in the hour to 19:00 (4.3mm).
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 Chipping Norton nr Chipping Norton | 0.0km | 13.7mm | 51.9mm | 79.9mm | 13.0mm |
| Rainfall gauge nr Little Rissington nr Little Rissington | 13.1km | 21.6mm | 63.0mm | 107.5mm | 10.0mm |
| Rainfall gauge nr Honington nr Honington | 14.5km | 8.6mm | 44.2mm | 70.0mm | 6.0mm |
Daily totals 24 Sep–23 Oct. Wettest day: 20.1mm.
14 days with at least 0.2mm of rain so far this October at Rainfall gauge nr Chipping Norton, against a full-month average of 17.1 rain days (based on 25 months of records at this gauge).
2026 so far: 550 mm (1 Jan to 23 Oct), against 562 mm by the same date in an average year (2000–2025) — about average.
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: 2024 (1,023 mm). Driest: 2011 (457 mm). Average: 737 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.
West Oxfordshire gets about 786 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month November, 84 mm; driest March, 50 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), 2.0 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 West Oxfordshire's monitored area.
2 storm overflows within 5 km of the centre of West Oxfordshire'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: © 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.
Non-metropolitan district in England
West Oxfordshire is a local government district in northwest Oxfordshire, England, including towns such as Woodstock, Burford, Chipping Norton, Charlbury, Carterton and Witney, where the council is based.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).
14.6mm of rain fell yesterday (23 Oct 2026), from the average of 3 rain gauges within 15km of West Oxfordshire.
October so far: 85.8mm vs 79.5mm October average — 8% 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 Chipping Norton is the nearest rain gauge, 0.0km from the centre of West Oxfordshire'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 Chipping Norton, against a full-month average of 17.1 rain days.
2024 was the wettest year in the record since 2000, with 1,023 mm from the average of 3 local rain gauges, against an average of 737 mm a year. The driest was 2011, with 457 mm.
20 Jul 2007: 73.4 mm on average across 3 local rain gauges, and up to 89.4 mm at one of them, during 2007 UK 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 West Oxfordshire's monitored area — local rainfall can vary over short distances.
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