United Kingdom · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Wakefield.

July leads for comfortable weather in Wakefield: typically 20.4°C by day, 12.1°C at night, with 64 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortJuly

Typical high20.4°C

Typical low12.1°C

Rain in July64 mm

Comfort

July

July · August · June

72climate match

Beach

July

July · August · June

37climate match

Outdoors

July

July · June · August

81climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against July’s 72 — days reach only 6.9°C, 17° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal.

Month by month

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

The bars show the comfort score. Day and night temperatures come from daily observed highs and lows; rain is the historical monthly estimate.

Jan

56.9° / 1.6°

Feb

87.5° / 1.7°

Mar

199.6° / 2.9°

Apr

3412.6° / 4.6°

May

4915.7° / 7.1°

Jun

6118.4° / 10.1°

Jul

7220.4° / 12.1°

Aug

6819.8° / 12°

Sep

5617.1° / 9.9°

Oct

3513.4° / 7°

Nov

149.5° / 3.9°

Dec

57.3° / 1.7°

Monthly climate evidence for Wakefield — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	6.9°C	1.6°C	88 mm	14.4	7 h 58	5	Strong coverage
February	7.5°C	1.7°C	74 mm	12.1	9 h 41	8	Strong coverage
March	9.6°C	2.9°C	64 mm	11.3	11 h 39	19	Strong coverage
April	12.6°C	4.6°C	58 mm	10.6	13 h 55	34	Strong coverage
May	15.7°C	7.1°C	54 mm	9.9	15 h 53	49	Strong coverage
June	18.4°C	10.1°C	73 mm	10.1	17 h 02	61	Strong coverage
July	20.4°C	12.1°C	64 mm	10.3	16 h 34	72	Strong coverage
August	19.8°C	12°C	74 mm	11.5	14 h 49	68	Strong coverage
September	17.1°C	9.9°C	70 mm	10.7	12 h 37	56	Strong coverage
October	13.4°C	7°C	84 mm	12.5	10 h 26	35	Strong coverage
November	9.5°C	3.9°C	90 mm	14.3	8 h 29	14	Strong coverage
December	7.3°C	1.7°C	99 mm	14.5	7 h 28	5	Strong coverage

What has changed

Wakefield runs +1.5°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Each bar compares the 2011–2025 daytime average for that month against the same month in 1961–1990, measured at the same station. Months where the older record is too thin to compare are left blank.

Jan

+1.1

Feb

+2.1

Mar

+1.9

Apr

+2.3

May

+1.7

Jun

+1.4

Jul

+1.8

Aug

+1.1

Sep

+1.2

Oct

+1.0

Nov

+1.3

Dec

+1.6

July daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 21.5°C.

Records at BRADFORD, 1911–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	14.6°C9 Jan 1971	-13.9°C21 Jan 1940	59 mm22 Jan 1944	214 mm2008 · driest 6 mm in 1997	115
February	18.4°C25 Feb 2019	-11.7°C4 Feb 1912	42 mm15 Feb 2020	267 mm2020 · driest 3 mm in 1921	113
March	21.7°C28 Mar 1965	-11.1°C2 Mar 1954	51 mm19 Mar 1968	155 mm1919 · driest 9 mm in 1944	114
April	24.8°C30 Apr 2025	-10.6°C2 Apr 1917	43 mm12 Apr 1970	154 mm2012 · driest 2 mm in 2011	114
May	30.9°C24 May 2026	-3.0°C12 May 1995	55 mm4 May 1951	130 mm2006 · driest 8 mm in 2020	114
June	33.1°C25 Jun 2026	0.6°C1 Jun 1962	72 mm14 Jun 2007	261 mm2007 · driest 1 mm in 1921	114
July	37.9°C18 Jul 2022	4.4°C5 Jul 1921	56 mm11 Jul 1932	177 mm1920 · driest 5 mm in 1911	114
August	32.2°C2 Aug 1990	2.8°C31 Aug 2012	83 mm25 Aug 1986	190 mm1954 · driest 6 mm in 1947	114
September	27.7°C30 Sep 2011	-0.6°C28 Sep 1919	58 mm19 Sep 1946	210 mm1968 · driest 6 mm in 1959	114
October	25.0°C5 Oct 1921	-5.6°C26 Oct 1931	52 mm16 Oct 1967	176 mm1935 · driest 13 mm in 1969	115
November	18.9°C3 Nov 1946	-7.8°C16 Nov 1919	48 mm23 Nov 1928	215 mm2009 · driest 7 mm in 1945	115
December	15.8°C17 Dec 2015	-13.1°C18 Dec 1981	53 mm25 Dec 2015	198 mm2015 · driest 14 mm in 1933	115

Typical days per month at BRADFORD, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	0	9	3
February	0	8	2
March	0	5	2
April	0	2	1
May	<1	<1	1
June	1	0	2
July	4	0	2
August	2	0	2
September	<1	0	2
October	0	<1	3
November	0	4	3
December	0	9	3

How often, not how much — every day in BRADFORD’s record sorted by what it was actually like, rather than averaged
Month	Warm & dry days	Wet days	Washouts	Week with 3+ wet days	Daytime mean has ranged
January	0%	47%	8%	64%	3.8–8.6°C
February	0%	42%	8%	55%	3.7–8.8°C
March	<1%	37%	5%	49%	5.7–11.2°C
April	2%	34%	5%	44%	9.8–13.6°C
May	10%	34%	5%	44%	13.4–17.2°C
June	24%	32%	6%	42%	16.2–19.9°C
July	33%	33%	6%	45%	17.6–22.1°C
August	28%	36%	7%	47%	17.1–21.4°C
September	11%	36%	7%	48%	14.9–18.3°C
October	1%	40%	8%	54%	11.1–14.7°C
November	0%	45%	9%	60%	7.3–10.6°C
December	0%	47%	9%	63%	4.5–8.8°C

A warm and dry day reaches 20°C with under 1 mm of rain; a wet day gets 1 mm or more; a washout gets 10 mm or more. The week column is the share of seven-day stretches in that month, across the station’s whole daily record, that contained three or more wet days — the odds a week-long trip is rained on repeatedly, counted rather than modelled. The last column is the 10th to 90th percentile of that month’s daytime average across individual years: a narrow band means the average is what you will get, a wide one means the average is a midpoint between years that felt quite different.

1911Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 109-year average. Warmest: 2025. Coolest: 1919.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 2634910
NOAA station: UKE00105903 · BRADFORD
Station distance: 23.2 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 29 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 53.68°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Important limit: Historical climate is not a forecast. Nearby stations can miss mountains, coasts, and local microclimates.

These places read the same station, so their numbers are identical — distance from BRADFORD is what differs

Leeds→Bradford→Burnley→Huddersfield→Rochdale→Harrogate→

Or put two places side by side: Wakefield vs Leeds

Best time to visitWakefield.

July

July

July

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Wakefield runs +1.5°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Wakefield.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Wakefield runs +1.5°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.