United Kingdom · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Banchory.

August leads for comfortable weather in Banchory: typically 18°C by day, 10.3°C at night, with 74 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortAugust

Typical high18°C

Typical low10.3°C

Rain in August74 mm

Comfort

August

August · July · September

59climate match

Beach

August

August · July · September

21climate match

Outdoors

August

August · July · September

76climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against August’s 59 — days reach only 6.5°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

56.5° / 0.8°

Feb

67° / 0.8°

Mar

148.9° / 1.9°

Apr

2511° / 3.5°

May

3913.8° / 5.5°

Jun

4816.1° / 8.5°

Jul

5718.2° / 10.5°

Aug

5918° / 10.3°

Sep

5115.8° / 8.6°

Oct

2312.3° / 5.9°

Nov

88.8° / 2.9°

Dec

56.7° / 1°

Monthly climate evidence for Banchory — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 30 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	6.5°C	0.8°C	75 mm	13.3	7.3°C	7 h 20	5	Strong coverage
February	7°C	0.8°C	68 mm	11.3	6.4°C	9 h 21	6	Strong coverage
March	8.9°C	1.9°C	65 mm	12.1	6.3°C	11 h 36	14	Strong coverage
April	11°C	3.5°C	65 mm	11.5	6.9°C	14 h 10	25	Strong coverage
May	13.8°C	5.5°C	56 mm	10.6	8.5°C	16 h 28	39	Strong coverage
June	16.1°C	8.5°C	76 mm	12.5	10.6°C	17 h 51	48	Strong coverage
July	18.2°C	10.5°C	84 mm	12.6	12.7°C	17 h 17	57	Strong coverage
August	18°C	10.3°C	74 mm	11.5	13.3°C	15 h 13	59	Strong coverage
September	15.8°C	8.6°C	65 mm	10.4	12.8°C	12 h 41	51	Strong coverage
October	12.3°C	5.9°C	112 mm	15.3	12.0°C	10 h 13	23	Strong coverage
November	8.8°C	2.9°C	104 mm	15.1	10.5°C	7 h 57	8	Strong coverage
December	6.7°C	1°C	88 mm	13.5	8.8°C	6 h 44	5	Strong coverage

What has changed

Banchory runs +0.4°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

+0.3

Feb

+1.3

Mar

+0.8

Apr

+0.7

May

+0.7

Jun

+0.1

Jul

0.0

Aug

-0.5

Sep

+0.2

Oct

+0.3

Nov

—

Dec

—

August daytime highs, 2011–2021. Last recorded: 18.2°C.

Records at CRAIBSTONE, 1929–2025
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	16.0°C25 Jan 2003	-14.0°C28 Jan 1979	67 mm7 Jan 2016	223 mm2016 · driest 3 mm in 1997	61
February	17.0°C21 Feb 1974	-14.4°C28 Feb 1986	60 mm28 Feb 1994	125 mm2007 · driest 6 mm in 1998	62
March	21.2°C24 Mar 2012	-11.0°C23 Mar 1980	42 mm7 Mar 1998	148 mm2006 · driest 1 mm in 1997	56
April	22.5°C15 Apr 2007	-6.0°C2 Apr 1975	36 mm26 Apr 2000	133 mm2004 · driest 8 mm in 2025	56
May	24.0°C29 May 1978	-4.2°C7 May 1982	39 mm19 May 1997	121 mm2021 · driest 9 mm in 1994	56
June	27.4°C20 Jun 2025	-0.3°C3 Jun 2000	52 mm14 Jun 2016	146 mm2017 · driest 13 mm in 1982	58
July	30.0°C27 Jul 1975	0.5°C16 Jul 1988	96 mm16 Jul 1997	168 mm1997 · driest 11 mm in 1994	60
August	29.7°C21 Aug 1995	0.0°C21 Aug 1973	48 mm10 Aug 2014	136 mm2014 · driest 6 mm in 1995	60
September	27.0°C3 Sep 2023	-2.0°C27 Sep 1974	65 mm3 Sep 2009	217 mm1995 · driest 10 mm in 1996	61
October	22.0°C5 Oct 1997	-4.0°C31 Oct 1974	85 mm3 Oct 2020	247 mm2002 · driest 4 mm in 1985	61
November	17.8°C5 Nov 1938	-15.6°C30 Nov 1985	57 mm1 Nov 2009	245 mm1984 · driest 5 mm in 1989	62
December	16.1°C25 Dec 1931	-14.5°C28 Dec 1995	50 mm6 Dec 2023	276 mm2023 · driest 12 mm in 1988	62

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

How often, not how much — every day in CRAIBSTONE’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%	44%	6%	57%	4.3–7.9°C
February	0%	39%	5%	54%	4.8–9.0°C
March	<1%	41%	5%	53%	6.3–10.7°C
April	<1%	37%	4%	45%	9.1–12.1°C
May	4%	36%	4%	48%	12.4–15.1°C
June	13%	39%	6%	51%	14.9–17.6°C
July	21%	38%	6%	52%	16.6–20.3°C
August	18%	38%	6%	47%	16.8–20.3°C
September	8%	39%	6%	53%	14.5–16.8°C
October	<1%	48%	10%	67%	10.5–14.0°C
November	0%	47%	8%	66%	7.2–10.0°C
December	0%	44%	9%	62%	4.7–8.8°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.

1973Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 31-year average. Warmest: 2014. Coolest: 1979.2020

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 2656405
NOAA station: UKM00003091 · CRAIBSTONE
Station distance: 22.5 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 26 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 57.05°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 30 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 CRAIBSTONE is what differs

Aberdeen→Nigg→Westhill→Stonehaven→Portlethen→Cove→

Or put two places side by side: Banchory vs Aberdeen

Best time to visitBanchory.

August

August

August

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Banchory runs +0.4°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Banchory.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Banchory runs +0.4°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.