United Kingdom · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Helmsdale.

July leads for comfortable weather in Helmsdale: typically 16.1°C by day, 10.1°C at night, with 62 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortJuly

Typical high16.1°C

Typical low10.1°C

Rain in July62 mm

Comfort

July

July · August · June

53climate match

Beach

July

July · August · June

17climate match

Outdoors

July

July · August · June

72climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against July’s 53 — days reach only 6.5°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

56.5° / 1.5°

Feb

56.8° / 1.3°

Mar

128.2° / 2.2°

Apr

2310° / 3.8°

May

3412.1° / 5.5°

Jun

4514.3° / 8.1°

Jul

5316.1° / 10.1°

Aug

5216.3° / 10.3°

Sep

4414.6° / 8.8°

Oct

2311.8° / 6.4°

Nov

98.9° / 3.8°

Dec

56.9° / 1.5°

Monthly climate evidence for Helmsdale — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 2 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	6.5°C	1.5°C	73 mm	16.7	7.2°C	7 h 07	5	Strong coverage
February	6.8°C	1.3°C	64 mm	13.9	6.5°C	9 h 14	5	Strong coverage
March	8.2°C	2.2°C	57 mm	13.8	6.5°C	11 h 35	12	Strong coverage
April	10°C	3.8°C	50 mm	12.3	7.4°C	14 h 16	23	Strong coverage
May	12.1°C	5.5°C	51 mm	11.7	9.3°C	16 h 40	34	Strong coverage
June	14.3°C	8.1°C	56 mm	11.1	11.5°C	18 h 10	45	Strong coverage
July	16.1°C	10.1°C	62 mm	11.9	13.4°C	17 h 33	53	Strong coverage
August	16.3°C	10.3°C	72 mm	12.5	14.0°C	15 h 21	52	Strong coverage
September	14.6°C	8.8°C	66 mm	13	13.1°C	12 h 42	44	Strong coverage
October	11.8°C	6.4°C	95 mm	16.8	11.8°C	10 h 08	23	Strong coverage
November	8.9°C	3.8°C	87 mm	17.8	10.1°C	7 h 46	9	Strong coverage
December	6.9°C	1.5°C	75 mm	16.6	8.4°C	6 h 28	5	Strong coverage

What has changed

Helmsdale 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

+0.7

Feb

+1.5

Mar

+1.2

Apr

+0.9

May

+1.2

Jun

+0.8

Jul

+0.9

Aug

+0.9

Sep

+1.1

Oct

+0.7

Nov

+1.3

Dec

+0.8

July daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 18.0°C.

Records at WICK, 1929–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	13.0°C14 Jan 1989	-11.1°C27 Jan 1945	34 mm12 Jan 1937	193 mm1959 · driest 23 mm in 2006	97
February	15.3°C27 Feb 2012	-13.9°C11 Feb 1934	37 mm17 Feb 1996	163 mm1937 · driest 9 mm in 1959	97
March	19.9°C25 Mar 2012	-10.5°C1 Mar 1998	39 mm26 Mar 1940	171 mm1940 · driest 14 mm in 1973	97
April	20.2°C27 Apr 1987	-7.1°C2 Apr 1968	30 mm30 Apr 1973	103 mm1994 · driest 8 mm in 2006	97
May	22.0°C29 May 1982	-3.9°C7 May 1957	31 mm27 May 1937	98 mm1938 · driest 9 mm in 2008	97
June	26.7°C5 Jun 1939	-1.1°C3 Jun 1937	59 mm6 Jun 2017	129 mm2017 · driest 13 mm in 1988	97
July	25.6°C15 Jul 1955	1.6°C1 Jul 1995	109 mm20 Jul 1935	192 mm1935 · driest 9 mm in 1955	96
August	25.6°C2 Aug 1933	0.5°C21 Aug 1973	55 mm17 Aug 1964	180 mm2011 · driest 1 mm in 1947	96
September	25.2°C7 Sep 2023	-2.0°C9 Sep 1972	52 mm3 Sep 2009	162 mm1995 · driest 21 mm in 1958	96
October	20.2°C5 Oct 2025	-6.1°C27 Oct 1948	41 mm4 Oct 1979	235 mm2006 · driest 10 mm in 1946	97
November	16.7°C5 Nov 1938	-10.8°C30 Nov 1985	38 mm1 Nov 2009	191 mm1996 · driest 32 mm in 1983	97
December	14.3°C23 Dec 2024	-11.7°C30 Dec 1995	41 mm6 Dec 1937	201 mm1994 · driest 28 mm in 1972	97

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

How often, not how much — every day in WICK’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%	55%	6%	75%	4.5–7.6°C
February	0%	50%	4%	66%	4.6–8.0°C
March	0%	45%	3%	61%	5.9–9.6°C
April	0%	40%	3%	54%	8.3–11.0°C
May	<1%	34%	3%	46%	10.3–13.2°C
June	3%	35%	4%	49%	13.1–15.5°C
July	4%	38%	4%	53%	14.6–17.1°C
August	3%	40%	6%	57%	14.8–17.1°C
September	1%	46%	6%	66%	13.1–15.4°C
October	0%	52%	7%	72%	10.4–13.0°C
November	0%	58%	7%	79%	7.3–9.9°C
December	0%	55%	5%	77%	5.5–8.2°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.

1931Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 93-year average. Warmest: 2025. Coolest: 1979.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 2647152
NOAA station: UK000070765 · WICK
Station distance: 49.8 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 28 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 58.12°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 2 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 WICK is what differs

Thurso→Wick→Halkirk→Castletown→Bowertower→Dunbeath→

Or put two places side by side: Helmsdale vs Thurso

Best time to visitHelmsdale.

July

July

July

The whole year,without the guesswork.

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

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Helmsdale.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

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

Nearby, measured,
and named.