Live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, Met Office severe weather warnings, radar and satellite imagery for 1,096 cities and towns in Somerset, England — including Taunton, Bath, Wells, Glastonbury, Frome.
Somerset unfolds as a tapestry of limestone ridges and low-slung marshes, where the Mendip Hills carve jagged silhouettes against a bruised, Atlantic sky. The River Parrett winds its sluggish, silt-heavy course through the Levels, a landscape that exhales the damp, melancholic poetry of an ancient, submerged kingdom. Quantock heights offer a wilder, heather-clad grandeur, their combes sheltering streams that chatter over mossed stone like secret, silver tongues. Salt-crusted breezes sweep across the mudflats of the Severn Estuary, reminding the traveller that the tides here possess a feral, lunging power. Every vale and tor speaks to a geography that is both stubbornly rooted and fluidly, dangerously alive.
Roman boots once trampled the steaming clay of the Somerset Levels, leaving behind the intricate, tessellated ghosts of villas near Bath. Glastonbury Tor rises above these flatlands as a sentinel of mythic history, where legend entwines the bones of King Arthur with the austere, ruined majesty of the great Abbey. Monastic ambition shaped the skyline for centuries, yet the later, iron-fisted march of the Industrial Revolution left its soot-stained signature upon the coal mines of Radstock. Modernity now brushes against these ancient strata, weaving the narratives of medieval pilgrims and Victorian innovators into a singular, enduring chronicle of resilience. Time itself seems to fold upon these meadows, preserving the echoes of long-departed saints and restless, encroaching conquerors.
Orchards heavy with cider apples define the agricultural heartbeat of the county, their gnarled boughs offering a sour, fermenting promise of autumn harvests. Dairymaids and farmers practise the rhythmic, timeless craft of cheesemaking, ensuring that the sharp, golden tang of Cheddar remains a cornerstone of the regional identity. Manufacturing persists in pockets, where the skilled hands of workers at the Clarks shoe factory in Street have long balanced tradition with the demands of a changing global market. Peat extraction and willow cultivation have historically clawed a living from the waterlogged soil, turning the very bog into a source of enduring, humble utility. Prosperity here is measured not by the cold glint of finance, but by the steady, seasonal toil that wrings value from the stubborn earth.
Folks of Somerset carry a quiet, unhurried gravity, their speech flavoured by the rolling, vowel-rich cadence of the West Country. Artists and dreamers have long been drawn to these pastures, finding in the soft, diffused light a clarity that inspired the visionary brushstrokes of Samuel Palmer. Traditions like the Wassail persist in the dark of winter, where songs are sung to the apple trees to ensure the favour of the coming seasons. Rural life revolves around the village green and the local inn, spaces where the lineage of families stretches back through generations of shared labour and neighbourly honour. This is a culture defined by a steadfast devotion to the soil, a place where the human spirit remains tethered to the slow, inevitable turning of the year.
This page lists weather forecast pages for 1,096 cities, towns and villages across Somerset, England, including Taunton, Bath, Wells, Glastonbury, Frome. Each locality page provides live current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, a 7-day outlook, an extended forecast, real-time aviation weather (live METAR and TAF from the nearest reporting airfield, with a modelled estimate where no station is in range), animated precipitation radar, satellite imagery and astronomy data. Coastal localities add tide gauge readings, wave and sea surface temperature data and a solunar fishing forecast; agricultural areas add soil temperature, soil moisture and evapotranspiration; and localities near a monitored watercourse add live Environment Agency river levels.
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. River and tidal data are sourced from the Environment Agency. Aviation data is sourced from aviationweather.gov, radar from RainViewer and satellite imagery from EUMETSAT. All pages update automatically with live data on every visit.
Page generated September 2026