New Swanage, Dorset Weather
About New Swanage, Dorset
New Swanage reveals itself as an unassuming threshold where the limestone bones of the Purbeck hills begin to soften into the coastal plain. It lies 1.0 miles north of Swanage (from Swanage: bearing 351°T, OS grid SZ 029 802). The local topography finds its character in the elevation of the Purbeck Ridge (East) SSSI, which casts a long, watchful shadow over the residential streets during the late afternoon. Residents of New Swanage often walk toward the quiet, verdant expanse of the Washpond Natural Greenspace, where the air retains a sharp, briny quality carried up from the Channel. Day’s Park serves as a central artery for the locality, providing a sheltered pocket of green that holds the morning dew long after the sun has climbed high. The light here possesses a particular silver clarity, reflecting off the pale stone walls that define the boundary lines of many gardens. New Swanage maintains a quiet dignity, caught between the rugged, ancient geology of the interior and the rhythmic, restless pull of the nearby sea.
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About This New Swanage, Dorset Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for New Swanage, 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 New Swanage includes coordinates 50.622011, -1.959758, 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 New Swanage is available on the New Swanage 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.