Will it rain tomorrow in Margate?

rain likely. Rain: 4.3 mm. Low 12 °C, High 14 °C.

What will the weather be like at the weekend in Margate?

Sat 17/10: light rain showers, 12 °C / 14 °C, rain likely.

How far ahead does this Margate forecast go?

This page shows 7 days. The model run used here is from 15/10/2026, 23:18 UTC, and the page fetches a new one every 30 minutes.

Margate weather

Temperature, rain and wind in Margate (England, United Kingdom), a city of about 63,322 people: how it is right now, hour by hour into tomorrow, the next 7 days and what each month of the year is like.

Right now

Friday 16 October, 02:00 (Europe/London)

17 °C

Rain

Feels like

17 °C

Humidity

91%

Wind

19 km/h

SSW · Beaufort 3

Dew point

16 °C

Cloud cover

100%

Pressure

1,018 hPa

Hour by hour

Next 24 hours, in the city’s local time.

Time	Conditions	Temperature	Rain	Wind
01:00	Cloudy	17 °C	0.0 mm	18 km/h
02:00	Rain	17 °C	0.5 mm	19 km/h
03:00	Light rain	18 °C	0.2 mm	22 km/h
04:00	Cloudy	17 °C	0.0 mm	21 km/h
05:00	Partly cloudy	17 °C	0.0 mm	21 km/h
06:00	Light rain showers	17 °C	0.2 mm	23 km/h
07:00	Rain	16 °C	0.7 mm	22 km/h
08:00	Heavy rain	16 °C	1.1 mm	23 km/h
09:00	Heavy rain	16 °C	3.3 mm	25 km/h
10:00	Rain	15 °C	0.9 mm	42 km/h
11:00	Rain	15 °C	0.7 mm	36 km/h
12:00	Cloudy	14 °C	0.0 mm	33 km/h
13:00	Cloudy	14 °C	0.0 mm	31 km/h
14:00	Partly cloudy	14 °C	0.0 mm	30 km/h
15:00	Partly cloudy	15 °C	0.0 mm	30 km/h
16:00	Fair	16 °C	0.0 mm	30 km/h
17:00	Fair	15 °C	0.0 mm	30 km/h
18:00	Fair	15 °C	0.0 mm	32 km/h
19:00	Fair	15 °C	0.0 mm	33 km/h
20:00	Rain showers	14 °C	0.3 mm	33 km/h
21:00	Fair	14 °C	0.0 mm	33 km/h
22:00	Light rain showers	14 °C	0.1 mm	34 km/h
23:00	Light rain showers	14 °C	0.2 mm	33 km/h
00:00	Fair	13 °C	0.0 mm	37 km/h

Next 7 days

Day	Conditions	Low	High	Rain outlook
Fri 16/10	Cloudy	12 °C	18 °C	rain possible · 8.2 mm
Sat 17/10	Light rain showers	12 °C	14 °C	rain likely · 4.3 mm
Mon 19/10	Partly cloudy	12 °C	15 °C	rain likely · 4.1 mm
Tue 20/10	Rain	13 °C	15 °C	rain possible · 1.4 mm
Wed 21/10	Rain showers	10 °C	16 °C	rain possible · 2.3 mm
Thu 22/10	Fair	9 °C	15 °C	no rain expected · 0.0 mm
Fri 23/10	Partly cloudy	12 °C	15 °C	no rain expected · 0.0 mm

This column is our own reading: the global model does not publish a probability of precipitation for this region, so we classify the day from the forecast symbol and the total in millimetres. It is not an official probability figure.

Our own chart, drawn from the 7-day forecast for Margate shown above.

What each number means

Rain (mm): 1 millimetre of rain is 1 litre of water per square metre. Up to 2 mm in a day is drizzle; from 10 mm it is proper rain; more than 50 mm in a few hours is the amount that floods streets.
Humidity: Relative humidity is how much water vapour the air holds compared with the most it can hold at that temperature. Above 80% sweat evaporates slowly and heat feels worse; below 30% your throat and eyes dry out.
Dew point: The dew point is the temperature at which the air would start to condense. The closer it is to the air temperature, the muggier it feels. Above 20 °C the air already feels heavy.
Feels like: "Feels like" combines temperature, wind and humidity: strong wind carries heat away from the body, so it feels colder than the thermometer; high humidity in the heat makes it feel warmer.
Wind: Wind is given as a speed and the direction it blows from. Up to 20 km/h you barely notice it; at 40 km/h it moves branches and parasols; above 60 km/h it brings down trees and roof tiles.
Cloud cover: Cloud cover as a percentage is how much of the sky is covered. Up to 20% is a clear sky; above 80% the sun barely gets through.
Chance of rain: The model does not publish a probability of precipitation for this region. This column is our own reading: the global model does not publish a probability of precipitation for this region, so we classify the day from the forecast symbol and the total in millimetres. It is not an official probability figure.

Month-by-month climate

In October, Margate averages 13 °C and about 76 mm of rain over the month, on the 25-year Meteorological and Solar Monthly & Annual Climatologies (January 2001 - December 2025) climatology.

Warmest month

August

Coldest month

February

Wettest month

November

Driest month

April

Month	Mean temperature	Rain	Mean humidity
January	6 °C	64 mm	88%
February	6 °C	53 mm	87%
March	7 °C	48 mm	86%
April	9 °C	36 mm	84%
May	12 °C	48 mm	83%
June	15 °C	54 mm	83%
July	17 °C	57 mm	82%
August	18 °C	63 mm	81%
September	16 °C	47 mm	81%
October	13 °C	76 mm	84%
November	10 °C	77 mm	87%
December	7 °C	73 mm	89%

Our own chart, from the NASA POWER 25-year Meteorological and Solar Monthly & Annual Climatologies (January 2001 - December 2025) climatology for the coordinates of Margate.

Frequently asked questions

Will it rain tomorrow in Margate?: rain likely. Rain: 4.3 mm. Low 12 °C, High 14 °C.
What is the temperature in Margate right now?: 17 °C, rain. Feels like: 17 °C. Humidity: 91%.
What will the weather be like at the weekend in Margate?: Sat 17/10: light rain showers, 12 °C / 14 °C, rain likely.
Which is the wettest month in Margate?: November — ~77 mm (25-year Meteorological and Solar Monthly & Annual Climatologies (January 2001 - December 2025), NASA POWER).
How far ahead does this Margate forecast go?: This page shows 7 days. The model run used here is from 15/10/2026, 23:18 UTC, and the page fetches a new one every 30 minutes.

Nearby cities

Forecasts for places near Margate:

How to read this page

How to read the min and the max

The week’s high (18 °C) arrives in the afternoon, about two hours after solar noon; the low (9 °C) just before sunrise. Both are air temperature in the shade, two metres above ground — in direct sun or over asphalt a thermometer reads higher.

Where this number comes from

The Margate forecast comes from MET Norway, a partir do ECMWF HRES e, na área nórdica, do MEPS, run of 15/10/2026, 23:18 UTC. The month-by-month climate comes from NASA POWER, climatology of 25-year Meteorological and Solar Monthly & Annual Climatologies (January 2001 - December 2025). Both are credited in full at the foot of this page.

What a forecast cannot promise

Out to two days accuracy is high; by day seven the trend matters more than the exact figure. For Margate the model publishes no rain probability, so the expectation column is our reading.

Severe weather warnings

This page is informational. For official warnings of storms, gales or flooding affecting Margate, go to your national weather service through the World Meteorological Organization warning portal.

WMO Severe Weather Information Centre

Understanding the weather and climate of Margate

Is this week in Margate above or below the October normal?

The average of the next 7 days in Margate works out at 13 °C, against a normal of 13 °C for October over 25-year Meteorological and Solar Monthly & Annual Climatologies (January 2001 - December 2025). The gap is under one degree, so the week sits squarely inside what the season normally brings.

Within the week the highest maximum lands on Fri 16/10 (18 °C) and the lowest minimum on Thu 22/10 (9 °C). Forecast rain adds up to 20 mm, roughly 27% of everything Margate gets in an average October (76 mm). The wettest day is Fri 16/10, with 8.2 mm.

When is the wettest and the driest month in Margate?

On the 25-year Meteorological and Solar Monthly & Annual Climatologies (January 2001 - December 2025) climatology, the wettest month in Margate is November, at about 77 mm, and the driest is April, at 36 mm. The two extremes differ by only 2.1 times, which means rain is spread fairly evenly across the year in Margate. For October, the month you are reading this in, the average is 76 mm.

What does the dew point say about how Margate feels?

Right now in Margate the air is at 17 °C with a dew point of 16 °C and relative humidity of 91%. The two sit within a few tenths of each other: the air is all but saturated, which favours fog, dew on the car and laundry that will not dry.

What is the climate of Margate like through the year?

The warmest month in Margate is August (18 °C on average) and the coldest is February (6 °C), a swing of about 12 °C around an annual mean of 11 °C. A swing of this size means a genuinely temperate climate: summer and winter call for different clothes, different housing and different habits.

Because Margate lies in the northern hemisphere, at 51.38° north, summer falls in June, July and August, in the middle of the calendar.

How far is Margate from Southend-on-Sea?

The nearest large city to Margate is Southend-on-Sea, about 50 km away in a straight line, to the west, with 295,310 inhabitants. In that band the temperature of the two rarely differs by more than a degree or two, but a summer downpour can hit one and miss the other: heat showers are only a few kilometres wide. Being larger, Southend-on-Sea shows up in more searches, and plenty of people end up reading its forecast assuming it covers Margate.

Words on this page

Apparent temperature

The temperature the body actually feels, rather than the one on the thermometer. It combines air temperature with wind, which carries heat away faster, and humidity, which slows the evaporation of sweat. That is why 30 °C in dry air with a breeze is easier than 28 °C in still, muggy air.

Apparent temperature

Dew point

The temperature air would have to cool to, at constant pressure and moisture, for water to start condensing. The closer the dew point sits to the air temperature, the less room the vapour has and the muggier the day feels.

Dew point

Millimetre of rain

The depth of water rain would leave on a flat surface with no run-off. One millimetre is one litre per square metre, no matter how large the area measured is.

Standard definition by World Meteorological Organization (WMO) · Millimetre of rain

Relative humidity

How much water vapour the air holds compared with the most it could hold at that temperature, as a percentage. Because that ceiling rises with heat, the same amount of vapour reads high at dawn and low in the afternoon.

Relative humidity

Climate normal

The average of a climate element — temperature, rainfall, humidity — computed over a long, standardised period, usually thirty years. It does not predict anything: it says what is typical for that place in that month, and gives you a ruler for calling a week warm or wet.

Standard definition by World Meteorological Organization (WMO) · Climate normal

Forecast model

A program that solves the equations of the atmosphere on a grid of points and steps forward in time from the state observed now. Your city forecast is the model value at the nearest grid point, which is why two neighbouring towns get almost the same numbers.

Standard definition by MET Norway (Meteorologisk institutt) · Forecast model

Model run

The time the model was executed with the latest observations. Every forecast belongs to a run, and runs age: one from six hours ago knows nothing about the shower that started afterwards. It is the first thing to check when two sources disagree.

Standard definition by MET Norway (Meteorologisk institutt) · Model run

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Source, model and licence

Model: MET Norway, a partir do ECMWF HRES e, na área nórdica, do MEPS
Model run: 15/10/2026, 23:18 UTC
Source: MET Norway (Meteorologisk institutt) — Locationforecast 2.0 — Based on data from MET Norway. Licence: CC BY 4.0 / NLOD 2.0.
Month-by-month climate: NASA POWER — Climatology (MERRA-2, 2001–2020) — The data was obtained from National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Center's Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources (POWER) project — Climatology API v2. Dados públicos da NASA, citação obrigatória.
Cities, coordinates and population: Dados de cidades: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)

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