United Kingdom · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Puddletown.

July leads for comfortable weather in Puddletown: typically 20.5°C by day, 13.7°C at night, with 50 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortJuly

Typical high20.5°C

Typical low13.7°C

Rain in July50 mm

Comfort

July

July · August · June

80climate match

Beach

July

July · August · June

46climate match

Outdoors

June

June · July · August

84climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 14 against July’s 80 — days reach only 9.1°C, 15° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal.

Month by month

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

The bars show the comfort score. Day and night temperatures come from daily observed highs and lows; rain is the historical monthly estimate.

Jan

149.1° / 4°

Feb

199.1° / 3.7°

Mar

2910.8° / 4.8°

Apr

4013° / 6.4°

May

5715.9° / 9.2°

Jun

6918.5° / 11.7°

Jul

8020.5° / 13.7°

Aug

7920.6° / 13.9°

Sep

6818.6° / 12.1°

Oct

4515.4° / 9.6°

Nov

2612.2° / 6.6°

Dec

159.8° / 4.4°

Monthly climate evidence for Puddletown — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 14 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	9.1°C	4°C	93 mm	13.2	9.5°C	8 h 25	14	Strong coverage
February	9.1°C	3.7°C	68 mm	11.1	8.6°C	9 h 56	19	Strong coverage
March	10.8°C	4.8°C	58 mm	9.8	8.4°C	11 h 42	29	Strong coverage
April	13°C	6.4°C	52 mm	9.2	9.5°C	13 h 44	40	Strong coverage
May	15.9°C	9.2°C	45 mm	7.9	11.3°C	15 h 28	57	Strong coverage
June	18.5°C	11.7°C	51 mm	7.6	13.7°C	16 h 28	69	Strong coverage
July	20.5°C	13.7°C	50 mm	7.9	15.8°C	16 h 04	80	Strong coverage
August	20.6°C	13.9°C	56 mm	8.4	17.1°C	14 h 32	79	Strong coverage
September	18.6°C	12.1°C	66 mm	8.6	17.0°C	12 h 33	68	Strong coverage
October	15.4°C	9.6°C	99 mm	12.4	15.6°C	10 h 36	45	Strong coverage
November	12.2°C	6.6°C	110 mm	14	13.3°C	8 h 52	26	Strong coverage
December	9.8°C	4.4°C	105 mm	13.7	11.0°C	7 h 59	15	Strong coverage

What has changed

Puddletown runs +1.3°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Each bar compares the 2011–2025 daytime average for that month against the same month in 1961–1990, measured at the same station. Months where the older record is too thin to compare are left blank.

Jan

+1.2

Feb

+1.8

Mar

+1.4

Apr

+1.4

May

+1.4

Jun

+0.8

Jul

+1.0

Aug

+0.9

Sep

+1.0

Oct

+1.0

Nov

+1.5

Dec

+1.7

July daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 22.4°C.

Records at SWANAGE, 1960–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	14.8°C26 Jan 2003	-9.4°C25 Jan 1963	35 mm29 Jan 1961	215 mm2014 · driest 11 mm in 1976	66
February	16.2°C17 Feb 2024	-6.6°C10 Feb 1991	40 mm2 Feb 1990	194 mm2024 · driest 7 mm in 1986	66
March	19.8°C28 Mar 2012	-6.7°C3 Mar 1965	39 mm9 Mar 1981	158 mm1981 · driest 2 mm in 1961	66
April	23.2°C15 Apr 2007	-2.6°C11 Apr 1978	26 mm2 Apr 2000	121 mm2000 · driest 1 mm in 2007	66
May	25.6°C5 May 1995	0.6°C3 May 1967	41 mm27 May 2007	114 mm1979 · driest 1 mm in 2020	66
June	33.1°C23 Jun 2026	3.4°C4 Jun 1991	58 mm10 Jun 1971	147 mm2012 · driest 1 mm in 2018	66
July	30.2°C2 Jul 1976	7.2°C5 Jul 1961	43 mm9 Jul 1995	114 mm2017 · driest 2 mm in 2022	65
August	31.6°C3 Aug 1990	5.6°C24 Aug 1969	47 mm3 Aug 1963	136 mm2015 · driest 5 mm in 1995	65
September	27.7°C14 Sep 2020	3.4°C29 Sep 1974	88 mm8 Sep 2002	176 mm1974 · driest 3 mm in 2014	65
October	22.6°C1 Oct 2011	-0.8°C29 Oct 2008	52 mm27 Oct 1990	203 mm2023 · driest 6 mm in 1978	65
November	17.2°C22 Nov 2024	-4.5°C23 Nov 1993	41 mm5 Nov 2000	256 mm2002 · driest 11 mm in 2021	65
December	15.0°C4 Dec 2007	-6.5°C3 Dec 2010	47 mm27 Dec 1979	213 mm1993 · driest 30 mm in 1970	65

Typical days per month at SWANAGE, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	0	4	3
February	0	4	2
March	0	2	2
April	0	<1	1
May	0	0	1
June	<1	0	2
July	2	0	1
August	1	0	2
September	0	0	2
October	0	0	3
November	0	1	4
December	0	4	4

How often, not how much — every day in SWANAGE’s record sorted by what it was actually like, rather than averaged
Month	Warm & dry days	Wet days	Washouts	Week with 3+ wet days	Daytime mean has ranged
January	0%	43%	10%	56%	6.8–10.4°C
February	0%	38%	7%	49%	6.2–10.6°C
March	0%	34%	5%	44%	8.5–11.9°C
April	<1%	30%	4%	37%	11.2–13.7°C
May	7%	27%	4%	33%	13.6–17.0°C
June	23%	25%	5%	29%	16.8–19.9°C
July	44%	24%	4%	29%	18.8–22.5°C
August	45%	25%	5%	29%	18.8–21.6°C
September	16%	30%	7%	39%	17.1–19.5°C
October	<1%	38%	10%	51%	14.1–16.8°C
November	0%	43%	11%	57%	10.4–13.4°C
December	0%	42%	11%	56%	7.4–11.0°C

A warm and dry day reaches 20°C with under 1 mm of rain; a wet day gets 1 mm or more; a washout gets 10 mm or more. The week column is the share of seven-day stretches in that month, across the station’s whole daily record, that contained three or more wet days — the odds a week-long trip is rained on repeatedly, counted rather than modelled. The last column is the 10th to 90th percentile of that month’s daytime average across individual years: a narrow band means the average is what you will get, a wide one means the average is a midpoint between years that felt quite different.

1960Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 64-year average. Warmest: 2022. Coolest: 1963.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 2639867
NOAA station: UKE00105869 · SWANAGE
Station distance: 31.5 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 29 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 50.75°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 14 km from the place centre. A sheltered bay can run warmer than the open sea it is measured from.
Important limit: Historical climate is not a forecast. Nearby stations can miss mountains, coasts, and local microclimates.

These places read the same station, so their numbers are identical — distance from SWANAGE is what differs

Poole→Weymouth→Portland→Swanage→Easton→Wareham→

Or put two places side by side: Puddletown vs Poole

Best time to visitPuddletown.

July

July

June

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Puddletown runs +1.3°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Puddletown.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Puddletown runs +1.3°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.