United Kingdom · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Carnoustie.

July leads for comfortable weather in Carnoustie: typically 19.4°C by day, 10.9°C at night, with 64 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortJuly

Typical high19.4°C

Typical low10.9°C

Rain in July64 mm

Comfort

July

July · August · September

66climate match

Beach

July

July · August · September

30climate match

Outdoors

July

July · August · September

82climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 6 against July’s 66 — days reach only 6.9°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

66.9° / 0.5°

Feb

137.7° / 0.9°

Mar

229.7° / 2.1°

Apr

3411.9° / 3.8°

May

4414.6° / 6.1°

Jun

5617.2° / 9.1°

Jul

6619.4° / 10.9°

Aug

6419° / 10.7°

Sep

5716.7° / 9°

Oct

3413.2° / 6.1°

Nov

179.5° / 2.8°

Dec

67° / 0.6°

Monthly climate evidence for Carnoustie — 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	6.9°C	0.5°C	64 mm	11.9	7.0°C	7 h 27	6	Strong coverage
February	7.7°C	0.9°C	47 mm	9.5	6.1°C	9 h 25	13	Strong coverage
March	9.7°C	2.1°C	46 mm	9	6.2°C	11 h 37	22	Strong coverage
April	11.9°C	3.8°C	43 mm	8.3	7.2°C	14 h 08	34	Strong coverage
May	14.6°C	6.1°C	50 mm	10	9.1°C	16 h 21	44	Strong coverage
June	17.2°C	9.1°C	63 mm	10.9	11.4°C	17 h 42	56	Strong coverage
July	19.4°C	10.9°C	64 mm	11	13.4°C	17 h 09	66	Strong coverage
August	19°C	10.7°C	69 mm	10.6	13.9°C	15 h 09	64	Strong coverage
September	16.7°C	9°C	54 mm	9.3	13.1°C	12 h 40	57	Strong coverage
October	13.2°C	6.1°C	80 mm	11.8	11.9°C	10 h 15	34	Strong coverage
November	9.5°C	2.8°C	68 mm	12.3	10.2°C	8 h 03	17	Strong coverage
December	7°C	0.6°C	63 mm	11.6	8.4°C	6 h 52	6	Strong coverage

What has changed

Carnoustie runs +1.1°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

+1.8

Mar

+1.2

Apr

+1.1

May

+1.5

Jun

+0.7

Jul

+1.3

Aug

+0.8

Sep

+1.0

Oct

+0.6

Nov

+1.1

Dec

+1.2

July daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 21.3°C.

Records at LEUCHARS, 1960–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	14.2°C10 Jan 1976	-13.7°C8 Jan 1982	36 mm27 Jan 1978	167 mm1993 · driest 10 mm in 2019	67
February	15.5°C21 Feb 2019	-14.5°C1 Feb 1972	35 mm9 Feb 1977	142 mm1977 · driest 4 mm in 1993	67
March	21.4°C26 Mar 2012	-11.7°C3 Mar 2001	47 mm31 Mar 1992	104 mm2018 · driest 7 mm in 1973	67
April	23.6°C19 Apr 2019	-5.8°C1 Apr 1967	51 mm18 Apr 1988	102 mm1993 · driest 3 mm in 2021	67
May	26.2°C21 May 2010	-3.0°C2 May 1981	35 mm13 May 1960	152 mm1969 · driest 15 mm in 2001	67
June	29.1°C4 Jun 1982	0.0°C1 Jun 1962	44 mm7 Jun 2007	148 mm2017 · driest 11 mm in 1976	67
July	31.3°C17 Jul 2022	2.4°C14 Jul 1961	57 mm30 Jul 2002	146 mm2002 · driest 13 mm in 1983	66
August	30.8°C1 Aug 1990	1.7°C25 Aug 2014	63 mm3 Aug 1966	216 mm2004 · driest 11 mm in 1976	66
September	26.8°C8 Sep 2023	-0.9°C27 Sep 1974	52 mm3 Sep 2009	145 mm1985 · driest 5 mm in 1972	66
October	23.2°C1 Oct 1973	-3.8°C13 Oct 1971	61 mm3 Oct 2020	203 mm2023 · driest 12 mm in 1962	66
November	17.1°C2 Nov 2007	-10.2°C24 Nov 1993	50 mm17 Nov 2022	194 mm1963 · driest 14 mm in 1973	66
December	14.9°C13 Dec 1998	-13.1°C30 Dec 1995	46 mm15 Dec 2018	170 mm2023 · driest 13 mm in 1963	66

Typical days per month at LEUCHARS, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	0	12	2
February	0	11	1
March	0	8	1
April	0	4	1
May	<1	1	1
June	<1	0	2
July	<1	0	2
August	<1	0	2
September	<1	0	1
October	0	2	2
November	0	7	1
December	0	12	1

How often, not how much — every day in LEUCHARS’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%	5%	51%	4.7–8.5°C
February	0%	33%	4%	40%	4.8–9.0°C
March	<1%	30%	3%	38%	6.9–11.2°C
April	1%	27%	3%	32%	10.0–13.0°C
May	4%	32%	4%	40%	12.5–15.9°C
June	16%	31%	5%	40%	15.7–18.9°C
July	25%	32%	5%	44%	17.3–20.8°C
August	20%	33%	6%	43%	17.3–20.4°C
September	8%	33%	5%	44%	15.2–17.9°C
October	<1%	37%	7%	50%	11.5–14.3°C
November	0%	37%	5%	49%	7.8–10.6°C
December	0%	37%	5%	51%	5.1–8.7°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 66-year average. Warmest: 2025. Coolest: 1963.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 2653704
NOAA station: UKE00105886 · LEUCHARS
Station distance: 17 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 30 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 56.50°, 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 LEUCHARS is what differs

Arbroath→Montrose→Monifieth→Tayport→Crail→Hillside→

Or put two places side by side: Carnoustie vs Arbroath

Best time to visitCarnoustie.

July

July

July

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Carnoustie runs +1.1°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Carnoustie.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Carnoustie runs +1.1°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.