Porthilly, Cornwall Weather
About Porthilly, Cornwall
Porthilly commands a quiet reach of the Camel Estuary, where the salt-heavy air clings to the low-lying shoreline. It lies 1.3 miles east of Padstow (from Padstow: bearing 87°T, OS grid SW 938 754), and is situated north of Rock village. The ancient stone of the Churchyard Cross in St Michael's Churchyard serves as a silent sentinel, anchoring the landscape with a gravity that defies the shifting tides. Beyond the church, the terrain rises toward the slopes of Cant Hill, providing a vantage point over the rhythmic pulse of the water below. Porthilly maintains a fragile intimacy with the environment, shaped by the ebb and flow that defines this corner of the South West. The nearby Rock Dunes SSSI stretch out in a sprawling, sandy expanse, their undulating ridges caught in a perpetual dialogue with the wind. Sunlight often fractures against the estuary, turning the surface into a scattered mosaic of silver and slate. In this place, the horizon holds a clarity that renders every blade of grass and weathered rock distinct against the sky.
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About This Porthilly, Cornwall Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Porthilly, 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 Porthilly includes coordinates 50.542587, -4.911349, 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 Porthilly is available on the Porthilly 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.