Cooling and heating degree days - Cities and FUAs in Kingston upon Hull
Kingston upon Hull: Cooling and heating degree days - Cities and FUAs was 2,578 Degree days in 2025. βΌ Falling
Cooling and heating degree days - Cities and FUAs in Kingston upon Hull, 1950β2025
Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Measured in Degree days.
Analysis
Kingston upon Hull recorded 2,578 Degree days for cooling and heating degree days - cities and fuas in 2025. That is the highest value across all 76 years on record.
The figure is up 36.8% on the previous year and up 31.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, cooling and heating degree days - cities and fuas in Kingston upon Hull peaked at 2,578 Degree days in 2025 and was at its lowest, 1,781 Degree days, in 2022.
That places Kingston upon Hull 152nd out of 1323 regions with data for 2025, putting it in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 76 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 2,288 Degree days | 2,009 Degree days | 2,492 Degree days | 10 |
| 1960s | 2,313 Degree days | 2,052 Degree days | 2,558 Degree days | 10 |
| 1970s | 2,263 Degree days | 2,143 Degree days | 2,476 Degree days | 10 |
| 1980s | 2,247 Degree days | 1,934 Degree days | 2,455 Degree days | 10 |
| 1990s | 2,070 Degree days | 1,803 Degree days | 2,358 Degree days | 10 |
| 2000s | 1,995 Degree days | 1,871 Degree days | 2,191 Degree days | 10 |
| 2010s | 2,041 Degree days | 1,809 Degree days | 2,454 Degree days | 10 |
| 2020s | 2,013 Degree days | 1,781 Degree days | 2,578 Degree days | 6 |
More reference data data for Kingston upon Hull
- Cooling and heating degree days - Cities and FUAs β Cooling degree 2.84 Degree days (2025)
- Cooling and heating degree days - Cities and FUAs β Change in cooling -2.63 Degree days (2025)
- Cooling and heating degree days - Cities and FUAs β Change in heating 467.83 Degree days (2025)
- Precipitation - Cities and FUAs β Extreme precipitation days 2.75 Days per year (2024)
- Precipitation - Cities and FUAs β Change in extreme precipitation 0.9665 Days per year (2024)
- Dependency ratio - Cities and FUAs 23.6 Percentage of population aged 15-64 years (2024)
- Wind threats - Cities and FUAs β Exposure to wind threats 0 Percentage of area (2023)
- Coastal flooding - Cities and FUAs β Built-up area exposure to 76.85 Percentage of built-up area (2022)
- Internet speed - Cities and FUAs β Downloading speed 33.2 Percentage of national value (2025)
- Internet speed - Cities and FUAs β Uploading speed 178.4 Percentage of national value (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is cooling and heating degree days - cities and fuas in Kingston upon Hull?
- Cooling and heating degree days - cities and fuas in Kingston upon Hull was 2,578 Degree days in 2025, according to Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
- What is the highest cooling and heating degree days - cities and fuas recorded in Kingston upon Hull?
- The highest recorded value was 2,578 Degree days in 2025.
- What is the lowest cooling and heating degree days - cities and fuas recorded in Kingston upon Hull?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,781 Degree days in 2022.
- How does Kingston upon Hull rank for cooling and heating degree days - cities and fuas?
- Kingston upon Hull ranks 152nd out of 1323 regions with data for 2025.
- Is cooling and heating degree days - cities and fuas rising or falling in Kingston upon Hull?
- Over the last ten years it is up 31.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Kingston upon Hull data come from?
- The figures come from Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, published as part of Cooling and heating degree days - Cities and FUAs. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
<p align="justify">This dataset provides indicators of Cooling and Heating Degree Days (CDDs and HDDs) for FUAs and cities. CDDs and HDDs are measurements used to estimate energy usage based on outdoor temperature. CDD measures the demand for cooling, while HDD measures the demand for heating, both calculated relative to a baseline temperature.</p> <h3>Data sources and methodology</h3> <p align="justify"> The indicators use 0.1-degree resolution grids from the <a href=https://developers.google.com/earth-engine/datasets/catalog/ECMWF_ERA5_LAND_DAILY_AGGR>ERA5-Land dataset</a>. ERA5-Land is used as it provides harmonised, globally consistent coverage at fine spatial resolution (0.1 degree), enabling the production of comparable subnational indicators also where national meteorological data are not available at the required scale. Annual CDDs are the sum over a year of the differences between the daily mean outdoor air temperature and the threshold temperature when the outdoor temperature is above the threshold temperature. HDDs are the sum over a year of the differences between the threshold temperature and the daily mean outdoor air temperature when the outdoor temperature is below the threshold temperature. Threshold temperatures are set to 22Β°C for CDDs and 15Β°C for HDDs.</p> <p align="justify"> These estimates may differ from official subnational climate statistics due to differences in methodological approaches, such as the use of reanalysis based top down modelling versus in situ observations, along with variations in input data sources, spatial resolution, and the models and algorithms used to generate temperature estimates. </p> <h3>Defining FUAs and cities</h3> <p align="justify">The OECD, in cooperation with the EU, has developed a harmonised <a href="https://www.oecd.org/en/data/datasets/oecd-definition-of-cities-and-functional-urban-areas.html">definition of functional urban areas</a> (FUAs) to capture the economic and functional reach of cities based on daily commuting patterns <a href=https://doi.org/10.1787/9789264174108-en>(OECD, 2012)</a>. FUAs consist of: <ol> <li><b>A city</b> β defined by urban centres in the degree of urbanisation, adapted to the closest local administrative units to define a city.</li> <li><b>A commuting zone</b> β including all local areas where at least 15% of employed residents work in the city.</li> </ol> The delineation process includes: <ul> <li>Assigning municipalities surrounded by a single FUA to that FUA.</li> <li>Excluding non-contiguous municipalities.</li> </ul> <p> The correspondence table between SAUs and FUAs/cities is available in <a href=https://webfs-cfe.oecd.org/files/.Stat/cities_local_areas/fua_cities_sau_mapping.parquet>parquet </a> and <a href=https://webfs-cfe.oecd.org/files/.Stat/cities_local_areas/fua_cities_sau_mapping.csv>csv</a> format. </p> The definition identifies 1 272 FUAs and 1 269 cities in all OECD member countries except Costa Rica and three accession countries.</p> <h3>Cite this dataset</h3> <p>OECD Regions, cities and local areas database (<a href="http://data-explorer.oecd.org/s/1dj">Cooling and heating degree days - Cities and FUAs</a>),Β <a href=http://oe.cd/geostats>http://oe.cd/geostats</a></p> <h3>Further information</h3> <ul> <li> <a href=https://localdataportal.oecd.org/>OECD Local Data Portal </a> </li> <li> <a href=https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/oecd-regions-and-cities-at-a-glance-2024_f42db3bf-en.html/>OECD Regions and Cities at a Glance </a> </li> </ul> <p align="justify">For questions and/or comments, please email <a href="mailto:CitiesStat@oecd.org">CitiesStat@oecd.org</a>