Met Office station record

Oxford · July 2026

Oxford has just had its warmest July by day on record, in 174 Julys of readings going back to 1853, 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.

28.2

°C

mean daily maximum, July 2026

Provisional — the publisher will revise this month · Marked estimated by the publisher

The highest Julys on record — mean daily maximum

1st202628.2 °C
2nd201827.4 °C
3rd200627.1 °C
4th198326.8 °C
joint 5th191126.1 °C
joint 5th192126.1 °C
joint 7th197625.9 °C
joint 7th202225.9 °C
9th186825.8 °C
10th201325.5 °C
out of 174 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

185317.5 °C–28.2 °C across 174 readings on record2026

One cell per year from 1853 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	28.2 °C	1st-highest of 174
mean daily minimum	14.9 °C	joint 2nd-highest of 174
days of air frost	0 days	shared with 173 other years
rainfall	0.0 mm	1st-lowest of 174
sunshine	353.0 hours	1st-highest of 98

The last twelve months, read across

Measure	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul
Max °C	24.2	19.2	14.6	12.0*	9.6	7.9*p	10.4*p	13.0*p	16.8*p	20.7*p	23.8*p	28.2*p
Min °C	13.4*	10.4*	9.3*	6.3*	4.6*	2.1*p	6.1*p	4.8*p	5.7*p	9.6*p	14.4*p	14.9*p
Frost	0*	0*	0*	6*	2*	11*p	0*p	1*p	0*p	0*p	0*p	0*p
Rain mm	23.5	74.4	52.7	124.2	76.8	34.1p	52.9p	22.9p	5.5*p	12.0p	58.7p	0.0p
Sun hrs	205.2	178.3	60.3	81.4*	68.0	71.3*p	47.1*p	145.1*p	238.3*p	239.1*p	231.9*p	353.0*p

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/oxforddata.txt.