If you're planning anything outdoors in Aberdeen, the city's northeast Scottish position makes its weather almost unique in the UK — most of the rain here comes from the east off the North Sea rather than the southwest off the Atlantic, which is the opposite of almost every other major British city. Summers are short and cool, haar fog rolls in off the sea from April to September, and Cairngorms shelter to the west keeps westerly rainfall lower than Glasgow. Daylight is genuinely long in summer — close to 18 hours at midsummer.
Check today's verdict in the app →If you're hiking from Aberdeen, the Cairngorms are within reach and represent a properly different climate to the city — colder, wetter, snow on the tops well into summer, and weather that can shift dangerously fast on the higher ground.
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