Climate for fruit trees in Colchester

Annual climate averages

	This location	London	Edinburgh	Cardiff
Length of growing season:	321 days	332 days	307 days	340 days
Average minimum temperatures:	1 C	2 C	1 C	3 C
Average maximum temperatures:	23 C	23 C	19 C	21 C
Rainfall:	573 mm	656 mm	684 mm	1022 mm
Sunshine hours:	1724 hours	1705 hours	1418 hours	1655 hours

Month	Avg. Minimum temp.	Avg. Maximum temp.	Rainfall	Sunshine hours
Jan	2 C	8 C	41 mm (7.2%)	68 hours (3.9%)
Feb	2 C	8 C	39 mm (6.8%)	79 hours (4.6%)
Mar	3 C	10 C	39 mm (6.8%)	109 hours (6.3%)
Apr	5 C	14 C	34 mm (5.9%)	177 hours (10.3%)
May	8 C	17 C	51 mm (8.9%)	211 hours (12.2%)
Jun	11 C	21 C	34 mm (5.9%)	225 hours (13.1%)
Jul	13 C	23 C	53 mm (9.2%)	218 hours (12.6%)
Aug	13 C	23 C	74 mm (12.9%)	201 hours (11.7%)
Sep	11 C	20 C	40 mm (7.0%)	176 hours (10.2%)
Oct	9 C	16 C	66 mm (11.5%)	118 hours (6.8%)
Nov	5 C	11 C	57 mm (9.9%)	82 hours (4.8%)
Dec	2 C	8 C	45 mm (7.9%)	61 hours (3.5%)

This weather data is mostly derived from averages for the period 2001-2006.