Londontemperature
It is 68.0°F at London/Heathrow Intl, 18:50 local on Tuesday. London is the 189th hottest of 224 capitals by annual mean.
48 readings held for the last 24 hours, every one of them checked before it appeared.
Source: METAR reports from the aerodrome
Normal for 6 October here is a high of 62.6°F.
Source: METAR reports from the aerodrome · normals from NOAA GHCN-Daily
19 July 2022. The highest daily maximum in the record for this station.
Source: GHCN-Daily, 1973 to 2025
13 December 1981. The lowest daily minimum in the record for this station.
Source: GHCN-Daily, 1973 to 2025
Where London stands
London by month
Normal high · record high with its day · record low with its day- Jan45.7°FHigh 60.3°F · 1 Jan 2022Low 15.8°F · 13 Jan 1987
- Feb48.2°FHigh 65.5°F · 13 Feb 1998Low 14.7°F · 10 Feb 1986
- Mar53.1°FHigh 73.0°F · 28 Mar 2012Low 22.8°F · 1 Mar 2018
- Apr57.4°FHigh 81.3°F · 23 Apr 2011Low 27.7°F · 7 Apr 2021
- May64.4°FHigh 84.9°F · 23 May 1989Low 23.7°F · 30 May 2007
- Jun70.0°FHigh 95.0°F · 26 Jun 1976Low 37.2°F · 4 Jun 1991
- Jul · warmest
Nearby, hottest and coldest
Within 47 km · 8 stations reporting31 Julys at London/Heathrow Intl
Full trend →Capitals with a similar climate
The capitals immediately warmer and cooler than London by annual mean.
How London’s temperature has been recorded
How hot does it get in London?
July is the warmest month at London/Heathrow Intl, averaging a daily high of 74.7°F. That is an average of every July day in the archive, not a record: the highest single reading is below.
How cold does it get in London?
January is the coolest month, averaging a daily high of 45.7°F. The gap between the warmest and coolest month is 61.0°F, which is what the ranking of capitals by annual swing is built on.
What is the highest temperature ever recorded in London?
104.4°F, on 19 July 2022, in the record held for London/Heathrow Intl. That is the highest daily maximum in the archive for this station, not a national record and not an official figure: those are set by national meteorological services.
What is the lowest temperature ever recorded in London?
10.4°F, on 13 December 1981, in the same archive. Like the high, it is the lowest daily minimum this station has recorded rather than an official national figure.
What is the weather in London right now?
Sources and checks for this page
Live readings come from METAR reports from the aerodrome at London/Heathrow Intl. Monthly means and every record on this page are computed from NOAA GHCN-Daily observations stored per station, per year, per month, and the capital list is GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Nothing here is modelled, interpolated or estimated, and a month the archive never covered is left out rather than filled in. See how this is built.