Climate averages 1991–2020
Blackpool weather
in August.
A mild, wet month: one of the warmest and the 9th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a mild month in Blackpool: daytime highs average 17.7°C and nights cool to about 13.6°C. By daytime temperature it is one of the warmest months of the year.
Expect about 117 mm of rain on roughly 17 days, which makes August a wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 51 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Fylde (9 km away). In August its highs average 17.8°C, about as warm as Blackpool, with 117 mm of rain.
Among the 143 cities listed in the United Kingdom, Blackpool ranks 133rd of 143 for the warmest August highs and joint 141st of 143 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 143 cities is 19.7°C; Blackpool is 2.0°C cooler than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 1.7°C to 16.0°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 117 mm to 110 mm.
The annual picture
August in context
Monthly rainfall
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
Blackpool climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 6.8°C3.6°C | 3.6°C | 108 | 17.0 | 8.08 h |
| February | 7.0°C3.3°C | 3.3°C | 88 | 14.8 | 9.710 h |
| March | 8.4°C4.1°C | 4.1°C | 81 | 14.4 | 11.812 h |
| April | 10.7°C5.7°C | 5.7°C | 70 | 12.8 | 14.014 h |
| May | 13.6°C8.5°C | 8.5°C | 73 | 12.5 | 15.916 h |
| June | 16.0°C11.3°C | 11.3°C | 86 | 13.5 | 17.017 h |
| July | 17.7°C13.4°C | 13.4°C | 97 | 16.1 | 16.517 h |
| August, selected | 17.7°C13.6°C | 13.6°C | 117 | 16.8 | 14.815 h |
| September | 16.0°C11.8°C | 11.8°C | 110 | 14.8 | 12.813 h |
| October | 13.0°C9.3°C | 9.3°C | 137 | 17.3 | 10.611 h |
| November | 9.6°C6.5°C | 6.5°C | 138 | 18.4 | 8.69 h |
| December | 7.4°C4.2°C | 4.2°C | 139 | 17.4 | 7.58 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
August in nearby cities
- Fylde in AugustUnited Kingdom · 9 kmHigh 17.8°C · Low 13.4°C · 117 mm rain
- Southport in AugustUnited Kingdom · 19 kmHigh 18.2°C · Low 13.7°C · 117 mm rain
- Preston in AugustUnited Kingdom · 23 kmHigh 18.2°C · Low 12.5°C · 112 mm rain
- Blackburn in AugustUnited Kingdom · 38 kmHigh 17.9°C · Low 11.6°C · 108 mm rain
- Wigan in AugustUnited Kingdom · 41 kmHigh 18.7°C · Low 12.5°C · 89 mm rain
- Liverpool in AugustUnited Kingdom · 45 kmHigh 18.4°C · Low 13.3°C · 99 mm rain
- St Helens in AugustUnited Kingdom · 46 kmHigh 18.7°C · Low 12.7°C · 89 mm rain
- Bolton in AugustUnited Kingdom · 48 kmHigh 18.2°C · Low 11.8°C · 89 mm rain
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 limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Blackpool) is explained once on the Blackpool year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Southport and Fylde lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.