United Kingdom · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Inverness.

July leads for comfortable weather in Inverness: typically 18.9°C by day, 11.2°C at night, with 58 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortJuly

Typical high18.9°C

Typical low11.2°C

Rain in July58 mm

Comfort

July

July · August · June

66climate match

Beach

July

July · August · June

30climate match

Outdoors

July

July · August · June

81climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against July’s 66 — days reach only 7.1°C, 17° 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

57.1° / 1.1°

Feb

97.6° / 1.1°

Mar

199.8° / 2.5°

Apr

3312.2° / 4.2°

May

4414.8° / 6.3°

Jun

5517° / 9.2°

Jul

6618.9° / 11.2°

Aug

6318.7° / 11.1°

Sep

5116.4° / 9°

Oct

3112.7° / 6°

Nov

179.7° / 3.3°

Dec

57° / 0.7°

Monthly climate evidence for Inverness — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 26 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	7.1°C	1.1°C	74 mm	13.8	6.9°C	7 h 15	5	Good coverage
February	7.6°C	1.1°C	62 mm	12.5	6.2°C	9 h 19	9	Good coverage
March	9.8°C	2.5°C	54 mm	13.1	6.3°C	11 h 36	19	Good coverage
April	12.2°C	4.2°C	48 mm	10.8	7.4°C	14 h 12	33	Good coverage
May	14.8°C	6.3°C	56 mm	11.3	9.7°C	16 h 33	44	Good coverage
June	17°C	9.2°C	61 mm	11.9	12.0°C	17 h 58	55	Good coverage
July	18.9°C	11.2°C	58 mm	11	13.8°C	17 h 23	66	Good coverage
August	18.7°C	11.1°C	63 mm	12.1	14.3°C	15 h 16	63	Good coverage
September	16.4°C	9°C	68 mm	12	13.2°C	12 h 42	51	Good coverage
October	12.7°C	6°C	80 mm	13.7	11.7°C	10 h 11	31	Good coverage
November	9.7°C	3.3°C	67 mm	13.7	9.9°C	7 h 53	17	Good coverage
December	7°C	0.7°C	69 mm	14.2	8.2°C	6 h 38	5	Good coverage

Records at INVERNESS, 1960–2013
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	15.0°C8 Jan 1971	-11.0°C8 Jan 1982	35 mm24 Jan 1988	145 mm1993 · driest 5 mm in 1963	53
February	15.0°C2 Feb 1999	-11.1°C19 Feb 1978	43 mm6 Feb 1989	148 mm1989 · driest 5 mm in 1963	53
March	22.1°C25 Mar 2012	-8.5°C2 Mar 2006	33 mm15 Mar 1988	137 mm1994 · driest 12 mm in 1975	53
April	26.6°C30 Apr 1990	-4.4°C15 Apr 1966	34 mm26 Apr 2000	142 mm2000 · driest 7 mm in 1974	53
May	26.9°C13 May 1992	-1.4°C7 May 2012	42 mm18 May 1997	133 mm2007 · driest 8 mm in 1984	53
June	27.8°C30 Jun 1976	-0.2°C15 Jun 1982	72 mm6 Jun 1970	180 mm1966 · driest 8 mm in 1961	53
July	29.6°C15 Jul 2003	4.0°C13 Jul 2011	41 mm8 Jul 2011	136 mm1965 · driest 9 mm in 1983	53
August	29.0°C10 Aug 1995	1.5°C11 Aug 1999	38 mm18 Aug 2004	123 mm1963 · driest 7 mm in 1976	53
September	26.0°C2 Sep 1991	-0.6°C29 Sep 1960	65 mm7 Sep 2002	236 mm1995 · driest 16 mm in 1972	53
October	21.4°C7 Oct 1995	-2.9°C25 Oct 1992	65 mm6 Oct 1993	201 mm2006 · driest 11 mm in 1972	53
November	18.3°C15 Nov 1997	-7.2°C25 Nov 1993	34 mm28 Nov 1999	125 mm1999 · driest 6 mm in 1989	52
December	16.2°C3 Dec 1971	-15.5°C30 Dec 1995	32 mm1 Dec 1966	119 mm1999 · driest 13 mm in 1969	51

Typical days per month at INVERNESS, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	0	10	2
February	0	10	1
March	0	6	1
April	0	2	<1
May	<1	<1	1
June	<1	0	2
July	1	0	1
August	<1	0	1
September	<1	0	2
October	0	<1	2
November	0	5	2
December	0	12	2

How often, not how much — every day in INVERNESS’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%	41%	4%	52%	4.7–8.4°C
February	0%	35%	3%	45%	4.8–8.7°C
March	<1%	40%	3%	53%	7.4–10.9°C
April	<1%	32%	2%	43%	9.5–13.1°C
May	6%	34%	3%	46%	12.6–15.8°C
June	14%	35%	4%	44%	15.5–18.6°C
July	22%	33%	4%	44%	17.0–20.2°C
August	20%	37%	5%	54%	16.7–20.0°C
September	6%	41%	4%	57%	14.6–17.1°C
October	<1%	41%	6%	56%	10.6–14.3°C
November	0%	44%	5%	60%	7.5–10.5°C
December	0%	43%	4%	58%	5.3–9.2°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 41-year average. Warmest: 2003. Coolest: 1979.2011

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 2646088
NOAA station: UKE00105865 · INVERNESS
Station distance: 0.8 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 19 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 57.48°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 26 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 INVERNESS is what differs

Alness→Westhill→Dingwall→Culloden→Invergordon→Muir of Ord→

Or put two places side by side: Inverness vs Alness

Best time to visitInverness.

July

July

July

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Inverness.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,
and named.