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Live wind and water conditions for 36 lakes across England — one dashboard per lake, with an honest sailing score for every hour of the week.
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Coniston Water
North West England
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Derwentwater
North West England
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Bassenthwaite Lake
North West England
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Thirlmere Reservoir
North West England
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Haweswater Reservoir
North West England
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Barton Broad
East of England
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Hickling Broad
East of England
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Ranworth Broad
East of England
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Oulton Broad
East of England
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Sherborne Lake
South West England
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Loe Pool
South West England
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Brayford Pool
East Midlands
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Every lake with an active Environment Agency gauge, from the Lakes to the Broads.
What makes a sailing day
Wind in your band
The sweet spot depends on your craft: pick a profile — Beginner/Kayak (3–10 kt), Cruising (6–16 kt), or Performance/Wing (8–22 kt) — and every score on the site retunes itself.
Gust factor
Gusts more than 1.5× the sustained wind mean jibe-crashing holes and sudden knockdowns — the score dings them hard.
Storms & cold
High rain probability is treated as thunderstorm risk, and cold air raises the stakes of a swim. Both subtract from every affected hour.
Learn the water
All guidesThermal winds: why lakes breeze up every afternoon
The reliable afternoon lake breeze is a heat engine you can set your watch by.
Gust factor: the number that predicts jibe crashes
Sustained wind tells you how fast you'll go. Gust factor tells you how often you'll swim.
Reading Environment Agency gauges: what the level number means
Metres above a station datum — knowing what your gauge reports prevents bad launch decisions.
How the LakePulse UK sailing score works
A 0–10 rating built from wind, gusts, storms, and cold — and tuned to your kind of sailing.
Why wind direction matters more on lakes than at sea
The same wind speed is a completely different day depending on where it comes from.
Met Office warnings and when to stay ashore
What the warnings actually mean, and how to make the go/no-go call for your boat.
Questions
Where does the data come from?
Water levels come from Environment Agency real-time gauges (the flood-monitoring API), reporting every 15 minutes to an hour. Wind forecasts come from Open-Meteo, which serves the Met Office UKV alongside NOAA GFS, ECMWF, and DWD ICON. Everything is public data, refreshed continuously.
What is the sailing score?
A 0–10 rating for every hour: full marks for steady 6–16 kt wind, minus penalties for big gust factors, rain/thunderstorm probability, and cold air. It is tuned for dinghies, small keelboats, windsurfers, and wing foilers.
Does it cost anything?
No. LakePulse UK is free, has no account requirement, and works on any phone or laptop browser.
Why is my lake missing?
We list lakes and reservoirs with an active Environment Agency gauge reporting water level. The EA network is England-only today — Scotland and Wales are on the roadmap — and a few famous lakes (Windermere among them) are gauged outside this open API. If a gauge is missed, the station link on each lake page lets you verify against the source.