Climate for fruit trees in Sheffield

Annual climate averages

	This location	London	Edinburgh	Cardiff
Length of growing season:	314 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:	791 mm	656 mm	684 mm	1022 mm
Sunshine hours:	1525 hours	1705 hours	1418 hours	1655 hours

Month	Avg. Minimum temp.	Avg. Maximum temp.	Rainfall	Sunshine hours
Jan	2 C	7 C	58 mm (7.3%)	45 hours (3.0%)
Feb	2 C	7 C	76 mm (9.6%)	87 hours (5.7%)
Mar	3 C	10 C	54 mm (6.8%)	106 hours (7.0%)
Apr	5 C	13 C	67 mm (8.5%)	152 hours (10.0%)
May	8 C	17 C	53 mm (6.7%)	208 hours (13.6%)
Jun	11 C	20 C	51 mm (6.4%)	190 hours (12.5%)
Jul	13 C	22 C	56 mm (7.1%)	194 hours (12.7%)
Aug	13 C	21 C	78 mm (9.9%)	177 hours (11.6%)
Sep	11 C	19 C	54 mm (6.8%)	146 hours (9.6%)
Oct	8 C	14 C	99 mm (12.5%)	95 hours (6.2%)
Nov	5 C	11 C	63 mm (8.0%)	68 hours (4.5%)
Dec	2 C	8 C	83 mm (10.5%)	57 hours (3.7%)

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