Canon's Town occupies a singular position within the verdant, rolling geography of West Cornwall. It lies 2.0 miles south-west of Hayle (from Hayle: bearing 230°T, OS grid SW 532 352), and is situated south-west of Rose-an-Grouse village. The morning light here often catches the moist, low-lying fields, casting a pale and pearlescent glow over the dark, damp earth of the surrounding valley. A short distance away, the ancient, weathered stone of the Medieval Wayside Cross at Whitecross stands as a silent sentinel, marking the slow passage of centuries against the modern hum of the road. Canon's Town retains a quiet, industrious character, its houses arranged with a functional simplicity that respects the incline of the land. To the west, the rugged silhouette of Trencrom Hill commands the horizon, its ancient granite bulk providing a dramatic contrast to the cultivated pastures below. The nearby Nance Stream traces a winding, silver ribbon through the landscape, its rhythmic flow punctuating the stillness of the afternoon. This particular corner of the county remains defined by its deep, earthen silence and the salt-tinged breeze that drifts inland from the Atlantic coast.
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This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Canon's Town, Cornwall, 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. Coastal tide gauge readings are sourced from the Environment Agency National Tide Gauge Network in near real-time (15-minute updates), with marine wave and sea surface temperature data from the Open-Meteo Marine API. Live river level data is sourced from the Environment Agency Flood Monitoring API. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Canon's Town includes coordinates 50.165482, -5.455936, in the county of Cornwall, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Canon's Town is available on the Canon's Town map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the Cornwall 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.