Silloth, Cumbria Weather
About Silloth, Cumbria
Silloth gazes across the Solway Firth toward the blue-misted hills of Galloway, where the brine-heavy air tempers the grit of its Victorian maritime ambitions. It lies 7.6 miles north-north-west of Aspatria (from Aspatria: bearing 343°T, OS grid NY 109 535), and is situated south-south-west of Skinburness village. Once a bustling port for the grain trade, the harbour now holds the quiet ghosts of steamships, while the nearby New Dock reflects the bruised violet of an approaching Cumbrian storm. The land here remains stubbornly flat, a low-lying stretch of coast where the Roman legacy of the frontier persists in the hidden, earthen contours of ancient defensive ditches.
The Green acts as the expansive heart of the landscape, a vast and grassy lung that draws the sea breeze deep into the centre of the promenade. Children often wander toward the Toy Soldier Museum to peer at miniature histories, while the watchful presence of the Big Fella sculpture stands as a silent sentinel over the shifting tides. During the vibrant Silloth Music and Beer Festival, the atmosphere swells with a communal warmth that defies the often-chilly northern currents. The horizon remains dominated by the stark, enduring lines of the coastal frontier, where the remnants of milefortlets like Blitterlees offer a somber, silent dialogue between the modern walker and the iron-shod soldiers of a vanished empire.
Flight conditions near Silloth. Data source: locating…
Live animated radar for Silloth and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Silloth, Cumbria Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Silloth, Cumbria, 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 Silloth includes coordinates 54.868585, -3.389247, in the county of Cumbria, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Silloth is available on the Silloth map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the Cumbria 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.