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.
Tuesday's Forecast
Windy, walking impeded
Blustery conditions enough to give buffeting on higher terrain or affect balance on exposed ridges. 25 to 40mph.
Patchwork of cloud and sun
Dry most or all day. A mix of cloud and sunshine. Occasional cloud banks drifting over higher slopes, lifting above the tops.
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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Windy, walking impeded
Blustery conditions enough to give buffeting on higher terrain or affect balance on exposed ridges. 25 to 40mph.
Patchwork of cloud and sun
Dry most or all day. A mix of cloud and sunshine. Occasional cloud banks drifting over higher slopes, lifting above the tops.
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
Peak District
Tuesday 10th March 2026
Last updated
Mon 9th Mar 26 at
4:00PM
Summary for all mountain areas
Patchy rain and lowest cloud over southwest-facing hill groups. Cloud fairly extensive on hills, but higher bases and some breaks northeastwards. Gale-force winds on high terrain, speeds strengthening during day, later becoming widely severe upland gales; heavier rain arrives from west by evening.
Headline for Peak District
Wind strengthening. Cloud lifting above hills, rare local rain.
How windy? (On the summits)
South to southwesterly; 25 to increasingly 30mph, strengthening further toward sunset, reaching 40mph soon after dark during evening.
Effect of the wind on you?
Likely to impede ease of walking on higher areas. Becoming increasingly blustery, more arduous conditions from dusk.
How Wet?
Little or no rain
Risk of an isolated brief burst of rain. Rain develops from west later evening into night for a few hours.
Cloud on the hills?
Clearing during morning
Cloud shrouds higher slopes for a few hours after dawn, but very likely all clearing before midday.
Chance of cloud free summits?
80% by midday
Sunshine and air clarity?
Patchy sun - cloud fairly extensive over all. Very good or excellent visibility by midday as haze clears.
Temperature (at 600m)
5C. Feeling like -5C directly in the wind.
And in the valleys
5C from dawn, will reach 11 or 12C early afternoon.
Viewing Forecast For
Peak District
Wednesday 11th March 2026
Last updated
Mon 9th Mar 26 at
4:00PM
How windy? (On the summits)
Westerly up to 40mph post dawn; through day dropping slowly, typically 30mph middle of day.
Effect of the wind on you?
Expect considerable wind chill and walking to be arduous, particularly morning.
How Wet?
Showers
A few rain and hail showers (these mainly northernmost Peak District and north toward Pendle).
Cloud on the hills?
Frequently clearing
In precipitation, cloud temporarily forming below 400 to 500m. Otherwise, by midday nearly all cloud above the summits.
Chance of cloud free summits?
80% by midday
Sunshine and air clarity?
Patchwork of sunshine, most sun Peak District east and south of Manchester. Visibility mostly very good or excellent.
Temperature (at 600m)
3 or 4C. Will feel like -6C directly in the wind.
And in the valleys
6C from dawn, 9 or 10C in the afternoon.
Viewing Forecast For
Peak District
Thursday 12th March 2026
Last updated
Mon 9th Mar 26 at
4:00PM
How windy? (On the summits)
Southwesterly 35 to 50mph.
Effect of the wind on you?
Arduous walking conditions, considerable buffeting and wind chill over exposed terrain.
How Wet?
Risk increasingly heavier rain
Starting largely dry toward south and east at least, patchy rain moving in from northwest. Uncertainty, but risk more persistent and heavier rain developing widely from northwest during day.
Cloud on the hills?
Lowering in rain
Banks of cloud most persistent higher and western moors above 500m, may form lower in places toward Lancashire Pennines, particularly in constant rain.
Chance of cloud free summits?
30%
Sunshine and air clarity?
Largely cloudy, but a few hours of brighter skies toward south and east early in day. Rather hazy, becoming poor visibility in rain.
Temperature (at 600m)
6C, then late in day likely to drop to 2C. Wind chill feeling like -5 to -8C.
And in the valleys
8 to 10C, small variation during day, then dropping chillier into evening and night.
Planning Outlook
Generally unsettled this week and through the upcoming weekend as low pressure systems pass near and north of Britain - strong west or southwesterly winds prevail, often gale-force to at times storm-force over the mountains. Some fluctuation of temperature and freezing level, but mostly below freezing over Scottish mountains, at times snow falling to lower elevations. Colder for all by the end of the week with widely lowering freezing level Thursday into Friday. Frequent precipitation most western mountains, accumulations of snow across the mountains, most substantial in western Scotland from Glencoe northwards. Quieter weather patterns indicated beyond mid-month as higher pressure builds.