Leeds

Leeds, Live it, Love it

Why visit

Leeds is a strong northern England base for food, shopping arcades, industrial history, music, pubs, and rail links into Yorkshire. It is a working city that also makes day trips easy.

When to avoid

December is the low point, averaging only about 24 hours of sunshine for the month and a mean temperature near 3 to 4°C, with under eight hours of daylight and sunset before 4 p.m. Day trips into the Yorkshire Dales or along the coast lose several hours of usable daylight compared with June, and canal and riverside walks along the Aire fall under the year's dimmest, greyest skies. May through September brings the year's most sunshine and daylight that lasts past 9 p.m.

Plan Leeds

Current conditions and the practical reference material that helps turn the saved places into a trip.

The next week in Leeds

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

Showers

26° / 17°

8.6 mm

UV Moderate

Wed

Drizzle

20° / 15°

1.4 mm

UV Moderate

Thu

Overcast

18° / 14°

UV Moderate

Fri

Overcast

21° / 12°

UV High

Sat

Overcast

22° / 14°

UV High

Sun

Drizzle

19° / 15°

0.6 mm

UV Moderate

Mon

Overcast

18° / 13°

UV Moderate

Climate

Summer (Jun-Sep)

Typical highs around 19°C, lows around 10°C.

Winter (Nov-Mar)

Typical highs around 7°C, lows around 2°C.

In August 4

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Weather

20° / 11°

Typical high / low

3 mm rainfall this month

Daylight

14.9h

05:43 – 20:38local

Holidays coming up

Public holidays from Nager.Date.

Airports

closest LBA · 10 km

Getting around Leeds

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

First HalifaxThe Keighley Bus CompanyCoastlinerThe Harrogate Bus CompanyArriva YorkshireConnexions BusesFlyerFirst LeedsSquarepegFirst BradfordFlixBus-eu

About Leeds

Leeds is a city in West Yorkshire, England. It is the largest settlement in Yorkshire and the administrative centre of the City of Leeds Metropolitan Borough, which is the second most populous district in the United Kingdom. It is built around the River Aire and is in the eastern foothills of the Pennines. The city was a small manorial borough in the 13th century and a market town in the 16th century. It was awarded its Royal City Charter by King Charles 1st in 1626 and expanded in the 17th and 18th centuries by becoming a major production and trading centre.

Area: 552 km²
Airport codes: LBA

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