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How much rain fell in Woburn, Central Bedfordshire? Daily, weekly and monthly totals averaged over the Environment Agency rain gauges within 15km, updated every 15 minutes.
Next 24 hours: about 1.4mm of rain forecast for the area around Woburn, heaviest in the hour to 06:00 (1.2mm).
A computer model forecast (DWD ICON) for a square about 15 km across, updated Mon 23:05 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 Woburn | 0.0km | 3.2mm | 53.8mm | 74.4mm | 0.0mm |
| Rainfall gauge nr Ampthill nr Ampthill | 9.9km | 2.6mm | 45.0mm | 62.0mm | 0.0mm |
| Rainfall gauge nr Drayton Parslow nr Drayton Parslow | 10.9km | 3.8mm | 59.8mm | 82.6mm | 0.0mm |
Daily totals 27 Sep–26 Oct. Wettest day: 14.9mm.
17 days with at least 0.2mm of rain so far this October at Rainfall gauge nr Woburn, against a full-month average of 19.0 rain days (based on 2 months of records at this gauge).
2026 so far: 433 mm (1 Jan to 26 Oct), against 546 mm by the same date in an average year (2000–2025) — 21% 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: 2024 (997 mm). Driest: 2022 (537 mm). Average: 699 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.
Woburn gets about 699 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month October, 75 mm; driest March, 42 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
Nearest gauge on it: Bletchley, 6.2 km away: 0.30 m Steady.
Every gauge on the River Ouzel →A level is shown only when the gauge's latest reading is under 6 hours old. Distances are straight-line from the centre of Woburn's monitored area.
1 storm overflow within 5 km of the centre of Woburn's monitored area. None of them has a live status we can show 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. Annual spill figures: Environment Agency Event Duration Monitoring return, © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right, Open Government Licence (OGL) v3.0.
Village in Bedfordshire, England
Woburn is a village and civil parish in Bedfordshire, England, about 5 miles (8 km) southeast of Milton Keynes and 3 miles (5 km) south of junction 13 of the M1 motorway. At the 2011 census, it had a population of 933.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).
3.2mm of rain fell yesterday (26 Oct 2026), from the average of 3 rain gauges within 15km of Woburn.
October so far: 73.0mm vs 73.5mm October average — 1% drier (the average covers the whole month; we are 27 days in). Figures are the average of 3 rain gauges within 15km.
Rainfall gauge nr Woburn is the nearest rain gauge, 0.0km from the centre of Woburn's monitored area. Rain gauges can be several kilometres from the town itself, so very local downpours may not register exactly.
17 days with at least 0.2mm of rain so far this October at Rainfall gauge nr Woburn, against a full-month average of 19.0 rain days.
2024 was the wettest year in the record since 2000, with 997 mm from the average of 3 local rain gauges, against an average of 699 mm a year. The driest was 2022, with 537 mm.
22 Sep 2024: 72.2 mm on average across 3 local rain gauges, and up to 93.2 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 Woburn's monitored area — local rainfall can vary over short distances.
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