Cheap flights to Sheffield

Sheffield climate

With a temperate climate typical of England, the summer months of July and August are usually the warmest and driest and the winter months of December, January and February the coldest and wettest, although rain may occur throughout the year.

Getting around Sheffield

Much work has been undertaken in Sheffield’s city centre to aid pedestrian access, and many sites are reachable on foot without difficulty.

However, the city is also served by a tram network named Supertram, operated by the Stagecoach company which offers routes from the city centre toward the city’s north-eastern, north-western and south-eastern margins.

The city also has many public bus routes, run by the First and Stagecoach companies, as well as suburban and intercity rail services from Sheffield station.

What is good to know if travelling to Sheffield?

• Millennium Galleries is Sheffield’s largest art gallery. Housed in a stunning and relatively new building (opened in 2001 as part of the Heart of the City project), the gallery is dedicated to visual arts, craft and design. Its Special Exhibition Gallery hosts touring exhibitions from other galleries such as the Tate Gallery, the Metalwork Gallery showcases the city’s metalwork industries, the Craft and Design Gallery contains works of past and present designers and craftspeople, and the Ruskin Gallery holds the collection of John Ruskin’s Guild of St George.    
• The Peace Gardens, another new addition to the city courtesy of Heart of the City, is a charming public square in front of Sheffield Town Hall. It has received many awards, including the Royal Town Planning Institute Award and the Royal Institute of British Architects Award, and its central Goodwin Fountain, dedicated to local figures Sir Stuart and Lady Goodwin, was once named Fountain of the Year. The gardens’ fountains and cascades represent molten steel – symbolically important to this steelworkers’ city – as well as Sheffield’s rivers. 
• Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet, situated in the south of Sheffield, is the a former steel-working site on the River Sheaf – the Abbeydale Works – that has been preserved as an industrial museum. The site is a scheduled ancient monument, with the steelworks Grade I listed buildings and the counting house, workers’ cottages and manager’s house Grade II* listed. Among relics of Sheffield’s industrial past, visitors can find waterwheels, a grinding hull, tilt hammers and the only remaining intact crucible steel furnace in the world. 
• Sheffield Botanical Gardens, located off Ecclesall Road, were designed by celebrated horticulturalist Robert Marnock and opened in 1836. The gardens contain over 5,000 species of plant from around the globe spread over fifteen separate garden areas. The gardens recently underwent extensive restoration, completed in 2005, with the aim of recapturing its late 19th century appearance and condition.