page_title: Climate of Scotland
hierarchical_section_title: Climate of Scotland
caption_attribution_description: English: A map of Köppen climate types in Scotland
context_page_description: The climate of Scotland is mostly temperate and oceanic, and tends to be very changeable, but rarely extreme. It is warmed by the Gulf Stream from the Atlantic, and given its northerly latitude it is much warmer than areas on similar latitudes, for example Kamchatka in Russia or Labrador in Canada—where the sea freezes over in winter or Fort McMurray, Canada—where −35 °C is not uncommon during winter. Scots sometimes describe weather which is grey and gloomy using the Scots language word dreich.
context_section_description: The climate of Scotland is mostly temperate and oceanic (Köppen climate classification Cfb), and tends to be very changeable, but rarely extreme. It is warmed by the Gulf Stream from the Atlantic, and given its northerly latitude it is much warmer than areas on similar latitudes, for example Kamchatka in Russia or Labrador in Canada—where the sea freezes over in winter or Fort McMurray, Canada—where −35 °C (−31 °F) is not uncommon during winter. Scots sometimes describe weather which is grey and gloomy using the Scots language word dreich.
caption: Köppen climate types in Scotland
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