Yorkshire Dales & North Pennines
The entire Yorkshire Dales National Park and North Pennines AONB, including the Three Peaks and Cross Fell, plus Howgills, also south to Forest of Bowland.
Monday's Forecast
Moderate breeze, locally gusty
A noticeable breeze, feeling cool where exposed on tops. Locally may be gusty, but unlikely to affect walking progress. 15-25mph.
Patchy rain or drizzle
Rain on and off, or generally drizzly - total amounts small, but may be persistently damp, especially where hills are shrouded in cloud.
Poor visibility
Murky conditions with areas of fog shrouding the hills, making navigation challenging. Map and compass essential.
Chilly
Air temperature typically 0 to 5C on higher summits. Feeling distinctly chilly on tops when stationary or where exposed to wind. Take appropriate layers.
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Moderate breeze, locally gusty
A noticeable breeze, feeling cool where exposed on tops. Locally may be gusty, but unlikely to affect walking progress. 15-25mph.
Patchy rain or drizzle
Rain on and off, or generally drizzly - total amounts small, but may be persistently damp, especially where hills are shrouded in cloud.
Poor visibility
Murky conditions with areas of fog shrouding the hills, making navigation challenging. Map and compass essential.
Chilly
Air temperature typically 0 to 5C on higher summits. Feeling distinctly chilly on tops when stationary or where exposed to wind. Take appropriate layers.
Viewing Forecast For
Yorkshire Dales & North Pennines
Monday 22nd December 2025
Last updated
Sun 21st Dec 25 at
4:30PM
Summary for all mountain areas
Strong and gusty SE'ly winds. Rain fairly widely across the Highlands in the morning, easing but leaving patchy drizzle and low cloud shrouding the hills. Low cloud and some drizzly rain for England and Wales, but some breaks for the Lakes, also clearing conditions moving into south Wales.
Headline for Yorkshire Dales & North Pennines
Blustery wind easing. Low cloud, some drizzle.
How windy? (On the summits)
Southeasterly 15 to 25mph; strongest in the morning, gusts of 35mph over tops early in day, mainly North Pennines.
Effect of the wind on you?
Blustery with marked wind chill where exposed to the wind in the morning, improving with time.
How Wet?
Early rain and drizzle, trending drier
Overnight rain becomes well-broken soon after dawn to only local patches of drizzly rain in the North Pennines. Feeling damp all areas where in fog on hills.
Cloud on the hills?
Fairly extensive, highest bases west
Covering most high fells all day with sheet-like cloud down eastern slopes at times. Local higher breaks may occur, but these likely fleeting, mostly northwest areas toward Vale of Eden.
Chance of cloud free summits?
20%
Sunshine and air clarity?
Overcast, some brighter moments toward Vale of Eden. Visibility generally poor on hills with mist, or haze lower down.
How Cold? (at 700m)
3 or 4C, up to 5C if cloud breaks in western areas.
And in the valleys
Around 7C, little change night into day.
Viewing Forecast For
Yorkshire Dales & North Pennines
Tuesday 23rd December 2025
Last updated
Sun 21st Dec 25 at
4:30PM
How windy? (On the summits)
Easterly 15 to 25mph.
Effect of the wind on you?
Fairly small, but some uncomfortable gusty spots around exposed high tops.
How Wet?
Damp air over hills
Some fine drizzle where in cloud, most common eastern North Pennines; largely drier toward western dales.
Cloud on the hills?
Fairly extensive
Extensive over the high fells most of the day; lower banks likely, including into valley bottoms early in the day. Bases may be higher near the Vale of Eden.
Chance of cloud free summits?
20%
Sunshine and air clarity?
Some glimpses of sunshine possible around the Vale of Eden, otherwise cloudy. Visibility mostly poor due to fog and haze.
How Cold? (at 700m)
2 to 4C, coolest east; lowering to 0C evening into night.
And in the valleys
4 to 6C, small variation all day.
Viewing Forecast For
Yorkshire Dales & North Pennines
Wednesday 24th December 2025
Last updated
Sun 21st Dec 25 at
4:30PM
How windy? (On the summits)
Easterly 25-30mph, strongest winds in the south, risk stronger early in the day.
Effect of the wind on you?
Walking becoming strenuous in exposure in southern areas, fairly small to the north. Feeling chilly.
How Wet?
Likely dry
A small chance of a few odd patches of light rain drifting from the east.
Cloud on the hills?
Passing caps on the high tops
Cloud banks will drift over the high tops from time to time, but the fells often clear too.
Chance of cloud free summits?
70%
Sunshine and air clarity?
Patchy or intermittent sunshine, best on western fells; some high cloud around. Very good visibility.
How Cold? (at 700m)
0 or +1C. Feeling like -10C in strongest direct wind.
And in the valleys
3 or 4C with little change all day.
Planning Outlook
Cloud and patchy rain lingers early this week, then a slow change to drier and chiller weather into the Christmas period as high pressure builds to the north. Easterly winds will be dominant, the strongest winds in England and Wales. Cloud may be fairly sheet-like in the east sometimes, though variably more extensive or broken, best northwest. The coldest air will reach England and Wales on the easterly wind with freezing levels reaching as low as 400-600m in Wales, staying slightly warmer in northern Scotland with some inversion conditions likely over higher terrain; frost into glens.