Rainfall is a key element of Scottish weather and it dictates how and when the golf course maintenance can be carried out here at Royal Aberdeen Golf Club.

This year has been an incredibly difficult year with a prolonged winter and cooler temperatures lasting until April, meaning growth was slow at the start of the season. The  freezing temperatures were followed by a prolonged dry spell which meant our irrigation system was being used on a daily basis throughout early Spring. 

 Aberdeen has an average annual rainfall of around 866 mm whereas some areas in Scotland receive about 3,000 mm of precipitation per year.

As you can see from the stats below it has been a considerably dry year on the links,  we are currently around 130mm below the average precipitation rates for Aberdeen and in comparison to last years data we have had around 263mm less to date.

The monthly data is slightly misleading whereas the daily chart shows a much different story with long spells where we ran into weeks without any precipitation at all.

The monthly rainfall totals for 2025 are as follows;

January 55.6mm
February 26.2mm
March 35.2mm
April 9.4mm
May 2mm (as of 15/05/2025)

Total precipitation to date = 126mm