Explore the most extreme weather records across the United Kingdom, from the scorching 40.3°C heat of Coningsby to the bone-chilling -27.2°C freeze at Altnaharra. Click any location on the map to discover its remarkable weather record.
Click a location on the map to view its weather record
Notes: The highest temperature record was updated to Coningsby (40.3°C, 2022), superseding the previous Faversham record (38.5°C, 2003). Braemar is joint record holder with Altnaharra for the UK's lowest temperature (-27.2°C). Atmospheric pressure records date from the late 19th/early 20th century. Capel Curig in Snowdonia, Wales, is the UK's wettest location with an average of 2,612 mm of rain annually, whilst St Osyth in Essex is amongst the driest with less than 500 mm per year, demonstrating the UK's dramatic rainfall variation across just a few hundred miles.