United Kingdom Show cave

Wookey Hole Caves

3.7 km of galleries.

Rodw · Public domain

The descent

The entrance, at 62 m.

The real relief above Wookey Hole Caves, measured on the Copernicus model every 30 m, and the cave going down at the same vertical scale.

The depth is the one published by those who explored it; the shape of the galleries is a sketch, not a survey. No depth has been published for this cave yet.

3.7km

Galleries

surveyed length (Wikidata)

62m

Entrance altitude

from the 30 m relief model

10°C

Inside, all year

the yearly average outside, at the entrance

204m

Rock above

the highest point within 1.5 km

Inside and outside

10 °C inside, all year.

Deep inside, a cave keeps the average temperature of the year outside: about 10 °C here, in January and in August. In July the afternoon reaches 22 °C at the entrance, 12 °C warmer than inside: take a jacket.

outside, at the entrance (62 m)inside

8°2°Jan
8°2°Feb
10°3°Mar
13°5°Apr
17°8°May
20°11°Jun
22°12°Jul
22°12°Aug
19°10°Sep
15°8°Oct
11°5°Nov
8°3°Dec

Inside: 10 °C all yearWettest: Oct

Outside: afternoon and night averages for 1991–2020 (NASA POWER) brought to the altitude of the entrance. Inside: the yearly average, which deep parts of a cave keep. Near the entrance it follows the weather a little.

Series of limestone caverns in Somerset county, England

Wookey Hole Caves is a show cave in United Kingdom. It has 3.7 km of surveyed galleries. The entrance is at 62 m. It has stalactites and stalagmites. It is open to visitors.

Getting there.

Show cave: open to visitorsUsually with a guided tour; check times and tickets on the official site.Official site
Wellsnearest town · 2.7 km in a straight line
Parking 260 m awaynearest car park in OpenStreetMap, straight line
Viewpointsnearest viewpoint · 0.1 km from the entrance
Bristol Airport (BRS)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 17 km in a straight lineCar hire at BRS airport (Bristol)Discover Cars · sponsored link

Plan the visit

Guided tours, a bed nearby, a car.

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From above.

The ground above the cave, with the relief shaded, the line of the section and what people have mapped around the entrance.

The ground above Wookey Hole Caves (Sentinel-2)

N 1.5 km

Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 6.0 × 6.0 km, north up. The line is the section above. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Around the entrance.

8other cave entrances within 3 kmWookey Hole Caves, Hunter's Hole, St. Cuthbert's Swallet and 5 more
6viewpoints within 3 km
5marked hiking routes within 3 kmMonarch's Way, The Butcombe Trail, The Mendip Trail and 2 more
17car parks within 2 km
4information boards and visitor centres within 3 km
14bus stops within 2 km
17campsites within 8 kmLower Milton Caravan And Camping Site, Wookey Farm Camp Site, Ebborways Camping and 14 more
29hotels and guesthouses within 8 kmSwan Hotel, Beryl, Yoxter and 26 more
23restaurants and cafés within 3 km

springs within 2 km
sinkholes within 3 km
caving clubs and spots within 15 km
climbing crags within 3 km
named waterfalls within 4 km

Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit, around the entrance. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet. © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).

Towns nearby

Wells2.7 km in a straight line
Mendip3.3 km in a straight line
Draycott6.4 km in a straight line
East Harptree8.8 km in a straight line
Cheddar9.0 km in a straight line
Compton Martin9.2 km in a straight line
Shepton Mallet9.6 km in a straight line
Glastonbury9.6 km in a straight line

In our other atlases

What else is around Wookey Hole Caves.

The river at the entrance, the waterfalls, the lakes, the mountains and volcanoes above, the canyons, beaches and islands nearby — from our other atlases.

Peakyas2 mountains within 10 km

Pen Hill305 m · 3.3 kmGlastonbury Tor158 m · 9.5 km

Islandyason an island

Great Britain228,938 km²

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, NOAA, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.

Month by month

The weather outside, at the entrance.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Afternoon	8	8	10	13	17	20	22	22	19	15	11	8
Afternoon	8	8	10	13	17	20	22	22	19	15	11	8
Night	2	2	3	5	8	11	12	12	10	8	5	3
Rain (mm)	84	65	63	54	59	62	67	72	50	93	92	90
Rainy days	15	12	12	12	12	12	13	13	12	15	15	15
Sun hours/day	1.5	2.6	4.1	6.1	6.8	6.9	6.6	5.6	5.2	3.0	1.8	1.2
Snow on the ground (cm)	3	4	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3

	Afternoon	Afternoon	Night	Rain (mm)	Sun hours/day
Jan	8	8	2	84	1.5
Feb	8	8	2	65	2.6
Mar	10	10	3	63	4.1
Apr	13	13	5	54	6.1
May	17	17	8	59	6.8
Jun	20	20	11	62	6.9
Jul	22	22	12	67	6.6
Aug	22	22	12	72	5.6
Sep	19	19	10	50	5.2
Oct	15	15	8	93	3.0
Nov	11	11	5	92	1.8
Dec	8	8	3	90	1.2

Averages 1991–2020 (NASA POWER) for a cell about 55 km wide, brought to the altitude of the entrance (62 m) with the standard lapse rate. Not a forecast.

Photographs

Inside and around.

Cheeses stored at Wookey Hole Caves — Rodw · Public domain

Wookey Hole Cave and underground river (7065267791) — Becks · CC BY 2.0

Wookey Hole, Wells (260264) (9456314064) — Robert Linsdell from St. Andrews, Canada · CC BY 2.0

Recent years

Wet years, dry years.

Rain of each month as a share of the 1991–2020 average. A dry year means a lower river and hotter rock; a wet one, more water in the gorge.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2020	95%	240%	90%	110%	11%	151%	60%	132%	65%	174%	81%	150%
2021	118%	117%	70%	41%	192%	103%	145%	58%	96%	155%	18%	92%
2022	42%	114%	100%	55%	101%	110%	16%	17%	118%	100%	169%	108%
2023	127%	18%	198%	141%	101%	64%	180%	88%	133%	140%	124%	163%
2024	92%	220%	169%	136%	173%	25%	123%	82%	289%	123%	107%	59%
2025	131%	106%	19%	80%	49%	99%	60%	44%	132%	71%	126%	165%

130% or more: wet month 70% or less: dry month

Caves nearby.

Wookey Hole Caves

United Kingdom

—Depth
3.7 kmGalleries
62 mEntrance altitude
10 °CInside, all year

Gough's Cave

United Kingdom · 9 km

—Depth
—Galleries
67 mEntrance altitude
10 °CInside, all year

See the guide

Aveline's Hole

United Kingdom · 12 km

—Depth
—Galleries
116 mEntrance altitude
10 °CInside, all year

See the guide

Clearwell Caves

United Kingdom · 61 km

—Depth
—Galleries
177 mEntrance altitude
9 °CInside, all year

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name, type, published depth and length, visitors	Wikidata (Q4274972) · CC0
The relief above, the entrance altitude, the section and the 3D model	Copernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
Climate	NASA POWER, 1991–2020
Entrances, springs, sinkholes, opening hours and what is around	© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
Images	EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Rivers, waterfalls, lakes, mountains, canyons, beaches and islands nearby	Coastya, Lakeyas, Peakyas, Cascadyas, Islandyas, Riveryas

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

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	Afternoon	Afternoon	Night	Rain (mm)	Sun hours/day
Jan	8	8	2	84	1.5
Feb	8	8	2	65	2.6
Mar	10	10	3	63	4.1
Apr	13	13	5	54	6.1
May	17	17	8	59	6.8
Jun	20	20	11	62	6.9
Jul	22	22	12	67	6.6
Aug	22	22	12	72	5.6
Sep	19	19	10	50	5.2
Oct	15	15	8	93	3.0
Nov	11	11	5	92	1.8
Dec	8	8	3	90	1.2

	Afternoon	Afternoon	Night	Rain (mm)	Sun hours/day
Jan	8	8	2	84	1.5
Feb	8	8	2	65	2.6
Mar	10	10	3	63	4.1
Apr	13	13	5	54	6.1
May	17	17	8	59	6.8
Jun	20	20	11	62	6.9
Jul	22	22	12	67	6.6
Aug	22	22	12	72	5.6
Sep	19	19	10	50	5.2
Oct	15	15	8	93	3.0
Nov	11	11	5	92	1.8
Dec	8	8	3	90	1.2

	Afternoon	Afternoon	Night	Rain (mm)	Sun hours/day
Jan	8	8	2	84	1.5
Feb	8	8	2	65	2.6
Mar	10	10	3	63	4.1
Apr	13	13	5	54	6.1
May	17	17	8	59	6.8
Jun	20	20	11	62	6.9
Jul	22	22	12	67	6.6
Aug	22	22	12	72	5.6
Sep	19	19	10	50	5.2
Oct	15	15	8	93	3.0
Nov	11	11	5	92	1.8
Dec	8	8	3	90	1.2