Climate for fruit trees in Leeds

Annual climate averages

	This location	London	Edinburgh	Cardiff
Length of growing season:	317 days	332 days	307 days	340 days
Average minimum temperatures:	1 C	2 C	1 C	3 C
Average maximum temperatures:	21 C	23 C	19 C	21 C
Rainfall:	681 mm	656 mm	684 mm	1022 mm
Sunshine hours:	1431 hours	1705 hours	1418 hours	1655 hours

Month	Avg. Minimum temp.	Avg. Maximum temp.	Rainfall	Sunshine hours
Jan	2 C	8 C	43 mm (6.3%)	51 hours (3.6%)
Feb	2 C	8 C	58 mm (8.5%)	83 hours (5.8%)
Mar	3 C	10 C	44 mm (6.5%)	108 hours (7.5%)
Apr	5 C	13 C	57 mm (8.4%)	151 hours (10.6%)
May	8 C	17 C	60 mm (8.8%)	189 hours (13.2%)
Jun	11 C	20 C	47 mm (6.9%)	176 hours (12.3%)
Jul	13 C	22 C	49 mm (7.2%)	173 hours (12.1%)
Aug	13 C	21 C	79 mm (11.6%)	163 hours (11.4%)
Sep	11 C	19 C	48 mm (7.0%)	135 hours (9.4%)
Oct	8 C	14 C	90 mm (13.2%)	89 hours (6.2%)
Nov	5 C	11 C	49 mm (7.2%)	63 hours (4.4%)
Dec	2 C	8 C	59 mm (8.7%)	50 hours (3.5%)

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