Climate averages 1991–2020
Bradford weather
in August.
A mild, moderately wet month: the 2nd warmest and one of the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a mild month in Bradford: daytime highs average 18.6°C and nights cool to about 11.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 82 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes August a moderately wet month (one of the wettest months of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 51 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Halifax, United Kingdom (11 km away). In August its highs average 18.3°C, about as warm as Bradford, with 82 mm of rain.
Among the 143 cities listed in the United Kingdom, Bradford ranks joint 114th of 143 for the warmest August highs and joint 117th of 143 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 143 cities is 19.7°C; Bradford is 1.1°C cooler than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 2.4°C to 16.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 82 mm to 69 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
Bradford climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 6.1°C1.6°C | 1.6°C | 73 | 14.1 | 8.18 h |
| February | 6.7°C1.4°C | 1.4°C | 66 | 12.8 | 9.710 h |
| March | 8.8°C2.3°C | 2.3°C | 64 | 12.7 | 11.812 h |
| April | 11.5°C3.9°C | 3.9°C | 65 | 12.6 | 14.014 h |
| May | 14.4°C6.8°C | 6.8°C | 64 | 12.5 | 15.916 h |
| June | 17.0°C9.8°C | 9.8°C | 78 | 13.7 | 17.017 h |
| July | 19.0°C11.9°C | 11.9°C | 77 | 14.0 | 16.517 h |
| August, selected | 18.6°C11.9°C | 11.9°C | 82 | 14.2 | 14.815 h |
| September | 16.2°C9.8°C | 9.8°C | 69 | 11.4 | 12.813 h |
| October | 12.6°C7.2°C | 7.2°C | 75 | 13.2 | 10.611 h |
| November | 8.8°C4.2°C | 4.2°C | 74 | 13.6 | 8.69 h |
| December | 6.4°C2.0°C | 2.0°C | 82 | 13.8 | 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
- Halifax, United Kingdom in AugustUnited Kingdom · 11 kmHigh 18.3°C · Low 11.8°C · 82 mm rain
- Leeds in AugustUnited Kingdom · 13 kmHigh 19.3°C · Low 12.2°C · 72 mm rain
- Huddersfield in AugustUnited Kingdom · 16 kmHigh 18.8°C · Low 12.3°C · 82 mm rain
- Wakefield in AugustUnited Kingdom · 21 kmHigh 19.3°C · Low 12.2°C · 72 mm rain
- Harrogate in AugustUnited Kingdom · 26 kmHigh 18.5°C · Low 11.4°C · 71 mm rain
- Burnley in AugustUnited Kingdom · 32 kmHigh 18.1°C · Low 11.5°C · 106 mm rain
- Barnsley in AugustUnited Kingdom · 32 kmHigh 19.1°C · Low 11.9°C · 79 mm rain
- Rochdale in AugustUnited Kingdom · 33 kmHigh 18.3°C · Low 11.6°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 Bradford) is explained once on the Bradford year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Huddersfield and Halifax, United Kingdom lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.