St. John's Town of Dalry, usually referred to simply as Dalry, is a village in Dumfries and Galloway, formerly in Kirkcudbrightshire. It is located sixteen miles (26 km) from Castle Douglas along the A713 road, and is at the southern terminus of the A702 road (to Edinburgh). It is located on an old pilgramage route to Whithorn and St Ninian's Cave and named after the Knights of St John. [1] The town was the centre of the 1666 Pentland rising [2] The village is about three miles (5 km) from the northern edge of Loch Ken.[3]
St. Johns Town makes a good base for exploring the surrounding region, including the Southern Upland Way and the nearby Galloway Hills, including the peaks of Corserine and Cairnsmore of Carsphairn.
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As with the rest of the country, Dalry displays a climate classified as Oceanic (Köppen Cfb), encompassing cool summers and usually mild winters with year round rainfall. Temperature extremes at Glenlee, under 1 mile to the South West, have ranged from 31.0 °C (87.8 °F) during July 2005[4] to −18.3 °C (−0.9 °F) in both January 1940[5] and December 1995.[6]
| Climate data for Glenlee 55m asl, 1971-2000, extremes 1960- (Weather station 1 mile (2 km) to the SW of Dalry) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 13.3 (55.9) |
14.1 (57.4) |
18.3 (64.9) |
24.0 (75.2) |
27.0 (80.6) |
28.9 (84.0) |
31.0 (87.8) |
29.3 (84.7) |
25.8 (78.4) |
21.8 (71.2) |
15.7 (60.3) |
13.9 (57.0) |
31.0 (87.8) |
| Average high °C (°F) | 6.4 (43.5) |
6.8 (44.2) |
8.9 (48.0) |
11.8 (53.2) |
15.5 (59.9) |
17.6 (63.7) |
19.4 (66.9) |
18.9 (66.0) |
15.8 (60.4) |
12.6 (54.7) |
8.9 (48.0) |
7.0 (44.6) |
12.47 (54.44) |
| Average low °C (°F) | -0.0 (32) |
0.2 (32.4) |
1.5 (34.7) |
2.5 (36.5) |
4.8 (40.6) |
7.8 (46.0) |
9.9 (49.8) |
9.5 (49.1) |
7.4 (45.3) |
4.9 (40.8) |
1.8 (35.2) |
0.5 (32.9) |
4.233 (39.6) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −18.3 (−0.9) |
−15.6 (3.9) |
−13.9 (7.0) |
−6.7 (19.9) |
−5.3 (22.5) |
−1.7 (28.9) |
1.1 (34.0) |
0.0 (32.0) |
−3.6 (25.5) |
−6 (21.2) |
−11.3 (11.7) |
−18.3 (−0.9) |
−18.3 (−0.9) |
| Precipitation mm (inches) | 206.96 (8.148) |
145.79 (5.7398) |
144.68 (5.6961) |
87.37 (3.4398) |
80.86 (3.1835) |
78.64 (3.0961) |
81.66 (3.215) |
104.24 (4.1039) |
139.27 (5.4831) |
183.65 (7.2303) |
183.11 (7.2091) |
207.33 (8.1626) |
1,643.56 (64.7071) |
| Source: Royal Dutch Meteorological Institute/KNMI[7] | |||||||||||||