#1Winchester
48,486 peopleJuly high·20 days of 25°C+ a year·#98 of 2,537 in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
Winchester, #1 on this list · Photo: Robin Drayton · CC BY-SA 2.0Hampshire rankings · Climate
Towns with the warmest summers in Hampshire
Winchester has the warmest summers of Hampshire’s 77 towns of 2,500+: July afternoons average a high of 23.2°C (Met Office, 1991–2020). The typical town here averages 22.5°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.
#123.2°C
#2Portsmouth
223,324 peopleJuly high·12 days of 25°C+ a year·#115 of 2,537 in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
#T3Fareham
42,633 peopleJuly high·12 days of 25°C+ a year·#166 of 2,537 in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
All 77 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.
77 towns.
#TownJuly highDays 25°C+UK rank
Quick answers
Questions people ask
Which town in Hampshire has the warmest summers?
Winchester: July afternoons average a high of 23.2°C, with 20 days of 25°C or more in a typical year. Portsmouth and Fareham 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 Hampshire’s towns of 2,500+ with the figure. Smaller places show it on their own pages; every town in Hampshire 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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