United Kingdom · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Forres.

July leads for comfortable weather in Forres: typically 19.1°C by day, 11.3°C at night, with 66 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortJuly

Typical high19.1°C

Typical low11.3°C

Rain in July66 mm

Comfort

July

July · August · June

64climate match

Beach

July

July · August · June

28climate match

Outdoors

July

July · June · August

78climate match

The weakest month is December, scoring 8 against July’s 64 — days reach only 7.5°C, 16° 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

97.1° / 0.7°

Feb

137.7° / 0.7°

Mar

239.6° / 2.1°

Apr

3712.5° / 4°

May

4615.1° / 6.2°

Jun

5617.2° / 9.4°

Jul

6419.1° / 11.3°

Aug

6018.6° / 11°

Sep

5416.6° / 9.3°

Oct

3413.2° / 6.2°

Nov

199.6° / 3.1°

Dec

87.5° / 0.7°

Monthly climate evidence for Forres — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 15 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	7.1°C	0.7°C	49 mm	12	6.9°C	7 h 13	9	Good coverage
February	7.7°C	0.7°C	44 mm	10.2	6.2°C	9 h 18	13	Good coverage
March	9.6°C	2.1°C	38 mm	9.6	6.3°C	11 h 36	23	Good coverage
April	12.5°C	4°C	36 mm	9.3	7.4°C	14 h 13	37	Good coverage
May	15.1°C	6.2°C	50 mm	10.5	9.7°C	16 h 34	46	Good coverage
June	17.2°C	9.4°C	62 mm	12.2	12.0°C	18 h 01	56	Good coverage
July	19.1°C	11.3°C	66 mm	12.5	13.8°C	17 h 25	64	Good coverage
August	18.6°C	11°C	76 mm	12.6	14.3°C	15 h 17	60	Good coverage
September	16.6°C	9.3°C	61 mm	11.3	13.2°C	12 h 42	54	Good coverage
October	13.2°C	6.2°C	76 mm	13.1	11.7°C	10 h 11	34	Good coverage
November	9.6°C	3.1°C	56 mm	12.7	9.9°C	7 h 51	19	Good coverage
December	7.5°C	0.7°C	57 mm	12.5	8.2°C	6 h 36	8	Good coverage

Records at KINLOSS, 2001–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	15.6°C14 Jan 2025	-12.4°C11 Jan 2010	25 mm28 Jan 2018	104 mm2004 · driest 11 mm in 2001	26
February	16.8°C20 Feb 2019	-13.9°C11 Feb 2021	28 mm4 Feb 2024	103 mm2002 · driest 13 mm in 2026	26
March	21.7°C24 Mar 2012	-10.3°C1 Mar 2018	28 mm1 Mar 2003	68 mm2019 · driest 6 mm in 2012	26
April	24.9°C16 Apr 2003	-7.2°C2 Apr 2013	24 mm2 Apr 2012	99 mm2012 · driest 10 mm in 2020	26
May	27.4°C27 May 2026	-3.6°C2 May 2015	26 mm29 May 2010	103 mm2019 · driest 17 mm in 2008	26
June	29.4°C30 Jun 2015	1.3°C2 Jun 2015	43 mm6 Jun 2017	157 mm2004 · driest 16 mm in 2021	26
July	31.0°C24 Jul 2019	3.5°C27 Jul 2011	46 mm30 Jul 2002	150 mm2002 · driest 20 mm in 2005	25
August	31.2°C8 Aug 2003	2.6°C25 Aug 2014	80 mm10 Aug 2014	158 mm2014 · driest 20 mm in 2003	25
September	29.3°C6 Sep 2023	-0.3°C27 Sep 2010	60 mm3 Sep 2009	112 mm2010 · driest 26 mm in 2014	25
October	21.4°C5 Oct 2025	-4.3°C30 Oct 2018	51 mm7 Oct 2014	165 mm2020 · driest 28 mm in 2007	25
November	18.9°C10 Nov 2022	-13.1°C30 Nov 2010	44 mm15 Nov 2002	96 mm2007 · driest 23 mm in 2018	25
December	16.2°C6 Dec 2016	-16.0°C22 Dec 2010	41 mm29 Dec 2024	160 mm2024 · driest 14 mm in 2002	25

Typical days per month at KINLOSS, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	0	12	<1
February	0	11	1
March	0	8	<1
April	0	3	<1
May	<1	<1	1
June	<1	0	1
July	2	0	2
August	<1	0	2
September	<1	<1	2
October	0	2	2
November	0	5	1
December	0	11	1

How often, not how much — every day in KINLOSS’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%	38%	2%	53%	5.6–8.7°C
February	0%	34%	3%	43%	6.5–9.5°C
March	<1%	31%	2%	39%	7.7–11.9°C
April	2%	31%	2%	37%	10.7–14.7°C
May	10%	34%	3%	47%	13.5–17.0°C
June	20%	38%	4%	51%	16.2–19.4°C
July	26%	40%	5%	56%	17.4–21.6°C
August	20%	39%	6%	53%	17.6–19.8°C
September	13%	38%	5%	54%	15.3–18.4°C
October	<1%	43%	6%	61%	11.7–14.7°C
November	0%	42%	3%	60%	7.7–11.2°C
December	0%	41%	5%	59%	5.7–9.5°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.

2001Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 25-year average. Warmest: 2025. Coolest: 2010.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 2649192
NOAA station: UKE00105636 · KINLOSS
Station distance: 5.4 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 20 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 57.61°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 15 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 KINLOSS is what differs

Nairn→Tain→Dornoch→Golspie→Brora→Balintore→

Or put two places side by side: Forres vs Nairn

Best time to visitForres.

July

July

July

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Forres.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,
and named.