Argyll and Bute

12°CLight drizzle

• Today: 16° / 10° · 90% rain
• Tomorrow: 15° / 10° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:46Sunset 19:50

13h 4m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: St Andrew’s Day, Mon 30 Nov

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

44US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Greenock A8 Roadside, United Kingdom

97 reported road collisions (2024)

51 killed or seriously injured · 146 casualties · 11.1 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

• 0 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap

£179,020 average▼ 3.7% YoY

Across Argyll and Bute · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

• Cheapest petrol: 171.9p · ESSO (11 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 189.9p · ESSO (11 km)

1 station within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

87,310 residents in Argyll and Bute

• Under 16: 14%
• 16–64: 58%
• 65+: 28%

Source: ONS mid-year estimates (local authority)

Less deprived than the average in Scotland

5% of neighbourhoods are in Scotland’s most deprived 10%; 10% in the most deprived 20%

Source: Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020

SNP / Liberal Democrat / Independent / Labour / Green coalition

• Lab 1
• Con 6
• LD 4
• Ref 2
• Oth 13

Source: Open Council Data UK (CC BY-SA)

• Parks & greens1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

4,875 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

603 jobs advertised · £34,843 avg

e.g. Sheet Metal Worker, Pipefitter, Capability Integration Governance Lead

Source: Adzuna

£726 median full-time weekly pay

2.5% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£25,370 disposable income per head (2024)

Source: ONS / Nomis (claimant count · ASHE) · ONS regional GDHI

• Life satisfaction7.8
• Feeling worthwhile8.0
• Happiness yesterday7.7
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)2.6

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2022-23

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber:

• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership331 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s305 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Reduce VAT on hospitality to 10%: protect jobs, communities & UK competitiveness297 local signatures · 15,803 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office231 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Introduce legislation to make it possible to renumerate emergency volunteers191 local signatures · 13,788 nationwide

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-08-06

• 
  Ardifuir · 1.0 km

  Ardifuir is a locality and area of historic settlement in the civil parish of Kilmartin, in Argyll and Bute, Scotland.

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  Duntrune Castle · 1.1 km

  Duntrune Castle is located on the north side of Loch Crinan and across from the village of Crinan in Argyll and Bute, west of Scotland. It is thought to be the oldest continuously occupied castle on mainland Scotland.…

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  Loch Crinan · 1.7 km

  Loch Crinan is a seawater loch on the West of Scotland, leading into the Sound of Jura and being the western end of the Crinan Canal. The village of Crinan is at the entrance to the canal at the eastern end of the loc…

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  River Add · 2.2 km

  The River Add is a river which runs through Argyll and Bute on the west coast of Scotland. Historically, it was known as the river Airigh but to avoid confusion with the Aray, it was renamed the River Add.

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  Crinan Canal · 2.4 km

  The Crinan Canal is a nine-mile-long (14 km) navigable canal in Argyll and Bute, west of Scotland. It opened in 1801 and connects the village of Ardrishaig on Loch Gilp with Crinan on the Sound of Jura, providing a na…

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  Crinan, Argyll · 2.5 km

  Crinan is a small village located on the west coast of Scotland in the region known as Knapdale, which is part of Argyll and Bute. Before the Crinan Canal was built, Crinan was named Port Righ which meant the king's p…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)