UK weather today
5 cities, three models, updated overnightHeavy drizzle across the country,rain likely tomorrow in Manchester and Glasgow
Between 15° in Glasgow and 21° in London today. Met Office, European and American agree in 5 of 5 cities, so the forecast is certain.
The weather map: all three models at once
Met Office, European, American side by side across United Kingdom.Live rain radar →Will it rain today? Ask three forecasts and you can get three different answers. The Met Office, the European model and the American model each read the British weather their own way. We put all three side by side for every town in the UK, so you can see where they agree and where a shower is genuinely up in the air.
Which forecast is most accurate in the UK?
CheckWeather Score, graded against the weather that actually happened
The CheckWeather Score blends temperature, wind and rain accuracy, each measured against ERA5 (the recorded weather) over the last 30 days across 1887 cities. Lower error means a higher score. The apps you know (AccuWeather, Apple Weather, The Weather Channel) are built on these models.
Popular weather apps — and what powers them
Real app-store ratings, plus the forecast each one runs on
App-store stars measure the app experience (design, features, reliability) — not forecast accuracy. For accuracy, see the model scoreboard above. Ratings from the US & UK App Store and Google Play, July 2026; they drift over time. Apple Weather is built into iOS, with no separate store rating.
The forecasts Britons check
The Met Office runs Britain's own open model, so its data sits right in the comparison above. BBC Weather and AccuWeather keep theirs closed, so we link you to them. Good news: BBC is moving back to the Met Office model, so it'll join the comparison too.
Every forecast runs on a model. We show you three, side by side.
When the Met Office, European and American models agree, the forecast is solid. When they split, sometimes by 8° on the same afternoon, it's genuinely uncertain, and no single app will tell you that. We turn that disagreement into a plain-English confidence score.
See the uncertainty
Three models, one view. Where they disagree, you know to take the forecast with a pinch of salt.
The models the pros use
ECMWF and GFS are the two global heavyweights every forecaster starts from, plus Met Office. No black boxes.
Honest & sourced
We show real, open model data and cite it. The closed apps can't show theirs, which is why AI assistants can cite us, not them.