Burray Village Temperature by Month

Burray Village, Orkney Islands, United Kingdom has a consistently chilly climate year-round, with daytime highs averaging 11°C (52°F). Below you'll find a full monthly breakdown and a comparison with cities worldwide.

Burray Village enjoys a stable climate with temperatures staying pretty much the same throughout the year. Maximum daytime temperatures range from a chilly 8°C (46°F) in February to a moderate 15°C (59°F) in August. Nights are consistently cool, with lows between 12°C (54°F) and 5°C (41°F).

The chart below illustrates the average maximum day and minimum night temperatures in Burray Village by month:

Daily lows are most common between 4 AM and 6 AM. By 3 PM temperatures reach their daily high, driven by peak solar heating. August, the warmest month of the year, receives 127 hours of sunshine.

The chart below shows the average temperature throughout the year:

Burray Village's average annual maximum temperature is 11°C (52°F). To put that in context, here's how it compares to a few well-known destinations:

Barcelona, Spain has an annual average of around 21°C (70°F), with warm summers and mild, fairly short winters.

Zermatt, Switzerland averages just 4°C (39°F) annually due to its altitude, with very cold winters and cool summers even at its warmest.

Seoul, South Korea averages 18°C (64°F) a year, with four clear seasons, cold winters, and hot humid summers.

Tokyo, Japan averages 21°C (70°F) a year, with hot summers, cool winters, and a well-defined cherry blossom spring.

Climate temperature data is typically calculated as a 30-year average. This smooths out year-to-year variability and gives a more reliable picture of what a place is actually like, rather than what happened in any single unusual year.

The readings come from a range of sources, land-based weather stations, ocean buoys, ships, and satellites. That data is collected by weather services around the world, then pooled, quality-checked, and averaged to produce the climate records you see here.

For cities and regions with significant elevation, altitude is one of the biggest factors shaping local temperatures. As a rule of thumb, temperatures fall by around 6°C for every 1,000 metres gained, so a city at 2,000 metres will typically be around 12°C cooler than a city at sea level in the same region. Higher ground also tends to see more dramatic day-to-night temperature swings, since thinner air loses heat faster after sunset.

For more on Burray Village's weather, including monthly rainfall, sunshine hours, and humidity, visit our Burray Village climate page.