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The Contour Atlas

Ordnance Survey · Night Edition

A field guide to the twelve regions of the United Kingdom

Contour lines, brass hairlines, and a station board that will not stop telling you it is drizzling somewhere. Food, festivals and landmarks for every region, plus live weather.

Find the region that suits you →

UK Weather Departures

Live observations from Open-Meteo, streamed over Server-Sent Events. Upstream refreshes roughly every 15 minutes.

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Current weather for each UK region. Updates automatically; use the pause button to stop updates.
RegionTempWindConditionsVerdict
Scotlandkph
Northern Irelandkph
North East Englandkph
North West Englandkph
Yorkshire and the Humberkph
West Midlandskph
East Midlandskph
East of Englandkph
Londonkph
South East Englandkph
South West Englandkph
Waleskph

Awaiting first observation…

Sheet 1 · The United Kingdom

Twelve regions, each with its own food, festivals and weather. Pick one from the plot, or from the list beneath it. Hovering a pin also highlights its row on the board above.

Not to scale · Ireland shown for context · border approximate

Key

  • Region: select for detail
  • Visited (stamped in your passport)
  • Nation border, approximate
  • UK border with Ireland, approximate
  • Relief shading: decorative, not surveyed
  • Graticule, one line per degree

All regions

Passport

0 of 12 collected

Open a region page to stamp it. Saved on this device only, no account involved.

Declare yourself

A cream tea. Which goes on first?

Both are correct in their own county, which is the whole problem.