Chartham, Kent Weather
About Chartham, Kent
Chartham draws its character from the slow, deliberate meander of the River Stour as it carves a path through the gentle Kentish basin. It lies 3.1 miles west-south-west of Canterbury (from Canterbury: bearing 239°T, OS grid TR 106 550), and is situated east-north-east of Shalmsford Street village. The local landscape remains defined by the legacy of paper milling, an industry that once harnessed the river’s steady flow to power its heavy machinery. Residents often gather upon the Village Green, where the grass holds a particular, clipped precision that contrasts with the wilder, tangled edges of the nearby countryside. To the east, the ancient timbers of the Dovecote at Burnt House Farm stand as a silent, weathered sentinel, suggesting centuries of quiet agricultural routine. Chartham retains a distinct sense of place, bolstered by the sight of the nearby Larkey Valley Wood, where the canopy creates a heavy, shifting stillness during the height of summer. The architecture here speaks of flint and brick, materials pulled directly from the earth and fired by local kilns to build a domestic permanence. Every lane and hedgerow suggests a landscape that has been worked by hand for generations, offering a grounded, honest account of life in the Stour valley.
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About This Chartham, Kent Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Chartham, Kent, 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 village. Live river level data is sourced from the Environment Agency Flood Monitoring API. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Chartham includes coordinates 51.256077, 1.016972, in the county of Kent, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Chartham is available on the Chartham map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the Kent 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.