Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex Weather
About Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex
Shoreham-by-Sea watches the tides pull against the shingle, where the Adur Estuary SSSI carves a silver path through the low-lying salt marshes. It lies 1.5 miles west of Southwick (from Southwick: bearing 267°T, OS grid TQ 217 051). Once a bustling harbour of maritime commerce, the port transformed over centuries into a quiet junction of trade and coastal industry. The Marlipins, an ancient stone survivor, stands as a flint-faced witness to the ships that have long navigated these shifting channels. Today, the economy leans into its maritime heritage and modern connectivity, grounding the local pulse in the steady work of the harbour and the ebb of the sea.
Shoreham-by-Sea keeps the memory of the past in the quiet corners of the Marlipins Museum, where the salt-crusted history of the coast resides. Residents often find respite in the green expanse of Coronation Green, a place where the air carries a distinct tang of brine and the light catches the white sails bobbing in the distance. The landscape rises toward the chalky heights of Mill Hill, offering a vast, sweeping perspective of the valley below. Among the figures who once walked these streets was the novelist Mary Renault, whose observant gaze perhaps caught the same interplay of shadow and light that defines the shoreline. The town maintains a measured, rhythmic character, defined by the constant, restless motion of the English Channel.
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About This Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex, 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 Shoreham-by-Sea includes coordinates 50.833133, -0.273117, in the county of West Sussex, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Shoreham-by-Sea is available on the Shoreham-by-Sea map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the West Sussex 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.