Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire Weather
About Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire
Bourton-on-the-Water unfolds as a series of low-slung, honey-coloured limestone facades mirrored in the shallow, clear currents of the River Windrush. It lies 3.5 miles south-south-west of Stow-on-the-Wold (from Stow-on-the-Wold: bearing 206°T, OS grid SP 167 207), and is situated south of Lower Slaughter village. The water runs over a bed of polished stones, cooling the air that drifts past the Cotswold Motoring Museum & Toy Collection, where the stillness of vintage metal sits in sharp contrast to the restless, liquid motion of the stream. Visitors often walk toward The Model Village, a miniature stone-wrought echo of the streets they have just traversed, offering a strange, silent perspective on the architecture of the place. Beyond the bankside, the landscape flattens into the expansive, ancient footprint of the Salmonsbury Camp, where the earth still holds the hidden geometry of an Iron Age fortified enclosure. The light here catches the pale, porous oolite, turning the walls to a warm, buttered gold as the afternoon sun wanes. Bourton-on-the-Water retains a composure born of centuries, its rhythm defined by the persistent, soft bubbling of the river against the low bridges. A quiet gravity anchors the ground, reminding those who pass that the limestone beneath their feet was once the floor of a prehistoric sea.
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About This Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire, 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. Live river level data is sourced from the Environment Agency Flood Monitoring API. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Bourton-on-the-Water includes coordinates 51.884854, -1.758019, in the county of Gloucestershire, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Bourton-on-the-Water is available on the Bourton-on-the-Water map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the Gloucestershire 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.