Museum · Elvington · North Yorkshire

Yorkshire Air Museum

Yorkshire Air Museum is an aviation museum. It lies inside the built-up area of Elvington. Within 15 km there are 52 more places to visit, starting with York Minster (8.5 km).

Photo: Yorkshire Air Museum, Paul Hermans (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Where

In Elvington

inside the built-up area

How well known

Top 28%

#2,392 of 8,556 places we list

Warmest months

Jun–Sep

highs of 18–22°C

In brief

Museum in Elvington

Inside Elvington

Yorkshire Air Museum is inside Elvington’s built-up area, with 1 more place to visit within 5 km. Towns near it ↓

Written from OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, the ONS built-up areas and Met Office 1991–2020 averages.

When to go

A month-by-month guide

The warmest stretch in Elvington is June to September, at 18–22°C in the afternoon.

Jan7° / 1°50 mm

Feb8° / 1°41 mm

Mar10° / 3°39 mm

Apr13° / 4°43 mm

May16° / 7°44 mm

Jun19° / 10°60 mm

Jul22° / 12°53 mm

Aug21° / 12°64 mm

Sep18° / 10°52 mm

Oct14° / 7°58 mm

Nov10° / 4°57 mm

Dec7° / 1°53 mm

Green months are the warmest. Typical afternoon highs and night lows in Elvington, and rain in a month. Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 averages for Elvington. Opening times change through the year: check before you go. Elvington’s full climate →

About

Yorkshire Air Museum

Wikipedia covers it in 3 languages.

Type: Museum
Wikipedias: Covered in 3 languages
Town: in Elvington
Official site: yorkshireairmuseum.org

Facts: Wikidata (CC0) and OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors).

The map

Yorkshire Air Museum at a glance

The places near Yorkshire Air Museum are numbered on the map in the order below.

Towns near it

Where people come from

York tops the 6 for size, at 141,696 people. Its home town tops the list; the rest follow by distance.

1 · It’s in town

Elvington

1,271 people · 5 places to visit

2 · 2.8 km southeast of it

Sutton upon Derwent

601 people · 2 places to visit

3 · 2.8 km south of it

Wheldrake

1,955 people · 2 places to visit

4 · 2.9 km north of it

Dunnington

3,256 people · 8 places to visit

Compare the 6 towns

Town	Where Yorkshire Air Museum is	People	Places to visit
Elvington	It’s in town	1,271	5
Sutton upon Derwent	2.8 km southeast of it	601	2
Wheldrake	2.8 km south of it	1,955	2
Dunnington	2.9 km north of it	3,256	8
York	4.5 km northwest of it	141,696	46
Osbaldwick	4.9 km northwest of it	2,313	44

Make a day of it

Combine it with these

There are 52 within 15 km, 4 museums, a church and a castle among them.

ChurchYork Minster8.5 km away 2MuseumBig drawMuseumNational Railway Museum9.3 km away · 808K visitors a year 3

Castle · English HeritageClifford's Tower8.1 km away 4

MuseumYorkshire Museum8.8 km away · 164K visitors a year (2019)5

MuseumYork Castle Museum8 km away · 284K visitors a year (2013)6

FortYork city walls8.1 km away 7

Art galleryYork Art Gallery8.8 km away 8

MuseumJorvik Viking Centre8.2 km away

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

Yorkshire Air Museum: what to know

Where is Yorkshire Air Museum?

Yorkshire Air Museum is in Elvington, North Yorkshire, inside the town’s built-up area.

What is Yorkshire Air Museum?

Aviation museum in the United Kingdom.

When is the best time to visit Yorkshire Air Museum?

June to September are the warmest months in Elvington, with afternoon highs of 18–22°C (Met Office 1991–2020 averages).

What else is there to see near Yorkshire Air Museum?

Within 15 km: York Minster (8.5 km), National Railway Museum (9.3 km), Clifford's Tower (8.1 km) and Yorkshire Museum (8.8 km).

Places: OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database Licence) and Wikidata (CC0), placed in the ONS 2022 built-up area (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 (8)

Yorkshire Air Museum: Paul Hermans, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
York Minster: MatzeTrier, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Clifford's Tower: Francis Place (1647-1728), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
Yorkshire Museum: Tim Green from Bradford, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
York Castle Museum: Jitka Erbenová (cheva), CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
York city walls: Jhsteel, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
York Art Gallery: Tilman2007, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Jorvik Viking Centre: CambridgeBayWeather, CC BY 2.5, Wikimedia Commons

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