Scarborough, North Yorkshire Weather
About Scarborough, North Yorkshire
Scarborough commands a dramatic crescent of the North Yorkshire coastline, where the North Sea bites hungrily into the limestone cliffs. It lies 6.7 miles north-west of Filey (from Filey: bearing 318°T, OS grid TA 041 885), and is situated south-east of Scalby village. The ruins of a medieval castle keep watch over the harbour, a reminder of the strategic weight this port held during the turbulent centuries of maritime conflict. Modern commerce now relies heavily on the seasonal influx of visitors seeking the bracing air, though the fishing fleet still braves the grey, shifting tides as it has for generations.
Creative life flourishes within the Stephen Joseph Theatre, where the playwright Alan Ayckbourn first gave voice to the specific anxieties of the English middle class. Visitors often wander toward the Rotunda Museum, a rotunda of Georgian ambition that houses a collection as geological and ancient as the surrounding shore. The promenade retains a faded grandeur, punctuated by the bright, mechanical revolutions of the Scarborough Observation Wheel against the backdrop of an often bruised and heavy sky. Such cultural landmarks provide a sharp contrast to the salt-weathered facades of the older streets, grounding the spirit of the place in both its intellectual heritage and its rugged, elemental geography.
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Live animated radar for Scarborough and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Scarborough, North Yorkshire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Scarborough, 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 Scarborough includes coordinates 54.281578, -0.402209, 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 Scarborough is available on the Scarborough 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.