Alderton, Suffolk Weather
About Alderton, Suffolk
Sunlight catches the salt-bleached brickwork of Alderton, where the horizon meets the wide, grey expanse of the North Sea. It lies 4.9 miles north-north-east of Felixstowe (from Felixstowe: bearing 33°T, OS grid TM 343 416), and is situated north of Bawdsey village. The Alderton Village Sign greets travellers with a stillness that seems to hold the very weight of the shifting coastal air. Beyond the quiet lanes, the earth holds ancient secrets at the Settlement Site E Of The Cedars, a landscape where the grass grows thick over layers of forgotten hearths. The wind carries a sharp, metallic tang from the coast, hinting at the proximity of the Martello Tower by Bawdsey Beach, a stoic sentinel against the encroaching tides. Fields of barley ripple under a vast, unclouded sky, their golden stalks bowing as if in reverence to the relentless Suffolk breeze. Alderton remains a place defined by its edges, where the solid land begins its slow surrender to the hungry marshes that define the surrounding geography. Every chimney pot and garden fence stands sharp against a horizon that feels infinite and untamed.
Flight conditions near Alderton. Data source: locating…
Live animated radar for Alderton and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Alderton, Suffolk Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Alderton, Suffolk, 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 Alderton includes coordinates 52.023692, 1.415161, in the county of Suffolk, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Alderton is available on the Alderton map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the Suffolk 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.