United Kingdom · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Dover.

July leads for comfortable weather in Dover: typically 22.2°C by day, 13.7°C at night, with 47 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortJuly

Typical high22.2°C

Typical low13.7°C

Rain in July47 mm

Comfort

July

July · August · June

86climate match

Beach

July

July · August · June

53climate match

Outdoors

June

June · September · July

90climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 14 against July’s 86 — days reach only 7.7°C, 16° 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

147.7° / 2.4°

Feb

188° / 2.3°

Mar

3110.5° / 3.8°

Apr

4313.3° / 5.7°

May

5716.4° / 8.7°

Jun

7419.6° / 11.4°

Jul

8622.2° / 13.7°

Aug

8522.1° / 14°

Sep

7219.1° / 11.9°

Oct

4715.1° / 9°

Nov

2711° / 5.4°

Dec

158.4° / 3°

Monthly climate evidence for Dover — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 4 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	7.7°C	2.4°C	51 mm	10.9	8.8°C	8 h 22	14	Strong coverage
February	8°C	2.3°C	41 mm	9.7	7.7°C	9 h 54	18	Strong coverage
March	10.5°C	3.8°C	36 mm	7.9	7.7°C	11 h 42	31	Strong coverage
April	13.3°C	5.7°C	38 mm	7.9	9.1°C	13 h 45	43	Strong coverage
May	16.4°C	8.7°C	49 mm	8.3	11.2°C	15 h 31	57	Strong coverage
June	19.6°C	11.4°C	43 mm	7.3	13.8°C	16 h 32	74	Strong coverage
July	22.2°C	13.7°C	47 mm	7.1	16.1°C	16 h 08	86	Strong coverage
August	22.1°C	14°C	52 mm	8.1	17.6°C	14 h 34	85	Strong coverage
September	19.1°C	11.9°C	49 mm	7.6	17.2°C	12 h 34	72	Strong coverage
October	15.1°C	9°C	74 mm	11.3	15.6°C	10 h 35	47	Strong coverage
November	11°C	5.4°C	68 mm	11.6	13.1°C	8 h 49	27	Strong coverage
December	8.4°C	3°C	63 mm	11.9	10.6°C	7 h 55	15	Strong coverage

What has changed

Dover 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

+1.9

Mar

+1.3

Apr

+1.8

May

+1.5

Jun

+1.7

Jul

+1.9

Aug

+1.6

Sep

+1.3

Oct

+1.1

Nov

+1.2

Dec

+1.8

July daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 22.6°C.

Records at MANSTON, 1961–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	16.4°C26 Jan 2003	-12.0°C31 Jan 1972	22 mm15 Jan 2008	126 mm2014 · driest 8 mm in 1997	66
February	17.9°C19 Feb 2017	-14.5°C10 Feb 1986	43 mm7 Feb 2001	105 mm2014 · driest 6 mm in 2023	65
March	22.5°C30 Mar 2021	-6.0°C9 Mar 1970	39 mm14 Mar 1964	94 mm1975 · driest 1 mm in 1961	65
April	25.8°C30 Apr 2025	-4.6°C7 Apr 2013	35 mm3 Apr 2000	128 mm2000 · driest 2 mm in 2007	66
May	29.6°C27 May 2005	-1.1°C7 May 1997	38 mm26 May 2008	162 mm2008 · driest 0 mm in 1989	66
June	35.4°C25 Jun 2026	0.9°C2 Jun 1962	49 mm13 Jun 2025	104 mm1964 · driest 0 mm in 2009	66
July	36.2°C18 Jul 2022	6.4°C17 Jul 1971	59 mm6 Jul 1969	123 mm1969 · driest 2 mm in 2022	65
August	34.6°C9 Aug 2003	5.4°C24 Aug 1980	68 mm14 Aug 1969	177 mm1969 · driest 4 mm in 2022	65
September	31.0°C14 Sep 2020	4.0°C30 Sep 1974	55 mm13 Sep 1975	159 mm1975 · driest 2 mm in 1997	65
October	28.7°C1 Oct 2011	-3.1°C30 Oct 1997	43 mm29 Oct 1966	250 mm1966 · driest 8 mm in 1969	65
November	18.2°C6 Nov 2015	-6.0°C24 Nov 1993	33 mm1 Nov 2008	140 mm1976 · driest 17 mm in 2007	65
December	15.9°C27 Dec 1974	-8.8°C4 Dec 2010	37 mm27 Dec 2003	112 mm2012 · driest 7 mm in 2022	65

Typical days per month at MANSTON, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	0	0	6	<1
February	0	0	6	<1
March	0	0	3	<1
April	0	0	<1	<1
May	<1	0	0	1
June	2	<1	0	1
July	5	<1	0	1
August	5	<1	0	1
September	<1	<1	0	2
October	<1	0	<1	2
November	0	0	2	2
December	0	0	6	1

How often, not how much — every day in MANSTON’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%	34%	3%	43%	5.0–9.4°C
February	0%	31%	2%	41%	4.9–10.3°C
March	<1%	28%	2%	35%	7.3–11.9°C
April	2%	27%	2%	33%	10.8–14.6°C
May	12%	26%	3%	29%	14.2–17.9°C
June	32%	26%	4%	30%	17.3–20.9°C
July	56%	23%	4%	24%	19.2–23.3°C
August	56%	24%	4%	28%	19.6–23.7°C
September	28%	25%	5%	32%	17.1–20.6°C
October	4%	33%	6%	44%	13.3–17.0°C
November	0%	38%	6%	51%	9.0–12.3°C
December	0%	35%	3%	47%	5.8–9.9°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.

1961Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 65-year average. Warmest: 2022. Coolest: 1963.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 2651048
NOAA station: UKE00105918 · MANSTON
Station distance: 24.5 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 27 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 51.13°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 4 km from the place centre. A sheltered bay can run warmer than the open sea it is measured from.
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 MANSTON is what differs

Deal→Herne Bay→Birchington-on-Sea→Sturry→Westgate on Sea→Tankerton→

Or put two places side by side: Dover vs Deal

Best time to visitDover.

July

July

June

The whole year,without the guesswork.

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

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Dover.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

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

Nearby, measured,
and named.