Climate averages 1991–2020

Basildon weather
in September.

A mild, moderately wet month: the 4th warmest and the joint 3rd driest of the year.

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

Average high 18.2°C Daytime mean, September
Average low 12.1°C Night-time mean, September
Rainfall 45 mm 9 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 13 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Basildon · average highYear overview

September is a mild month in Basildon: daytime highs average 18.2°C and nights cool to about 12.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 4th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 45 mm of rain on roughly 9 days, which makes September a moderately wet month (the joint 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 42 min on an average September day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Grays (14 km away). In September its highs average 18.5°C, about as warm as Basildon, with 45 mm of rain.

Among the 143 cities listed in the United Kingdom, Basildon ranks joint 23rd of 143 for the warmest September highs and joint 1st of 143 for the driest September (rainfall, lowest first). The mean September high of those 143 cities is 17.3°C; Basildon is 0.9°C warmer than that mean.

From September to October, average highs fall by 3.8°C to 14.4°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 45 mm to 56 mm.

The annual picture

September 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. 0510152025 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

Basildon climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Basildon, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 7.2°C3.0°C3.0°C4910.88.48 h
February 7.6°C2.8°C2.8°C429.49.910 h
March 9.8°C4.1°C4.1°C399.711.812 h
April 12.6°C5.9°C5.9°C4511.113.814 h
May 15.6°C8.9°C8.9°C509.715.616 h
June 18.7°C11.8°C11.8°C529.516.617 h
July 21.0°C14.1°C14.1°C5210.316.116 h
August 20.9°C14.2°C14.2°C589.914.615 h
September, selected 18.2°C12.1°C12.1°C458.712.713 h
October 14.4°C9.4°C9.4°C5610.510.711 h
November 10.3°C5.9°C5.9°C5710.68.99 h
December 7.7°C3.7°C3.7°C5511.07.98 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

September in nearby cities

Distance from Basildon

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 Basildon) is explained once on the Basildon year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.

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