Leeds has been named one of the UK’s coldest cities, which should come as a shock to absolutely no one

Who would have guessed?


An infographic assembled by Freeflush has ranked Leeds 8th out of 63 cities for average temperature and rainfall. They used data from the Met Office to compile the information, with Cardiff first as the coldest and London 63rd at the warmest.

However, Wakefield is in the top ten warmest places to live at 56th, ranking seventh behind London in 63rd place – which is the country’s mildest city. York ranked 52nd and Rippon 51st.

Leeds’s position, much cooler than the Scottish cities Dundee and Stirling, is due to its to an average annual temperature of only 11.8 degrees and has just 213 dry days out of 365. The average rainfall for the year is 1,024 mm, which doesn’t help either.

Cardiff came in first as the coldest and wettest urban city in the entirety of the UK, followed by St. Davids, Glasgow, Bangor, Truro, Preston and Bradford.