Scotland Weather: All you need to know about the forecast for Hogmanay 2025
Forecasters are expecting dry conditions for tonight’s festivities.
Thousands of revellers are preparing to celebrate the new year with the end of Edinburgh’s famous Hogmanay celebrations.
People were left disappointed last year after the festival was cancelled but forecasters are now expecting dry conditions in the Scottish capital on New Year’s Eve.
Temperatures will reach about minus 2C in the city on Wednesday night but festival-goers will avoid the weather warnings for snow and ice set to hit parts of Scotland from New Year’s Day at 6am.
Elsewhere, the Stonehaven fireball ceremony will happen in Aberdeenshire and the annual Biggar bonfire will take place in South Lanarkshire, while ceilidhs and other cultural events will take place across the country.
What’s the weather looking like for Hogmanay 2025?
If you’re hoping to take part in the Hogmanay Edinburgh celebrations tonight, the Met Office are predicting the day will begin with a dry and bright start but will become cloudy later.
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As it gets closer to midnight, there is expected to be winds of up to 19mph.
For their Dumfries, Galloway, Lothian and Borders forecast, the Met Office says: “Dry in the east at first otherwise cloudy with bands of rain passing south, these heavy at times later.
“Becoming drier with clear spells towards the morning. Breezy. Minimum temperature -2C.”
Frequent snow showers for parts of Scotland
Meanwhile, in the Grampian area, it’s expected it will be cloudy and dry at first- with a maximum of 6C - but parts of the region will have patchy rain for a time in the afternoon.
In the evening, a band of cloud, rain and hill snow will pass south and colder conditions with frequent snow showers will follow.
For the Highlands, patchy light rain and showers will spread south with persistent rain following in the north towards the evening. The northwest wind will strengthen from the afternoon and the maximum temperature will be 5C.
Tonight will see windy conditions with northwest winds increasing to gale over the coasts and hills. Early persistent rain and hill snow clears to frequent snow showers, which may be heavy and thundery at times.
For those celebrating in the Glasgow and Strathclyde area, it will be a cloudy but dry start to the morning but rain or light showers will spread south from mid-morning.
A band of rain and hill snow will pass south from the evening. Colder conditions follow with frequent snow showers in the north, and there will be a minimum temperature of -1C.
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