United Kingdom · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Kelso.

July leads for comfortable weather in Kelso: typically 19.4°C by day, 10.5°C at night, with 72 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortJuly

Typical high19.4°C

Typical low10.5°C

Rain in July72 mm

Comfort

July

July · August · June

64climate match

Beach

July

July · August · June

26climate match

Outdoors

July

July · August · June

81climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against July’s 64 — days reach only 6°C, 18° 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

56° / 0.2°

Feb

56.6° / 0.4°

Mar

138.9° / 1.6°

Apr

2812° / 3.2°

May

4415.2° / 5.7°

Jun

5617.5° / 8.7°

Jul

6419.4° / 10.5°

Aug

5918.7° / 10.2°

Sep

5016.1° / 8.2°

Oct

2411.9° / 5.3°

Nov

68.5° / 2.3°

Dec

56.2° / 0.2°

Monthly climate evidence for Kelso — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 36 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	6°C	0.2°C	100 mm	15.3	7.2°C	7 h 38	5	Strong coverage
February	6.6°C	0.4°C	80 mm	12.3	6.3°C	9 h 30	5	Strong coverage
March	8.9°C	1.6°C	68 mm	12.1	6.3°C	11 h 38	13	Strong coverage
April	12°C	3.2°C	59 mm	11.6	7.2°C	14 h 03	28	Strong coverage
May	15.2°C	5.7°C	60 mm	10.8	9.2°C	16 h 12	44	Strong coverage
June	17.5°C	8.7°C	67 mm	11	11.6°C	17 h 28	56	Strong coverage
July	19.4°C	10.5°C	72 mm	11.8	13.7°C	16 h 57	64	Strong coverage
August	18.7°C	10.2°C	82 mm	12	14.2°C	15 h 02	59	Strong coverage
September	16.1°C	8.2°C	66 mm	11.4	13.0°C	12 h 39	50	Strong coverage
October	11.9°C	5.3°C	100 mm	14.2	11.8°C	10 h 19	24	Strong coverage
November	8.5°C	2.3°C	99 mm	15.7	10.4°C	8 h 12	6	Strong coverage
December	6.2°C	0.2°C	108 mm	15.1	8.7°C	7 h 04	5	Strong coverage

What has changed

Kelso 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

+0.9

Feb

+1.4

Mar

+1.4

Apr

+1.4

May

+1.1

Jun

+0.6

Jul

+1.0

Aug

+0.4

Sep

+1.0

Oct

+0.2

Nov

+1.2

Dec

+1.1

July daytime highs, 2011–2022. Last recorded: 21.0°C.

Records at BOWHILL, 1960–2023
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	13.2°C24 Jan 2016	-19.5°C8 Jan 1982	37 mm7 Jan 2005	221 mm2008 · driest 13 mm in 2019	64
February	16.2°C25 Feb 2019	-17.2°C26 Feb 1963	50 mm8 Feb 2020	232 mm2020 · driest 8 mm in 1993	64
March	22.2°C26 Mar 2012	-15.0°C2 Mar 1963	52 mm31 Mar 1992	140 mm2019 · driest 16 mm in 2012	64
April	25.7°C30 Apr 1990	-6.1°C1 Apr 1967	34 mm18 Apr 1988	121 mm2000 · driest 6 mm in 2020	64
May	27.5°C28 May 2020	-4.4°C3 May 1967	47 mm13 May 1993	184 mm1967 · driest 11 mm in 1991	64
June	30.3°C28 Jun 1995	-1.7°C1 Jun 1962	39 mm21 Jun 2008	163 mm2012 · driest 12 mm in 1988	64
July	31.3°C11 Jul 1983	1.1°C17 Jul 1965	51 mm12 Jul 1961	193 mm1988 · driest 19 mm in 1977	63
August	30.1°C8 Aug 2003	-0.5°C23 Aug 1999	69 mm18 Aug 2006	204 mm2004 · driest 8 mm in 2003	63
September	27.9°C7 Sep 2021	-2.3°C28 Sep 1993	46 mm12 Sep 1968	163 mm1968 · driest 9 mm in 2014	63
October	22.2°C9 Oct 1969	-6.1°C29 Oct 1997	70 mm3 Oct 2014	186 mm2005 · driest 26 mm in 1972	63
November	16.0°C2 Nov 2007	-11.1°C21 Nov 1962	59 mm2 Nov 1998	193 mm1963 · driest 10 mm in 1983	63
December	14.1°C26 Dec 1983	-16.4°C30 Dec 1995	75 mm3 Dec 1996	273 mm2015 · driest 16 mm in 1975	63

Typical days per month at BOWHILL, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	0	13	3
February	0	12	2
March	0	10	2
April	0	5	1
May	<1	2	1
June	<1	0	2
July	2	0	2
August	1	0	2
September	<1	<1	2
October	0	2	3
November	0	8	3
December	0	13	3

How often, not how much — every day in BOWHILL’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%	47%	9%	63%	3.4–7.6°C
February	0%	42%	7%	55%	3.7–7.8°C
March	<1%	41%	6%	56%	6.1–10.5°C
April	2%	37%	4%	47%	9.6–13.1°C
May	9%	37%	4%	50%	13.1–16.8°C
June	21%	35%	5%	48%	15.9–19.1°C
July	28%	36%	6%	49%	17.2–21.5°C
August	21%	38%	7%	53%	16.9–20.7°C
September	7%	40%	6%	58%	14.5–17.0°C
October	<1%	45%	8%	64%	10.2–13.5°C
November	0%	48%	8%	64%	6.3–9.8°C
December	0%	47%	10%	66%	4.1–8.0°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 61-year average. Warmest: 2022. Coolest: 1979.2022

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 2645849
NOAA station: UKE00105891 · BOWHILL
Station distance: 30.3 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 28 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 55.60°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 36 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 BOWHILL is what differs

Hawick→Galashiels→Selkirk→Jedburgh→Innerleithen→Melrose→

Or put two places side by side: Kelso vs Hawick

Best time to visitKelso.

July

July

July

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Kelso runs +1.0°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Kelso.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Kelso runs +1.0°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.