Carlyon Bay, Cornwall Weather
About Carlyon Bay, Cornwall
Carlyon Bay commands the rugged southern coastline of Cornwall, where the Atlantic’s restless energy meets the enduring granite of the peninsula. It lies 2.0 miles east of St Austell (from St Austell: bearing 93°T, OS grid SX 046 521), and is situated east-north-east of Charlestown village. Salt-heavy winds scour the cliffs, leaving the air tasted with brine and the light bleached into a sharp, crystalline clarity. Below the high ground, the tide recedes to reveal the sandy reach of Appletree Beach, a quiet expanse where the sea leaves behind intricate patterns in the cooling silt. Further inland, the verdant canopy of Tregrehan guards an ancient, fifty-hectare woodland estate that offers a deep, shaded respite from the coastal exposure. Carlyon Bay retains an architectural memory of the region’s industrial past, standing as a sentinel above the remnants of deep-earth mining ventures that once defined the horizon. The landscape here is defined by this hard-won balance between the eroding power of the waves and the stubborn, green resilience of the Cornish earth.
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About This Carlyon Bay, Cornwall Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Carlyon Bay, 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 Carlyon Bay includes coordinates 50.337003, -4.746809, 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 Carlyon Bay is available on the Carlyon Bay 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.