Climate for fruit trees in Stoke on Trent

Annual climate averages

	This location	London	Edinburgh	Cardiff
Length of growing season:	310 days	332 days	307 days	340 days
Average minimum temperatures:	1 C	2 C	1 C	3 C
Average maximum temperatures:	20 C	23 C	19 C	21 C
Rainfall:	939 mm	656 mm	684 mm	1022 mm
Sunshine hours:	1507 hours	1705 hours	1418 hours	1655 hours

Month	Avg. Minimum temp.	Avg. Maximum temp.	Rainfall	Sunshine hours
Jan	2 C	7 C	62 mm (6.6%)	59 hours (3.9%)
Feb	1 C	7 C	72 mm (7.7%)	86 hours (5.7%)
Mar	2 C	10 C	57 mm (6.1%)	117 hours (7.8%)
Apr	5 C	13 C	73 mm (7.8%)	154 hours (10.2%)
May	8 C	16 C	85 mm (9.1%)	194 hours (12.9%)
Jun	11 C	19 C	54 mm (5.8%)	190 hours (12.6%)
Jul	12 C	21 C	71 mm (7.6%)	187 hours (12.4%)
Aug	12 C	21 C	106 mm (11.3%)	164 hours (10.9%)
Sep	10 C	18 C	75 mm (8.0%)	142 hours (9.4%)
Oct	8 C	14 C	125 mm (13.3%)	95 hours (6.3%)
Nov	4 C	10 C	68 mm (7.2%)	64 hours (4.2%)
Dec	2 C	7 C	91 mm (9.7%)	55 hours (3.6%)

This weather data is mostly derived from averages for the period 2001-2006.