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St Andrews Botanic Garden
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St Andrews Botanic Garden

St Andrews Botanic Garden is a botanical garden. You will find it inside St Andrews’ locality. It is on the official list as an Inventory Garden and Designed Landscape.

Photo: St Andrews Botanic Garden, rob bishop (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Where
In St Andrews
inside the locality
How well known
Top 28%
#2,392 of 8,556 places we list
Warmest months
Jun–Sep
highs of 17–20°C
In brief

Garden in St Andrews

Inside St Andrews

St Andrews Botanic Garden is inside St Andrews’ locality, with 13 more places to visit within 5 km. Towns near it ↓

Inventory Garden and Designed Landscape

On the official list of protected heritage; St Andrews has 370 listed buildings in all, on its History page. About ↓

Written from OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, NRS’s localities and Met Office 1991–2020 averages.

When to go

Month by month

If warmth matters, go June to September: St Andrews reaches 17–20°C.

Jan7° / 1°72 mm
Feb8° / 2°55 mm
Mar10° / 2°50 mm
Apr12° / 4°44 mm
May15° / 6°52 mm
Jun18° / 9°62 mm
Jul20° / 11°63 mm
Aug19° / 11°75 mm
Sep17° / 9°53 mm
Oct13° / 6°81 mm
Nov10° / 4°72 mm
Dec7° / 1°65 mm
Green months are the warmest. Typical afternoon highs and night lows in St Andrews, and rain in a month. Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 averages for St Andrews. Opening times change through the year: check before you go. St Andrews’ full climate →
About

St Andrews Botanic Garden

Its story is told in 3 languages on Wikipedia. There are 30 more places to see within 15 km, beginning with St Andrews Castle (1.2 km).

St Andrews’ listed buildings and monuments →

Type
Garden
Listed
Inventory Garden and Designed Landscape
Wikipedias
Covered in 3 languages
Town
in St Andrews
Facts: Wikidata (CC0) and OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors).
The map

Finding St Andrews Botanic Garden

Numbered points are the places near St Andrews Botanic Garden, which is in orange.

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© OpenStreetMap contributors · The dashed line is St Andrews’ locality. · NRS locality 2022

Towns near it

The nearest towns

Its home town tops the list; the rest follow by distance.

1 · It’s in town

St Andrews

16,465 people · 15 places to visit

Make a day of it

Make a day of it near St Andrews Botanic Garden

Within 15 km you can add 4 castles, 3 museums and a historic house.

1Castle · Historic Environment ScotlandSt Andrews Castle1.2 km away2MuseumR&A World Golf Museum1 km away3MuseumSt Andrews Museum500 m away4MuseumWardlaw Museum1.1 km away5Castle · National Trust for ScotlandKellie Castle11 km away6Castle · Historic Environment ScotlandBroughty Castle15 km away7CastleDairsie Castle8.9 km away8Historic house · National Trust for ScotlandHill of Tarvit13 km away

Within 15 km, close and well known first. Numbers match the map.

Good to know about St Andrews Botanic Garden

Where is St Andrews Botanic Garden?

St Andrews Botanic Garden is in St Andrews, Fife, inside the town’s locality.

What is St Andrews Botanic Garden?

Botanical garden in Fife, Scotland, UK.

When is the best time to visit St Andrews Botanic Garden?

June to September are the warmest months in St Andrews, with afternoon highs of 17–20°C (Met Office 1991–2020 averages).

Is St Andrews Botanic Garden a listed building?

Yes: Inventory Garden and Designed Landscape.

What else is there to see near St Andrews Botanic Garden?

Within 15 km: St Andrews Castle (1.2 km), R&A World Golf Museum (1 km), St Andrews Museum (500 m) and Wardlaw Museum (1.1 km).

Places: OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database Licence) and Wikidata (CC0), placed in the NRS 2022 locality (Open Government Licence v3.0). Visitor counts are the latest Wikidata gives, with their year.

Photos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).

Photo credits (9)

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.