Climate for fruit trees in Edinburgh

Annual climate averages

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

Month	Avg. Minimum temp.	Avg. Maximum temp.	Rainfall	Sunshine hours
Jan	2 C	7 C	57 mm (8.3%)	50 hours (3.5%)
Feb	1 C	8 C	52 mm (7.6%)	85 hours (6.0%)
Mar	2 C	10 C	49 mm (7.2%)	121 hours (8.5%)
Apr	4 C	12 C	42 mm (6.1%)	154 hours (10.9%)
May	7 C	16 C	51 mm (7.5%)	191 hours (13.5%)
Jun	10 C	18 C	61 mm (8.9%)	164 hours (11.6%)
Jul	12 C	20 C	55 mm (8.0%)	155 hours (10.9%)
Aug	12 C	20 C	71 mm (10.4%)	157 hours (11.1%)
Sep	10 C	18 C	46 mm (6.7%)	128 hours (9.0%)
Oct	7 C	14 C	103 mm (15.1%)	93 hours (6.6%)
Nov	4 C	10 C	48 mm (7.0%)	71 hours (5.0%)
Dec	2 C	8 C	50 mm (7.3%)	51 hours (3.6%)

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