#1Church Stretton
3,576 peopleJuly high·6 days of 25°C+ a year·#199 of 2,537 in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
Church Stretton, #1 on this list · Photo: Richard Law · CC BY-SA 2.0Shropshire rankings · Climate
Towns with the coolest summers in Shropshire
Church Stretton has the coolest summers of Shropshire’s 20 towns of 2,500+: July afternoons average a high of 19.0°C (Met Office, 1991–2020). The typical town here averages 21.3°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.
#119.0°C
#2Oswestry
17,500 peopleJuly high·9 days of 25°C+ a year·#929 of 2,537 in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
#3Gobowen
3,046 peopleJuly high·9 days of 25°C+ a year·#947 of 2,537 in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
All 20 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.
20 towns.
#TownJuly highDays 25°C+UK rank
Quick answers
Questions people ask
Which town in Shropshire has the coolest summers?
Church Stretton: July afternoons average a high of 19.0°C, with 6 days of 25°C or more in a typical year. Oswestry and Gobowen 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 Shropshire’s towns of 2,500+ with the figure. Smaller places show it on their own pages; every town in Shropshire 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.
Best places to live19 towns · #1 Bayston HillMost affordable towns19 towns · #1 GobowenSafest towns19 towns · #1 Bayston HillTowns with the best schools19 towns · #1 NewportHealthiest towns19 towns · #1 Church StrettonBest towns for jobs & income19 towns · #1 ShifnalMost walkable towns19 towns · #1 LudlowTowns with the lowest flood risk19 towns · #1 Bayston Hill and 3 moreBest towns for the outdoors19 towns · #1 TelfordMost historic towns19 towns · #1 LudlowTowns with the most civic life19 towns · #1 Church StrettonTowns with the highest household incomes20 towns · #1 ShifnalDescribed, no lettersTowns with the lowest council tax20 towns · #1 NewportDescribed, no lettersTowns with the mildest winters20 towns · #1 WhitchurchDescribed, no lettersTowns with the warmest summers20 towns · #1 AlbrightonDescribed, no lettersTowns with the fewest frosts20 towns · #1 Gobowen and WhitchurchDescribed, no lettersDriest towns20 towns · #1 ShrewsburyDescribed, no lettersWettest towns20 towns · #1 Church StrettonDescribed, 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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