Seaton greets the restless tides of the English Channel with a shoreline of grey shingle and smoothed stone. It lies 3.1 miles east-north-east of Looe (from Looe: bearing 76°T, OS grid SX 304 543), and is situated west-north-west of Downderry village. The river meets the sea here with a quiet finality, carving a path through the valley that allows the salt air to wander inland. Beyond the immediate reach of the waves, Seaton Beach offers a vast, open horizon where the light catches the foam in fleeting, silver ribbons. A short distance away, the Seaton Valley Countryside Park provides a verdant sanctuary where the riverbank foliage softens the sharp edges of the coastal wind. Local life moves in harmony with these shifting elements, far removed from the clamour of larger ports. The landscape remains defined by this interplay between the rugged cliffside and the gentle, reclaimed greenery of the valley floor. Visitors often remark upon the peculiar clarity of the afternoon sun as it glints off the pebbles, turning the mundane stones into a scattered mosaic of colour.
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EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Seaton, 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 Seaton includes coordinates 50.364409, -4.38466, 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 Seaton is available on the Seaton 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.