Cookham, Berkshire Weather
About Cookham, Berkshire
Cookham maintains a distinctive presence along the Thames, where the river curves with a deliberate, slow-motion grace that has long defined the local horizon. It lies 2.4 miles north of Maidenhead (from Maidenhead: bearing 356°T, OS grid SU 885 851), and is situated south-south-west of Bourne End village. The landscape here is defined by the alluvial richness of the floodplains, where the water gathers in wide, reflective stretches near the Cock Marsh SSSI. Sunlight often catches the low-lying fields with a pale, pearlescent intensity, grounding the architecture of the timber-framed houses in a quiet, enduring clarity. The spirit of the painter Stanley Spencer remains palpable in the streets, his visionary depictions of local life having transformed the perception of these lanes into something transcendently ordinary. Walking toward the edges of Cookham, one finds the terrain rising into the varied, wooded inclines of Cookham Dean, where the air holds the scent of damp earth and seasonal change. These paths offer a vantage point from which the Thames appears less as a boundary and more as the central artery of a slow, unfolding narrative. Every brick and ancient hedgerow here seems to participate in a silent, collective memory of the river’s seasonal pulse.
Flight conditions near Cookham. Data source: locating…
Live animated radar for Cookham and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Cookham, Berkshire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Cookham, Berkshire, England, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, real-time aviation weather (METAR and TAF reports from the nearest reporting airport), precipitation radar and Meteosat satellite imagery. Public safety alerts are sourced from the Met Office National Severe Weather Warning Service (NSWWS), covering wind, rain, snow, ice, fog, thunderstorm and extreme heat warnings. Live river level data is sourced from the Environment Agency Flood Monitoring API. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Cookham includes coordinates 51.557883, -0.724476, in the county of Berkshire, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Cookham is available on the Cookham map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the Berkshire weather hub.
Weather data is sourced from the Met Office and the open-source Open-Meteo API, whose ensemble includes the Met Office UKMO model. Severe weather warnings come from the Met Office National Severe Weather Warning Service (NSWWS). River level and tidal data are sourced from the Environment Agency Flood Monitoring and National Tide Gauge Network APIs. Aviation data is sourced from aviationweather.gov, with a modelled estimate shown where no reporting station is in range. Radar is provided by RainViewer and satellite imagery by EUMETSAT. All data updates automatically on every page visit.