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 start to the year with a prolonged period of heavy snowfall which then turned to consistent spell rain which lasted until late February.

 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 was a considerably wet first 2 months of the year on the links. The wet weather was accompanied by a run of 21 days without any recorded sunshine, the longest run of “gloom” since records began in 1957. Thankfully this started to change changed from late February with a spell of dry weather and air temperatures rising dramatically.

The data shows that since the start of of the year there has been rainfall on 53 of the first 59 days, accumulating 319mm in that same period. This figure is more rainfall than we experienced in the first 8 months of 2025.

The monthly rainfall totals for 2025 are as follows;

January 191 mm

February 128 mm

Total precipitation to date = 319mm