Kingston, Dorset Weather
About Kingston, Dorset
Kingston commands a limestone ridge that overlooks the heavy, blue silence of the English Channel. It lies 4.7 miles west of Swanage (from Swanage: bearing 277°T, OS grid SY 955 795), and is situated south of Corfe Castle village. The light here has a sharp, scouring quality, catching the grey-gold masonry of the cottages before spilling down toward the vast, enclosed grounds of Encombe. Northward, the land rises into the ancient, humped silhouettes of the round barrows on Corfe Common, where the wind carries no memory of the modern world. Kingston keeps watch over the shifting shadows of the valley floor, where the soil holds the calcified secrets of the Blashenwell Farm Pit Sssi. St James’s Church, with its soaring, needle-like spire, serves as a landmark for sailors and shepherds alike, a stark verticality against the horizontal sweep of the Purbeck hills. The air remains thin and bracing, flavoured by the salt of distant tides and the dry scent of exposed rock. Kingston endures as a quiet sentinel, indifferent to the slow turning of the seasons that soften the hard edges of the surrounding cliffs.
Flight conditions near Kingston. Data source: locating…
Live animated radar for Kingston and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Kingston, Dorset Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Kingston, Dorset, 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 Kingston includes coordinates 50.616029, -2.063623, in the county of Dorset, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Kingston is available on the Kingston map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the Dorset 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.