East Portholland turns its face towards the English Channel, where the salt-heavy air clings to the rugged slate cliffs. It lies 7.7 miles south-south-west of St Austell (from St Austell: bearing 204°T, OS grid SW 959 413), and is situated north-east of Portloe village. The geography here is defined by a sharp intimacy between the land and the sea, creating a shoreline where the light catches the foam in bright, transient flashes. A short walk to the east reveals the grand architecture of Caerhays Castle, which overlooks the bay with a presence that seems to command the very tide. East Portholland remains a quiet sentinel of the Cornish coast, far removed from the clamour of larger ports. To the west, the sands of Perbargus Beach offer a solitary respite, shaped daily by the patient, rhythmic work of the Atlantic. Here, the landscape does not offer grand vistas so much as it reveals small, hidden truths about the persistence of stone against the infinite reach of the water.
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This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for East Portholland, 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 East Portholland includes coordinates 50.236423, -4.863164, 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 East Portholland is available on the East Portholland 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.