Met Office station record
Durham · July 2026
Durham has just had its driest July on record, in 147 Julys of readings going back to 1880, on a figure the publisher still marks provisional.
Read from the Met Office file for this station, in the vintage we archived on 11 August 2026.
5.4
mm
rainfall, July 2026
Provisional — the publisher will revise this month
The lowest Julys on record — rainfall
- 1st20265.4 mm
- 2nd19357.7 mm
- 3rd19779.4 mm
- 4th200610.0 mm
- 5th198910.1 mm
- 6th199912.1 mm
- 7th200113.2 mm
- 8th195216.0 mm
- joint 9th189816.4 mm
- joint 9th191116.4 mm
- out of 147 on record
Ranked against every July this station has on record. Ties share a rank. Months with no published reading are left out of the count entirely; they are never read as zero.
Every July on record
One cell per year from 1880 to 2026, shaded from this station’s own lowest July to its highest. Years with no published reading are left blank rather than filled in.
July 2026, every metric
| Measure | Value | Rank in the record |
|---|---|---|
| mean daily maximum | 22.8 °C | 6th-highest of 147 |
| mean daily minimum | 13.1 °C | 2nd-highest of 147 |
| days of air frost | 0 days | shared with 146 other years |
| rainfall | 5.4 mm | 1st-lowest of 147 |
| sunshine | not published | — |
The last twelve months, read across
| Measure | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Max °C | 21.9 | 17.6 | 14.0 | 10.2 | 8.6 | 5.5p | 7.8p | 12.0p | 14.2p | 16.9p | 20.7p | 22.8p |
| Min °C | 12.5 | 8.8 | 7.7 | 4.8 | 4.0 | 0.9p | 3.6p | 3.4p | 4.2p | 7.2p | 11.6p | 13.1p |
| Frost | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 12p | 4p | 2p | 2p | 0p | 0p | 0p |
| Rain mm | 23.6 | 79.0 | 47.0 | 135.8 | 64.0 | 64.0p | 63.4p | 44.6p | 21.2p | 88.8p | 39.2p | 5.4p |
| Sun hrs | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
August 2025 to July 2026, oldest first. * marked estimated by the publisher · p provisional, and will be revised · — not published
How these figures are read
The publisher marks estimated values with *, missing months with ---, and sunshine read by an automatic Kipp & Zonen sensor with #. Missing months are excluded from every ranking on this page; they are never read as zero. Ties share a rank.
We archive the publisher’s file verbatim every time we fetch it, so the figures above can always be checked against the exact version they were read from: data/weather-stations/raw/2026-08-11/durhamdata.txt.