Durdle Door Sea Temperature
Looking to find out what the sea water temperature in Durdle Door is for today and the next few days? Below are data and charts that will give you information about sea temperatures in Durdle Door and nearby locations.
Water temperature in Durdle Door right now
Below is the current sea temperature for Durdle Door, United Kingdom on 20th April 2024.
9.86° C
(49.75° F)
- yesterday: 9.74° C (49.53° F)
- a week ago: 10.68° C (51.22° F)
This water is very cold and can cause pain. We don't recommend you swim in this temperature for anything other than very short swims of 5 to 10 minutes unless you are a very experienced cold water swimmer.
The average sea temperature for Durdle Door on April 20th over the last 10 years is 10.03° C (50.05° F), with a low temperature of 8.04° C (46.47° F) and a high of 11.01° C (51.82° F).
Analysis and forecast for Durdle Door water temperatures
The water temperature in Durdle Door today is lower than the average temperature of 10.03° C (50.05° F) and the temperature on this day last year, 20th April 2023, was 9.74° C (49.53° F).
The chart and table below shows the change in water temperature in Durdle Door over the last 30 days:
The actual nearshore temperatures may vary by several degrees and this can also be heavily affected by weather. Strong winds can cause cold, deep waters to replace the surface waters that had been warmed by the sun, and heavy rain can also reduce the temperature of the sea surface temperature as well.
Water temperature in Durdle Door by month
The chart below shows the monthly average water temperature in Durdle Door.
For more detailed information on how the sea temperature in Durdle Door changes for each month of the year, choose from the months below.
Durdle Door map and nearby water temperatures
Locations near Durdle Door
The highest temperature in United Kingdom today is 10.63° C (51.13° F) in Portscatho. The lowest is in Aberdeen, where the temperature of the water is 7.3° C (45.14° F).
Why measure sea surface temperatures (SST) in Durdle Door?
The ocean covers about 71% of the Earth's surface, and scientists record the sea surface temperature (SST) of locations such as Durdle Door because they want to understand and learn how the ocean communicates with the atomosphere of Earth.
SST is one measure that provides information on the global climate, and it can be used to predict the weather in Durdle Door as well as atmospheric model simulations and to study marine ecosystems in the area.
Data source and citation
Raw data for the calculations made to find the sea surface temperature in Durdle Door comes from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and their 1/4° daily Optimum Interpolation Sea Surface Temperature.
The water temperature data is constructed by combining observations from different platforms (satellites, ships, buoys, and Argo floats) on a regular global grid. A spatially complete sea surface temperature map is then built by interpolating to fill in gaps in the data.
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