Ideal weather days in Edinburgh
The best time to visit Edinburgh for warm, dry weather is July and August, with 15 to 16 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Edinburgh's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in July and August.
This station doesn't record cloud cover, so the sky setting is left out here.
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Your ideal days in Edinburgh, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too cold270
- Too wet118
- Too windy69
- Too hot0
A day can fail more than one test.
Warm and dry, beach and mild days
With the Warm & dry preset (a high of 18–33 °C, no more than 1 mm of rain, wind under 20 km/h), Edinburgh averaged 61 days a year in 2023–2025. Every number here is counted from real measured days in the United Kingdom, not from climate averages.
Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are rare: no month averaged more than 1. Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are most common in May, July and August (up to 12 a month, 54 a year).
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are too cold (a high under 18 °C): 270 a year, mostly in September to April. Another 118 are wet (more than 1 mm of rain), mostly all year round. A day can fail more than one test.
Edinburgh weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Clear days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 8 °C 46 °F | 12 | 7 | 7 | 0 of 31 |
| February | 9 °C 48 °F | 12 | 10 | 2 | 0 of 28 |
| March | 11 °C 51 °F | 10 | 6 | 4 | 0 of 31 |
| April | 13 °C 55 °F | 9 | 4 | 4 | 2 of 30 |
| May | 17 °C 63 °F | 9 | 2 | 6 | 10 of 31 |
| June | 19 °C 65 °F | 11 | 5 | 5 | 12 of 30 |
| July | 20 °C 68 °F | 13 | 3 | 2 | 16 of 31 |
| August | 20 °C 67 °F | 11 | 6 | 2 | 15 of 31 |
| September | 17 °C 62 °F | 13 | 4 | 5 | 6 of 30 |
| October | 14 °C 56 °F | 15 | 6 | 3 | 0 of 31 |
| November | 11 °C 51 °F | 10 | 3 | 5 | 0 of 30 |
| December | 9 °C 48 °F | 12 | 12 | 3 | 0 of 31 |
| Year | 137 | 69 | 47 | 61 of 365 |
Typical high is the median daily maximum. A rain day has 1 mm or more; a windy day a mean wind above 20 km/h; a clear day a daytime cloud cover of 2/8 or less on average (9:00–17:00). Days are averaged over 2023–2025 and scaled to the length of each month.
Year by year
- 2023 60 warm, dry days
- 2024 49 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Edinburgh for good weather?
The best time to visit Edinburgh for warm, dry weather is July and August, with 15 to 16 such days a month. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are rare: no month averaged more than 1. Counted from measured days at Edinburgh Gogarbank station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Edinburgh?
On average 137 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was October (15 rain days), the driest April (9).
How many sunny days does Edinburgh get a year?
About 47 days a year had mostly clear skies (daytime cloud cover of 2/8 or less on average, 9:00–17:00), most of them in January (7).
How warm does Edinburgh get?
The median daily high ranged from 8 °C (46 °F) in January to 20 °C (68 °F) in July.
Nearby
- Belfast230 km61 days
- Dublin350 km, Ireland67 days
- Cardiff500 km76 days
- London530 km102 days
- Cork570 km, Ireland37 days
- Oslo930 km, Norway85 days
Where is the best climate in the United Kingdom?
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Source: Edinburgh Gogarbank weather station (03166099999), 10 km from the centre of Edinburgh, 57 m above sea level. Daily records from NOAA's Global Surface Summary of the Day, 2023–2025; 87% of days have a complete record. A single station may not represent every part of a city, and three years is a short record.