Mucking emerges from the low-lying Thames estuary as a quiet witness to the shifting tides of the Essex shore. It lies 1.7 miles south-south-west of Stanford-le-Hope (from Stanford-le-Hope: bearing 209°T, OS grid TQ 687 810), and is situated north-east of Linford village. The horizon here is vast and pale, where the heavy, salt-crusted air carries the ghost of ancient industry over the silted banks of Mucking Creek. Long ago, the earth yielded up Saxon treasures from the gravel pits, revealing a deep, hidden ancestry beneath the modern topsoil. Today, the landscape is defined by the expansive, reed-fringed Mucking Marshes, which drink the grey light of the river and offer a sanctuary to the restless flight of coastal birds. The rusted, silent form of the Starry hare sculpture marks the edge of this terrain, standing as an enigmatic sentry against the encroaching industrial sprawl. Mucking remains a place where the boundary between solid ground and water blurs, leaving the visitor to navigate a world dictated by the slow, rhythmic pulse of the rising tide.
Flight conditions near Mucking. Data source: locating…
Live animated radar for Mucking and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Mucking, 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 hamlet. Live river level data is sourced from the Environment Agency Flood Monitoring API. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Mucking includes coordinates 51.503363, 0.429542, 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 Mucking is available on the Mucking 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.