United Kingdom · 55.95°N 3.19°W · 30-year monthly averages, judged against the Warm preset (highs 19–28 °C66–82 °F, dry or showers)
The best time to visit Edinburgh is July, with highs of 19 °C66 °F and nights of 10 °C50 °F, and rainfall of about 64 mm2.5 in a month.
Rain is spread across the year, 48–80 mm1.9–3.1 in a month. October is the wettest month and April the driest. July is the hottest month (highs of 19 °C66 °F) and January the coldest (6 °C43 °F).
The figures are 30-year monthly averages (WorldClim 2.1 monthly normals 1970–2000) for the 0.25° grid cell at 55.95, -3.19. This is a climate guide, not a forecast.
Pick the weather you like. Every month is then judged against it: temperature above the month names, rain below.
Good time to go for a Warm holiday: July.
Open Edinburgh on the interactive map ↗ the same verdicts for any place on Earth, in any month
Reading the chart. Gold means good: the month fits what you picked. Any other colour shows the reason it does not. The temperature bar can be too cold or too hot; the rain bar can be too dry, too rainy or monsoon. A faded gold bar means that half fits but the other half does not. A gold month name means both halves fit.
What the verdicts mean. Temperature is the month's average daily high (the afternoon), judged against the preset's band (highs 19–28 °C66–82 °F for Warm). Rain is judged by each month's class within Edinburgh's own year, not by raw millimetres: dry under 60 mm2.4 in, showers 60–100 mm2.4–3.9 in, rainy from 100 mm3.9 in and at least 35 % of the wettest month. Too rainy is a rainy-season month that the preset does not allow. Monsoon is the heaviest kind of rainy season: 180 mm7.1 in or more (120 mm4.7 in near the yearly peak) in a climate where the wettest month has at least three times the rain of the driest. Every monsoon month is also a rainy-season month; the label says which kind. Full rules on the method page.
| Month | Rain | High | Low | Season | Warm verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 722.8 | 642 | 032 | showers | too cold |
| February | 562.2 | 643 | 032 | dry | too cold |
| March | 642.5 | 846 | 235 | showers | too cold |
| April | 481.9 | 1050 | 337 | dry | too cold |
| May | 562.2 | 1456 | 541 | dry | too cold |
| June | 642.5 | 1762 | 846 | showers | too cold |
| July | 642.5 | 1965 | 1050 | showers | good |
| August | 642.5 | 1864 | 1049 | showers | too cold |
| September | 722.8 | 1559 | 846 | showers | too cold |
| October | 803.1 | 1254 | 642 | showers | too cold |
| November | 722.8 | 947 | 337 | showers | too cold |
| December | 722.8 | 744 | 134 | showers | too cold |
| Looking for | Rule | Months that fit |
|---|---|---|
| Warm | highs 19–28 °C66–82 °F, dry or showers | July |
| Tropical | highs 28–38 °C82–100 °F, any rain except monsoon | |
| Beach | highs 28–38 °C82–100 °F, dry or showers | |
| Cool | highs 3–19 °C37–66 °F, any rain except monsoon | August to June |
| Snow | highs below 3 °C37 °F, any rain |
Not a clear one. Rain is spread across the year, 48–80 mm1.9–3.1 in a month. October is the wettest month and April the driest.
July is the hottest month (highs of 19 °C66 °F) and January the coldest (6 °C43 °F). Annual rainfall is about 784 mm31 in.
The nearest destinations that fit the Warm preset in the months when Edinburgh does not:
The interactive map colours the whole world by how well it fits the weather you like, in any month, and shows this chart for any place you tap.