#1Princes Risborough
7,528 peopleJuly high·16 days of 25°C+ a year·#1,295 of 2,537 in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
Princes Risborough, #1 on this list · Photo: Colin Smith · CC BY-SA 2.0Buckinghamshire rankings · Climate
Towns with the coolest summers in Buckinghamshire
Princes Risborough has the coolest summers of Buckinghamshire’s 39 towns of 2,500+: July afternoons average a high of 21.5°C (Met Office, 1991–2020). The typical town here averages 22.6°C.
The average July high (the warmest month’s afternoons). Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 averages on its 2 km grid, the cells inside each town averaged (contains Met Office data © Crown copyright). A described list: no letters. The rank across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland sits beside each figure.
#121.5°C
#2Stokenchurch
4,351 peopleJuly high·12 days of 25°C+ a year·#1,399 of 2,537 in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
#3Walter's Ash and Naphill
3,893 peopleJuly high·13 days of 25°C+ a year·#1,459 of 2,537 in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
All 39 towns, ranked
July high, lowest first. Temperatures are ranked on two decimals and shown to one, so two towns showing the same figure can rank apart; towns smaller than a 2 km cell share its figures. Towns with the same figure share a rank (T = tied). Each rank across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland links to the national list.
39 towns.
#TownJuly highDays 25°C+UK rank
Quick answers
Questions people ask
Which town in Buckinghamshire has the coolest summers?
Princes Risborough: July afternoons average a high of 21.5°C, with 16 days of 25°C or more in a typical year. Stokenchurch and Walter's Ash and Naphill follow.
How are these towns ranked?
By the average July high, lowest first, from the Met Office’s 1991–2020 averages on its 2 km grid: the cells inside the town, or the one nearest its centre for a town smaller than a cell. The figure is the one on each town’s Climate page.
Why isn’t my town on this list?
The list covers Buckinghamshire’s towns of 2,500+ with the figure. Smaller places show it on their own pages; every town in Buckinghamshire is on the county page.
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Every list ranks the same 2,500+ towns, so a town’s rank means the same thing on each.
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County by county
Towns with the coolest summers, county by county
AberdeenshireBedfordshireBerkshireBuckinghamshireCambridgeshireCheshireClwydCornwallCounty DurhamCumbriaDerbyshireDevonDorsetDyfedEast Riding of YorkshireEast SussexEssexFifeGloucestershireGreater ManchesterGwentHampshireHertfordshireHighlandKentLancashireLeicestershireLincolnshireLondonMerseysideMid GlamorganNorfolkNorth LanarkshireNorth YorkshireNorthamptonshireNorthumberlandNottinghamshireOxfordshireShropshireSomersetSouth LanarkshireSouth YorkshireStaffordshireSuffolkSurreyTyne and WearWarwickshireWest GlamorganWest MidlandsWest SussexWest YorkshireWiltshireWorcestershire
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