Wales Weather

Western real estate in the UK comes 'blessed' with rain, and Wales is perhaps beaten in the UK only by pockets of western Scotland. However, most of the rain is concentrated in autumn and early winter, with the worst of the downpours between October and January. After January the rain slackens off, temperatures pick up and days lengthen.

Westerly and southwesterly winds can also make life pretty miserable. That said, the closeness of the mountains to the coast means that you can encounter very different climatic conditions within short distances. Temperatures in Cardiff rarely drop below freezing even in the depths of winter (January) and usually make it into the 20°Cs (70°Fs) in summer.