Dargate, Kent Weather
About Dargate, Kent
Dargate emerges from the quiet, verdant folds of the Kentish landscape as a place where the air hangs heavy with the scent of damp earth and ancient orchards. It lies 3.5 miles south-south-west of Whitstable (from Whitstable: bearing 210°T, OS grid TR 080 615), and is situated east-north-east of Hernhill village. Beyond the cluster of dwellings, the dense, sprawling canopy of Blean Wood encroaches from the south-east, offering a silent, leafy sanctuary that has stood for centuries. The land here slopes with a subtle, rhythmic grace toward the low-lying marshes, where the remnants of a medieval saltern still mark the ground as a faint, weathered scar of bygone salt production. Sunlight often catches the high, sloping incline of Holly Hill to the south-west, casting long, melancholic shadows across the fields as the afternoon wanes. Dargate maintains a character defined by this intimate proximity to the wilder edges of the woods and the flat, expansive salt-levels that stretch toward the distant shimmer of the Swale. Those who walk the lanes find that the horizon appears perpetually open, framed by the skeletal silhouettes of trees that have long endured the coastal winds. Every turn in the road reminds the traveller that Dargate belongs as much to the shifting light of the sky as it does to the solid, unyielding clay of its soil.
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Live animated radar for Dargate and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Dargate, Kent Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Dargate, 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 Dargate includes coordinates 51.314922, 0.984249, 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 Dargate is available on the Dargate 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.