#T1Richmond
8,076 peopleJuly high·4 days of 25°C+ a year·#252 of 2,537 in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
Richmond, #1 on this list · Photo: Richard Croft · CC BY-SA 2.0North Yorkshire rankings · Climate
Towns with the coolest summers in North Yorkshire
Richmond (tied with 1 more) has the coolest summers of North Yorkshire’s 56 towns of 2,500+: July afternoons average a high of 19.1°C (Met Office, 1991–2020). The typical town here averages 20.9°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.
#T119.1°C
#T1Settle
2,710 peopleJuly high·4 days of 25°C+ a year·#252 of 2,537 in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
#3Hunmanby
2,900 peopleJuly high·2 days of 25°C+ a year·#464 of 2,537 in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
All 56 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.
56 towns.
#TownJuly highDays 25°C+UK rank
Quick answers
Questions people ask
Which town in North Yorkshire has the coolest summers?
Richmond: July afternoons average a high of 19.1°C, with 4 days of 25°C or more in a typical year. Settle and Hunmanby 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 North Yorkshire’s towns of 2,500+ with the figure. Smaller places show it on their own pages; every town in North Yorkshire is on the county page.
Go deeper
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Every list ranks the same 2,500+ towns, so a town’s rank means the same thing on each.
Best places to live54 towns · #1 Ingleby BarwickBest small towns37 towns · #1 DunningtonMost affordable towns54 towns · #1 Thornaby-on-TeesSafest towns54 towns · #1 DunningtonTowns with the best schools54 towns · #1 Ingleby BarwickHealthiest towns54 towns · #1 PannalBest towns for jobs & income54 towns · #1 PannalMost walkable towns54 towns · #1 YorkTowns with the lowest flood risk54 towns · #1 Brotton and 7 moreBest towns for the outdoors54 towns · #1 WhitbyMost historic towns54 towns · #1 WhitbyTowns with the most civic life54 towns · #1 Great AytonTowns with the highest household incomes56 towns · #1 Ingleby BarwickDescribed, no lettersTowns with the lowest council tax56 towns · #1 YorkDescribed, no lettersTowns with the mildest winters56 towns · #1 RedcarDescribed, no lettersTowns with the warmest summers56 towns · #1 Upper PoppletonDescribed, no lettersTowns with the fewest frosts56 towns · #1 RedcarDescribed, no lettersDriest towns56 towns · #1 Saltburn-by-the-SeaDescribed, no lettersWettest towns56 towns · #1 SettleDescribed, no letters
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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