If you're planning anything outdoors in Birmingham, the city's central inland position works in your favour — drier than its reputation suggests, sheltered from the worst Atlantic systems by the Welsh hills, and with a meaningful urban heat island in summer. The trade-off is that inland positions get bigger temperature swings: Birmingham can swing from genuinely cold winters to properly hot summer days, sometimes in a single week of changeable weather.
Check today's verdict in the app →If you're gardening in Birmingham, the inland midlands climate gives you slightly less rainfall than the national average and a useful urban heat boost — the growing season runs a touch longer here than the surrounding countryside, but watering in summer matters more than it does further west.
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