Climate for fruit trees in Leicester

Annual climate averages

	This location	London	Edinburgh	Cardiff
Length of growing season:	313 days	332 days	307 days	340 days
Average minimum temperatures:	1 C	2 C	1 C	3 C
Average maximum temperatures:	22 C	23 C	19 C	21 C
Rainfall:	647 mm	656 mm	684 mm	1022 mm
Sunshine hours:	1483 hours	1705 hours	1418 hours	1655 hours

Month	Avg. Minimum temp.	Avg. Maximum temp.	Rainfall	Sunshine hours
Jan	1 C	7 C	45 mm (7.0%)	54 hours (3.6%)
Feb	1 C	8 C	42 mm (6.5%)	79 hours (5.3%)
Mar	2 C	10 C	38 mm (5.9%)	103 hours (6.9%)
Apr	4 C	14 C	53 mm (8.2%)	148 hours (10.0%)
May	7 C	17 C	66 mm (10.2%)	188 hours (12.7%)
Jun	10 C	21 C	35 mm (5.4%)	189 hours (12.7%)
Jul	12 C	23 C	66 mm (10.2%)	188 hours (12.7%)
Aug	12 C	22 C	61 mm (9.4%)	170 hours (11.5%)
Sep	10 C	19 C	53 mm (8.2%)	146 hours (9.8%)
Oct	8 C	15 C	87 mm (13.4%)	99 hours (6.7%)
Nov	4 C	11 C	56 mm (8.7%)	68 hours (4.6%)
Dec	2 C	8 C	45 mm (7.0%)	52 hours (3.5%)

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