United Kingdom · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Kyle of Lochalsh.

July leads for comfortable weather in Kyle of Lochalsh: typically 18.6°C by day, 10.8°C at night, with 105 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortJuly

Typical high18.6°C

Typical low10.8°C

Rain in July105 mm

Comfort

July

July · June · August

53climate match

Beach

July

July · January · February

14climate match

Outdoors

July

July · June · August

66climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against July’s 53 — days reach only 7.5°C, 16° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal, and 300 mm of rain falls.

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

57.5° / 1.1°

Feb

57.9° / 1.2°

Mar

59.6° / 2.4°

Apr

1712.3° / 3.8°

May

3215.2° / 5.9°

Jun

4516.9° / 8.8°

Jul

5318.6° / 10.8°

Aug

4518.1° / 10.5°

Sep

3016.3° / 8.6°

Oct

512.7° / 5.7°

Nov

59.7° / 2.9°

Dec

57.7° / 0.9°

Monthly climate evidence for Kyle of Lochalsh — 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	7.5°C	1.1°C	300 mm	21.1	8.7°C	7 h 17	5	Strong coverage
February	7.9°C	1.2°C	247 mm	19.3	8.0°C	9 h 20	5	Strong coverage
March	9.6°C	2.4°C	209 mm	19.8	7.7°C	11 h 36	5	Strong coverage
April	12.3°C	3.8°C	125 mm	16.1	8.1°C	14 h 11	17	Strong coverage
May	15.2°C	5.9°C	120 mm	15.3	9.3°C	16 h 30	32	Strong coverage
June	16.9°C	8.8°C	105 mm	15	11.0°C	17 h 55	45	Strong coverage
July	18.6°C	10.8°C	105 mm	16.4	12.5°C	17 h 21	53	Strong coverage
August	18.1°C	10.5°C	141 mm	17	13.1°C	15 h 15	45	Strong coverage
September	16.3°C	8.6°C	180 mm	17.3	12.8°C	12 h 41	30	Strong coverage
October	12.7°C	5.7°C	236 mm	20.5	12.1°C	10 h 12	5	Strong coverage
November	9.7°C	2.9°C	240 mm	20.7	11.2°C	7 h 55	5	Strong coverage
December	7.7°C	0.9°C	285 mm	20.9	10.0°C	6 h 41	5	Strong coverage

What has changed

Kyle of Lochalsh runs +1.0°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

+1.1

Feb

+1.7

Mar

+0.9

Apr

+1.2

May

+1.0

Jun

+0.5

Jul

+1.1

Aug

+0.5

Sep

+1.4

Oct

+0.5

Nov

+1.6

Dec

+0.8

July daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 20.4°C.

Records at KINLOCHEWE, 1960–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	19.6°C27 Jan 2024	-12.3°C13 Jan 1987	143 mm6 Jan 2005	561 mm1983 · driest 26 mm in 1996	63
February	17.6°C22 Feb 2019	-14.4°C19 Feb 1960	170 mm5 Feb 1989	577 mm1989 · driest 4 mm in 1986	63
March	22.1°C24 Mar 2012	-10.0°C4 Mar 1962	159 mm26 Mar 1968	729 mm1990 · driest 20 mm in 1964	62
April	27.2°C30 Apr 1990	-6.8°C2 Apr 2013	66 mm13 Apr 1984	245 mm1977 · driest 6 mm in 1974	62
May	28.7°C24 May 2012	-4.4°C8 May 1968	101 mm13 May 2012	331 mm2011 · driest 2 mm in 2008	62
June	30.6°C30 Jun 1976	-1.9°C5 Jun 1991	59 mm11 Jun 1973	191 mm2020 · driest 0 mm in 2009	62
July	31.3°C11 Jul 2025	2.0°C11 Jul 1986	50 mm10 Jul 2018	279 mm1970 · driest 44 mm in 2000	62
August	30.5°C7 Aug 2003	1.3°C24 Aug 2020	65 mm11 Aug 2014	317 mm2014 · driest 21 mm in 2006	62
September	29.0°C6 Sep 2023	-2.1°C28 Sep 1974	81 mm13 Sep 2005	333 mm1978 · driest 5 mm in 2006	62
October	21.7°C13 Oct 1970	-5.9°C22 Oct 2003	136 mm21 Oct 1971	483 mm1970 · driest 83 mm in 2016	61
November	19.0°C15 Nov 1997	-10.6°C17 Nov 1962	101 mm3 Nov 1971	517 mm1986 · driest 30 mm in 2019	62
December	16.7°C27 Dec 2019	-14.0°C29 Dec 1985	119 mm16 Dec 1966	568 mm1966 · driest 33 mm in 1995	62

Typical days per month at KINLOCHEWE, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	0	11	10
February	0	10	9
March	0	7	7
April	<1	4	4
May	1	2	4
June	<1	0	3
July	2	0	3
August	1	0	4
September	<1	<1	6
October	0	2	9
November	0	6	9
December	0	12	10

How often, not how much — every day in KINLOCHEWE’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%	67%	30%	82%	4.9–8.7°C
February	0%	61%	26%	76%	5.1–9.4°C
March	<1%	64%	23%	79%	7.6–10.8°C
April	3%	53%	12%	69%	9.9–14.2°C
May	10%	48%	11%	61%	13.5–17.2°C
June	16%	49%	11%	68%	15.8–18.7°C
July	19%	52%	11%	72%	16.4–20.3°C
August	18%	54%	15%	75%	16.4–19.8°C
September	7%	61%	22%	79%	14.5–17.4°C
October	<1%	68%	28%	84%	11.3–14.3°C
November	0%	68%	31%	84%	7.5–11.0°C
December	0%	69%	31%	83%	5.2–9.4°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 53-year average. Warmest: 2014. Coolest: 2010.2023

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 2645090
NOAA station: UKE00105913 · KINLOCHEWE
Station distance: 43.8 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 26 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 57.28°, 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 KINLOCHEWE is what differs

Portree→Ullapool→Mallaig→Broadford→Uig→Elgol→

Or put two places side by side: Kyle of Lochalsh vs Portree

Best time to visitKyle of Lochalsh.

July

July

July

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Kyle of Lochalsh runs +1.0°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Kyle of Lochalsh.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Kyle of Lochalsh runs +1.0°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.