United Kingdom · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
East Calder.

July leads for comfortable weather in East Calder: typically 19°C by day, 9.7°C at night, with 86 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortJuly

Typical high19°C

Typical low9.7°C

Rain in July86 mm

Comfort

July

July · August · June

58climate match

Beach

July

July · August · June

19climate match

Outdoors

July

July · August · June

76climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against July’s 58 — days reach only 5.9°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

55.9° / 0°

Feb

56.6° / 0.3°

Mar

138.9° / 1.3°

Apr

2711.8° / 2.7°

May

4014.9° / 5°

Jun

5117.2° / 8°

Jul

5819° / 9.7°

Aug

5718.5° / 9.6°

Sep

4615.9° / 7.7°

Oct

2211.9° / 4.8°

Nov

68.4° / 2°

Dec

56.2° / -0.1°

Monthly climate evidence for East Calder — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 33 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	5.9°C	0°C	98 mm	15.4	6.7°C	7 h 34	5	Strong coverage
February	6.6°C	0.3°C	77 mm	12.5	5.9°C	9 h 29	5	Strong coverage
March	8.9°C	1.3°C	68 mm	12.1	6.1°C	11 h 37	13	Strong coverage
April	11.8°C	2.7°C	60 mm	11.1	7.4°C	14 h 05	27	Strong coverage
May	14.9°C	5°C	64 mm	12	9.5°C	16 h 15	40	Strong coverage
June	17.2°C	8°C	77 mm	12	11.9°C	17 h 33	51	Strong coverage
July	19°C	9.7°C	86 mm	12.7	13.9°C	17 h 01	58	Strong coverage
August	18.5°C	9.6°C	84 mm	12.4	14.4°C	15 h 04	57	Strong coverage
September	15.9°C	7.7°C	73 mm	12.3	13.3°C	12 h 39	46	Strong coverage
October	11.9°C	4.8°C	98 mm	14.4	11.8°C	10 h 18	22	Strong coverage
November	8.4°C	2°C	96 mm	14.5	9.9°C	8 h 09	6	Strong coverage
December	6.2°C	-0.1°C	99 mm	14.8	8.1°C	7 h 00	5	Strong coverage

What has changed

East Calder 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

+0.8

Feb

+1.6

Mar

+1.4

Apr

+1.5

May

+1.4

Jun

+0.7

Jul

+1.3

Aug

+1.0

Sep

+1.0

Oct

+0.3

Nov

+1.3

Dec

+1.6

July daytime highs, 2011–2022. Last recorded: 20.6°C.

Records at PENICUIK, 1960–2022
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	13.5°C24 Jan 2016	-19.2°C11 Jan 1982	54 mm3 Jan 1982	202 mm2008 · driest 1 mm in 2018	59
February	16.5°C24 Feb 2019	-13.9°C16 Feb 1969	48 mm26 Feb 2001	172 mm2002 · driest 9 mm in 1993	59
March	21.4°C26 Mar 2012	-14.6°C2 Mar 2001	98 mm19 Mar 1971	164 mm1971 · driest 20 mm in 2012	59
April	25.6°C30 Apr 1990	-6.9°C23 Apr 1981	60 mm25 Apr 2000	197 mm2000 · driest 10 mm in 2007	60
May	27.5°C25 May 2017	-4.5°C5 May 1981	36 mm14 May 1993	148 mm1967 · driest 14 mm in 2022	60
June	28.9°C30 Jun 1976	-1.7°C1 Jun 1962	56 mm23 Jun 2004	192 mm1997 · driest 9 mm in 2022	60
July	30.2°C11 Jul 1983	1.1°C16 Jul 1965	57 mm26 Jul 1985	173 mm1988 · driest 10 mm in 2022	61
August	29.4°C3 Aug 1975	0.4°C23 Aug 1999	82 mm13 Aug 1966	244 mm2008 · driest 0 mm in 2018	61
September	26.2°C4 Sep 2005	-2.3°C28 Sep 1993	42 mm11 Sep 1962	176 mm1975 · driest 9 mm in 1972	61
October	20.9°C9 Oct 2018	-6.2°C17 Oct 1993	73 mm6 Oct 1990	199 mm1990 · driest 21 mm in 1972	61
November	15.6°C14 Nov 1997	-10.0°C24 Nov 1993	64 mm6 Nov 2000	198 mm2009 · driest 16 mm in 1983	61
December	14.0°C17 Dec 2015	-14.8°C29 Dec 1995	55 mm3 Dec 1996	243 mm2015 · driest 13 mm in 1975	60

Typical days per month at PENICUIK, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	0	14	3
February	0	14	2
March	0	11	2
April	0	7	1
May	<1	3	1
June	<1	<1	2
July	1	0	2
August	<1	0	2
September	<1	<1	2
October	0	4	3
November	0	9	3
December	0	13	3

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was July (scoring 66); on 2011–2025 it is August (70). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in PENICUIK’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%	49%	8%	65%	3.3–7.3°C
February	0%	43%	6%	56%	3.6–7.6°C
March	<1%	41%	5%	55%	5.7–10.0°C
April	1%	36%	4%	47%	9.3–13.0°C
May	7%	38%	4%	51%	12.9–16.1°C
June	18%	37%	6%	50%	15.2–18.6°C
July	24%	36%	7%	48%	16.8–20.8°C
August	19%	40%	7%	56%	16.6–19.7°C
September	5%	42%	7%	60%	14.2–17.0°C
October	<1%	45%	8%	62%	10.1–13.5°C
November	0%	47%	8%	65%	6.3–9.7°C
December	0%	46%	8%	65%	3.8–7.9°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 55-year average. Warmest: 2014. Coolest: 1986.2018

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 2650489
NOAA station: UKE00105887 · PENICUIK
Station distance: 16.7 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 26 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 55.89°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 33 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 PENICUIK is what differs

Livingston→Bonnyrigg→Penicuik→Mayfield→Currie→Loanhead→

Or put two places side by side: East Calder vs Livingston

Best time to visitEast Calder.

July

July

July

The whole year,without the guesswork.

East Calder runs +1.2°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
East Calder.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

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

Nearby, measured,
and named.