Climate for fruit trees in Durham

Annual climate averages

	This location	London	Edinburgh	Cardiff
Length of growing season:	304 days	332 days	307 days	340 days
Average minimum temperatures:	1 C	2 C	1 C	3 C
Average maximum temperatures:	20 C	23 C	19 C	21 C
Rainfall:	703 mm	656 mm	684 mm	1022 mm
Sunshine hours:	1535 hours	1705 hours	1418 hours	1655 hours

Month	Avg. Minimum temp.	Avg. Maximum temp.	Rainfall	Sunshine hours
Jan	2 C	7 C	54 mm (7.7%)	58 hours (3.8%)
Feb	1 C	7 C	71 mm (10.1%)	88 hours (5.7%)
Mar	2 C	9 C	47 mm (6.7%)	120 hours (7.8%)
Apr	4 C	12 C	52 mm (7.4%)	160 hours (10.4%)
May	7 C	16 C	45 mm (6.4%)	208 hours (13.6%)
Jun	10 C	19 C	58 mm (8.3%)	180 hours (11.7%)
Jul	11 C	20 C	54 mm (7.7%)	185 hours (12.1%)
Aug	12 C	20 C	79 mm (11.2%)	166 hours (10.8%)
Sep	10 C	18 C	46 mm (6.5%)	142 hours (9.3%)
Oct	7 C	14 C	81 mm (11.5%)	91 hours (5.9%)
Nov	4 C	10 C	50 mm (7.1%)	72 hours (4.7%)
Dec	1 C	7 C	65 mm (9.2%)	64 hours (4.2%)

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