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United Kingdom

Cowes

The Solent / English Channel · 50.763, -1.298

Cowes is in United Kingdom, on the The Solent / English Channel, at 50.7625 latitude, -1.2978 longitude. The nearest airport with scheduled airline service in the OurAirports snapshot is Southampton Airport (SOU), about 21.3 km away. Natural Earth's 10m ports layer names Portsmouth about 14.8 km from these coordinates. Mean monthly air temperature in 2024 ranged from 5.9 °C to 18.2 °C (Open-Meteo archive). This page does not invent trip prices, licence rules or species lists; use the marketplace links to compare live listings, and check local regulations before you go.

CountryUnited Kingdom
Coordinates50.7625, -1.2978
Water bodyThe Solent / English Channel
TimezoneEurope/London
Town population (GeoNames)21,226
Nearest airport with scheduled flightsSouthampton Airport (SOU), about 21.3 km away
Nearest named port in Natural EarthPortsmouth, about 14.8 km away — www.portsmouth-port.co.uk
Place data sourceGeoNames cities5000, geonameId 2652204 (Cowes, GB)

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Monthly weather in 2024

Daily means from the Open-Meteo Historical Weather API, added up by calendar month for 2024. This is air temperature at the coordinates, not water temperature, and one year is not a climate normal.

MonthMean air tempTotal precipitation
Jan5.9 °C79 mm
Feb9.0 °C134 mm
Mar8.6 °C100 mm
Apr10.2 °C76 mm
May13.4 °C79 mm
Jun15.4 °C23 mm
Jul17.2 °C72 mm
Aug18.2 °C44 mm
Sep15.3 °C156 mm
Oct13.6 °C79 mm
Nov10.0 °C68 mm
Dec8.5 °C39 mm

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Snapshot date: 2026-11-12. See methodology and sources.