Sutton Bonington weather station

Sutton Bonington weather station sits on the University of Nottingham's Sutton Bonington campus in Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom, at an elevation of 48 metres.

About Sutton Bonington weather station

Unlike most sites in this register, Sutton Bonington is a meteorological monitoring station rather than an astronomical observatory. It has been listed by the Met Office as an automatic weather station since 1908 and is operated by the University of Nottingham.

History

The station has tracked local climate for well over a century, with published averages for temperature and rainfall covering 1981 to 2010. Its record high temperature is 34.8°C, set on 3 August 1990, and average annual rainfall over that period was 606mm.

Location & getting there

The station sits on the Sutton Bonington campus, around 12 miles south of Nottingham's central campuses, in the flat farmland of the East Midlands. Use the map and directions button on this page for the route.

Visiting Sutton Bonington weather station

As a working university climate station rather than a public attraction, we don't have confirmed public visiting information. Check with the University of Nottingham for any access details before planning a trip.

See your named star from here

Sutton Bonington tracks rainfall and temperature rather than the night sky, so it isn't set up for stargazing. The right ascension and declination on a Star Register certificate can instead be found with a telescope at an optical observatory elsewhere in our network. Name a star or browse the full catalogue of named stars.