Ireland · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Kenmare.

August leads for comfortable weather in Kenmare: typically 18.1°C by day, 12.7°C at night, with 121 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortAugust

Typical high18.1°C

Typical low12.7°C

Rain in August121 mm

Comfort

August

August · July · June

52climate match

Beach

August

August · July · June

14climate match

Outdoors

June

June · August · July

61climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against August’s 52 — days reach only 9.8°C, 14° 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

59.8° / 5.1°

Feb

69.9° / 4.9°

Mar

1411.1° / 5.3°

Apr

2512.6° / 6.5°

May

3714.7° / 8.7°

Jun

4716.6° / 10.8°

Jul

5017.9° / 12.7°

Aug

5218.1° / 12.7°

Sep

4417.2° / 11.4°

Oct

2414.6° / 9.3°

Nov

611.9° / 7.1°

Dec

510.3° / 5.6°

Monthly climate evidence for Kenmare — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 35 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	9.8°C	5.1°C	195 mm	21.8	9.9°C	8 h 15	5	Strong coverage
February	9.9°C	4.9°C	145 mm	18.8	9.5°C	9 h 51	6	Strong coverage
March	11.1°C	5.3°C	123 mm	18.1	9.4°C	11 h 41	14	Strong coverage
April	12.6°C	6.5°C	113 mm	15.2	10.1°C	13 h 48	25	Strong coverage
May	14.7°C	8.7°C	106 mm	15.3	11.5°C	15 h 37	37	Strong coverage
June	16.6°C	10.8°C	112 mm	14.8	13.7°C	16 h 40	47	Strong coverage
July	17.9°C	12.7°C	124 mm	17.2	15.1°C	16 h 15	50	Strong coverage
August	18.1°C	12.7°C	121 mm	17	15.6°C	14 h 38	52	Strong coverage
September	17.2°C	11.4°C	134 mm	17.7	15.0°C	12 h 34	44	Strong coverage
October	14.6°C	9.3°C	180 mm	19.2	13.6°C	10 h 33	24	Strong coverage
November	11.9°C	7.1°C	195 mm	22.1	11.8°C	8 h 43	6	Good coverage
December	10.3°C	5.6°C	180 mm	20.8	10.6°C	7 h 47	5	Good coverage

Records at VALENTIA OBSERVATORY, 1929–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	14.8°C10 Jan 1998	-7.2°C22 Jan 1958	51 mm24 Jan 1958	317 mm1974 · driest 26 mm in 1963	97
February	16.8°C28 Feb 1960	-7.3°C17 Feb 1969	79 mm28 Feb 1955	279 mm2014 · driest 2 mm in 1965	97
March	20.7°C19 Mar 2005	-5.1°C5 Mar 1962	49 mm20 Mar 1985	260 mm1963 · driest 19 mm in 1961	97
April	24.5°C30 Apr 2025	-2.3°C2 Apr 1996	55 mm13 Apr 2003	199 mm2018 · driest 22 mm in 1980	97
May	27.2°C31 May 1997	0.2°C2 May 1951	47 mm21 May 1949	201 mm2006 · driest 8 mm in 1991	97
June	28.1°C27 Jun 1995	1.7°C5 Jun 1936	52 mm16 Jun 2009	180 mm1998 · driest 14 mm in 1942	97
July	27.6°C9 Jul 2013	5.3°C2 Jul 1980	67 mm30 Jul 2010	252 mm2009 · driest 8 mm in 1955	97
August	28.1°C26 Aug 1976	3.3°C31 Aug 1986	89 mm5 Aug 1986	274 mm2009 · driest 17 mm in 1976	96
September	28.4°C5 Sep 1991	0.0°C2 Sep 2016	94 mm18 Sep 1993	289 mm1999 · driest 13 mm in 1986	96
October	23.5°C4 Oct 1959	-2.2°C26 Oct 1931	94 mm4 Oct 2016	322 mm1977 · driest 59 mm in 2003	97
November	19.8°C14 Nov 1989	-4.0°C22 Nov 1988	113 mm1 Nov 1980	352 mm2022 · driest 31 mm in 1942	97
December	15.7°C2 Dec 1948	-7.7°C22 Dec 2010	70 mm15 Dec 1983	350 mm2015 · driest 21 mm in 1991	97

Typical days per month at VALENTIA OBSERVATORY, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	0	3	6
February	0	3	5
March	0	2	3
April	0	<1	4
May	<1	0	3
June	<1	0	3
July	<1	0	4
August	<1	0	3
September	<1	0	4
October	0	<1	6
November	0	<1	7
December	0	2	6

How often, not how much — every day in VALENTIA OBSERVATORY’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%	66%	20%	82%	8.2–10.7°C
February	0%	60%	16%	74%	8.0–10.9°C
March	<1%	53%	12%	68%	9.6–12.1°C
April	<1%	44%	10%	57%	11.1–14.1°C
May	4%	44%	9%	57%	13.3–15.9°C
June	9%	44%	9%	59%	15.5–18.0°C
July	11%	47%	10%	66%	16.5–19.5°C
August	10%	50%	11%	71%	16.8–19.6°C
September	6%	54%	14%	72%	15.7–18.1°C
October	<1%	60%	18%	78%	13.2–15.8°C
November	0%	66%	19%	82%	10.4–12.6°C
December	0%	65%	19%	82%	8.9–11.3°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.

1930Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 81-year average. Warmest: 2025. Coolest: 1986.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 2963522
NOAA station: EI000003953 · VALENTIA OBSERVATORY
Station distance: 44.2 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 24 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 51.88°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 35 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 VALENTIA OBSERVATORY is what differs

Killorglin→Dingle→Cahersiveen→Castletownbere→Baile an Mhuilinn→Scarriff→

Or put two places side by side: Kenmare vs Killorglin

Best time to visitKenmare.

August

August

June

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Kenmare.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,
and named.