What Guildford weather does to a conservatory
We ran Guildford's hourly weather for 2024 and 2025 through the same room three times, once per roof. The squares are hour by hour averages. The garden never beat 31.6°C and July averaged 18.2°C, but the polycarbonate room touched 47°C, against 34°C with panels.
A year inside a Guildford conservatory
Average room temperature, every month and hour of 2024 and 2025
- 1,440
- hours over 25°C
- 47°C
- hottest hour
- 34°C
- July, 3pm
- 1,580
- hours over 25°C
- 50°C
- hottest hour
- 36°C
- July, 3pm
- 399
- hours over 25°C
- 34°C
- hottest hour
- 26°C
- July, 3pm
Blue: heater weatherPale: comfortableAmber to plum: too warm
The hours you get back
Count only the hours people are awake, 8am to 10pm, and sort them by how the room feels. Cold hours can be fixed with a heater. Too-warm hours mostly cannot, short of opening everything and hoping. That is why the panel roof adds about 1,041 usable hours a year in Guildford: 3,674 becomes 4,715.
Hours above 30°C drop from 668 under polycarbonate (and 842 under glass) to 61 with panels.
- Polycarbonate roof1,440 h too warm
- Glass roof1,580 h too warm
- Panel roof399 h too warm
Too cold (under 12°C)Chilly (12 to 17°C)Comfortable (17 to 25°C)Warm (25 to 28°C)Too hot (over 28°C)
When the heat peaks in Guildford
Under polycarbonate the overheating peaks in July, when 53% of waking hours pass 28°C. With the panel roof the same month sits at 11%. Look at April and September as well: low sun through glass walls still warms the room, but not through the roof any more.
Polycarbonate roofInsulated panel roof
Winter in Guildford
January is Guildford's coldest month, averaging 4.1°C, with a lowest hour of -5.5°C over the two years. Holding the room at 19°C through waking hours takes about 1,538 kWh a year under polycarbonate (£405 on electric heaters at the 26.32p price cap) and 1,326 kWh (£349) under panels.
That saving is real but modest, because the glass walls still lose heat. The bigger winter change is the heater: on a freezing evening a 1.1 kW heater keeps up under panels where polycarbonate needs 1.7 kW.
Prices for Guildford conservatory roofs
Prices in Guildford are the same as everywhere we work: the roof, not the postcode, sets them. The survey is free and the written price is fixed. See the price page for every shape, or get a guide price for your roof in about a minute.
| Shape | Small (up to 12 m²) | Medium (12 to 25 m²) | Large (over 25 m²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lean-to | from £3,000 | from £4,000 | from £5,000 |
| Edwardian | from £3,150 | from £4,200 | from £5,250 |
| Victorian | from £3,300 | from £4,400 | from £5,500 |
Fitting day
Most roofs here take one day, larger or more complicated ones two. The old sheets come off in the morning, the frame is checked, and the panels, ridge or hub and trims go on before the light goes. The fitting day walks through it hour by hour.
Towns near Guildford
Compare your neighbours, or see all of the Thames Valley and Surrey and the full overheating league table.