#T1Exminster
4,388 peopleJuly high·9 days of 25°C+ a year·#1,036 of 2,537 in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
Exminster, #1 on this list · Photo: Lewis Clarke · CC BY-SA 2.0Devon rankings · Climate
Towns with the warmest summers in Devon
Exminster (tied with 1 more) has the warmest summers of Devon’s 47 towns of 2,500+: July afternoons average a high of 21.8°C (Met Office, 1991–2020). The typical town here averages 21.0°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.
#T121.8°C
#T1Topsham
4,193 peopleJuly high·9 days of 25°C+ a year·#1,036 of 2,537 in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
#3Axminster
6,094 peopleJuly high·8 days of 25°C+ a year·#1,102 of 2,537 in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
All 47 towns, ranked
July high, 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.
47 towns.
#TownJuly highDays 25°C+UK rank
Quick answers
Questions people ask
Which town in Devon has the warmest summers?
Exminster: July afternoons average a high of 21.8°C, with 9 days of 25°C or more in a typical year. Topsham and Axminster follow.
How are these towns ranked?
By the average July high, 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 Devon’s towns of 2,500+ with the figure. Smaller places show it on their own pages; every town in Devon 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 warmest 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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