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Is Metoffice.gov.uk down - April, 2025?

Metoffice.gov.uk Outages and Status

Met Office is a government website based in the United Kingdom which provides public access to weather forecasts, climate data, and other related information. It is the United Kingdom's official source of meteorological information, providing services to the public, the media, businesses, and other government departments.

URL Checked:

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/

Last Down:

not recently

Response Time:

7.57 ms.

Metoffice.gov.uk outages reported by users in the last 24 hours

No Metoffice.gov.uk problems reported in the last 24 hours

No outages reported

This chart shows the number of Metoffice.gov.uk outages/problems reported by users in the past 24 hours. All data in the chart is in the Europe/London time zone.

Recent Metoffice.gov.uk User Reports

Check out the latest user reports on Metoffice.gov.uk, detailing the types of issues experienced and their locations. This helps you determine if others in your area are encountering similar problems.

Mar 26, 2025 - 06:43

A visitor from Heywood, United Kingdom has reported a problem with General Issues
Mar 01, 2025 - 10:14

A visitor from Woodbridge, United Kingdom has reported a problem with General Issues
Dec 22, 2024 - 11:22

A visitor from Edinburgh, United Kingdom has reported a problem with Service
Sep 09, 2024 - 09:05

A visitor from North Scarle, United Kingdom has reported a problem with Service
Aug 08, 2024 - 23:18

A visitor from Sleaford, United Kingdom has reported a problem with General Issues
Jul 19, 2024 - 13:57

A visitor from Hackney, United Kingdom has reported a problem with General Issues
Jul 12, 2024 - 16:14

A visitor from Bangor, United Kingdom has reported a problem with Service

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h houdini

Heywood, United Kingdom • 18 days ago

Search for location hangs

M Blowers

Woodbridge, United Kingdom • 1 months ago

App page completely blank

YVONNE BURN

North Scarle, United Kingdom • 7 months ago

Nottingham City Airport can't log in

Sleaford, United Kingdom • 8 months ago

No response from site. No load

Fred

Bangor, United Kingdom • 9 months ago

I can't get into my weather station site on thevWoW pages to make changes

Jon Attwater

Newbury, United Kingdom • 9 months ago

For over a week the' see full Forecast ' button has not worked on my Mac book air . What can I do?

Paul Melville

Glasgow, United Kingdom • 9 months ago

‘Show full forecast’ link not responding for nearly a week on any forecast request.

John Moncrieff

Burnley, United Kingdom • 9 months ago

imac will not show full forecast

Clare

Norwich, United Kingdom • 9 months ago

Trying to look at forecast via Google on my android. Full forecast will not come up and forecast for Thursday onwards looks odd.

Marnie

Wirral, United Kingdom • 9 months ago

the show full forecast button doesn't work on firfox anymore - just stopped working. OK on edge but can't seem to establish what settings to change on firefox

Brian.

Rushden, United Kingdom • 9 months ago

Website has changed and appears jumbled up. Temperatures shown in degrees C and F at the same time, full forecast not showing, and when a day is selected a picture of some countryside appears.
Not usable at present.
This is on an iPhone.

Matt

London, United Kingdom • 9 months ago

Can't get full forecast, only reduced version

Alys Kordbarlag

Sunderland, United Kingdom • 9 months ago

No full forecast since yesterday, for windspeeds and other stuff. Sunderland UK.

Kenneth O'Halloran-Brown

Uttoxeter, United Kingdom • 9 months ago

I cannot get a full forecast, including wind speed and direction, on the met office website on my mobile, but I can on my laptop.

Bolton, United Kingdom • 10 months ago

Says cannot be opened because of too many redirects

LiamD

Harringay, United Kingdom • 10 months ago

Too many redirects when clicking on local area: in Firefox, Chrome and Opera

Kate

Leicester, United Kingdom • 10 months ago

Not connecting

Tim Cooper

Tipton, United Kingdom • 10 months ago

Cannot connect to website with any device

Xxxxxxxx

Bexleyheath, United Kingdom • 10 months ago

Metoffice website down currently

Islington, United Kingdom • 10 months ago

Not loading on any server

steve evans

Caerphilly, United Kingdom • 10 months ago

Met Office will not load....all it says is error...try deleting cookies

Tom f

Lambeth, United Kingdom • 10 months ago

Page will not load.All other pages in Google opening fine.

Mik

Cheltenham, United Kingdom • 10 months ago

Cannot load the met office website today (26 May 24)

Michael Stewart

Liverpool, United Kingdom • 10 months ago

Web site fails to load . . . 'This Page is not working' - 'Try deleing Cokkies' . . . still does not load

Gillian Lamming

Sleaford, United Kingdom • 10 months ago

Says had too many redirects

Lowestoft, United Kingdom • 10 months ago

This page isn’t workingwww.metoffice.gov.uk redirected you too many times.
Try deleting your cookies.
ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS

Dani.

Warminster, United Kingdom • 10 months ago

Getting Too Many Redirects Error on all local Met Office forecasts... also, weirdly, the BBC Weather Summary page is now giving a No Data error in the text box to the right of the map.

K Wakefield

Holmes Chapel, United Kingdom • 10 months ago

Can't load up the area I live

Durham, United Kingdom • 10 months ago

Problem associated with page redirection, my wife has same problem

Cardiff, United Kingdom • 10 months ago

Website inaccessible

Sheffield, United Kingdom • 10 months ago

This page isn’t working
www.metoffice.gov.uk
redirected you too many times.
Try deleting your cookies.
ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS
Hence cannot view any info on towns weather forecast. Please help!

Dave

Derby, United Kingdom • 10 months ago

Sleaford

Dorchester, United Kingdom • 10 months ago

Same problem as other people, with site not loading yesterday due to 'too many redirects/cookies problems'. Today can't get my local forecast at the moment, the nearest being Portland instead of Litton Cheney, which has completely different weather to us usually.

Camden, United Kingdom • 10 months ago

As reported by others, forecast page fails to load due to redirects

Martlesham, United Kingdom • 10 months ago

This page isn’t workingwww.metoffice.gov.uk redirected you too many times.
Try deleting your cookies.
ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS

Mike

Portsmouth, United Kingdom • 10 months ago

Not worked for getting my local forecast for over an hour now

Barnsley, United Kingdom • 10 months ago

Only stops working when trying to view my local area

Lewisham, United Kingdom • 10 months ago

Can't access the site on any device - cookie issue?

Pete

Ipswich, United Kingdom • 10 months ago

Can't access local weather forecast for places in east of England. E.g. Woodbridge or Ipswich. Other locations I can access, eg mickleover.https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/forecast/u12bmgt5c#?date=2024-04-24

Robert Meredith

Gloucester, United Kingdom • 10 months ago

Can't get weather forecast for cheltenham

Manchester, United Kingdom • 10 months ago

Can't load weather forecast

J Smith

Luton, United Kingdom • 10 months ago

Met Office site not working

andy

Bradford, United Kingdom • 10 months ago

down in the north east as at 09-15am

Ian Hunter

Durham, United Kingdom • 10 months ago

Connection not possible. 'Too many redirections'

alan

Rugby, United Kingdom • 10 months ago

weather service down

Edinburgh, United Kingdom • 10 months ago

Website says it is down for maintenance and to email them?

Thud_and_Blunder

London, United Kingdom • 1 years ago

None of the Aviation Briefing Service pages are loading any current images, just the background maps.

Chris Whittome

Aldeburgh, United Kingdom • 1 years ago

keep getting 'server error' when trying to access forecasts on your website. seems to be ok on my mobile

Christopher Buckingham

Taunton, United Kingdom • 1 years ago

I have not been able to get a forecast update on Metoffice web site for 3 hours. There appears to be an issue with the forecasting software behind their service. Have they been hacked??!!!
I use the site every day and this service outage is very unusual.

Stan

Liverpool, United Kingdom • 1 years ago

App will not update. Last daily update was 3 days ago

Most common Metoffice.gov.uk problems reported by users

54%

Service

46%

General Issues

Metoffice.gov.uk Outage Locations

Location

Reports

Last Reported

Heywood, England, GB

128

18 days ago

Edinburgh, Scotland, GB

3 months ago

Bangor, Northern Ireland, GB

9 months ago

Llanelli, Wales, GB

10 months ago

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metoffice.gov.uk website response status history

Date and Time

Response Time

Status Code

Apr 13, 2025 - 12:20

7.57 ms.

200

Apr 12, 2025 - 14:02

2.36 ms.

200

Apr 11, 2025 - 09:34

7.58 ms.

200

Apr 10, 2025 - 04:01

7.64 ms.

200

Apr 09, 2025 - 07:03

26.45 ms.

200

Apr 05, 2025 - 20:27

26.41 ms.

200

Apr 05, 2025 - 00:13

1.06 ms.

200

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Frequently Asked Questions

We have recently sent browser requests to Metoffice.gov.uk and it's up and running with status code 200 (UP) and a response time of 7.57 ms. We recommend clearing your cache or restarting/updating your app.

If you are experiencing slow performance while using Metoffice.gov.uk, it may be your internet connection. Before you call your internet provider to ask about the slow speed, make sure to clear your cache, update the app, and check for any outages first.

HTTP response status code is a 3-digit code returned by the server indicating the status of the request. The code is typically accompanied by a message that provides additional information about the response such as:

2XX - Successful - Website is up & reachable.
3XX - Redirect - The website is accessible, but the browser is redirected to another page.
4XX - Browser Error - The requested page is not available or doesn’t exist.
5XX - Server Error - There are internal errors on the server.

The status code helps developers and users to understand what’s happening with a certain request. This also serves as a guide to take appropriate actions if needed.

The HTTP response time is the amount of time it takes a website to respond to a request made by your device. It calculates how long it takes for a website to load after you click on a link or type a URL into your browser.

Aside from trying a different device, you can also check your device's software if it’s up to date by checking for available updates in your settings.

If the issue persists after trying all of our tips, you can report the issue to us so we can further investigate. By this, you can also see if other users are experiencing it, too.

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