#1Long Eaton
37,815 peopleJanuary low·39 air frosts a year·#887 of 2,537 in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
Long Eaton, #1 on this list · Photo: David Hallam-Jones · CC BY-SA 2.0Derbyshire rankings · Climate
Towns with the mildest winters in Derbyshire
Long Eaton has the mildest winters of Derbyshire’s 59 towns of 2,500+: January nights average a low of 2.0°C (Met Office, 1991–2020). The typical town here averages 1.4°C.
The average January low (the coldest month’s nights). 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.
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#2Derby
275,561 peopleJanuary low·38 air frosts a year·#1,092 of 2,537 in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
#3Breaston and Draycott
7,393 peopleJanuary low·40 air frosts a year·#1,123 of 2,537 in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
All 59 towns, ranked
January low, highest 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.
59 towns.
#TownJanuary lowAir frostsUK rank
Quick answers
Questions people ask
Which town in Derbyshire has the mildest winters?
Long Eaton: January nights average a low of 2.0°C, with 39 air frosts in a typical year. Derby and Breaston and Draycott follow.
How are these towns ranked?
By the average January low, highest 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 Derbyshire’s towns of 2,500+ with the figure. Smaller places show it on their own pages; every town in Derbyshire 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 mildest winters, 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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