United Kingdom · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Brighton.

July leads for comfortable weather in Brighton: typically 21.1°C by day, 14.7°C at night, with 54 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortJuly

Typical high21.1°C

Typical low14.7°C

Rain in July54 mm

Comfort

July

July · August · June

83climate match

Beach

July

July · August · June

51climate match

Outdoors

June

June · September · May

87climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 14 against July’s 83 — days reach only 8.6°C, 15° 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

148.6° / 3.8°

Feb

198.7° / 3.5°

Mar

3210.7° / 4.8°

Apr

4413.4° / 6.6°

May

5916.5° / 9.6°

Jun

7419° / 12.5°

Jul

8321.1° / 14.7°

Aug

8321.3° / 14.9°

Sep

7119.1° / 12.6°

Oct

4715.6° / 9.8°

Nov

2811.9° / 6.7°

Dec

169.5° / 4.3°

Monthly climate evidence for Brighton — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 23 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	8.6°C	3.8°C	84 mm	12.5	9.6°C	8 h 24	14	Strong coverage
February	8.7°C	3.5°C	57 mm	10.1	8.6°C	9 h 56	19	Strong coverage
March	10.7°C	4.8°C	46 mm	8.3	8.3°C	11 h 42	32	Strong coverage
April	13.4°C	6.6°C	45 mm	7.9	9.3°C	13 h 44	44	Strong coverage
May	16.5°C	9.6°C	46 mm	8	11.1°C	15 h 29	59	Strong coverage
June	19°C	12.5°C	45 mm	6.7	13.3°C	16 h 29	74	Strong coverage
July	21.1°C	14.7°C	54 mm	7.5	15.5°C	16 h 05	83	Strong coverage
August	21.3°C	14.9°C	60 mm	8.3	17.1°C	14 h 32	83	Strong coverage
September	19.1°C	12.6°C	60 mm	8.5	17.2°C	12 h 33	71	Strong coverage
October	15.6°C	9.8°C	95 mm	11.5	16.0°C	10 h 36	47	Strong coverage
November	11.9°C	6.7°C	96 mm	12.7	13.8°C	8 h 51	28	Strong coverage
December	9.5°C	4.3°C	95 mm	12.3	11.5°C	7 h 58	16	Strong coverage

What has changed

Brighton runs +1.8°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

+1.3

Feb

+1.7

Mar

+2.0

Apr

+2.4

May

+1.8

Jun

+1.6

Jul

+1.9

Aug

+1.7

Sep

+1.8

Oct

+1.1

Nov

+1.9

Dec

+1.8

July daytime highs, 2011–2020. Last recorded: 21.6°C.

Records at EASTBOURNE, 1911–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	14.8°C26 Jan 2003	-11.1°C20 Jan 1940	41 mm13 Jan 1955	195 mm1988 · driest 3 mm in 2018	108
February	15.5°C29 Feb 2012	-9.4°C24 Feb 1947	40 mm9 Feb 2009	146 mm1937 · driest 0 mm in 1959	108
March	19.2°C28 Mar 2012	-6.1°C3 Mar 1965	49 mm14 Mar 1964	182 mm1947 · driest 1 mm in 1929	108
April	25.5°C22 Apr 2011	-2.8°C2 Apr 1922	28 mm3 Apr 1922	105 mm1993 · driest 0 mm in 2026	108
May	26.3°C13 May 1998	0.0°C16 May 1941	48 mm13 May 1915	110 mm1981 · driest 1 mm in 2020	106
June	30.0°C29 Jun 1957	3.3°C1 Jun 1962	43 mm27 Jun 1917	182 mm1971 · driest 0 mm in 2018	105
July	31.9°C20 Jul 1911	6.1°C16 Jul 1919	77 mm7 Jul 1980	156 mm1980 · driest 5 mm in 1935	104
August	32.6°C3 Aug 1990	6.7°C24 Aug 1940	65 mm16 Aug 1946	190 mm1912 · driest 1 mm in 1995	105
September	28.2°C8 Sep 2023	2.8°C20 Sep 1919	47 mm6 Sep 2002	193 mm1974 · driest 2 mm in 1997	105
October	22.6°C2 Oct 2011	-2.2°C28 Oct 1931	53 mm13 Oct 1939	261 mm2000 · driest 2 mm in 1969	104
November	19.4°C13 Nov 2022	-3.9°C26 Nov 1923	46 mm15 Nov 1929	235 mm2009 · driest 10 mm in 1978	106
December	15.2°C4 Dec 1979	-7.8°C9 Dec 1967	41 mm13 Dec 1989	217 mm1934 · driest 10 mm in 1932	106

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

How often, not how much — every day in EASTBOURNE’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%	42%	8%	55%	5.4–9.8°C
February	0%	35%	5%	46%	5.5–9.9°C
March	0%	31%	5%	40%	7.9–11.7°C
April	1%	29%	4%	38%	10.8–13.8°C
May	9%	27%	3%	30%	13.8–17.1°C
June	23%	25%	4%	29%	16.8–19.9°C
July	40%	25%	4%	30%	18.4–22.2°C
August	44%	28%	6%	34%	18.7–22.1°C
September	21%	30%	7%	38%	17.1–19.9°C
October	1%	36%	10%	49%	13.6–16.6°C
November	0%	42%	11%	53%	9.5–13.0°C
December	0%	42%	10%	58%	6.5–10.6°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 101-year average. Warmest: 2020. Coolest: 1963.2020

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 2654710
NOAA station: UKE00105920 · EASTBOURNE
Station distance: 30.8 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 25 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 50.83°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 23 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 EASTBOURNE is what differs

Worthing→Eastbourne→Hove→Littlehampton→Haywards Heath→Burgess Hill→

Or put two places side by side: Brighton vs Worthing

Best time to visitBrighton.

July

July

June

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Brighton runs +1.8°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Brighton.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Brighton runs +1.8°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.