Lepe, Hampshire Weather
About Lepe, Hampshire
Salt-crusted winds shape the character of Lepe, a coastal hamlet where the rhythmic pulse of the Solent meets the quiet edges of the New Forest. It lies 3.1 miles west-north-west of Cowes (from Cowes: bearing 300°T, OS grid SZ 452 985), and is situated south-south-east of Langley village. The landscape here breathes through the vast North Solent SSSI, a protected expanse where the salt marsh grasses turn a pale, brittle gold under the autumn sun. Beyond the shingle banks, the shifting tides draw long, silver ribbons across the mudflats that stretch toward Stone Point. Lepe holds the quiet ghosts of D-Day, where concrete remnants of the Mulberry harbour project still emerge from the sand like ancient, forgotten monoliths. Visitors often gather at Lepe Country Park, finding a sanctuary where the air tastes sharply of brine and wild, untamed gorse. The horizon remains dominated by the distant, blinking lights of passing tankers, marking the deep-water channel that separates these Hampshire shores from the Isle of Wight. Such solitude defines Lepe, offering a place where the land simply ends and the infinite grey of the sea begins.
Flight conditions near Lepe. Data source: locating…
Live animated radar for Lepe and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Lepe, Hampshire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Lepe, Hampshire, 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 Lepe includes coordinates 50.784623, -1.359938, in the county of Hampshire, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Lepe is available on the Lepe map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the Hampshire 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.