Southfleet draws its character from the quiet persistence of the Kentish landscape, where low horizons meet the soft, diffused light of the South East. It lies 2.0 miles south-west of Northfleet (from Northfleet: bearing 215°T, OS grid TQ 613 710), and is situated north-east of Hook Green village. The earth here retains a heavy, fertile memory of its Roman past, visible in the lingering traces of the Roman Enclosure SE of Vagniacae that mark the fields with ancient, geometric purpose. A few paces south, the Monastic Grange at Friary Court stands as a muted observer of the passing centuries, its stone walls weathering under the slow rotation of the seasons. The architecture of Southfleet reflects this patient endurance, with red-brick facades and timber frames that seem to have grown organically from the chalky soil. In the stillness of an afternoon, one might walk toward the Springhead Roman Site, where the water once sustained a thriving outpost and still feeds the imagination with the ghosts of trade and transit. The wind moves through the hedgerows with a rhythmic impartiality, indifferent to the layers of history buried beneath the plough. Southfleet remains a place where the modern world is held at a distance, allowing the land to speak in the language of furrow and shadow.
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Live animated radar for Southfleet and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Southfleet, 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 Southfleet includes coordinates 51.415311, 0.318958, 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 Southfleet is available on the Southfleet 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.