St Levan, Cornwall Weather
About St Levan, Cornwall
Granite cliffs and salt-sprayed pastures define the rugged, western edge of Cornwall where St Levan meets the Atlantic. It lies 5.8 miles south of St Just (from St Just: bearing 171°T, OS grid SW 380 221), and is situated south-south-west of Porthcurno village. The light here possesses a peculiar, pearlescent quality that seems to bleach the colour from the gorse, leaving only the sharp, clean lines of the landscape. Within the churchyard, ancient stone markers like the scheduled wayside cross stand as silent witnesses to centuries of maritime devotion. A short distance away, the holy well serves as a quiet, moss-dampened reminder of the early hermits who sought solitude in this exposed corner of the peninsula. Beyond the church walls, the land dips toward the Cradles, where damp, marshy ground provides a stark contrast to the parched, wind-battered heights above. The air often carries the faint, rhythmic echo of performance drifting from the nearby Minack Theatre, where stone tiers overlook the restless, turquoise surge of the sea. St Levan remains a place where the enduring weight of the earth feels palpable beneath one’s boots, indifferent to the passing of modern seasons.
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Live animated radar for St Levan and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This St Levan, Cornwall Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for St Levan, 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 St Levan includes coordinates 50.041784, -5.660356, 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 St Levan is available on the St Levan 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.