Cambridge Town, Essex Weather
About Cambridge Town, Essex
Cambridge Town reveals itself through the salt-heavy air and the low, expansive horizons that define this corner of the Essex coast. It lies 3.2 miles east-south-east of Southend-on-Sea (from Southend-on-Sea: bearing 103°T, OS grid TQ 931 848), and is situated south-south-west of Great Wakering village. The morning light here possesses a pale, metallic clarity, often catching the weathered timber of the nearby Cart and Wagon Shed as it stands in quiet vigil over the fading industrial echoes of the shoreline. Residents of Cambridge Town move with a measured pace, their lives dictated by the shifting tides that pull toward Shoebury Ness just a short distance to the south. The landscape remains defined by its flatness, where the sky claims more than its fair share of the view and the wind carries the brisk, bracing scent of the North Sea. Only a brief walk away, the remnants of the Danish Camp offer a silent, earthen anchor to a past that persists beneath the modern suburban grid. This proximity to the water grants Cambridge Town a singular, austere beauty, where the horizon serves as a constant, beckoning frontier.
Flight conditions near Cambridge Town. Data source: locating…
Live animated radar for Cambridge Town and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Cambridge Town, Essex Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Cambridge Town, Essex, 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 suburban area. Live river level data is sourced from the Environment Agency Flood Monitoring API. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Cambridge Town includes coordinates 51.52987, 0.783035, in the county of Essex, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Cambridge Town is available on the Cambridge Town map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the Essex 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.