Seaford, East Sussex Weather
About Seaford, East Sussex
Chalk cliffs and the restless grey pulse of the English Channel define the singular horizon of Seaford. It lies 2.9 miles south-east of Newhaven (from Newhaven: bearing 124°T, OS grid TV 482 988), and is situated south-south-east of Bishopstone village. Once a flourishing limb of the Cinque Ports, the maritime fortunes of the harbour eventually yielded to the persistent shifting of shingle and tide. Today, the local economy relies upon the quiet trade of service industries and the appreciation of those who walk its expansive seafront. The light here has a peculiar, translucent clarity, catching the pale stone of the landscape before it fades into the deep blue of the bay.
Martello Tower 74 stands as a stubborn, circular sentry against the infinite motion of the waves, now housing a museum that chronicles the long struggle against both foreign ambition and the encroaching sea. Visitors often climb the slopes toward the hillfort on Seaford Head to watch the sun ignite the white precipices of the Seven Sisters in a brief, golden flare. The cultural life of the locale finds a modest, focused expression within the Seaford Little Theatre, where the arts thrive away from the clamour of larger urban centres. Writers and thinkers have long sought the solitude of this coastline, finding in its wind-swept isolation a clarity of spirit that matches the bracing salt air. Seaford remains a place where the grandeur of geology humbles the small works of man, leaving only the sound of pebbles grinding in the surf.
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Live animated radar for Seaford and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Seaford, East Sussex Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Seaford, 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 Seaford includes coordinates 50.770324, 0.101099, 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 Seaford is available on the Seaford 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.