United Kingdom · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Exeter.

July leads for comfortable weather in Exeter: typically 20.9°C by day, 12.8°C at night, with 67 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortJuly

Typical high20.9°C

Typical low12.8°C

Rain in July67 mm

Comfort

July

July · August · June

76climate match

Beach

July

July · August · June

41climate match

Outdoors

June

June · July · September

82climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 8 against July’s 76 — days reach only 9.6°C, 14° 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

89.6° / 3.9°

Feb

159.7° / 3.7°

Mar

2411.1° / 4.8°

Apr

3613.3° / 5.9°

May

5316.1° / 8.4°

Jun

6618.9° / 10.9°

Jul

7620.9° / 12.8°

Aug

7320.8° / 13°

Sep

6518.7° / 11.6°

Oct

4015.4° / 9.4°

Nov

2212.3° / 6.4°

Dec

1010.3° / 4.5°

Monthly climate evidence for Exeter — 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	9.6°C	3.9°C	130 mm	15	9.8°C	8 h 25	8	Strong coverage
February	9.7°C	3.7°C	98 mm	12.4	8.9°C	9 h 56	15	Strong coverage
March	11.1°C	4.8°C	85 mm	12	8.7°C	11 h 42	24	Strong coverage
April	13.3°C	5.9°C	74 mm	10.4	9.7°C	13 h 44	36	Strong coverage
May	16.1°C	8.4°C	60 mm	9.2	11.5°C	15 h 28	53	Strong coverage
June	18.9°C	10.9°C	67 mm	9	13.9°C	16 h 28	66	Strong coverage
July	20.9°C	12.8°C	67 mm	8.7	15.8°C	16 h 04	76	Strong coverage
August	20.8°C	13°C	78 mm	9.9	16.7°C	14 h 32	73	Strong coverage
September	18.7°C	11.6°C	70 mm	9.7	16.6°C	12 h 33	65	Strong coverage
October	15.4°C	9.4°C	120 mm	13.8	15.5°C	10 h 36	40	Strong coverage
November	12.3°C	6.4°C	130 mm	15.3	13.5°C	8 h 52	22	Strong coverage
December	10.3°C	4.5°C	141 mm	15.7	11.3°C	7 h 59	10	Strong coverage

What has changed

Exeter runs +1.2°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

+1.0

Feb

+1.5

Mar

+1.2

Apr

+1.1

May

+1.2

Jun

+0.9

Jul

+1.2

Aug

+1.0

Sep

+1.1

Oct

+1.0

Nov

+1.3

Dec

+1.5

July daytime highs, 2011–2024. Last recorded: 20.4°C.

Records at SLAPTON, 1960–2025
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	14.6°C25 Jan 2003	-8.0°C13 Jan 1987	50 mm4 Jan 2025	262 mm2014 · driest 16 mm in 1987	65
February	16.2°C19 Feb 2017	-6.8°C10 Feb 1991	45 mm9 Feb 2009	259 mm1990 · driest 1 mm in 1965	65
March	19.5°C12 Mar 2000	-6.5°C1 Mar 1986	47 mm3 Mar 1997	191 mm2024 · driest 4 mm in 1961	65
April	22.2°C18 Apr 2018	-2.5°C11 Apr 1978	36 mm1 Apr 2018	189 mm1966 · driest 8 mm in 1984	64
May	24.1°C13 May 1988	-0.1°C2 May 1979	52 mm12 May 2021	184 mm2021 · driest 2 mm in 1989	65
June	30.5°C27 Jun 1976	2.5°C4 Jun 2015	52 mm17 Jun 1982	160 mm1968 · driest 3 mm in 1975	65
July	28.2°C7 Jul 2018	6.2°C10 Jul 1993	89 mm16 Jul 1987	163 mm2009 · driest 1 mm in 2022	65
August	28.8°C3 Aug 2018	6.0°C16 Aug 2015	54 mm22 Aug 1973	169 mm2015 · driest 13 mm in 1987	65
September	25.0°C5 Sep 2004	3.9°C29 Sep 2003	98 mm11 Sep 1989	160 mm1968 · driest 3 mm in 2014	65
October	21.9°C11 Oct 1978	-0.3°C31 Oct 2018	59 mm30 Oct 2019	251 mm2019 · driest 5 mm in 1978	65
November	17.7°C1 Nov 2007	-2.7°C28 Nov 2010	51 mm6 Nov 1969	247 mm2018 · driest 36 mm in 2021	65
December	15.7°C16 Dec 2015	-6.4°C11 Dec 2022	48 mm18 Dec 2022	268 mm1993 · driest 25 mm in 1975	65

Typical days per month at SLAPTON, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	0	3	5
February	0	4	3
March	0	2	3
April	0	<1	2
May	0	0	2
June	<1	0	2
July	2	0	2
August	<1	0	3
September	0	0	2
October	0	0	5
November	0	<1	5
December	0	3	5

How often, not how much — every day in SLAPTON’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%	48%	16%	63%	7.6–10.6°C
February	0%	44%	12%	57%	7.0–11.2°C
March	0%	39%	9%	51%	8.9–12.2°C
April	<1%	34%	7%	43%	11.7–13.8°C
May	5%	31%	7%	37%	14.2–17.1°C
June	24%	29%	6%	36%	17.3–20.2°C
July	49%	26%	7%	33%	18.9–22.5°C
August	45%	30%	8%	38%	19.1–21.8°C
September	16%	33%	8%	47%	17.1–19.4°C
October	<1%	43%	13%	58%	14.1–16.7°C
November	0%	49%	14%	64%	10.5–13.3°C
December	0%	49%	16%	64%	8.4–11.3°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.

1961Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 58-year average. Warmest: 2023. Coolest: 1986.2024

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 2649808
NOAA station: UKE00105871 · SLAPTON
Station distance: 48.8 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 29 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 50.72°, 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 SLAPTON is what differs

Paignton→Torquay→Newton Abbot→Exmouth→Heavitree→Brixham→

Or put two places side by side: Exeter vs Paignton

Best time to visitExeter.

July

July

June

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Exeter runs +1.2°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Exeter.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Exeter runs +1.2°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.