Slapton, Devon Weather
About Slapton, Devon
Slapton draws the morning mist across its stone cottages like a soft, grey shawl pulled tight against the Atlantic breeze. It lies 5.3 miles east of Kingsbridge (from Kingsbridge: bearing 83°T, OS grid SX 819 449), and is situated north-north-east of Stokenham village. The landscape here bows toward the coast, where the brackish waters of the Slapton Ley SSSI mirror the shifting moods of the sky in a long, narrow ribbon of silver. Ancient lanes wind past the quiet, moss-dusted ruins of the Slapton Chantry College, where the echoes of medieval scholarship seem held in the very mortar of the walls. Beyond the low-lying fields, the rhythmic pulse of the tide against Slapton Sands provides a constant, deep percussion to the silence of the countryside. Salt air clings to the hedgerows, gilding the leaves with a fine, translucent crust that catches the late afternoon sun. Slapton retains a resolute character, shaped by the weight of the sea and the patient, slow turning of the farming calendar. Residents walk paths that have remained largely unchanged for centuries, tracing the contours of a land that values the endurance of stone over the fleeting rush of the modern world.
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Live animated radar for Slapton and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Slapton, Devon Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Slapton, 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 Slapton includes coordinates 50.292859, -3.658127, 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 Slapton is available on the Slapton 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.