Swanston, Edinburgh. May and Spring 2025

[George Booth]

May-warm, dry and sunny

Mean max 17.5. mean min 7.4, overall mean 12.5

Rainfall 30.2mm, wettest day 6.3mm (28th)

Sunshine 304.45 hours

Sunniest day 15.31 hours (16th). 15th-17th 45.91 hours

Sunniest May on record, 1st-22nd no rainfall recorded. This prolonged dry spell had started on April 26th. A total of 31 consecutive dry days.

May 2024 had 8 times the May 2025 total rainfall.

Spring-warmest, driest and sunniest Spring since records began here. By contrast Spring 2024 was the wettest and dullest on record.

Mean max 14.3, mean min 5.6, overall mean 10.0

Rain 78.6 mm

Sun 649.4 hours

George in Swanston, Edinburgh

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I had though we had been sunny up here near the Moray Coast and you beat us by quite a margin.

Jack

[Graham Easterling]

May sunshine over the UK according to the MetO. Surprisingly uniform across the UK. Western coasts from Skye to SW England and around to the Isle of Wight particularly sunny. The central belt of Scotland certainly did well.

Unexpectedly large amount of sunshine today. After showers between 8:30 & 9:30 dry with decent sunny periods, largely unbroken sunshine from noon to 3pm. Clouding over now (17:00). Winds fairly light down here as well, even at Lands End the peak gusts have only been around 20mph or so. Picking up a bit now.

Maximum temperature 18.5C, not bad with a westerly breeze off the Atlantic in early June. Felt warm with fairly high humidity. 

Graham

Penzance

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That sunshine map shows extraordinary totals in the 'wrong' places.  I lived on the Isle of Mull for the best part of three years.  It certainly wasn't noted for sunshine.  Rain, yes (over 2,000 mms one year!) but in May 2025 Mull out-sunned (useful new word) that famously sunny micro-climate of the Moray Firth.

May I take the opportunity to plug Mull as an excellent holiday destination? (that is, if CalMac ferries haven't found yet another excuse to cancel).  Since moving away in 2015 (to an extent because of unreliable ferries) we have been back three times on holiday.

Jack