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Best time to visit St Andrews
United Kingdom · Europe
All twelve months scored on daily temperature, rainfall, humidity and holiday crowding.
The year in St Andrews
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- JanJSt Andrews in January: avoid
- FebFSt Andrews in February: avoid
- MarMSt Andrews in March: ok
- AprASt Andrews in April: good
- MayMSt Andrews in May: sweet spot
- JunJSt Andrews in June: sweet spot
- JulJSt Andrews in July: good, busy
- AugASt Andrews in August: good, busy
- SepSSt Andrews in September: good
- OctOSt Andrews in October: ok
- NovNSt Andrews in November: avoid
- DecDSt Andrews in December: avoid
- Sweet spot
- Good
- OK
- Avoid
- Busy
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Things to do in St Andrews
- St Andrews Castle There's been a bishop's palace here since the 12th century, which successive armies wrecked; the present building is from 1400.
- St Salvator's Quad Academic institution in St. Adrews, Fife, Scotland, UK
- British Golf Museum Exhibiting golf through the ages, next to the famous course where the sport was first codified.
- Craigtoun Country Park Country park in Fife, Scotland, UK
- St Andrews Museum Museum about the history of St Andrews in a Victorian mansion.
Tours and tickets in St Andrews
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Sights and their lines from Wikivoyage (St Andrews), licensed CC BY-SA 4.0, and Wikidata; in order of how often each one's Wikipedia article was read on phones in the last 12 months.
Month by month
| Month | Max °C | Rain days | Humidity | Sun h/day | Verdict | Why |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 6° | 9d | 84% | 3.9h | avoid | 6C max, 9 rainy days |
| Feb | 8° | 10d | 80% | 5.0h | avoid | 8C max, 10 rainy days |
| Mar | 9° | 10d | 79% | 7.1h | ok | 9C max, 10 rainy days |
| Apr | 11° | 6d | 77% | 9.7h | good | 11C max, 6 rainy days |
| May | 14° | 8d | 78% | 10.9h | sweet spot | 14C max, 8 rainy days |
| Jun | 17° | 9d | 77% | 11.4h | sweet spot | 17C max, 9 rainy days |
| Jul | 19° | 10d | 78% | 10.9h | goodbusy | busier than usual |
| Aug | 18° | 10d | 78% | 10.2h | goodbusy | busier than usual |
| Sep | 16° | 10d | 79% | 8.0h | good | 16C max, 10 rainy days |
| Oct | 13° | 12d | 81% | 5.3h | ok | 13C max, 12 rainy days |
| Nov | 9° | 11d | 84% | 4.1h | avoid | 9C max, 11 rainy days |
| Dec | 7° | 12d | 85% | 2.8h | avoid | 7C max, 12 rainy days |
Rain days are the days with at least 1 mm of rain, as a weather station counts them.
Weather read at the town centre: ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.
A busy month is a crowded one, not a bad one — usually it is crowded because the weather is good. It is flagged rather than scored down, and crowds alone never make a month “avoid”: that is reserved for weather worth skipping.
How busy it gets
Then and now
St Andrews's June days now average 16.8°C, 2.1°C warmer than in 1981–1990. 10 of 12 months are clearly warmer.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1981–90 | 5.7° | 5.9° | 7.7° | 9.4° | 12.2° | 14.7° | 17.3° | 17.0° | 14.7° | 11.8° | 8.3° | 6.6° |
| 2017–26 | 6.4° | 7.8° | 9.3° | 10.9° | 14.2° | 16.8° | 18.8° | 18.4° | 16.3° | 12.9° | 9.3° | 7.3° |
| Change | +0.6° | +1.9° | +1.5° | +1.5° | +1.9° | +2.1° | +1.5° | +1.4° | +1.6° | +1.2° | +1.1° | +0.7° |
The average daily high, month by month, for the nearest ERA5 grid cell. Bold is a clear change; grey is within the ordinary spread between years. Every destination, ranked.
Getting there
Fly into Ingliston, Edinburgh (EDI), then drive. The flights under Where to book are to Ingliston, Edinburgh.
The drive from each airport is the road's, from openrouteservice.org by HeiGIT: typical, not a schedule.
How far St Andrews is depends on where you set off from — the months above do not.
- from Manchester
- from Dublin
- from Birmingham
- from Bristol
- from London
- from Amsterdam
- from Brussels
- from Düsseldorf
Open in Rome2rio for every way from to St Andrews, flying or not.
Before you go
Type G plugs at 230 V. Drives on the left. The currency is the Pound sterling. Everything for United Kingdom: cost of living, languages, emergency numbers and health.
Being there
On arrival
- Paying — Contactless cards and phones work almost everywhere, and some places no longer take cash. Small shops and pubs may set a card minimum of about £5.
- UPI, for visitors from India — Not accepted for paying here; bring a card that works abroad.
- Tipping — 10 to 15% in restaurants for good service, unless a service charge is already on the bill. Rounding up a taxi fare is usual but not expected.
Getting around St Andrews
- Apps — Rides: Bolt, FreeNow, Uber. Maps: Google Maps, Apple Maps. Messages: WhatsApp.
Walk. You might use bus 95 to reach Kingsbarns, or 99 for Guardbridge and Leuchars. The main taxi ranks are at the bus station, and on Bell Street which connects Market Street and South Street. More on Wikivoyage
From the Wikivoyage article on St Andrews, written by travellers and licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Help
- Emergency — 999 or 112 (any emergency).
TravelCharika is not an emergency service: we cannot call for help or send anyone. Numbers can change; if one fails, ask someone local or your hotel.
Your embassy — : how to reach your embassy or consulate abroad. A guess from your city, : a city is not a passport.
Put together by hand from the sources listed, checked 7 October 2026. Apps, cards and rules change, so check before you rely on one.
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St Andrews in pictures
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William Starkey, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
What St Andrews is like
St Andrews is a town on the coast of Fife in northeast Scotland. With a population of 16,930 in 2021, it's an attractive place famous for its ancient university and as the "home of golf". More on Wikivoyage
- Worth seeing
- St Salvator's Quad, North Street KY16 9AL. Daily. This is the quadrangle of St Salvator's College and several academic departments are based here… More on Wikivoyage
- Worth doing
- Byre Theatre, Abbey Street KY16 9LA. It really was a cow byre when it started in 1933, but the present building is the third. More on Wikivoyage
- Getting in
- Edinburgh Airport (EDI IATA) has the best selection of flights. From there take Stagecoach Bus Jet 747 across the Forth to Inverkeithing for the hourly train to Leuchars and Dundee, or to Halbeath for the hourly bus. More on Wikivoyage
- Staying safe
- The cold sea is the main natural hazard, and road traffic the main man-made danger. St Andrews rates as "very low" on all categories of crime statistics. More on Wikivoyage
From the Wikivoyage article on St Andrews, written by travellers and licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the full article has far more. The numbers above are measured; this is experience.
Around St Andrews
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- Dundee best May, Jun, Jul
- Durham best Jun, Jul, Aug
- Edinburgh best Apr, May, Jun
- Enniskillen best May, Jun, Jul
- Glasgow best Apr, May, Jun
- Gower Peninsula best Apr, May, Jul
- Hastings best Jun, Jul, Sep
- Inverness best May, Jun, Jul
- Isle of Arran best May, Jun, Jul
- Isle of Skye best Apr, May, Jul
- Isle of Wight best Jun, Jul, Sep
- Isles of Scilly best May, Jul, Aug
- Lake District best May, Jun, Jul
- Liverpool best Apr, May, Jun
- London best May, Jun, Aug
- Lyme Regis best Jun, Jul, Sep
- Manchester best Apr, May, Jun
- Newcastle upon Tyne best Apr, May, Jun
- Orkney best Apr, May, Aug
- Oxford best Apr, Jun, Aug
- Salisbury best May, Jun, Jul
- Scottish Highlands best Apr, May, Jun
- Shetland best Apr, May, Aug
- Stratford-upon-Avon best May, Jun, Sep
- Torquay best May, Jun, Jul
- Winchester best May, Jun, Jul
- York best Apr, May, Jun
Nearby
- Isle of Man Isle of Man · 266 km
- Dublin Ireland · 392 km
- Kilkenny Ireland · 501 km
- Galway Ireland · 526 km
Kind of place
St Andrews is in United Kingdom, Europe. Distances are great-circle, so a short one can still be a long way round.
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