Rye Harbour, East Sussex Weather
About Rye Harbour, East Sussex
Rye Harbour commands a stark, salt-flecked edge where the river meets the retreating tide. It lies 1.4 miles south-east of Rye (from Rye: bearing 128°T, OS grid TQ 939 191). Salt marshes stretch toward the horizon, their muted greens and greys shifting under a vast, unsparing sky that seems to swallow the sound of the wind. Within this expanse, the Rye Harbour SSSI provides a fragile sanctuary for rare birdlife, thriving amidst the shingle banks and brackish pools. A short distance away, the Martello Tower No 28 stands as a stubborn, circular sentinel of stone, guarding a coastline that has long traded its defences for the quiet industry of fishing boats. Beyond the harbour walls, the iconic Red-Roofed Hut offers a splash of defiant colour against the monochromatic sweep of the beach. The air here holds a sharp, metallic clarity, carrying the scent of damp gravel and the endless, rhythmic pulse of the English Channel. Rye Harbour remains a place of quiet endurance, where the land slowly dissolves into the sea under the watchful gaze of the tide.
Flight conditions near Rye Harbour. Data source: locating…
Live animated radar for Rye Harbour and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Rye Harbour, East Sussex Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Rye Harbour, East Sussex, 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 Rye Harbour includes coordinates 50.938773, 0.75918, in the county of East Sussex, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Rye Harbour is available on the Rye Harbour map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the East Sussex 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.