Mullion commands the rugged heights of the Lizard Peninsula, where the Atlantic winds sculpt the gorse and heather into lean, defiant shapes. It lies 5.3 miles south-south-east of Helston (from Helston: bearing 163°T, OS grid SW 680 192), and is situated north-east of Mullion Cove village. The ancient stones of the Churchyard Cross in St Melaine’s Churchyard bear the salt-crusted memory of centuries, standing as silent sentinels above the shifting tides. Beyond the granite walls, the landscape descends toward the Baulk Head to Mullion SSSI, where the earth gives way to dramatic cliffs and the restless, churning foam of the sea. Light here possesses a peculiar clarity, catching the grey slate roofs of Mullion with a brilliance that renders the sky a deeper, more imposing shade of indigo. Visitors often find respite in the quiet greenery of Mullion Garden, a sheltered pocket of calm amidst the bracing coastal air. This southern tip of England remains a place of elemental honesty, where the horizon stretches wide and the salt air tastes of distant, untamed waters.
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Live animated radar for Mullion and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Mullion, 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 Mullion includes coordinates 50.027976, -5.240492, 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 Mullion is available on the Mullion 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.