What is the warmest English county?

Hottest Places in the UK. The Isles of Scilly have the highest mean annual temperature in the UK of 11.5 degrees Celsius (52.7 degrees Fahrenheit). Not far behind are coastal parts of Cornwall, where many low-elevation sites average above 11 °C (52 °F).
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Which county in England has the best weather?

  1. Bognor Regis: England's sun king. (Image credit: Getty) ...
  2. Eastbourne, East Sussex: Brighton's bustling cousin. ...
  3. Hastings, Kent: the sunny heart of The Garden of England. ...
  4. Central London: it's sunnier and warmer than you think. ...
  5. Tenby, Wales: the Welsh Riviera. ...
  6. The Isles of Scilly: slow living and warm winters.
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Which is the sunniest county in the UK?

Looking a little closer, we find that the sunniest county is Sussex, on England's south-east coast. The western part of the county in particular receives a lot of sunshine, averaging 1,902 hours per year.
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Where is the warmest and driest place in England?

For the warmest temperatures and lowest rainfall, London is a good bet - it's one of the driest parts of the country.
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Which part of the UK gets the most sunshine?

Chichester has been named the sunniest place in the UK – thanks to its record-high levels of sunshine this winter. Met Office data found the city received more than 230 hours of sunlight – or nearly ten days – across the coldest season, which is more than anywhere else in the country.
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English counties explained



Which county in England has the least rain?

London is the country's driest city, while demand for brollies is also low in Essex, Kent and Cambridgeshire. St Osyth, a village of 4,000 near Clacton-on-Sea, receives a mere 513mm of rain a year, making it a contender for the driest place in Britain.
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What is the driest county in England?

Northamptonshire was officially the DRIEST county in England during May.
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Where is the nicest place to live in England?

The 10 best places to live in the UK
  • Birmingham. Despite being the UK's second-largest city, Birmingham – or Brum, as the locals affectionately call it – is not on the radar of many expats moving to the UK. ...
  • Glasgow. ...
  • Oxford and the Cotswolds. ...
  • Brighton. ...
  • Cardiff. ...
  • Edinburgh. ...
  • Reading and the Thames Valley. ...
  • Manchester.
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Where is the driest place in UK?

The climate of East Anglia is generally dry and mild. The region is the driest in the United Kingdom with many areas receiving less than 600mm of rainfall a year. and locations such as St Osyth less than 500 mm on average. Rainfall is fairly evenly distributed throughout the year.
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Where is the warmest place to live in Britain?

The Isles of Scilly have the highest mean annual temperature in the UK of 11.5 degrees Celsius (52.7 degrees Fahrenheit). Not far behind are coastal parts of Cornwall, where many low-elevation sites average above 11 °C (52 °F).
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Which UK cities have the best weather?

Coming in at number one is Chichester in West Sussex. The cathedral city is treated to 1920.8 hours of sunshine every year. Plymouth in Devon comes in second place with an average of 1730.1 hours of sunshine each year.
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Where is the mildest weather in UK?

Northern Ireland, Wales and western parts of England and Scotland, being closest to the Atlantic Ocean, are generally the mildest, wettest and windiest regions of the UK, and temperature ranges there are seldom extreme.
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Where is the warmest beach in UK?

But the warmest places include Bracklesham Bay, and Weston Bay in the Bristol Channel, which both hit 21.6C on Monday.
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Where is the wettest place in England?

Well, it's official - Derry is the wettest place anywhere in Britain and the north, although another Irish town has taken the title of Europe's wettest place. A new study has found Derry literally stormed its way to the top of the charts with an average of 147 rainy days per yer year.
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What is the poshest county in England?

Surrey has been named as the 'poshest' home county in England in a new survey.
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Where is the best coastal town to live in UK?

The Top 10 British Seaside Towns
  • Whitby, North Yorkshire.
  • St Ives, Cornwall. ...
  • Bamburgh, Northumberland. ...
  • Worthing, West Sussex. ...
  • Cromer, Norfolk. ...
  • Shanklin, Isle of Wight. ...
  • Deal, Kent. ...
  • Hastings, East Sussex. ...
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Where is the healthiest place to live in the UK?

The borough tops the new Health Index for England, a measure being developed by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to understand the health of the nation.
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What is the poorest city in Britain?

Having measured the states of deprivation across thirty-two thousand eight hundred and forty-four areas in the country, the researchers concluded that the community that lies east of Jaywick near Clacton-on-Sea is the most deprived region in the country.
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Is Cornwall The Wettest County in England?

Which Is The Wettest County In England? Those numbers show Argyll topped out with an annual soaking of 2,274mm in each year, while western Scotland takes in most of the top 10 at 7, while Merionethshire in Wales moves up to number four after Caernarvonshire comes in at six.
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Is Norfolk the driest county in England?

Norfolk is the driest county in the UK. Norwich is the most easterly city in the UK. The largest village green in the county is at Old Buckenham. At only five miles in length, the Thurne is Norfolk's shortest river.
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What is the coldest city in the UK?

What is this? The picturesque market town of Newport in the county of Shropshire holds the record for having the lowest ever temperature in England. In January 1982 the temperature in Newport reached an all-time low of -26 °C, way beyond the average low of 0 °C for January.
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Is Scotland colder than England?

Scotland occupies the cooler northern section of Great Britain, so temperatures are generally lower than in the rest of the British Isles, with the coldest ever UK temperature of −27.2 °C (−17.0 °F) recorded at Braemar in the Grampian Mountains, on 10 January 1982 and also at Altnaharra, Highland, on 30 December 1995.
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Is the UK depressing?

British people are among the most depressed people in the Western world, according to new data. The rankings from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) place the UK in joint seventh place for adults reporting they have depression out of 25 countries from across Europe and Scandinavia.
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Where in the UK is sunny?

Based on the total hours of sun, Chichester in West Sussex is crowned the happiest place in the UK with 232 sunny hours in winter. Whereas the least sunny place is Bradford in West Yorkshire, seeing only 110 hours of sunlight during the cold season.
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