In the United Kingdom, do people use Celsius or Fahrenheit?

Question

I'm just wondering because in Canada, we use Celsius to determine our weather, but in America they use Fahrenheit so I'm just wondering what do the UK use?

Answer 1

Both.... because, firstly young & older people are more familiar with one or the other........ secondly because in some situations one makes more sense than the other.



For instance........... when it's cold......

-3°C more accurately reflects the fact that it's cold than 26.6°F

5°C makes more sense at reflecting it's cold enough to store milk & cheese in the Fridge than 41°F



... and with warm temperatures......... 26.6°C doesn't sound that warm outside 'til you realise it's 80°F, and neither does 32.2°C, which is 90°F

And when cooking, 425°F sounds more effective at cooking something in the oven than 218.3°C

Answer 2

"Officially" like on the weather etc, the temperature is given in celsius, although the forecaster does give equivalents in fahrenheit sometimes.



Like others have said, we swapped systems in the 70s I think, so there are now quite a lot of people used to both systems, but also quite a few people who refuse to use the "new method."



I think the conversion is something like double C and add 33 to equal F, so I think a lot of Brits just convert either way.

Answer 3

The answer is CELSIUS.



However some of the older people may still choose to use Fahrenheit. But we changed over to metric about 40 years ago. All of the weather forecasts are in Celsius and almost everybody will talk about Celsius.



The only two countries in the world that use Fahrenheit are the United States and Liberia (a shitty little country in Africa). The other 200 countries in the world use Celsius.

Answer 4

MOST people now relate to Celsius...The weather forecasts are in Celsius, but some newspapers, read by older, more conservative types use Fahrenheit and it is mentioned from time to time.......Teach and we ONLY teach Celsius and have done for years.... HOWEVER we still use MILES even though our nearest neighbour, The Irish Republic, uses kilometres like the rest of Europe.....

Answer 5

Celsius ( centigrade ) is currently used all over . Fahrenheit a bit old fashioned in 2012 !

Answer 6

Everyone under the age of 50 uses Celsius. All the weather forecasts etc use Celsius.

Answer 7

Celsius

Answer 8

Centigrade. I am not sure that Celsius has the best claim to the scale.

Answer 9

Celsius and Miles per Hour rather Kilometers per hour.

Answer 10

In the UK we tend to use Centigrade when talking about low temperatures and Fahrenheit for high ones when talking about the weather

Answer 11

Celsius I think? :)

Answer 12

i'm from London and they use Celsius

Answer 13

Just like the Brits, we use both. Like most things here, we haven`t quite made our mind up yet!