Climate averages 1991–2020

Bedford weather
in July.

A mild, moderately wet month: the warmest and the 11th driest of the year.

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

Average high 21.5°C Daytime mean, July

Average low 13.3°C Night-time mean, July

Rainfall 60 mm 11 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 16 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

July is a mild month in Bedford: daytime highs average 21.5°C and nights cool to about 13.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.

Expect about 60 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes July a moderately wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 16 h 14 min on an average July day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Milton Keynes (22 km away). In July its highs average 20.8°C, 0.7°C cooler than Bedford, with 61 mm of rain.

Among the 143 cities listed in the United Kingdom, Bedford ranks joint 9th of 143 for the warmest July highs and joint 54th of 143 for the driest July (rainfall, lowest first). The mean July high of those 143 cities is 20.0°C; Bedford is 1.6°C warmer than that mean.

From July to August, average highs fall by 0.3°C to 21.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 60 mm to 61 mm.

The annual picture

July in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm

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

Every month, side by side

Bedford climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Bedford, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January	7.2°C2.2°C	2.2°C	49	10.8	8.38 h
February	7.8°C2.0°C	2.0°C	40	9.8	9.910 h
March	10.3°C3.2°C	3.2°C	43	10.0	11.812 h
April	13.1°C4.9°C	4.9°C	49	11.0	13.914 h
May	16.2°C8.0°C	8.0°C	54	10.6	15.716 h
June	19.1°C11.0°C	11.0°C	58	10.4	16.717 h
July, selected	21.5°C13.3°C	13.3°C	60	11.4	16.216 h
August	21.3°C13.2°C	13.2°C	61	10.5	14.715 h
September	18.5°C11.0°C	11.0°C	50	8.9	12.713 h
October	14.4°C8.2°C	8.2°C	59	10.6	10.711 h
November	10.1°C4.9°C	4.9°C	56	11.0	8.99 h
December	7.4°C2.7°C	2.7°C	53	11.0	7.88 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 Bedford

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