Climate Sumburgh Airport 2020-2024

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

Calculated from historical METAR data of Sumburgh Airport (EGPB) between 2020 and 2024.

VFR conditions (%)

Month	Average	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	66.8	54	70	59	83	69
February	69.4	73	63	78	70	65
March	66.0	59	68	62	69	78
April	70.6		65	66	81	67
May	62.1		46	72	57	66
June	54.5		61	54	60	56
July	52.7		62	55	24	68
August	61.0		61	56	42	64
September	66.2		69	74	54	62
October	70.2		77	71	68	63
November	70.8		77	66	66	62
December	69.1		76	62	70	78
Average	63.3	62.2	64.0	63.7	58.4	65.6

89th 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	93.4	92	92	88	97	94
February	93.2	91	91	97	95	93
March	88.7	84	88	87	90	99
April	89.2		88	86	94	89
May	82.0		73	90	77	85
June	77.3		86	79	77	68
July	74.8		84	80	59	82
August	81.9		85	79	75	77
September	85.4		88	93	74	86
October	89.8		94	86	85	92
November	92.0		95	92	92	84
December	90.5		94	88	94	96
Average	85.2	87.8	86.4	85.9	80.9	84.8

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	6.9	6	7	8	5	8
February	6.8	7	8	7	6	7
March	7.1	8	6	8	8	8
April	8.4		9	8	7	9
May	10.4		10	11	9	10
June	13.1		14	13	13	14
July	14.3		15	14	15	14
August	14.7		15	14	15	15
September	13.4		14	14	14	13
October	11.1		11	12	12	11
November	9.0		8	11	9	10
December	7.4		7	6	7	8
Average	9.8	6.8	10.3	10.6	9.9	10.4

91st 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	3.9	4	5	5	2	6
February	3.8	4	5	3	4	4
March	3.9	5	2	5	5	4
April	4.5		5	4	3	5
May	6.6		7	8	5	6
June	9.4		10	10	9	9
July	11.1		11	11	12	10
August	11.1		11	11	12	11
September	9.9		10	10	11	9
October	8.0		7	10	8	8
November	5.9		5	9	6	7
December	4.4		3	3	5	5
Average	6.5	4.0	6.8	7.4	6.6	7.0

48th 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	22.1	34	23	30	20	21
February	20.3	26	22	29	13	25
March	17.3	18	26	10	13	16
April	11.1		15	10	12	7
May	10.2		12	15	7	12
June	9.3		4	11	7	8
July	9.9		11	11	5	13
August	10.9		9	15	9	6
September	16.1		11	13	16	16
October	22.4		22	20	26	32
November	22.5		24	19	25	22
December	25.2		30	40	18	13
Average	15.6	24.4	15.1	15.4	12.1	14.0

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	16.6	18	16	20	13	21
February	16.0	15	17	20	17	19
March	14.5	13	11	15	16	16
April	12.5		12	13	13	12
May	10.4		10	12	10	11
June	10.3		7	13	9	11
July	9.2		9	11	8	10
August	9.4		8	10	9	9
September	12.6		11	11	11	14
October	15.2		16	15	15	14
November	15.0		12	16	17	16
December	14.9		14	13	15	16
Average	12.6	14.6	11.1	13.2	11.9	12.9

91st 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	238°	255°	259°	319°	230°
February	235°	262°	255°	174°	234°
March	147°	026°	184°	258°	232°
April		129°	060°	315°	260°
May		241°	227°	045°	275°
June		158°	216°	242°	075°
July		360°	266°	345°	264°
August		014°	223°	008°	229°
September		220°	058°	205°	238°
October		160°	228°	229°	083°
November		068°	180°	277°	235°
December		194°	021°	226°	165°

Prevailing wind direction

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