Old Town, Cornwall Weather
About Old Town, Cornwall
Old Town reveals itself as a quiet harbour of salt-scrubbed stone and Atlantic light on the eastern side of St Mary’s. It lies 0.8 miles east of Hugh Town (from Hugh Town: bearing 96°T, OS grid SV 915 103). The morning tide pulls back from the shore to expose the barnacled ribs of the Old Quay, where the sea has long since ceased its heavy commerce. Above the water, the fragmented masonry of Ennor Castle stands as a silent witness to the centuries, its rugged silhouette softened by the persistent growth of island gorse. To the north-west, the marshy reed beds of the Lower Moors SSSI provide a verdant sanctuary where the air hums with the movement of migratory birds. The land here rises in gentle slopes, catching the sun in a way that turns the granite walls of every cottage into warm, glowing embers. Old Town maintains a stillness that feels untouched by the frantic pace of the mainland, defined instead by the rhythmic pulse of the tides. Here, the boundary between the wild, unruly ocean and the cultivated garden is blurred by the constant drift of salt spray.
Flight conditions near Old Town. Data source: locating…
Live animated radar for Old Town and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Old Town, Cornwall Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Old 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 Old Town includes coordinates 49.913415, -6.298563, 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 Old Town is available on the Old 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.