Aberdeen
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About
Aberdeen is a port city in North East Scotland, and is the third most populous Scottish city. Historically, Aberdeen was within the historic county of Aberdeenshire, but is now separate from the council area of Aberdeenshire. Aberdeen City Council is one of Scotland's 32 local authorities. Aberdeen has a population of 198,590 (2020) for the main urban area and 220,690 (2020) for the wider settlement including outlying localities, making it the United Kingdom's 39th most populous built-up area. Aberdeen has a long, sandy coastline and features an oceanic climate, with cool summers and mild, rainy winters.
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The next week in Aberdeen
7-day forecast from Open-Meteo. UV badges flag days when sun protection matters (3 and above is moderate; 8 and above is risk territory for unprotected fair skin within 30 minutes).
Today
Drizzle
11° / 6°
2.5 mm
UV Moderate
Sat
Drizzle
12° / 5°
UV Moderate
Sun
Rain
13° / 6°
7.9 mm
UV Moderate
Mon
Overcast
11° / 6°
UV Moderate
Tue
Drizzle
13° / 8°
2.1 mm
Wed
Drizzle
18° / 10°
2.7 mm
UV Moderate
In May 16
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Air quality
No monitoring station within 25 km.
Weather
19° / 4°
Typical high / low
2 mm rainfall this month
Daylight
16.5h
04:50 – 21:18local
Year-round climate
Monthly highs, lows, and rainfall (long-term averages, NASA POWER).
Airports near Aberdeen
2 commercial airports within 100 km. Closest is Aberdeen International Airport (ABZ) at 8 km.
Getting around Aberdeen
Public-transit operators within 8 km of the city center. Click through to each operator’s site for routes, fares, and tickets.
Local transit operators
Xplore DundeeScottish CitylinkNorthlink FerriesFlixBus-euFlixbusEmberB MetroFirst AberdeenStagecoach BluebirdStagecoach East ScotlandPark's of HamiltonCrossCountryCaledonian SleeperScotRailLNER
Operators and modes aggregated by TransitLand from individual transit-agency GTFS feeds. Route classifications (subway / tram / rail / bus / etc) come from each feed’s GTFS route_type codes.
Sister cities
Sources
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- Wikipedia →
Summary, canonical article, and some image fallbacks.
- Wikidata →
Population, area, image, coordinates, and linked identifiers where available.
- NASA POWER →
Monthly temperature and rainfall climatology.
- Open-Meteo historical weather →
1991-2020 temperature and precipitation cross-check for compact climate fields.
- Open-Elevation →
Coordinate-based elevation backfill.
- tz database →
Coordinate-based IANA timezone lookup.
- City flag source →
CC0, JimmyGuano.
- Site credits →
Global source notes, map tiles, flags, licenses, and attribution policy.