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.
Thursday's Forecast
Windy, walking impeded
Blustery conditions enough to give buffeting on higher terrain or affect balance on exposed ridges. 25 to 40mph.
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.
Warm
Comfortable temperatures on the hills, 10 to 15C on tops, feeling pleasantly warm especially on lower ground. Beware of feeling cooler if exposed to wind on higher terrain.
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Windy, walking impeded
Blustery conditions enough to give buffeting on higher terrain or affect balance on exposed ridges. 25 to 40mph.
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.
Warm
Comfortable temperatures on the hills, 10 to 15C on tops, feeling pleasantly warm especially on lower ground. Beware of feeling cooler if exposed to wind on higher terrain.
Viewing Forecast For
Peak District
Thursday 3rd September 2026
Last updated
Wed 2nd Sep 26 at
4:30PM
Summary for all mountain areas
Strong to gale-force winds over high terrain. A lot of cloud, shrouding all western hills, plus patchy rain and drizzle, becoming heavier persistent falls in the west later; a swathe of more intense rain develops for southwest Scotland into northwest England by evening, later into north Wales.
Headline for Peak District
Windy; cloudy with a little rain, heavier into night.
How windy? (On the summits)
Southwesterly 25-35mph, may ease briefly later but followed by a swathe of powerful wind later/into night, above 50mph.
Effect of the wind on you?
Walking impeded in exposure much of the day, more strenuous moments with a chilly feeling; deteriorating late/into night.
How Wet?
A little light rain; wetter into night
An early drizzle on high moors and edges soon fades, followed by spotty light rain mostly northwest areas, plenty of dry windows. Into evening through dusk, rain sets in persistently from northwest, widely heavier into night.
Cloud on the hills?
Fairly extensive then lifting off tops
Much high terrain begins shrouded, lowest bases to the west where locally as low as 300-400m to start, but tending to lift in morning, clearing most summits into afternoon. Later, cloud will return to the tops and lower into night.
Chance of cloud free summits?
30% rising to 80% afternoon
Sunshine and air clarity?
A few glimpses of weak sun, mainly toward east, more often overcast. Very good visibility below and out of cloud.
Temperature (at 600m)
12 or 13C, approaching 14C with time and further rising overnight; quite humid. Feeling like 3 to 5C in direct wind.
And in the valleys
14C at dawn, rising to 17C, and rising another degree or two into nighttime.
Viewing Forecast For
Peak District
Friday 4th September 2026
Last updated
Wed 2nd Sep 26 at
4:30PM
How windy? (On the summits)
West-southwesterly 30 to 40mph, gusts may reach 50mph at times higher tops, mostly up to dawn and again afternoon.
Effect of the wind on you?
Strenuous-to-arduous walking conditions, buffeting gusts affecting balance in exposure. Considerable wind chill.
How Wet?
Early rain clears
Overnight rain likely heavy for a time through toward dawn, leaving things wet underfoot. Early rain clearing to leave just residual light showers in west into morning. An odd passing shower thereafter, but more often dry.
Cloud on the hills?
Soon clearing most tops
Early cloud banks over higher moors soon likely to break above the tops, to leave cloud then above the hills.
Chance of cloud free summits?
80%
Sunshine and air clarity?
Fairly cloudy, occasional sun mostly east as high cloud tends to thin. Visibility often very good by mid-morning.
Temperature (at 600m)
10C, little change all day. Directly in wind feeling like 0C.
And in the valleys
Mild 14C from dawn, but only small rise to 17 or 18C into afternoon.
Viewing Forecast For
Peak District
Saturday 5th September 2026
Last updated
Wed 2nd Sep 26 at
4:30PM
How windy? (On the summits)
Westerly 25mph at dawn, easing during morning, to 15mph afternoon, turning SW'ly; tending to rise again from dusk.
Effect of the wind on you?
Breezy and cool start, lessening to be small by middle of day. Becoming blustery again later in day.
How Wet?
Substantially dry
Chance of a brief light shower on western hills early in day, but largely dry.
Cloud on the hills?
Little if any
Rare patches skim higher western slopes early in day, but soon above all hills.
Chance of cloud free summits?
90%
Sunshine and air clarity?
Occasional sun, best in east in morning; high cloud tending to thicken afternoon. Visibility very good.
Temperature (at 600m)
9C rising to 13C afternoon, little change or rising a degree or so higher evening/night. Feeling like 2C in wind early morning.
And in the valleys
11C at dawn, rising to 18C afternoon, staying very mild and increasingly humid evening onward.
Planning Outlook
A series of weather systems moves in from the Atlantic over the next 10 days to bring spells of rain and showers, accompanied by frequently strong to gale force mountain winds. A window of better weather is likely on Saturday for Scotland and northern England, but further rain is expected to move in from the southwest by Saturday night and Sunday, heaviest western Scotland; a risk of more powerful upland gales developing over Scotland into Sunday. Temperatures will vary, mildest toward the south, but some cooler air moves in from the north at times bringing higher Scottish tops close to freezing point.