Climate for fruit trees in Swansea

Annual climate averages

	This location	London	Edinburgh	Cardiff
Length of growing season:	339 days	332 days	307 days	340 days
Average minimum temperatures:	3 C	2 C	1 C	3 C
Average maximum temperatures:	20 C	23 C	19 C	21 C
Rainfall:	1121 mm	656 mm	684 mm	1022 mm
Sunshine hours:	1568 hours	1705 hours	1418 hours	1655 hours

Month	Avg. Minimum temp.	Avg. Maximum temp.	Rainfall	Sunshine hours
Jan	4 C	9 C	99 mm (8.8%)	65 hours (4.1%)
Feb	3 C	8 C	93 mm (8.3%)	89 hours (5.7%)
Mar	4 C	10 C	80 mm (7.1%)	109 hours (7.0%)
Apr	6 C	13 C	82 mm (7.3%)	162 hours (10.3%)
May	9 C	16 C	99 mm (8.8%)	199 hours (12.7%)
Jun	12 C	19 C	51 mm (4.5%)	207 hours (13.2%)
Jul	14 C	21 C	71 mm (6.3%)	180 hours (11.5%)
Aug	14 C	21 C	66 mm (5.9%)	191 hours (12.2%)
Sep	12 C	19 C	59 mm (5.3%)	148 hours (9.4%)
Oct	10 C	15 C	159 mm (14.2%)	94 hours (6.0%)
Nov	6 C	12 C	134 mm (12.0%)	68 hours (4.3%)
Dec	4 C	9 C	127 mm (11.3%)	56 hours (3.6%)

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