Goathland commands the high, heather-dusted plateau of the North York Moors National Park, where the horizon pulls tight against the sky. It lies 7.2 miles south-west of Whitby (from Whitby: bearing 215°T, OS grid NZ 831 012), and is situated south of Grosmont village. Sheep wander the wide, grassy commons with an ancient indifference, their wool stained by the peat and iron of the surrounding moorland. Below the village, the landscape breaks into sudden, secret ravines where Mallyan Spout spills down the mossy rock face in a delicate, silver collapse. The air here holds the sharp tang of wet bracken and the distant, rhythmic chuff of steam locomotives climbing the incline toward the coast. Visitors often trace the path toward the nearby Beck Hole Sssi, where the earth drops away into a quiet, verdant hollow shielded from the wind. Goathland carries an enduring sense of exposure, defined less by its stone walls than by the vast, unyielding expanse of the park that breathes around it.
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This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Goathland, North Yorkshire, 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 Goathland includes coordinates 54.399963, -0.720726, in the county of North Yorkshire, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Goathland is available on the Goathland map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the North Yorkshire 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.