Climate for fruit trees in Fort William

Annual climate averages

	This location	London	Edinburgh	Cardiff
Length of growing season:	298 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:	2346 mm	656 mm	684 mm	1022 mm
Sunshine hours:	951 hours	1705 hours	1418 hours	1655 hours

Month	Avg. Minimum temp.	Avg. Maximum temp.	Rainfall	Sunshine hours
Jan	2 C	8 C	313 mm (13.3%)	22 hours (2.3%)
Feb	1 C	8 C	183 mm (7.8%)	58 hours (6.1%)
Mar	2 C	10 C	161 mm (6.9%)	84 hours (8.8%)
Apr	4 C	13 C	141 mm (6.0%)	126 hours (13.2%)
May	7 C	16 C	138 mm (5.9%)	154 hours (16.2%)
Jun	10 C	18 C	159 mm (6.8%)	124 hours (13.0%)
Jul	11 C	19 C	102 mm (4.3%)	97 hours (10.2%)
Aug	11 C	19 C	138 mm (5.9%)	116 hours (12.2%)
Sep	9 C	17 C	214 mm (9.1%)	77 hours (8.1%)
Oct	7 C	13 C	253 mm (10.8%)	48 hours (5.0%)
Nov	4 C	10 C	287 mm (12.2%)	27 hours (2.8%)
Dec	2 C	8 C	258 mm (11.0%)	18 hours (1.9%)

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