Croyde, Devon Weather
About Croyde, Devon
Croyde draws its character from the salt-heavy winds that sweep across the Atlantic to collide with the craggy North Devon coastline. It lies 6.3 miles north of Northam (from Northam: bearing 356°T, OS grid SS 444 391), and is situated north-west of Saunton village. The landscape is defined by the dramatic rise of Ora Hill to the north-east, where the grass grows thin and resilient against the constant pressure of the gale. Below, the expanse of Croyde Sand catches the shifting light, turning from a pale, bruised violet at dawn to a brilliant, blinding gold by midday. Surfers frequent these waters, their figures appearing as fleeting silhouettes against the rhythmic, white-topped breakers that surge toward the shore. The nearby Saunton to Baggy Point Coast SSSI preserves a fragile ecology of maritime flora, clinging to the cliffside where the earth meets the endless, grey expanse of the sea. Croyde remains a place where the architecture of thatched roofs and stone walls bows humbly before the sheer, untamed scale of the horizon. Such elemental beauty ensures that the passage of the seasons is felt here not as a measurement of time, but as a change in the temper of the tides.
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Live animated radar for Croyde and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Croyde, Devon Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Croyde, Devon, 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. Soil temperature, soil moisture and evapotranspiration data are provided for agricultural planning in this village. Live river level data is sourced from the Environment Agency Flood Monitoring API. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Croyde includes coordinates 51.130728, -4.224242, in the county of Devon, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Croyde is available on the Croyde map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the Devon 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.