Revealed: Northern Ireland's hottest, coldest, wettest and windiest spots of 2025 - one of the warmest years the Province has ever seen

The data, provided by the Met Office, reveals the places across the Province which had the highest, lowest, gustiest, and wettest readings of the year.

Its figures also echo an earlier finding from Armagh Observatory – namely, that 2025 was the second-warmest year on record.

Armagh Observatory has been recording weather data since 1796, and reported this week that 2025 had an average temperature of 11C (51.8F) – which is only 0.1C cooler than the current record-holder, 2023.

Now the Met Office data – which is drawn from all of their stations across Northern Ireland, not just Armagh – shows that the whole Province’s average temperature was 10.09C, which was just 0.18C below the record-breaking year of 2023 (the Met Office has been collecting its data since 1884).

With an average of 1,386.5 hours of sunshine (out of 8,760 hours in a whole year), it was also the eighth-sunniest year for Northern Ireland on record.

It was also slightly drier, with 97% of the average amount of rainfall for the year.

In terms of the individual hot (and not so hot) spots, the breakdown is as follows:

The highest temperature of the year was 30C, recorded at Magilligan on July 12;

The second highest was Strabane at 29.6C on the same day;

And the third was Castlederg at 29.5C on June 20.

The lowest temperature of the year was minus 7.4C – recorded jointly at Edenfell in Co Tyrone on January 9, and Magherally in Co Down on January.

The next lowest temperature of the year was minus 7.3C, recorded at Castlederg on January 9.

None of these readings were record-breaking.

The highest windspeed of the year was a gust of 80 knots, recorded both in Killowen in Co Down on January 24 (during Storm Eowyn) and in Magilligan on October 3 (during Storm Amy).

The runner-up was 79 knots, recorded in Castlederg on January 24.

The wettest days of the year were in Trassey Slievenaman on the northern edge of the Mournes and in Killowen to their south-west, when 69mm of rain was recorded at each on July 20.

The runner-up was Silent Valley in the midst of the mountains, where there was a reading of 67mm on April 18.

Looking at the bigger picture, the Met Office found that 2025 was the warmest year on record for both England and Scotland.

Met Office scientist Dr Emily Carlisle said: “While many will remember the long warm spring and summer of 2025, what has been noteworthy this year has been the consistent heat throughout the year, with every month except January and September warmer than average [across the UK as a whole].

“In the six months from March to August, every month was at least 1°C above the 1991-2020 average.”