Climate
How much warmer is where you live?
Seventy-five years of daily weather for your grid cell, turned into the numbers that show a climate moving: each year's mean as a warming stripe, frost nights and hot days then and now, how much rain falls and on how many days, the record days, and every month's normal temperature compared with the 1960s to 1980s.
- Warming stripes since 1950
- Frost nights then & now
- Hot days & sunshine
- Rain & wet days
How this works
The page reads the daily maximum and minimum temperature, rainfall and sunshine from 1 January 1950 to this week through Open-Meteo’s historical weather archive, which serves the ERA5 reanalysis produced by ECMWF for the Copernicus Climate Change Service. A reanalysis blends decades of observations with a weather model to give a consistent series for every quarter-degree cell on Earth, so the figures are for your cell, about 25 km across, rather than for a station in your town; hills and coasts inside the cell are smoothed, and the record days can sit a degree or two off the Met Office’s station records. The baseline is the World Meteorological Organization’s 1961-1990 reference period; “now” is the last ten complete years, and the monthly table uses the last thirty. Each cell’s series is cached for a week.
Sources
- Open-Meteo historical weather API (CC BY 4.0). Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information (ERA5, ECMWF).
- Postcodes: postcodes.io / ONS Postcode Directory (OGL v3).