A Year Away
Paper / A3
£50.00
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A Year Away
£50.00
Print only, frame not included. UK delivery usually 4 to 8 working days.
Your year, a mark a day, coloured by how warm it was wherever you were.
The year
Any whole year from 1940, or this year: days still to come show the usual warmth for the place
Home
Where you spent every day not on a trip. The town, then the county or country. We print exactly the place you give.
Your trips, up to ten
One trip a line: place | first and last day | a day to remember, up to ten.
Title (optional)
Ideas: Our year, and where we spent it, The year we married, Interrailing, and the rest of the year
What you get: An unframed print on heavyweight 240 gsm matte fine art paper, A3 (297 x 420 mm) or A2 (420 x 594 mm), usually sent rolled in a tube. Made to order for you. You give home, up to ten trips with their dates, and a title, and we email you to check them before we print. Every day of the year coloured by its average temperature where you were, the trips outlined and named. Under it: the days away, the warmest and coldest days on average, and the biggest change overnight (or the warmest trip). The preview on this page shows your words, dates and layout; where it is marked sample weather, the weather drawn in it is an example until we make your print.
Choose home and up to ten trips. Every day of the year becomes one mark, on one temperature scale for every place, so a fortnight in Sri Lanka runs red through a British February and a week in the Alps runs deep blue. Each trip is outlined and named in the margin, and a day that mattered, a wedding or a big birthday, is marked on the row.
It can be this year too, for Christmas. Our weather data runs about a week behind today, so the days after that, and any trips still to come, show the usual warmth for that place and time of year (1991 to 2020), and a note on the sheet gives the day that starts.
A year has a lot of dates in it, so before we print we email you what we have understood, and you can correct anything or add the trip you forgot.
- Home and up to ten trips, anywhere in the world
- Under the picture: the days away, the warmest and coldest days on average, and the biggest change overnight
- Any whole year from 1940, or this year
Made just for you, so it cannot be returned for a change of mind, or cancelled once we have started making it (contact us straight away if you need to). If it arrives faulty or damaged, we will replace it or refund you in full.
Where the weather comes from
The weather is ERA5, a reanalysis from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts. It estimates the weather for squares about 28 km across, so it describes the area around your place, not one garden. Dates before about 1950, and places far from weather stations, rest mostly on the model with few observations behind them. The people in the examples are made up; the places and weather are real, and the 2026 examples were made in early November, so their last weeks show the usual warmth. Data: ERA5, ECMWF (Copernicus Climate Change Service), CC BY 4.0. Credits are printed on every sheet.
Print details and delivery
- Sizes: A3 (297 x 420 mm), A2 (420 x 594 mm).
- Paper: heavyweight matte fine art paper (240 gsm), bright white, smooth with a fine grain.
- Inks: giclée printing in pigment-based archival inks.
- Printed to the edge of the sheet, with no border added. Each design keeps its own margin, so nothing important sits near the trim.
- Unframed, and usually sent rolled in a tube.
- Delivery: most UK orders arrive in 4 to 8 working days (1 to 4 days to print, then 2 to 3 days by courier). See the shipping page.
- Colours differ a little between a screen and paper.