United Kingdom · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Dunfermline.

August leads for comfortable weather in Dunfermline: typically 19°C by day, 11.5°C at night, with 72 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortAugust

Typical high19°C

Typical low11.5°C

Rain in August72 mm

Comfort

August

August · July · June

66climate match

Beach

August

August · July · June

30climate match

Outdoors

July

July · August · June

79climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 8 against August’s 66 — days reach only 7.4°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

87.4° / 1.4°

Feb

148° / 1.6°

Mar

239.8° / 2.9°

Apr

3712.3° / 4.7°

May

4815° / 7.1°

Jun

5817.5° / 9.9°

Jul

6519.3° / 11.6°

Aug

6619° / 11.5°

Sep

5716.7° / 9.6°

Oct

3613.3° / 6.6°

Nov

219.9° / 3.5°

Dec

87.5° / 1.3°

Monthly climate evidence for Dunfermline — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 22 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	7.4°C	1.4°C	64 mm	12.5	6.7°C	7 h 32	8	Strong coverage
February	8°C	1.6°C	53 mm	9.9	5.9°C	9 h 28	14	Strong coverage
March	9.8°C	2.9°C	49 mm	9.9	6.1°C	11 h 37	23	Strong coverage
April	12.3°C	4.7°C	41 mm	8.7	7.4°C	14 h 05	37	Strong coverage
May	15°C	7.1°C	48 mm	9.8	9.5°C	16 h 17	48	Strong coverage
June	17.5°C	9.9°C	67 mm	10.4	11.9°C	17 h 36	58	Strong coverage
July	19.3°C	11.6°C	72 mm	11.6	13.9°C	17 h 04	65	Strong coverage
August	19°C	11.5°C	72 mm	10.3	14.4°C	15 h 05	66	Strong coverage
September	16.7°C	9.6°C	55 mm	10	13.3°C	12 h 40	57	Strong coverage
October	13.3°C	6.6°C	75 mm	11.8	11.8°C	10 h 17	36	Strong coverage
November	9.9°C	3.5°C	65 mm	11.8	9.9°C	8 h 07	21	Strong coverage
December	7.5°C	1.3°C	67 mm	12.4	8.1°C	6 h 58	8	Strong coverage

What has changed

Dunfermline 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

+0.9

Feb

+1.8

Mar

+1.4

Apr

+1.4

May

+1.2

Jun

+0.8

Jul

+1.6

Aug

+1.0

Sep

+1.2

Oct

+0.8

Nov

+1.3

Dec

+1.2

August daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 21.0°C.

Records at EDINBURGH: ROYAL BOTANIC GARDE, 1960–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	15.0°C9 Jan 1998	-15.5°C11 Jan 1982	38 mm3 Jan 1982	165 mm2008 · driest 10 mm in 2022	67
February	16.0°C20 Feb 2019	-10.7°C17 Feb 1978	34 mm8 Feb 2020	153 mm2020 · driest 4 mm in 1993	67
March	21.6°C26 Mar 2012	-11.1°C2 Mar 1965	45 mm31 Mar 1992	94 mm2024 · driest 8 mm in 2012	67
April	24.1°C29 Apr 2025	-5.0°C12 Apr 1970	32 mm26 Apr 2000	110 mm2000 · driest 4 mm in 2017	67
May	29.0°C13 May 1992	-2.4°C5 May 1981	59 mm23 May 2024	171 mm2024 · driest 8 mm in 1980	67
June	28.7°C22 Jun 2026	1.1°C5 Jun 1991	61 mm30 Jun 1990	181 mm2017 · driest 7 mm in 1979	67
July	31.0°C18 Jul 2022	4.4°C30 Jul 1965	82 mm26 Jul 1985	182 mm2012 · driest 5 mm in 1989	66
August	30.0°C3 Aug 1975	3.0°C23 Aug 1999	64 mm6 Aug 2008	202 mm2008 · driest 6 mm in 1981	66
September	26.8°C8 Sep 2023	-0.7°C28 Sep 1974	56 mm2 Sep 1995	154 mm1985 · driest 6 mm in 1972	66
October	22.1°C27 Oct 2005	-4.6°C17 Oct 1993	59 mm11 Oct 2005	155 mm2002 · driest 13 mm in 1978	66
November	17.8°C10 Nov 2022	-7.2°C29 Nov 1985	40 mm6 Nov 2000	184 mm1963 · driest 10 mm in 1983	66
December	15.8°C17 Dec 2015	-11.5°C30 Dec 1995	30 mm11 Dec 1994	169 mm2015 · driest 7 mm in 1975	66

Typical days per month at EDINBURGH: ROYAL BOTANIC GARDE, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	0	10	1
February	0	9	1
March	0	6	<1
April	0	2	<1
May	<1	<1	<1
June	<1	0	2
July	<1	0	2
August	<1	0	2
September	<1	<1	1
October	0	1	2
November	0	6	1
December	0	10	2

How often, not how much — every day in EDINBURGH: ROYAL BOTANIC GARDE’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%	39%	4%	52%	4.9–8.9°C
February	0%	34%	3%	43%	5.2–9.3°C
March	<1%	32%	3%	39%	7.2–11.4°C
April	1%	28%	3%	34%	10.2–13.6°C
May	6%	32%	3%	42%	13.2–16.6°C
June	17%	31%	5%	41%	15.9–19.1°C
July	25%	34%	6%	44%	17.3–21.0°C
August	21%	33%	6%	42%	17.5–20.0°C
September	7%	35%	5%	47%	15.2–17.7°C
October	<1%	38%	6%	51%	11.5–14.8°C
November	0%	37%	5%	52%	7.9–11.1°C
December	0%	37%	5%	52%	5.6–9.4°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 64-year average. Warmest: 2022. Coolest: 1963.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 2650732
NOAA station: UKE00105888 · EDINBURGH: ROYAL BOTANIC GARDE
Station distance: 19.4 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 29 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 56.07°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 22 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 EDINBURGH: ROYAL BOTANIC GARDE is what differs

Edinburgh→Kirkcaldy→Glenrothes→Musselburgh→Alloa→Grangemouth→

Or put two places side by side: Dunfermline vs Edinburgh

Best time to visitDunfermline.

August

August

July

The whole year,without the guesswork.

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

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Dunfermline.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

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

Nearby, measured,
and named.