Climate for fruit trees in Elgin

Annual climate averages

	This location	London	Edinburgh	Cardiff
Length of growing season:	274 days	332 days	307 days	340 days
Average minimum temperatures:	0 C	2 C	1 C	3 C
Average maximum temperatures:	19 C	23 C	19 C	21 C
Rainfall:	815 mm	656 mm	684 mm	1022 mm
Sunshine hours:	1307 hours	1705 hours	1418 hours	1655 hours

Month	Avg. Minimum temp.	Avg. Maximum temp.	Rainfall	Sunshine hours
Jan	1 C	7 C	63 mm (7.7%)	44 hours (3.4%)
Feb	0 C	7 C	66 mm (8.1%)	76 hours (5.8%)
Mar	2 C	9 C	47 mm (5.8%)	111 hours (8.5%)
Apr	4 C	12 C	38 mm (4.7%)	147 hours (11.2%)
May	6 C	15 C	53 mm (6.5%)	190 hours (14.5%)
Jun	9 C	18 C	74 mm (9.1%)	154 hours (11.8%)
Jul	11 C	20 C	68 mm (8.3%)	139 hours (10.6%)
Aug	11 C	19 C	84 mm (10.3%)	137 hours (10.5%)
Sep	9 C	17 C	59 mm (7.2%)	121 hours (9.3%)
Oct	6 C	13 C	132 mm (16.2%)	85 hours (6.5%)
Nov	3 C	10 C	73 mm (9.0%)	62 hours (4.7%)
Dec	1 C	7 C	60 mm (7.4%)	41 hours (3.1%)

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