Quainton, Buckinghamshire Weather
About Quainton, Buckinghamshire
Quainton commands a gentle prominence over the clay vales of Buckinghamshire, defined by the steady rotation of its historic windmill blades against the wide, shifting sky. It lies 4.8 miles south-south-west of Winslow (from Winslow: bearing 198°T, OS grid SP 746 201), and is situated north of Waddesdon village. Rising above the rooftops, the brick-built Quainton Windmill serves as a sentinel of the local horizon, its silhouette a familiar anchor for those navigating the surrounding lanes. A short distance away, the Quainton Medieval Standing Cross occupies the green, offering a quiet, stony reminder of the centuries that have folded into the earth here. Beyond the residential lanes, the landscape tilts upward toward the slopes of Simber Hill, where the air thins and the grass turns coarse under the pressure of the prevailing wind. The heritage of the region finds a different expression at the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre, where the metallic scent of coal smoke and iron periodically stirs the stillness of the afternoon. These disparate elements of industry and antiquity coalesce to form the character of Quainton, a place where the weight of the past sits lightly upon the modern, rolling fields. The light here has a way of lingering, casting long, amber shadows across the limestone frontages as evening approaches.
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Live animated radar for Quainton and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Quainton, Buckinghamshire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Quainton, Buckinghamshire, 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 Quainton includes coordinates 51.875008, -0.917267, in the county of Buckinghamshire, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Quainton is available on the Quainton map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the Buckinghamshire 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.