11-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Clear sky
4°
Feels like 4°
Wind↑ NNW 3 km/h
Humidity 88 %
Evening
Mainly clear
6°
Feels like 6°
Wind↑ NNW 5 km/h
Humidity 89 %
💧 0.1 mm
12-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Partly cloudy
3°
Feels like 1°
Wind↑ WSW 10 km/h
Gusts16 km/h
Humidity 89 %
Evening
Partly cloudy
8°
Feels like 4°
Wind↑ WSW 20 km/h
Gusts43 km/h
Humidity 84 %
13-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Overcast
8°
Feels like 5°
Wind↑ WSW 21 km/h
Gusts45 km/h
Humidity 85 %
Evening
Partly cloudy
6°
Feels like 4°
Wind↑ W 11 km/h
Gusts24 km/h
Humidity 68 %
14-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Clear sky
2°
Feels like -1°
Wind↑ WSW 9 km/h
Humidity 81 %
Edinburgh forecast in charts · next 7 days
The week ahead: highs and lows
≈ A week close to the usual temperatures
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
Hourly detail
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)
Edinburgh climate: what a normal year looks like
From 17 h 36 min of daylight in late June to 6 h 57 min in late December.
The hottest stretch is July, when afternoons average 18 °C; the coldest is December, when nights average 2 °C.
There is no real dry season: monthly rainfall stays between 63 mm and 89 mm on average.
Even the coldest month, December, keeps nights above freezing on average (2 °C).
The coming week looks normal for October: forecast highs average 12 °C, against a usual 12 °C.
30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month
Typical high
Typical low
Rainfall
Jan
7 °C
3 °C
84 mm
Feb
7 °C
3 °C
71 mm
Mar
8 °C
3 °C
68 mm
Apr
11 °C
5 °C
63 mm
May
13 °C
7 °C
66 mm
Jun
16 °C
10 °C
77 mm
Jul
18 °C
12 °C
83 mm
Aug
18 °C
12 °C
86 mm
Sep
16 °C
10 °C
68 mm
Oct
12 °C
7 °C
89 mm
Nov
9 °C
4 °C
80 mm
Dec
6 °C
2 °C
85 mm
Whole year
12 °C
6 °C
920 mm
Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 55.95° N, 3.20° W, 1991–2020. ERA5 averages over a 0.25° grid (about 25 km): hills, a coastline or the heat of the city itself can shift local values by a degree or two.
Air you breathe in Edinburgh: pollution and pollen
2/6
Fair
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.58µg/m³
PM1014µg/m³
O₃54µg/m³
NO₂7µg/m³
SO₂1µg/m³
Pollen
AlderNone
BirchNone
GrassNone
MugwortNone
OliveNone
RagweedNone
Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.
Rain radar around Edinburgh
Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Edinburgh, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.
Rain radarLast two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline
Moon over Edinburgh
Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 05:28 Set 00:30
Fri30/1079%
Sat31/1069%
Sun1/1159%
Mon2/1149%Last quarter
Tue3/1138%
Wed4/1128%
Thu5/1119%
Fri6/1112%
Sat7/116%
Sun8/112%
Mon9/110%
Tue10/111%New moon
Moonrise and moonset in local time (Europe/London); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.
Sea and tides near Edinburgh
Tide station used: Leith · 4 km away
🌊 Sea surface
11.6 °C
satellite, 29/10
Sea state
Calm
waves 0.1 m
Period
2 s
Swell
0.0 m
TodayThu 29/10
High tide04:015.8 m
Low tide09:481.0 m
High tide16:245.6 m
Low tide21:571.0 m
TomorrowFri 30/10
High tide04:585.6 m
Low tide10:301.4 m
High tide17:195.4 m
Low tide22:431.3 m
SatSat 31/10
High tide06:005.3 m
Low tide11:201.8 m
High tide18:205.2 m
Low tide23:421.6 m
SunSun 01/11
High tide07:035.1 m
Low tide12:332.2 m
High tide19:225.0 m
Indicative heights above chart datum. Coefficient: 20 for the weakest tides, 120 for the strongest. · more tide detail on TidesAtlas
Look up a past day in Edinburgh
Curious about the weather in Edinburgh on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.
Edinburgh weather at a glance
This page gathers everything about the weather in Edinburgh, Scotland: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “mainly clear”, it is 12 °C (feels like 12 °C) and the wind blows at 7 km/h.
Expected range today: 8 °C to 15 °C and a dry sky. The forecast comes from the AtmoAtlas engine, which combines ECMWF-AIFS, NOAA GFS and DWD ICON, adjusts cloud cover with METAR reports and uses convective energy (CAPE) to flag storms, plus the tide times for Leith.
Use the Edinburgh forecast in your own website or app: one JSON call returns weather, air quality, tides and sun and moon times. The free key needs no card.
