Peak District
The southernmost Pennines, covering the entire Peak District National Park, also extending north to hills accessed from Hebden Bridge, and including the hills immediately north of Manchester.
Monday's Forecast
Light wind, negligible impact
Little wind or walking hardly affected by the wind, but feeling chilly if exposed on tops. 10-15mph or less.
Sunshine and showers
A good amount of dry and bright weather, but scattered bursts of rain, some may be locally heavy.
Cool to mild
Air temperature 5 to 10C on higher terrain. Comfortable temperatures on lower terrain, but feeling chilly if exposed to wind higher up, especially if stationary. Pack extra layers.
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Light wind, negligible impact
Little wind or walking hardly affected by the wind, but feeling chilly if exposed on tops. 10-15mph or less.
Sunshine and showers
A good amount of dry and bright weather, but scattered bursts of rain, some may be locally heavy.
Cool to mild
Air temperature 5 to 10C on higher terrain. Comfortable temperatures on lower terrain, but feeling chilly if exposed to wind higher up, especially if stationary. Pack extra layers.
Viewing Forecast For
Peak District
Monday 20th April 2026
Last updated
Sun 19th Apr 26 at
4:00PM
Summary for all mountain areas
Hill snow and rain lower down in northeast Scotland from early in the day, locally persistent for a time. Showers form across Scotland and northern England during the day, locally increasingly heavy with hail. Blustery toward northwest Scotland, otherwise fairly light wind until late in day. Staying at freezing on high Scottish tops.
Headline for Peak District
Wind mostly light. Sunshine then a few showers develop.
How windy? (On the summits)
Variable or easterly 10 to 15mph or less, but local gusts in showers. Tending to strengthen later in day, to easterly 25mph by dusk onward.
Effect of the wind on you?
Mostly small. Late in day starting to feel more blustery and notably chilly.
How Wet?
Scattered showers
The morning largely dry, then increasing risk of brief showers forming, with possible soft hail, initially eastern areas, then more widely westwards during afternoon, though some places remain largely dry.
Cloud on the hills?
Little if any
Most cloud above the hills all day, rare patches may graze high tops.
Chance of cloud free summits?
90%
Sunshine and air clarity?
Patchwork of cloud and sun; best toward west in morning, cloud filling in more in afternoon. Visibility often excellent, briefly reduced in showers.
Temperature (at 600m)
3C rising to 6C afternoon. Where exposed to wind, feeling like -3C early in day.
And in the valleys
Slight frost in some valleys at dawn. Rising to 12C afternoon.
Viewing Forecast For
Peak District
Tuesday 21st April 2026
Last updated
Sun 19th Apr 26 at
4:00PM
How windy? (On the summits)
Easterly 25mph to gusty 30mph in places around higher moors.
Effect of the wind on you?
Marked wind chill in exposure, some blustery spots affecting ease of walking.
How Wet?
Precipitation unlikely
Chance of an odd light showers passing westwards early morning, fading out.
Cloud on the hills?
Little if any
Cloud grazing some upper slopes mostly around 600m in the morning, briefly lower in the east. All lifting and clearing.
Chance of cloud free summits?
90%
Sunshine and air clarity?
Fairly cloudy, some brighter sunnier moments mostly western areas; sunshine more widely later. Visibility very good.
Temperature (at 600m)
3C rising to 6C afternoon. Directly in the wind, feeling like -4 to -7C.
And in the valleys
5C at dawn, rising to 11C afternoon.
Viewing Forecast For
Peak District
Wednesday 22nd April 2026
Last updated
Sun 19th Apr 26 at
4:00PM
How windy? (On the summits)
Easterly 25mph, but local gusty spots 35mph around higher moors and edges.
Effect of the wind on you?
Blustery, in places more uncomfortable in exposure over higher tops, buffeting gusts not just higher slopes. Marked wind chill.
How Wet?
No precipitation expected
Cloud on the hills?
Little or none
Some patchy cloud may graze higher moors early in the day, but soon dispersing or lifting above the hills.
Chance of cloud free summits?
90%
Sunshine and air clarity?
Sun and broken cloud in morning, becoming largely sunny. Visibility very good, perhaps slight haze.
Temperature (at 600m)
3C rising to 8C. Feeling like -5C directly in the wind in the morning.
And in the valleys
Pockets of frost in many valleys and sheltered higher areas from dawn. Rising to 12 to 14C, warmest in west.
Planning Outlook
A drier outlook through late April as high pressure resides over Britain, centred generally toward the north. Easterly winds prevail this week, strong and gusty over England and Wales, gale-force in places through midweek. Less windy further north across Scotland and becoming lighter winds everywhere by later in the week. Western mountains generally clear with plenty of sunshine throughout this week ahead, variable cloud at times drifting onto some eastern hills. Some overnight frosts into valleys. Daytime temperatures rising several degrees above freezing to highest tops, warmest in west. Risk of a strengthening chilly northerly wind for a time during next weekend.