Moray

16°CPartly Cloudy

• Today: 16° / 9° · 17% rain
• Tomorrow: 15° / 9° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:33Sunset 19:45

13h 13m of daylight today

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

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

66US AQI · Moderate

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Angus Forfar Glamis Rd, United Kingdom

50 reported road collisions (2024)

35 killed or seriously injured · 67 casualties · 5.3 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

11 food businesses within 2 miles

• 10 passed
• 0 need improvement

Source: Food Standards Agency

• 0 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£208,397 average▲ 9.4% YoY

Across Moray · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

• Cheapest petrol: 162.7p · Asda (11 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 189.7p · Asda (11 km)

3 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

1 charging location within ~8 km

• 1 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 50 kW
• Nearest: Craigellachie Recharge Station (7.9 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

94,730 residents in Moray

• Under 16: 16%
• 16–64: 60%
• 65+: 24%

Source: ONS mid-year estimates (local authority)

Among the least deprived areas in Scotland

1% of neighbourhoods are in Scotland’s most deprived 10%; 3% in the most deprived 20%

Source: Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020

Conservative (minority)

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

3,910 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

472 jobs advertised · £38,164 avg

e.g. ACO Plumber (Mosstodloch) - MOR11725, Head of Strategy, Performance and Commissioning, Moray HSCP - MOR12209, Cleaner

Source: Adzuna

£659 median full-time weekly pay

2.6% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£23,035 disposable income per head (2024)

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

• Life satisfaction7.4
• Feeling worthwhile7.6
• Happiness yesterday7.4
• 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 Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey:

• Reduce VAT on hospitality to 10%: protect jobs, communities & UK competitiveness616 local signatures · 15,803 nationwide
• Stop taxing Longer Separation Allowance on British armed forces577 local signatures · 22,077 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s390 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership330 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office254 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide

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

• Sourden railway station · 2.0 km

  Sourden railway station or Sourdon railway station, later Sourden Siding, served the rural area near Aikenway Castle and the Wood of Sourden, Moray, Scotland from 1858 to 1866 on the Morayshire Railway. This was an in…

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  Speyburn distillery · 2.1 km

  Speyburn distillery is a Speyside Scottish whisky distillery, in Rothes, Moray, Scotland.

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  Aikenway Castle · 2.2 km

  Aikenway Castle was a castle about 5 miles (8.0 km) northeast of Rothes, Moray, Scotland, on the southern bank of the River Spey.

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  Birchfield Halt railway station · 2.3 km

  Birchfield Platform railway station, Birchfield Halt railway station or Birchfield Siding railway station served the rural area near Glen of Rothes House, Moray, Scotland, from 1871 to 1956 on the Morayshire Railway.…

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  Glen Grant distillery · 2.6 km

  Glen Grant distillery was founded in 1840 in Rothes, Speyside, and produces single malt Scotch whisky.

• Caperdonich distillery · 2.8 km

  Caperdonich distillery was a Speyside single malt Scotch whisky distillery in Rothes, Scotland.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)