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.
Wednesday'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.
Hazy, some fog banks
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Distant views reduced by haze, locally foggy for a time in valleys and some hill slopes.
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.
Hazy, some fog banks
Distant views reduced by haze, locally foggy for a time in valleys and some hill slopes.
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
Wednesday 28th October 2026
Last updated
Tue 27th Oct 26 at
12:12PM
Summary for all mountain areas
Still windy - though less so than on Tuesday. Generally showery, although over N England at first, and occasionally through the morning in Scotland, the rain frequent. Higher mountains extensively foggy.
Headline for Peak District
Windy; showers, mainly morning.
How windy? (On the summits)
Westerly 35mph at dawn; slowly easing to 25mph through afternoon.
Effect of the wind on you?
Strenuous walking from dawn, balance a challenge where exposed with considerable wind chill; effects slowly lessening.
How Wet?
One or two showers after patches of drizzly rain at first
Bursts of rain for perhaps an hour after dawn, most likely near and north of the M62. Then improving: through the day, a brief shower here and there.
Cloud on the hills?
Summits intermittently foggy
Cloud will shroud higher areas in rain, mostly above 450m, but sometimes 300m near and north of the M62. Some improvement particularly afternoon when the cloud base frequently near 600m, though perhaps still 450m north of M62.
Chance of cloud free summits?
20% rising to 60%
Sunshine and air clarity?
Dull to start, then bursts of sun increasingly. Generally very good visibility.
Temperature (at 600m)
9C - rising marginally through daylight. Will feel near or below below freezing point where exposed.
And in the valleys
Will rise to 12 to 14C.
Viewing Forecast For
Peak District
Thursday 29th October 2026
Last updated
Tue 27th Oct 26 at
12:12PM
How windy? (On the summits)
Southerly 25 to 30mph.
Effect of the wind on you?
Likely to impede ease of walking on higher areas and give marked wind chill.
How Wet?
Risk fine drizzle in cloud.
Largely or completely dry, but perhaps fine drizzle in fog.
Cloud on the hills?
Very extensive morning, in places from valleys up. Will slowly tend to clear.
Morning: Extensive fog from some valleys up and widely below 300m - although some higher areas may be clear of fog. Afternoon: Still very mixed. Some, perhaps most summits may clear at least temporarily.
Chance of cloud free summits?
30%
Sunshine and air clarity?
Widely dull and misty - patches of fog from some valleys upward morning. Will slowly improve as patches of sun come through and visibility improves, though a haze.
Temperature (at 600m)
8C.
And in the valleys
8 to 10C, although locally 12C.
Viewing Forecast For
Peak District
Friday 30th October 2026
Last updated
Tue 27th Oct 26 at
12:12PM
How windy? (On the summits)
Southerly 20 to perhaps on higher tops 25 or 30mph. Will tend to ease to 15mph during day.
Effect of the wind on you?
Becoming small.
How Wet?
Rain unlikely
Extensively or completely dry, although risk fine drizzle where foggy in places in morning.
Cloud on the hills?
Extensive after dawn, but lifting to or above higher summits
There may well be extensive fog from dawn, covering lower slopes upward, particularly eastern and southern dales. Slowly the fog will become confined to or above most or all higher slopes.
Chance of cloud free summits?
70% by afternoon
Sunshine and air clarity?
Occasional sunshine coming through as patches of fog lift. Hazy.
Temperature (at 600m)
9C
And in the valleys
11 to locally 14C in afternoon.
Planning Outlook
A hint of a change as pressure builds across Britain from the coming weekend as the present stormy weather gradually subsides. On Friday and into the weekend, a final front could well become almost stationary for a day or so before fizzling out - still uncertainty as to its position (thus its footprint of rain and low cloud) in the otherwise improving picture as it becomes fine with light wind on the hills and overnight frost in lowland and upland valleys.