Climate Newcastle Airport 2020-2024

Climate and trends: average temperature, flight conditions, precipitation, wind speed and direction.

Calculated from historical METAR data of Newcastle Airport (EGNT) between 2020 and 2024.

VFR conditions (%)

Month	Average	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	73.4	72	81	81	64	80
February	73.8	57	76	82	69	79
March	70.0	49	66	73	73	86
April	77.4		66	78	85	83
May	77.1		76	84	69	81
June	72.5		67	81	77	56
July	79.2		84	88	67	80
August	78.2		79	84	70	60
September	78.3		72	78	68	76
October	72.5		58	80	73	71
November	69.7		69	67	75	67
December	70.1		59	76	54	62
Average	73.3	58.0	71.7	80.3	71.1	73.5

35th best VFR conditions of United Kingdom

VFR conditions during daylight period

Percentage of observations where the VFR minimums for ceiling and visibility are met: visibility of 8 km or more and a ceiling of 3,000 ft or more. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.

Marginal VFR conditions (%)

Month	Average	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	92.8	96	99	97	87	94
February	91.3	87	98	97	85	92
March	89.0	79	93	90	91	96
April	90.6		89	93	99	93
May	92.6		94	98	88	97
June	88.0		93	96	89	76
July	92.9		91	98	86	96
August	92.3		93	94	92	83
September	92.9		88	90	93	97
October	90.1		79	92	94	90
November	87.1		88	81	95	84
December	88.4		87	90	81	85
Average	90.4	86.2	91.0	93.6	90.3	90.1

Marginal VFR conditions or better during daylight period

Percentage of observations where the MVFR minimums for ceiling and visibility are met: visibility of 5 km or more and a ceiling of 1,000 ft or more. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.

Maximum temperatures (°C)

Month	Average	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	6.6	7	8	8	4	8
February	8.2	10	10	9	7	8
March	9.6	10	9	11	10	10
April	11.5		11	12	10	13
May	15.3		16	16	13	17
June	18.0		19	19	18	17
July	19.7		19	22	20	18
August	19.1		19	21	19	19
September	17.1		19	17	19	17
October	13.3		14	15	14	12
November	9.4		9	11	10	11
December	6.9		8	4	7	7
Average	12.4	8.6	13.2	13.8	12.6	12.9

70th highest temperature of United Kingdom

Average highest temperature per day

The maximum temperature is typically observed some hours after noon.

Minimum temperatures (°C)

Month	Average	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	1.6	2	2	2	0	4
February	2.2	4	3	3	1	2
March	2.4	3	2	2	4	2
April	2.8		4	4	-1	3
May	6.3		7	8	5	6
June	9.4		9	10	9	10
July	11.4		11	13	12	11
August	11.1		11	12	11	12
September	9.1		10	9	11	8
October	6.9		7	9	8	6
November	4.1		3	5	4	5
December	1.9		3	-1	2	2
Average	5.4	2.8	6.0	6.4	5.4	5.8

20th lowest temperature of United Kingdom

Average lowest temperature per day

The minimum temperature is typically observed just before sunrise.

Precipitation (%)

Month	Average	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	9.6	13	11	3	16	9
February	14.9	14	4	14	26	20
March	12.3	17	11	6	7	7
April	5.9		10	4	3	1
May	6.2		4	5	10	3
June	9.6		8	4	4	10
July	10.4		16	6	8	10
August	9.6		11	4	6	10
September	10.1		13	12	6	9
October	14.3		18	12	11	20
November	14.3		17	15	8	6
December	12.3		21	4	14	18
Average	10.7	14.8	11.3	7.0	8.8	9.4

Precipitation during daylight period

Percentage of observations with observed rain, drizzle, snow or hail. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.

Wind speed (knots)

Month	Average	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	9.4	10	11	10	7	12
February	11.0	10	11	15	10	15
March	9.7	9	9	7	10	11
April	8.2		7	9	8	9
May	7.4		6	8	7	9
June	7.6		6	8	7	8
July	7.5		9	8	6	9
August	7.5		8	7	6	8
September	8.0		7	8	7	9
October	8.9		9	10	8	8
November	8.2		8	8	10	8
December	8.3		10	6	7	7
Average	8.5	9.6	7.9	8.4	7.5	9.1

70th highest wind speed of United Kingdom

Average wind speed

Excluding wind gusts. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.

Prevailing wind direction

Month	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	267°	269°	262°	275°	241°
February	264°	285°	252°	159°	249°
March	194°	272°	147°	259°	245°
April		116°	333°	005°	179°
May		048°	251°	313°	272°
June		108°	240°	290°	339°
July		266°	257°	323°	259°
August		268°	274°	287°	327°
September		249°	327°	256°	262°
October		260°	244°	237°	272°
November		296°	209°	270°	232°
December		261°	298°	249°	232°

Prevailing wind direction

Average wind direction, weighed by wind speed. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.