Marazion, Cornwall Weather
About Marazion, Cornwall
Marazion commands the edge of Mount’s Bay, where the Atlantic light turns the granite streets to silver and the sea air bites with a sharp, salt-crusted clarity. It lies 2.9 miles east of Penzance (from Penzance: bearing 83°T, OS grid SW 518 306), and is situated east-south-east of Longrock village. Once a thriving centre for trade and tin, the place now leans into the rhythms of tourism and small-scale maritime commerce. Visitors often pause at the local museum to trace how the harbour once facilitated the movement of ore and pilgrims alike. Today, the economy drifts with the tide, sustained by the steady influx of those drawn to the shoreline’s singular, wind-swept geography.
St Michael’s Mount Castle rises from the tidal island like a jagged tooth of dark stone, its silhouette dominating the horizon in all weathers. Below, the causeway reveals itself only when the currents retreat, a fleeting bridge of wet sand connecting the mainland to a history of Benedictine monks and strategic defence. The quiet lanes of Marazion hold a different stillness, where the memory of ancient fairs lingers in the architecture and the occasional chime of church bells. Artists have long sought the peculiar clarity of the southern Cornish sun here, finding that the landscape offers a stark, unadorned beauty that refuses to soften. It remains a place of profound coastal gravity, where the land ends and the vast, grey expanse of the Channel begins.
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Live animated radar for Marazion and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Marazion, Cornwall Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Marazion, 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 Marazion includes coordinates 50.123528, -5.473215, 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 Marazion is available on the Marazion 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.