Zennor, Cornwall Weather
About Zennor, Cornwall
Zennor holds the rugged character of the Cornish peninsula, where the granite earth meets a restless, salt-sprayed sky. It lies 4.1 miles west-south-west of St Ives (from St Ives: bearing 250°T, OS grid SW 454 384), and is situated west-north-west of Nancledra village. The landscape surrounding Zennor is defined by a sparse, windswept beauty, where stone hedges divide fields that have resisted the plough for centuries. Ancient history lingers in the soil, marked by the three wayside crosses in the churchyard of St Sennara’s Church, which stand as weathered sentinels against the Atlantic gales. Beyond the church, the terrain rises toward the raw, exposed heights of Zennor Hill, where the light shifts with a sudden, silver intensity. Further inland, the prehistoric remains of a stone hut circle 730m west of Foage Farm offer a quiet reminder of those who first carved a life from this unyielding ground. The atmosphere carries a singular, bracing clarity that has long drawn artists and writers to seek solitude amongst the gorse and heather. Zennor remains a place of profound stillness, defined by the relentless rhythm of the tide and the enduring weight of its own deep, geological time.
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About This Zennor, Cornwall Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Zennor, 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 Zennor includes coordinates 50.191522, -5.567543, 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 Zennor is available on the Zennor 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.