page_title: Climate of Liverpool
hierarchical_section_title: Climate of Liverpool
caption_attribution_description: Liverpool Snow January 5 2010
context_page_description: The climate of Liverpool features a temperate maritime climate, with relatively mild summers, cool winters and rainfall spread fairly evenly throughout the year. Since 1867, rainfall and temperature records for the city have been kept at Bidston Observatory, as well as atmospheric pressure records since 1845. However, the site closed down in 2002, and a weather station in Crosby has been used by the Met Office since. There have also been other stations to operate in the Liverpool area, including: Wallasey, West Kirby, Aigburth, and Liverpool John Lennon Airport
  Since records began, the lowest temperature ever recorded in Liverpool is −17.6 °C on 21 December 2010, and the highest temperature recorded is 34.5 °C on 2 August 1990. Although, during the 2006 heat wave, a temperature of 35.0 °C was supposedly recorded at Liverpool John Lennon Airport on 19 July 2006. The highest daily minimum temperature is 20.0 °C reported on 4 occasions: 13 July 1926, 29 July 1948, 1 August 1995, and 6 August 2003 and the lowest daily maximum temperature is −9.9 °C on 20 December 2010.
context_section_description: The climate of Liverpool features a temperate maritime climate (Köppen: Cfb), with relatively mild summers, cool winters and rainfall spread fairly evenly throughout the year. Since 1867, rainfall and temperature records for the city have been kept at Bidston Observatory, as well as atmospheric pressure records since 1845. However, the site closed down in 2002, and a weather station in Crosby has been used by the Met Office since. There have also been other stations to operate in the Liverpool area, including: Wallasey (1924–1993), West Kirby (1926–1993), Aigburth (1968–1993), and Liverpool John Lennon Airport (1950–present)
  Since records began, the lowest temperature ever recorded in Liverpool is −17.6 °C (0.3 °F) on 21 December 2010, and the highest temperature recorded is 34.5 °C (94.1 °F) on 2 August 1990. Although, during the 2006 heat wave, a temperature of 35.0 °C (95.0 °F) was supposedly recorded at Liverpool John Lennon Airport on 19 July 2006. The highest daily minimum temperature is 20.0 °C (68.0 °F) reported on 4 occasions: 13 July 1926, 29 July 1948, 1 August 1995, and 6 August 2003 and the lowest daily maximum temperature is −9.9 °C (14.2 °F) on 20 December 2010. On average, the amount of air frost days per year is below the national average, and in winter, snow is fairly common, but heavy snow is rare. Rain is also a common occurrence in the city, but droughts can become a problem in the summer, most recently in the 2018 heat wave.
caption: Snow falling in Liverpool city centre during the winter of 2010
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