Ireland · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Kilkenny.

July leads for comfortable weather in Kilkenny: typically 20.5°C by day, 12.5°C at night, with 72 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortJuly

Typical high20.5°C

Typical low12.5°C

Rain in July72 mm

Comfort

July

July · August · June

72climate match

Beach

July

July · August · June

37climate match

Outdoors

June

June · July · August

83climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 9 against July’s 72 — days reach only 9.1°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

99.1° / 3.3°

Feb

189.5° / 2.9°

Mar

2411.1° / 4.1°

Apr

3513.4° / 5.6°

May

5116.3° / 8.2°

Jun

6618.9° / 10.7°

Jul

7220.5° / 12.5°

Aug

6920.2° / 12.2°

Sep

6018.2° / 10.4°

Oct

3514.8° / 8.1°

Nov

2111.6° / 5.1°

Dec

129.7° / 3.8°

Monthly climate evidence for Kilkenny — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	9.1°C	3.3°C	106 mm	14.7	8 h 08	9	Strong coverage
February	9.5°C	2.9°C	73 mm	11.1	9 h 47	18	Strong coverage
March	11.1°C	4.1°C	79 mm	11.8	11 h 40	24	Strong coverage
April	13.4°C	5.6°C	77 mm	11.1	13 h 51	35	Strong coverage
May	16.3°C	8.2°C	69 mm	10.9	15 h 44	51	Strong coverage
June	18.9°C	10.7°C	65 mm	9.1	16 h 49	66	Strong coverage
July	20.5°C	12.5°C	72 mm	10.2	16 h 23	72	Strong coverage
August	20.2°C	12.2°C	79 mm	10.6	14 h 43	69	Strong coverage
September	18.2°C	10.4°C	81 mm	9.9	12 h 35	60	Strong coverage
October	14.8°C	8.1°C	119 mm	14.2	10 h 30	35	Strong coverage
November	11.6°C	5.1°C	112 mm	13.4	8 h 37	21	Strong coverage
December	9.7°C	3.8°C	111 mm	14.1	7 h 39	12	Strong coverage

Records at WATERFORD (TYCOR), 1961–2019
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	16.5°C25 Jan 1967	-8.3°C13 Jan 1987	44 mm12 Jan 2010	231 mm1988 · driest 20 mm in 1963	51
February	15.5°C29 Feb 2008	-7.1°C17 Feb 1969	39 mm22 Feb 1994	216 mm1977 · driest 3 mm in 1986	52
March	18.0°C30 Mar 1965	-6.1°C6 Mar 1962	48 mm21 Mar 2013	217 mm1964 · driest 3 mm in 1961	54
April	22.0°C17 Apr 2003	-2.6°C3 Apr 1968	39 mm15 Apr 2019	192 mm1966 · driest 18 mm in 2015	52
May	25.1°C20 May 1998	-0.8°C3 May 1967	40 mm16 May 1993	188 mm1967 · driest 3 mm in 1991	49
June	30.0°C28 Jun 2018	1.6°C1 Jun 1962	36 mm5 Jun 1997	158 mm2007 · driest 8 mm in 2018	49
July	29.0°C19 Jul 2013	1.0°C5 Jul 1969	40 mm25 Jul 1978	208 mm2009 · driest 7 mm in 1979	50
August	28.8°C2 Aug 1995	4.4°C28 Aug 1963	81 mm3 Aug 1997	270 mm1997 · driest 0 mm in 1983	51
September	25.7°C2 Sep 1991	0.2°C28 Sep 1974	58 mm27 Sep 1961	188 mm1999 · driest 2 mm in 1986	49
October	23.0°C11 Oct 1969	-4.9°C19 Oct 1993	62 mm30 Oct 1977	235 mm1976 · driest 22 mm in 1969	50
November	17.0°C1 Nov 2007	-3.9°C21 Nov 1996	59 mm5 Nov 2000	227 mm2018 · driest 18 mm in 2001	50
December	14.8°C21 Dec 1991	-6.6°C31 Dec 1961	43 mm14 Dec 2018	319 mm2015 · driest 32 mm in 1975	48

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

How often, not how much — every day in WATERFORD (TYCOR)’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%	48%	13%	66%	6.8–9.9°C
February	0%	41%	9%	53%	6.3–10.5°C
March	0%	39%	8%	50%	8.9–12.1°C
April	<1%	35%	7%	46%	11.5–14.2°C
May	7%	36%	6%	45%	14.1–17.6°C
June	24%	33%	6%	42%	16.8–20.3°C
July	38%	33%	6%	45%	18.5–21.5°C
August	34%	37%	8%	49%	17.9–21.2°C
September	12%	37%	9%	50%	16.3–18.7°C
October	<1%	43%	12%	61%	13.1–15.9°C
November	0%	45%	12%	61%	9.6–12.4°C
December	0%	47%	13%	64%	7.8–10.7°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 34-year average. Warmest: 2007. Coolest: 1986.2016

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 2963398
NOAA station: EIE00107762 · WATERFORD (TYCOR)
Station distance: 45.3 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 25 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 52.65°, 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 WATERFORD (TYCOR) is what differs

Cork→Waterford→Douglas→Wexford→Cluain Meala→Carrigaline→

Or put two places side by side: Kilkenny vs Cork

Best time to visitKilkenny.

July

July

June

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Kilkenny.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,
and named.