Coldest day of each winter from 1900

1900/01 -18.8 Swarraton (Hants.) 9 January 1901

1901/02 -18.9 Lairg 14 February 1902

1902/03 -17.2 Braemar 13 January 1903

1903/04 -11.8 Braemar 11 February 1904

1904/05 -14.4 Appleby (Cumbria) 27 November 1904

1905/06 -15.0 Braemar 18 November 1905

1906/07 -16.8 Woodbridge (Suffolk) 30 December 1906

1907/08 -13.3 Balmoral 5 January 1908

1908/09 -18.3 Liphook (Hants.) 30 December 1908

1909/10 -23.3 Balmoral, Logie Coldstone 28 January 19101910/11 -12.2 Balmoral 23 November 1910; Garforth 1 February 1911

1911/12 -20.6 West Linton 4 February 1912

1912/13 -17.8 Braemar 29 November 1912

1913/14 -15.6 Braemar 31 December 1913

1914/15 -13.9 Braemar 25 December 1914

1915/16 -16.7 Braemar 20 February 1916

191617 -20.0 Benson (Oxon) 6 February 1917

191718 -19.4 West Linton (Borders) 14 January 1918

1918/19 -17.2 Woburn (Beds.) 9 February 1919

1919/20 -23.3 Braemar 14 November 1919

1920/21 -18.3 Raunds 13 December 1920 (the lowest for the year 1920)

1921/22 -13.3 West Linton, Eskdalemuir, Garforth 18 January 1922 (the lowest for the year 1922)

1922/23 -9.4 Balmoral 11 December 1922

1923/24 -16.7 Balmoral 3 March 1924 (the lowest for the year 1924)

1924/25 -13.3 West Linton 21 March 1925

1925/26 -16.7 Braemar 20 December 1925; Luton 17 January 1926 (the lowest for the year in 1925 and 1926)

1926/27 -13.9 Braemar 25 December 1926

1927-28 -17.8 Braemar 18 December 1927; Logie Coldstone 17, 18 December 1927 (the lowest for the year 1927)

1928/29 -18.3 Usk (Gwent), Ross-on-Wye 14 February 1929; Houghall (Durham) 17 February 1929 (the lowest for the year 1929)

1929/30 -16.1 Newport (Shrops.) 20 March 1930 (the lowest for the year 1930)

1930/31 -17.2 Braemar 3 March 1931 (the lowest for the year 1931)

1931/32 -11.7 Dalwhinnie 12 March 1932 (the lowest for the year 1932)

1932/33 -15.6 Logie Coldstone 19 January 1933 (the lowest for the year 1933)

1933/34 -12.2 Braemar 14 March 1934 (the lowest for the year 1934)

1934/35 -12.2 Dalwhinnie 24 February 1935; Braemar 26 February 1935

1935/36 -15.6 Braemar 24 December 1935 (the lowest for the year 1935)

1936/37 -17.8 Braemar 8 March 1937

1937/38 -21.7 Braemar 13 December 1937 (the lowest for the year 1937)

1938/39 -17.2 Dalwhinnie, Braemar 4 January 1939 (the lowest for the year 1939)

1939/40 -23.3 Rhayader (Powys) 21 January 1940 (the lowest for the year 1940)

1940/41 -21.1 Houghall (Durham) 5 January 1941; West Linton (Borders) 6 January 1941 (the lowest for the year 1941)

1941/42 -19.4 Braemar 8 March 1942 (the lowest for the year 1942)

1942/43 -13.9 Braemar 5 January 1943 (the lowest for the year 1943)

1943/44 -15.0 Braemar 28 February 1944 (the lowest for the year 1944)

1944/45 -19.4 Dalwhinnie 26 January 1945 (the lowest for the year 1945)

1945/46 -14.4 Dalwhinnie 26 February 1946 (the lowest for the year 1946)

1946/47 -21.1 Elmstone (Kent) 30 January 1947; Houghall, Peebles 4 March 1947; Braemar 4, 8 March 1947 (the lowest for the year 1947)

1947/48 -17.2 Dalwhinnie 19 November 1947

1948/49 -17.8 Braemar 5 January 1949 (the lowest for the year 1949)

1949/50 -14.4 Glenlivet 27 February 1950

1950/51 -18.3 Dalwhinnie 15 December 1950 (the lowest for the year 1950)

1951/52 -17.2 Logie Coldstone 30 January 1952 (the lowest for the year 1952)

1952/53 -15.0 Dalwhinnie 25 November 1952

1953/54 -20.0 Welshpool 2 February 1954 (the lowest for the year 1954)

1954/55 -25.0 Braemar 23 February 1955 (the lowest for the year 1955)

1955/56 -20.0 Glenlivet 12 December 1955

1956/57 -16.1 Sutton Bonnington (Notts.) 20 February 1957 (the lowest for the year 1957)

1957/58 -22.8 Logie Coldstone (Grampian) 14 March 1958 (the lowest for the year 1958)

1958/59 -17.8 Braemar 15 January 1959; Kincraig (Highland) 4 February 1959 (the lowest for the year 1959)

1959/60 -22.2 Grantown-on-Spey 18 February 1960 (the lowest for the year 1960)

1960/61 -12.2 Cannich (Highland) 11 December 1960; Grantown-on-Spey 16 January 1961

1961/62 -22.2 Cannich (Highland) 30 December 1961 (the lowest for the year 1961)

1962/63 -22.2 Braemar 18 January 1963 (the lowest for the year 1963)

1963/64 -13.9 Warsop (Notts.) 24 December 1963

1964-65 -21.7 Corwen (Clwyd) 3 March 1965 (the lowest for the year 1965)

1965/66 -20.0 Braemar 15 February 1966 (the lowest for the year 1966)

1966/67 -13.3 Carnwath (Strathclyde) 25 December 1966

1967/68 -18.3 Braemar 21 February 1968 (the lowest for the year 1968)

1968/69 -20.6 Grantown-on-Spey 18 February 1969 (the lowest for the year 1969)

1969/70 -21.1 Carnwath (Strathclyde), West Linton (Borders) 7 January 1970 (the lowest for the year 1970)

1970/71 -12.8 Braemar 4 January 1971 (the lowest for the year 1971)

1971/72 -18.3 Corbridge (Northumberland) 1 February 1972 (the lowest for the year 1972)

1972/73 -21.2 Carnwath (Strathclyde) 15 February 1973 (the lowest for the year 1973)

1973/74 -17.5 Fyvie Castle 1 December 1973

1974/75 -11.4 Balmoral 8 February 1975 (the lowest for the year 1975)

1975/76 -14.9 Lagganlia (Highland) 2 February 1976

1976/77 -18.7 Lagganlia (Highland) 17 January 1977 (the lowest for the year 1977)

1977/78 -22.0 Keith (Grampian) 20 February 1978 (the lowest for the year 1978)

1978/79 -24.6 Carnwath (Strathclyde) 13 January 1979 (the lowest for the year 1979)

1979/80 -17.5 Clashnoir (Grampian) 2 January 1980 (the lowest for the year 1980)1980/81 -16.0 Grantown-on-Spey 16 January 1981

1981/82 -27.2 Braemar 10 January 1982 (the lowest for the year 1982)

1982/83 -15.1 Grantown-on-Spey 17 December 1982

1983/84 -23.6 Grantown-on-Spey 20 January 1984 (the lowest for the year 1984)

1984/85 -23.4 Lagganlia (Highland) 27 January 1985 (the lowest for the year 1985)

1985/86 -21.2 Grantown-on-Spey 27 February 1986 (the lowest for the year 1986)

1986/87 -19.1 Warsop (Notts.) 13 January 1987 (the lowest for the year 1987)

1987/88 -11.5 St Harmon (Powys) 10 December 1987

1988/89 -11.6 Carnwath (Strathclyde) 22 November 1988 (the lowest for the year 1988)

1989/90 -14.0 Tummel Bridge 15 December 1989 (the lowest for the year 1989)

1990/91 -16.0 Cawood (N Yorks.) 14 February 1991 (the lowest for the year 1991)

1991/92 -13.3 Grendon Underwood (Bucks.) 12 December 1991

1992/93 -13.7 Dalwhinnie 20 December 1992 (the lowest for the year 1992)

1993/94 -16.1 Braemar 17 February 1994

1994/95 -15.0 Dalwhinnie 31 January 1995

1995/96 -27.2 Altnaharra 30 December 1995 (the lowest for the year 1995)

1996/97 -14.5 Santon Downham (Suffolk) 3 January 1997 (the lowest for the year 1997)

1997/98 -17.1 Kinbrace (Sutherland) 1 March 1998 (the lowest for the year 1998)

1998/99 -13.1 Grantown-on-Spey 6, 7 December 1998

1999/00 -14.0 Sennybridge (Powys) 20 December 1999 (the lowest for the year 1999)

2000/01 -21.7 Kinbrace (Sutherland) 3 March 2001 (the lowest for the year 2001)

2001/02 -16.1 Grantown-on-Spey 2 January 2002 (the lowest for the year 2002)

2002/03 -18.9 Grantown-on-Spey 7 January 2003 (the lowest for the year 2003)

2003/04 -16.1 Kinbrace (Sutherland) 31 December 2003

2004/05 -15.2 Kinbrace (Sutherland) 19 December 2004 (the lowest for the year 2004)

2005/06 -16.4 Altnaharra 2 March 2006 (the lowest for the year 2006)

2006/07 -11.2 Grizedale (Cumbria) 7 February 2007

2007/08 -13.0 Aboyne 22 December 2007 (the lowest for the year 2007)

2008/09 -18.4 Aviemore 9 February 2009 (the joint lowest for the year 2009)

2009/10 -22.3 Altnaharra 8 January 2010 (the lowest for the year 2010)


2022/23 -17.3 Braemar 13 December 2022 (the lowest for the year 2022)


See also this page for record lowest days.