Climate and average weather in Saint Neots

In Saint Neots, the summers are mild, showery, and partly cloudy and the winters are cold, snowy, and mostly cloudy.

Best: late May to late September

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Saint Neots typically varies from 2°C to 22°C, and is rarely below -3°C or above 28°C. July is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Saint Neots for warm-weather activities is from late May to late September.

Hottest
Jul
22°
Coldest
Jan
Wettest
Aug
60 mm
Driest
Feb
39 mm
Rain / yr
623 mm
126 wet days
Daylight
7.5–16.5 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
18 m
52.2°N
Clearest
Jul
69% cloud

Saint Neots is town and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom.

Air quality: WHO Ambient Air Quality Database. Density & description: Wikidata (CC0), GeoNames.

Saint Neots weather by month, at a glance

The whole year in one picture — sky, rain, humidity, temperature and travel score. Click any band to jump to its full chart.

Each stripe is one measure across the whole year, stacked so a single day reads top to bottom. The sky band runs overcast grey on top down to clear blue at the base — more blue means sunnier — followed by the rainfall curve, the humidity band, a temperature strip that tints each stretch of the year by how warm its average high is, and the travel-score line at the foot. Scan straight down any date to read that day across every measure at once; the score climbs highest around late May to late September.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Saint Neots, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

The hot season lasts 3.2 months, from June 10 to September 15, with daily high temperatures above 19°C. The hottest month of the year in Saint Neots is July, with an average high of 22°C and low of 13°C.

The cool season lasts 3.9 months, from November 15 to March 12, with daily high temperatures below 10°C. The coldest month of the year in Saint Neots is January, with an average low of 2°C and high of 7°C.

Days typically run about 7°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 9°C) in July.

10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan72
Feb82
Mar104
Apr135
May168
Jun1911
Jul2213
Aug2213
Sep1911
Oct158
Nov105
Dec83

How hot and cold Saint Neots really feels

Feels-like highFeels-like lowactual air temp

The felt-temperature range through the year — heat index on the day's high (summer humidity), wind chill on the night's low (winter wind). The dashed lines are the plain thermometer; the gap is how much hotter or colder it really feels.

On the coldest nights, wind chill pulls the feels-like down to about -2°C (around February 4), with roughly 104 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C), worst in February.

-5°10°15°20°25°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan77-22
Feb88-22
Mar101004
Apr131325
May161668
Jun19191111
Jul22221313
Aug22221313
Sep19191011
Oct141558
Nov101015
Dec88-13

Average hourly temperature in Saint Neots

A compact picture of the whole year, hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled average temperature. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

Read left to right for the day of the year and top to bottom for the hour of the day; the color is the modeled temperature, cool blues through to hot reds on the same scale as the other charts. A vertical slice is a single day's swing — coolest just before dawn, warmest in the mid-afternoon — while a horizontal slice follows one hour across the seasons. The darker overlay marks night and the lighter one the twilight around sunrise and sunset. Colors run warmest on July afternoons, near 22°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near C.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM

Saint Neots weather by month

Every month at a glance. Click a month for its detailed page.

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysSnow daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan / 4910.70.780.9
Feb / 399.81.29.51.2
Mar10° / 439.80.811.52.4
Apr13° / 48110.113.63.6
May16° / 5410.5015.45.0
Jun19° / 11°5810.5016.45.8
Jul22° / 13°5911.50166.3
Aug22° / 13°6010.6014.56.3
Sep19° / 11°509012.45.9
Oct15° / 5710.4010.34.1
Nov10° / 5510.80.28.52.2
Dec / 5211.20.87.61.1

Chance of rain

How likely it is to rain on a typical day, and how that shifts across the wetter and drier seasons.

Saint Neots gets about 623 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is often wet, and that barely changes with the seasons — rain is spread fairly evenly through the year.

August is the wettest month by volume, with 60 mm over about 11 wet days; February is the driest, with 39 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecmostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetDec 21 · 38%Sep 6 · 29%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan3511
Feb3410
Mar3210
Apr3611
May3511
Jun3511
Jul3612
Aug3511
Sep319
Oct3310
Nov3611
Dec3611

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Saint Neots collects about 623 mm of rain across 126 wet days — roughly 52 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. August is the wettest month with 60 mm, while February is the driest at just 39 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 28% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec493943485458596050575552
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan49111
Feb39101
Mar43101
Apr48110
May54110
Jun58110
Jul59120
Aug60110
Sep5090
Oct57100
Nov55110
Dec52111

Snow in Saint Neots

Average snowy days through the year, the snow-season span, and estimated snowfall — for ski trips and the perennial 'will there be snow at Christmas?' question.

Saint Neots averages about 4 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Dec 2 to Mar 25 — about 3.7 months.

February is snowiest, with roughly 1.3 day of snow and an estimated 4 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 14 cm of snow.

01234JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonFeb 10
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan13
Feb14
Mar13
Apr00
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct00
Nov01
Dec13

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

How often the daytime sky is clear, partly cloudy or overcast.

In Saint Neots, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows mild seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around July 5 and lasts for 2.4 months, ending around September 14. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 33% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around May 11 and lasts for 1.8 months, ending around July 4. The cloudiest month is June, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 72% of the time.

0%100%10%90%20%80%30%70%40%60%50%50%60%40%70%30%80%20%90%10%100%0%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecAug 5 · 35%Jun 16 · 27%mostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan3070
Feb2872
Mar2872
Apr2971
May2971
Jun2872
Jul3268
Aug3367
Sep2971
Oct3070
Nov3070
Dec3169

Daylight, sunrise and sunset

DaylightNight

Hours of daylight through the year, with sunrise and sunset times.

The gold band is daylight — sunrise runs along its lower edge, sunset along the upper — so it widens toward summer and pinches toward winter, with night the dark area above and below. The longest day, around June 13, brings about 16 h 30 min of light; the shortest, around December 13, only 7 h 30 min — a swing of roughly 9 hours.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan8.08:114:10
Feb9.57:295:02
Mar11.56:265:56
Apr13.65:126:50
May15.44:147:41
Jun16.43:468:16
Jul16.04:048:09
Aug14.54:517:19
Sep12.45:436:07
Oct10.36:364:56
Nov8.57:324:00
Dec7.68:123:42

Sunny days

How many genuinely sunny days each month brings — days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — banded into plain-language zones.

Saint Neots gets about 4 sunny days a month gloomy — and it barely shifts through the year, holding between 3 and 5 days every month. Clear skies here are a flat line, not a season.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgloomymixedJan 95 daysJun 153 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan5Gloomy
Feb4Gloomy
Mar4Gloomy
Apr4Gloomy
May5Gloomy
Jun4Gloomy
Jul4Gloomy
Aug4Gloomy
Sep4Gloomy
Oct5Gloomy
Nov5Gloomy
Dec5Gloomy

Humidity comfort

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Share of days at each humidity comfort level, based on the dew point — the measure that tracks how muggy it actually feels.

Humidity comfort is graded by the dew point — the temperature at which the air would be fully saturated — because it tracks how muggy it actually feels far better than relative humidity does. A low dew point feels dry and crisp; a high one feels sticky and oppressive no matter the reading on a humidity gauge.

In Saint Neots, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in August, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 9% of the time — humidity is not something you need to plan around here.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecMay 6 · 100%Aug 9 · 89%humidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)
Jan10000
Feb10000
Mar10000
Apr10000
May9550
Jun81163
Jul61327
Aug60319
Sep79192
Oct9280
Nov9910
Dec10000

Wind

Average wind speed through the year, banded into plain-language speed zones so a number reads as 'breezy' or 'calm' without knowing the scale.

This is the average sustained wind speed at the standard 10 metres above open ground — the steady flow a weather station reports, not the sharper gusts that come and go, which can run half again as fast. It's the number that says whether a place is generally breezy or calm.

Across the year, average wind speed in Saint Neots is typically light breeze, near 16 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 5.7 months, from around Oct 10 to Mar 31. The windiest month is January, averaging about 18 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Apr 1 to Oct 9, with July the calmest month at about 14 km/h.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezebreezyJan 8 · 18 km/hJul 27 · 13 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan18light breeze
Feb17light breeze
Mar17light breeze
Apr15light breeze
May15light breeze
Jun14light breeze
Jul14light breeze
Aug14light breeze
Sep15light breeze
Oct16light breeze
Nov16light breeze
Dec17light breeze

Best time to visit Saint Neots

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

To characterize how pleasant the weather is in Saint Neots throughout the year, we compute two travel scores — one for general sightseeing, one for beach and pool weather.

Around late September, Saint Neots is still near the tail of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds already thinning.

Inferred from the travel-score curve; month-by-month visitor numbers are a planned addition.

The travel score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 18°C and 28°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Saint Neots for general outdoor tourist activities is from late May to late September, with a peak score in the last week of July.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 23 · 6.4

The travel score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

Travel score (0–10)Rating
Jan0.9poor
Feb1.2poor
Mar2.4poor
Apr3.6fair
May5.0fair
Jun5.8good
Jul6.3good
Aug6.3good
Sep5.8good
Oct4.1fair
Nov2.3poor
Dec1.1poor

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Saint Neots for hot-weather activities is from early July to late August, with a peak score in the last week of July.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 30 · 4.7

The beach/pool score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

What to pack for Saint Neots, by month

EssentialRecommendedOptional

Month by month, what's worth putting in the bag — from the temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind. Tap a month for a quick packing note.

For a warm-season trip around July (highs near 22°C), the essentials are rain gear and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 7°C), pack a warm layer, a heavy coat and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Saint Neots sees daytime highs around 22°C and nights near 13°C. Worth packing: rain gear and sun protection. About 12 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Saint Neots by month

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV index through the year, shaded by the WHO exposure levels — how much sun protection each month calls for.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Saint Neots peaks around August 11 at about 6 (high) — sunscreen and a hat are worth it in the middle of the day. It bottoms out near December 21 at about 1 (low).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — in 6 months of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecLowModerateHighModerateLowAug 11UV 6Dec 21UV 1
UV index (midday)Level
Jan1Low
Feb1Low
Mar3Moderate
Apr3Moderate
May5High
Jun6High
Jul6High
Aug6High
Sep4Moderate
Oct2Moderate
Nov1Low
Dec1Low

Average hourly UV index in Saint Neots

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Modeled clear-sky UV for every hour of every day — when in the day sun protection actually matters.

The whole year hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled clear-sky UV index — the midday peak scaled down as the sun sits lower in the sky. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

UV falls off far faster than brightness as the sun drops, so even in August the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 7 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 1 hours reach 6 or more. Mornings and late afternoons stay comparatively gentle year round.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM
UV ≥ 3 (h/day)UV ≥ 6 (h/day)
Jan00
Feb00
Mar00
Apr2.50
May6.50
Jun7.50
Jul70.5
Aug71
Sep40
Oct00
Nov00
Dec00
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayReliably frost-free (≥90%)

Saint Neots is mild enough that a frost-free day stays more likely than not even in midwinter. Nights are reliably above freezing from about March 21 to November 16 (241 days); outside that window a hard frost is an occasional risk.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecreliably frost-freeMar 2190%Nov 1690%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan7531
Feb7528
Mar8718
Apr960
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct990
Nov9116
Dec7831

Growing degree days

Degree days (base 10°C)Frost-free shaded

Growing degree days tally heat above 10°C: each day adds however many degrees its average temperature runs over that threshold, and cold days add nothing. Saint Neots banks about 874 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around July.

02004006008001,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr3
May71
Jun158
Jul234
Aug229
Sep140
Oct40
Nov0
Dec0

Solar energy

Average daily shortwave solar energy reaching the ground, banded into brightness zones so the number means something at a glance.

Solar energy is how much sunlight actually reaches the ground each day, measured in kilowatt-hours per square metre (kWh/m²) — the combined effect of how long the sun is up, how high it climbs, and how much cloud gets in the way. It's the raw fuel a solar panel has to work with: for scale, 1 kWh/m² a day is dim and wintry, while 7+ is desert-bright.

Saint Neots receives about 2.9 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — moderate — with a clear seasonal swing between 0.6 and 5.1 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 5.9 months, from around Mar 22 to Sep 17. The brightest month is June, averaging about 5.1 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is December, down near 0.6 kWh/m² — roughly 88% less than the June peak.

0123456JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightJun 255.1 kWhDec 230.6 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan0.8Dim
Feb1.5Dim
Mar2.6Moderate
Apr4.0Bright
May4.9Bright
Jun5.1Bright
Jul4.9Bright
Aug4.1Bright
Sep2.9Moderate
Oct1.8Dim
Nov0.9Dim
Dec0.6Dim

Where is Saint Neots?

Saint Neots sits at 52.2°N, 0.3°W, 18 m above sea level, in United Kingdom. The nearest listed city is Huntingdon, 14 km away.

Topography around Saint Neots

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 3, 16 and 80 km of Saint Neots.

Within 3 km, the terrain around Saint Neots has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 47 m around an average of 25 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 105 m; within 80 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 307 m.

The land around Saint Neots is covered by cropland (40%) and grassland (23%) within 3 km, cropland (60%) and grassland (20%) within 16 km, and cropland (53%) and grassland (25%) within 80 km.

3 km
47 m
16 km
105 m
80 km
307 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Huntingdon 14 km · Biggleswade 14 km · Bedford 16 km · Saint Ives 18 km · Kempston 19 km · Kempston Hardwick 21 km · Rushden 24 km · Royston 25 km

United Kingdom travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 2
Exercise Increased Caution
Power plugs
Type D / G / M
230 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 89% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$57,602
2025
Happiness
6.7 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
100%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
1.1
per 100k, 2021
Road deaths
3.2
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
High
World Bank
Religion
Christian 60%none 26%Muslim 4%other 2%

Sources: World Bank, US State Department, World Happiness Report, WHO/UNICEF, EF EPI, CIA World Factbook.

Data sources

Temperature, precipitation, cloud, humidity, wind and solar figures are a 1991–2020 climatology for Saint Neots (52.2167°, -0.2667°, elevation 18 m), computed from hourly ERA5 reanalysis — contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. Sun figures are astronomical calculations, not observations. City data © GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Map outlines from Natural Earth (public domain); interactive map © Google. UV index is derived from CAMS (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service) clear-sky UV data — contains modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).