#1Lerwick
Shetland Islands · 6,714 peopleJuly high·0 days of 25°C+ a year·#1 of 1 in Shetland Islands
Lerwick, #1 on this list · Photo: Mike Pennington · CC BY-SA 2.0England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland · Climate
Towns with the coolest summers in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
Lerwick, Shetland Islands, has the coolest summers of 2,537 towns and cities of 2,500+ in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland: July afternoons average a high of 15.3°C (Met Office, 1991–2020). The typical town here averages 21.5°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 area rank sits beside each figure.
#115.3°C
#T2Alva
Clackmannanshire · 4,820 peopleJuly high·2 days of 25°C+ a year·#1 of 8 in Clackmannanshire
#T2Tillicoultry
Clackmannanshire · 4,482 peopleJuly high·1 days of 25°C+ a year·#1 of 8 in Clackmannanshire
The top 100
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 area rank links to that area’s list.
100 towns on this page. Counties and council areas with 15 or more towns have their own list.
#TownJuly highDays 25°C+County rank
T80Metropolitan NewtownabbeyAntrim and Newtownabbey · 67,599 people1#1 of 5 in Antrim and Newtownabbey
Quick answers
Questions people ask
Which town in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland has the coolest summers?
Lerwick, Shetland Islands: July afternoons average a high of 15.3°C, with 0 days of 25°C or more in a typical year. Alva, Clackmannanshire and Tillicoultry, Clackmannanshire 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?
Every town of 2,500+ is ranked here; each county with 15 or more such towns has its own list, linked below.
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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