Cheap flights to Aberdeen

Aberdeen climate

The summer months of June and July are generally the warmest (with average temperatures of around 18 degrees) and the winter months from November to February typically the coldest and wettest (with average temperatures slightly above freezing). Rain may occur throughout the year.

Getting around Aberdeen

Aberdeen’s two main areas of tourist interest – Old Aberdeen and the city centre – are both compact enough that visitors can walk between sites easily. There are many pedestrian maps, located mainly at such sites, showing walking routes throughout the city. Bus operators First and Stagecoach also offer bus routes throughout Aberdeen, available from the city centre to the outer suburbs and beyond the city. 

What is good to know if travelling to Aberdeen?

• Provost Skene’s House is the oldest standing house in the city, a rare remaining example of medieval burgh architecture from the 16th century. Sir George Skene (after whom the house is named) was Lord Provost of Aberdeen, a position similar to Mayor. The house was opened to the public in 1953 and has been furnished in the styles of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. 
• Aberdeen Maritime Museum details the city’s sea seagoing history, from the shipbuilding and fishing trades that supported the industry in prior centuries to today’s lucrative oil industry. In the past, the museum has been named Scottish Museum of the Year, and has been awarded Five Star Museum status by Visit Scotland. 
• Aberdeen Art Gallery is the largest public gallery in the north of Scotland and draws more than 200,000 visitors annually. Its collection ranges from 18th century portraits by the likes of Hogarth and Raeburn to 20th century art by Francis Bacon, Stanley Spencer and Paul Nash, as well as French Impressionists and Post Impressionists such Renoir, Monet, Degas and Toulouse-Lautrec. 
• St Machar’s Cathedral, a medieval cathedral church in Old Aberdeen, exists on a site that is believed to have held places of worship as far back as 580AD. The church is the burial place of the Bishops of Aberdeen from the 14th to 17th century, and it is said that it also contains some of the remains of hung, drawn and quartered Scottish rebel hero Sir William Wallace. 
• Storybook Glen in the southwest of Aberdeen is ideal for those with younger children. The 28-acre theme park hosts more than 100 fairytale and nursery rhyme characters in the natural splendour of the Royal Deeside countryside.