Climate for fruit trees in Manchester

Annual climate averages

	This location	London	Edinburgh	Cardiff
Length of growing season:	317 days	332 days	307 days	340 days
Average minimum temperatures:	2 C	2 C	1 C	3 C
Average maximum temperatures:	21 C	23 C	19 C	21 C
Rainfall:	861 mm	656 mm	684 mm	1022 mm
Sunshine hours:	1413 hours	1705 hours	1418 hours	1655 hours

Month	Avg. Minimum temp.	Avg. Maximum temp.	Rainfall	Sunshine hours
Jan	3 C	8 C	62 mm (7.2%)	47 hours (3.3%)
Feb	2 C	9 C	72 mm (8.4%)	74 hours (5.2%)
Mar	4 C	11 C	48 mm (5.6%)	106 hours (7.5%)
Apr	6 C	14 C	71 mm (8.2%)	144 hours (10.2%)
May	9 C	17 C	77 mm (8.9%)	187 hours (13.2%)
Jun	12 C	20 C	53 mm (6.2%)	179 hours (12.7%)
Jul	14 C	21 C	64 mm (7.4%)	176 hours (12.5%)
Aug	14 C	21 C	90 mm (10.5%)	157 hours (11.1%)
Sep	11 C	19 C	67 mm (7.8%)	141 hours (10.0%)
Oct	9 C	15 C	96 mm (11.1%)	94 hours (6.7%)
Nov	5 C	11 C	75 mm (8.7%)	60 hours (4.2%)
Dec	3 C	9 C	86 mm (10.0%)	50 hours (3.5%)

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