Soil temperature in Dumfries, Scotland
Soil temperature
13.6°C56°F
at 6cm — germination depth
Cooling over the next 11 days.
Seeding conditions are open — soil is 13.6°C at 6cm and holding above 9°C.
Almost every UK and Irish lawn is a ryegrass and fescue mix, whether it was sown or turfed. We assume that, and use9°C as the seeding threshold.
I know what grass I have
The differences are small. Ryegrass is the quickest off the mark; bluegrass is the slowest and wants the warmest soil. Everything else sits between.
| Species | Soil temp | Days |
|---|---|---|
| Perennial ryegrasslikely yours | 8°C | 5–10 |
| Red / chewings fescuelikely yours | 8–10°C | 10–14 |
| Tall fescue | 10–12°C | 10–14 |
| Browntop bentColonial bentgrass | 10–12°C | 14–21 |
| Smooth-stalked meadow grassKentucky bluegrass | 12–13°C | 14–28 |
Soil temperature at 6cm in Dumfries, Scotland is currently 13.6°C, and falling about 2.5°C over the next 11 days. That depth matters because it is where grass seed sits and where roots start working, and it lags air temperature by days — which is why a warm afternoon here tells you very little on its own.
Lawns in this area are typically perennial ryegrass with fescue, which is what most lawns round here are sown with. That blend needs the soil to hold above 9°C before seed germinates reliably. Seeding conditions are open — soil is 13.6°C at 6cm and holding above 9°C.
7 of the next 10 days are good mowing days. The other 3 are held back by wet grass or soft ground. The best weekend slot right now is Saturday 8am–8pm, on the basis that ground soft — 58mm rain over the last week.
The next recommended window in Dumfries opens at 8am on Saturday 5 September, because anything earlier is the hour your neighbours will remember. Underfoot, the ground reads as soft after 37mm rain over the last week.
The next 10 days
Column height is how mowable the day is; the lighter band is the best stretch within it. The line is soil temperature at 6cm.
9°C — seeding
Soil at 6cm 15.1°C cooling to 11.8°C
Wednesday 2 September: Marginal. No — 0.2mm of rain falling.
Wednesday 2 SeptemberConfident
No — 0.2mm of rain falling.
- Poor:Grass wetness
- Grass wetrain earlier today
- Poor:Ground firmness
- Ground soft37mm rain over the last week
- Good:Growth
- Growing wellgrowth potential 0.78
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature15°C
- Good:Wind
- Wind light7 km/h
Limiting factor:grass wetness
Thursday 3 September: Good. No — 0.7mm of rain falling.
Thursday 3 SeptemberConfident
No — 0.7mm of rain falling.
- Poor:Grass wetness
- Grass dryrain earlier today
- Poor:Ground firmness
- Ground soft46mm rain over the last week
- Good:Growth
- Growing wellgrowth potential 0.81
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature15°C
- Good:Wind
- Wind light12 km/h
Limiting factor:ground firmness
Friday 4 September: Good. No — ground soft, 61mm rain over the last week.
Friday 4 SeptemberConfident
No — ground soft, 61mm rain over the last week.
- Marginal:Grass wetness
- Grass dryrain earlier today
- Poor:Ground firmness
- Ground soft61mm rain over the last week
- Good:Growth
- Growing wellgrowth potential 0.68
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature13°C
- Good:Wind
- Wind light18 km/h
Limiting factor:ground firmness
Saturday 5 September: Good. 8am–8pm — ground soft — 58mm rain over the last week
Saturday 5 September · 8am–8pmConfident
8am–8pm — ground soft — 58mm rain over the last week
- Good:Grass wetness
- Grass dryno rain since Friday
- Poor:Ground firmness
- Ground soft58mm rain over the last week
- Good:Growth
- Growing wellgrowth potential 0.58
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature11°C
- Good:Wind
- Wind light11 km/h
- Sociable hours
- A bit early or late, but finestarts when it stops being antisocial
Limiting factor:ground firmness
Sunday 6 September: Not worth it. No — 1.9mm of rain falling.
Sunday 6 SeptemberReasonably confident
No — 1.9mm of rain falling.
- Poor:Grass wetness
- Grass wetraining now
- Poor:Ground firmness
- Ground saturated57mm rain over the last week
- Good:Growth
- Growing wellgrowth potential 0.70
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature13°C
- Good:Wind
- Wind light12 km/h
Limiting factor:grass wetness
Monday 7 September: Good. No — 0.9mm of rain falling.
Monday 7 SeptemberReasonably confident
No — 0.9mm of rain falling.
- Poor:Grass wetness
- Grass dryrain earlier today
- Poor:Ground firmness
- Ground saturated57mm rain over the last week
- Good:Growth
- Growing wellgrowth potential 0.51
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature12°C
- Good:Wind
- Wind light14 km/h
Limiting factor:ground firmness
Tuesday 8 September: Not worth it. No — 0.1mm of rain falling.
Tuesday 8 SeptemberReasonably confident
No — 0.1mm of rain falling.
- Poor:Grass wetness
- Grass dampraining now
- Poor:Ground firmness
- Ground saturated64mm rain over the last week
- Marginal:Growth
- Growing slowlygrowth potential 0.35
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature11°C
- Good:Wind
- Wind light14 km/h
Limiting factor:grass wetness
Wednesday 9 September: Good. No — ground saturated, 66mm rain over the last week.
Wednesday 9 SeptemberReasonably confident
No — ground saturated, 66mm rain over the last week.
- Good:Grass wetness
- Grass dryrain earlier today
- Poor:Ground firmness
- Ground saturated66mm rain over the last week
- Marginal:Growth
- Growing slowlygrowth potential 0.29
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature10°C
- Good:Wind
- Wind light21 km/h
Limiting factor:ground firmness
Thursday 10 September: Good. No — ground soft, 57mm rain over the last week.
Thursday 10 SeptemberLow confidence this far out
No — ground soft, 57mm rain over the last week.
- Good:Grass wetness
- Grass dryno rain since Wednesday
- Poor:Ground firmness
- Ground soft57mm rain over the last week
- Poor:Growth
- Barely growinggrowth potential 0.16
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature11°C
- Good:Wind
- Wind light5 km/h
Limiting factor:ground firmness
Friday 11 September: Good. 8am–8pm — ground soft — 41mm rain over the last week
Friday 11 September · 8am–8pmLow confidence this far out
8am–8pm — ground soft — 41mm rain over the last week
- Good:Grass wetness
- Grass dryno rain since Wednesday
- Poor:Ground firmness
- Ground soft41mm rain over the last week
- Marginal:Growth
- Growing slowlygrowth potential 0.25
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature11°C
- Good:Wind
- Wind light7 km/h
- Sociable hours
- A bit early or late, but finestarts when it stops being antisocial
Limiting factor:ground firmness
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