Climate averages 1991–2020

Barnsley weather
in July.

A mild, moderately wet month: the warmest and the 10th driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 19.4°C Daytime mean, July
Average low 12.0°C Night-time mean, July
Rainfall 75 mm 13 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 16 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Barnsley · average highYear overview

July is a mild month in Barnsley: daytime highs average 19.4°C and nights cool to about 12.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.

Expect about 75 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes July a moderately wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 16 h 29 min on an average July day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Wakefield (15 km away). In July its highs average 19.7°C, about as warm as Barnsley, with 67 mm of rain.

Among the 143 cities listed in the United Kingdom, Barnsley ranks joint 100th of 143 for the warmest July highs and joint 111th of 143 for the driest July (rainfall, lowest first). The mean July high of those 143 cities is 20.0°C; Barnsley is 0.5°C cooler than that mean.

From July to August, average highs fall by 0.4°C to 19.1°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 75 mm to 79 mm.

The annual picture

July in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. -50510152025 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm
Average monthly rainfall totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 1000

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Barnsley climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Barnsley, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 6.1°C1.5°C1.5°C6212.98.18 h
February 6.8°C1.3°C1.3°C5611.79.810 h
March 9.0°C2.3°C2.3°C5712.211.812 h
April 11.7°C3.9°C3.9°C6312.414.014 h
May 14.7°C6.8°C6.8°C6312.215.916 h
June 17.3°C9.8°C9.8°C7812.816.917 h
July, selected 19.4°C12.0°C12.0°C7513.316.516 h
August 19.1°C11.9°C11.9°C7913.014.815 h
September 16.5°C9.8°C9.8°C6310.412.813 h
October 12.8°C7.1°C7.1°C6812.710.611 h
November 8.9°C4.1°C4.1°C6812.98.79 h
December 6.4°C1.9°C1.9°C7013.17.68 h

Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.

Compare places

July in nearby cities

Distance from Barnsley

Read the numbers correctly

Climate, not a promise.

These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.

Sources, method and limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Barnsley) is explained once on the Barnsley year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.

Sheffield lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.