#1St Ives
5,413 peopleAir frosts a year·January low 5.1°C·#2 of 2,537 in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
St Ives, #1 on this list · Photo: John Lucas · CC BY-SA 2.0Cornwall rankings · Climate
Towns with the fewest frosts in Cornwall
St Ives has the fewest frosts of Cornwall’s 35 towns of 2,500+: 6 air frosts in a typical year (Met Office, 1991–2020). The typical town here has 13.
Air frosts: days a year when the temperature falls below 0°C. 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.
#16frosts
#T2Carbis Bay
3,967 peopleAir frosts a year·January low 5.0°C·#3 of 2,537 in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
#T2Newlyn
3,362 peopleAir frosts a year·January low 5.2°C·#3 of 2,537 in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
All 35 towns, ranked
Air frosts a year, lowest first. 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.
35 towns.
#TownAir frosts a yearJanuary lowUK rank
Quick answers
Questions people ask
Which town in Cornwall has the fewest frosts?
St Ives: 6 air frosts in a typical year, with January nights averaging 5.1°C. Carbis Bay and Newlyn follow.
How are these towns ranked?
By the number of air frosts in a typical year (days when the air falls below 0°C), fewest 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 Cornwall’s towns of 2,500+ with the figure. Smaller places show it on their own pages; every town in Cornwall 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 fewest frosts, 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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