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    Will it snow near you? UK towns and cities

    Each page gives the live 5-day snow answer for one of 77 UK towns and cities, with its Met Office frost averages for 1991 to 2020. Braemar is the frostiest here, with about 98 nights of air frost a year, and Camborne the mildest, with about 7 nights.

    Britain doesn’t get much snow. It does get a great deal of excitement about the possibility of snow.

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    Frostiest first

    1. Braemar: about 98 frosty nights a year
    2. Aboyne: about 92 frosty nights a year
    3. Aviemore: about 84 frosty nights a year
    4. Shap: about 71 frosty nights a year
    5. Galashiels: about 57 frosty nights a year
    6. Bala: about 56 frosty nights a year
    7. Leuchars: about 55 frosty nights a year
    8. Marlborough: about 55 frosty nights a year
    9. Lossiemouth: about 53 frosty nights a year
    10. Kinlochewe: about 52 frosty nights a year
    11. Leek: about 52 frosty nights a year
    12. Fort Augustus: about 52 frosty nights a year
    13. Buxton: about 52 frosty nights a year
    14. Usk: about 50 frosty nights a year
    15. Pershore: about 50 frosty nights a year
    16. Woburn: about 49 frosty nights a year
    17. Bingley: about 49 frosty nights a year
    18. Hereford: about 48 frosty nights a year
    19. Castlederg: about 48 frosty nights a year
    20. Durham: about 47 frosty nights a year
    21. Glasgow: about 45 frosty nights a year
    22. Keswick: about 45 frosty nights a year
    23. Rochdale: about 44 frosty nights a year
    24. Lisnaskea: about 44 frosty nights a year
    25. Bedford: about 43 frosty nights a year
    26. Falkirk: about 43 frosty nights a year
    27. Edinburgh: about 43 frosty nights a year
    28. Dumfries: about 43 frosty nights a year
    29. Carlisle: about 42 frosty nights a year
    30. Stirling: about 42 frosty nights a year
    31. Northampton: about 40 frosty nights a year
    32. Cambridge: about 40 frosty nights a year
    33. Wick: about 39 frosty nights a year
    34. Coventry: about 39 frosty nights a year
    35. Ross-on-Wye: about 39 frosty nights a year
    36. Inverness: about 38 frosty nights a year
    37. Prestwick: about 38 frosty nights a year
    38. Reading: about 38 frosty nights a year
    39. Nottingham: about 37 frosty nights a year
    40. High Wycombe: about 37 frosty nights a year
    41. Cheltenham: about 36 frosty nights a year
    42. Armagh: about 34 frosty nights a year
    43. Blackpool: about 34 frosty nights a year
    44. Oxford: about 34 frosty nights a year
    45. Cardiff: about 33 frosty nights a year
    46. Paisley: about 33 frosty nights a year
    47. Bath: about 32 frosty nights a year
    48. Belfast: about 32 frosty nights a year
    49. Hull: about 29 frosty nights a year
    50. Lerwick: about 29 frosty nights a year
    51. Crosby: about 28 frosty nights a year
    52. Sheffield: about 28 frosty nights a year
    53. Folkestone: about 28 frosty nights a year
    54. Southampton: about 26 frosty nights a year
    55. Tenby: about 25 frosty nights a year
    56. Morecambe: about 25 frosty nights a year
    57. Dunbar: about 24 frosty nights a year
    58. London: about 23 frosty nights a year
    59. Hunstanton: about 23 frosty nights a year
    60. Scarborough: about 23 frosty nights a year
    61. Rhyl: about 22 frosty nights a year
    62. Bridlington: about 22 frosty nights a year
    63. Stornoway: about 22 frosty nights a year
    64. Kirkwall: about 22 frosty nights a year
    65. Lowestoft: about 22 frosty nights a year
    66. Bognor Regis: about 21 frosty nights a year
    67. Bude: about 21 frosty nights a year
    68. Sidmouth: about 19 frosty nights a year
    69. Hastings: about 17 frosty nights a year
    70. Swanage: about 14 frosty nights a year
    71. Eastbourne: about 14 frosty nights a year
    72. Minehead: about 14 frosty nights a year
    73. Plymouth: about 13 frosty nights a year
    74. Teignmouth: about 11 frosty nights a year
    75. Milford Haven: about 11 frosty nights a year
    76. Weymouth: about 10 frosty nights a year
    77. Camborne: about 7 frosty nights a year

    Frost nights are Met Office 1991 to 2020 averages for each town’s climate station. Snow answers are live, from each town’s own 5-day forecast.

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