United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Birmingham.

October leads for comfortable weather in Birmingham: typically 24.5°C by day, 11.9°C at night, with 85 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortOctober

Typical high24.5°C

Typical low11.9°C

Rain in October85 mm

Comfort

October

October · April · May

84climate match

Beach

September

September · June · August

75climate match

Outdoors

October

October · November · March

71climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 19 against October’s 84 — days reach only 12.5°C, 11° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal, and nights drop to 1.4°C.

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

1912.5° / 1.4°

Feb

3215.1° / 3.3°

Mar

5019.5° / 6.9°

Apr

7523.9° / 10.9°

May

6927.8° / 15.8°

Jun

4931.2° / 20.1°

Jul

3832.8° / 22°

Aug

4432.5° / 21.6°

Sep

6329.9° / 18.3°

Oct

8424.5° / 11.9°

Nov

5118.3° / 5.9°

Dec

2713.8° / 3°

Monthly climate evidence for Birmingham — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	12.5°C	1.4°C	128 mm	8.8	10 h 09	19	Strong coverage
February	15.1°C	3.3°C	126 mm	8.9	10 h 56	32	Strong coverage
March	19.5°C	6.9°C	144 mm	9.4	11 h 53	50	Strong coverage
April	23.9°C	10.9°C	129 mm	7.8	12 h 58	75	Strong coverage
May	27.8°C	15.8°C	125 mm	8.1	13 h 52	69	Strong coverage
June	31.2°C	20.1°C	122 mm	9.4	14 h 22	49	Strong coverage
July	32.8°C	22°C	138 mm	9.6	14 h 10	38	Strong coverage
August	32.5°C	21.6°C	111 mm	8.6	13 h 24	44	Strong coverage
September	29.9°C	18.3°C	102 mm	5.4	12 h 20	63	Strong coverage
October	24.5°C	11.9°C	85 mm	5.7	11 h 17	84	Strong coverage
November	18.3°C	5.9°C	107 mm	6.9	10 h 23	51	Strong coverage
December	13.8°C	3°C	124 mm	8.9	9 h 56	27	Strong coverage

What has changed

Birmingham runs +1.2°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

+1.6

Feb

+2.4

Mar

+1.4

Apr

+0.6

May

+0.8

Jun

+0.9

Jul

+0.7

Aug

+0.6

Sep

+1.4

Oct

+1.4

Nov

+0.7

Dec

+2.0

October daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 25.3°C.

Records at BIRMINGHAM AP, 1930–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	27.2°C10 Jan 1949	-21.1°C21 Jan 1985	120 mm26 Jan 1996	340 mm1937 · driest 28 mm in 1981	97
February	28.3°C21 Feb 2018	-16.1°C17 Feb 1958	139 mm21 Feb 1961	449 mm1961 · driest 31 mm in 1968	97
March	31.7°C21 Mar 2017	-16.7°C14 Mar 1993	176 mm19 Mar 1970	401 mm1980 · driest 26 mm in 2007	97
April	33.3°C21 Apr 1987	-3.3°C11 Apr 1973	117 mm12 Apr 1979	349 mm1979 · driest 11 mm in 1986	97
May	37.2°C28 May 1962	2.2°C4 May 1971	145 mm7 May 2003	438 mm2003 · driest 17 mm in 1936	97
June	41.1°C29 Jun 1931	5.6°C1 Jun 1966	177 mm8 Jun 2022	274 mm2017 · driest 12 mm in 1931	97
July	41.7°C29 Jul 1930	10.6°C15 Jul 1967	139 mm27 Jul 1985	348 mm1950 · driest 8 mm in 1983	97
August	40.6°C15 Aug 2007	10.6°C31 Aug 1946	105 mm2 Aug 1941	276 mm1967 · driest 10 mm in 1989	96
September	38.9°C19 Sep 1931	2.8°C30 Sep 1967	248 mm16 Sep 2004	308 mm2011 · driest 0 mm in 1955	96
October	38.3°C3 Oct 2019	-2.8°C28 Oct 1957	176 mm3 Oct 1995	302 mm1995 · driest 0 mm in 2016	96
November	31.1°C1 Nov 2016	-15.0°C25 Nov 1950	112 mm27 Nov 1983	387 mm1948 · driest 11 mm in 1949	96
December	26.7°C7 Dec 1951	-17.2°C13 Dec 1962	196 mm27 Dec 1942	355 mm1961 · driest 21 mm in 1980	96

Typical days per month at BIRMINGHAM AP, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	<1	0	15	4
February	<1	0	10	4
March	6	<1	4	5
April	14	2	<1	4
May	25	11	0	4
June	29	22	0	4
July	31	28	0	4
August	31	27	0	3
September	27	17	0	2
October	16	3	<1	3
November	2	0	5	3
December	<1	0	12	4

How often, not how much — every day in BIRMINGHAM AP’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	8%	29%	14%	33%	9.1–15.7°C
February	16%	31%	15%	37%	11.4–18.1°C
March	36%	30%	16%	34%	16.1–22.0°C
April	62%	26%	13%	27%	21.9–25.6°C
May	73%	26%	12%	28%	25.9–29.4°C
June	72%	28%	11%	34%	29.5–33.2°C
July	67%	33%	14%	41%	30.7–34.4°C
August	74%	26%	11%	29%	30.7–34.2°C
September	80%	20%	9%	18%	27.6–32.1°C
October	71%	17%	7%	14%	22.5–26.8°C
November	33%	24%	11%	24%	15.7–20.4°C
December	10%	28%	13%	33%	11.0–16.1°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 96-year average. Warmest: 2016. Coolest: 1983.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 4049979
NOAA station: USW00013876 · BIRMINGHAM AP
Station distance: 7.3 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 30 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 33.52°, 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 BIRMINGHAM AP is what differs

Vestavia Hills→Homewood→Mountain Brook→Gardendale→Irondale→Leeds→

Or put two places side by side: Birmingham vs Vestavia Hills

Best time to visitBirmingham.

October

September

October

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Birmingham runs +1.2°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Birmingham.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Birmingham runs +1.2°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.