Climate averages 1991–2020
Bradford weather
in September.
A mild, moderately wet month: the 4th warmest and the 5th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
September is a mild month in Bradford: daytime highs average 16.2°C and nights cool to about 9.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 4th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 69 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes September a moderately wet month (the 5th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 46 min on an average September day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Halifax, United Kingdom (11 km away). In September its highs average 16.0°C, about as warm as Bradford, with 69 mm of rain.
Among the 143 cities listed in the United Kingdom, Bradford ranks joint 119th of 143 for the warmest September highs and joint 115th of 143 for the driest September (rainfall, lowest first). The mean September high of those 143 cities is 17.3°C; Bradford is 1.1°C cooler than that mean.
From September to October, average highs fall by 3.6°C to 12.6°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 69 mm to 75 mm.
The annual picture
September 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 | 18.6°C11.9°C | 11.9°C | 82 | 14.2 | 14.815 h |
| September, selected | 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
September in nearby cities
- Halifax, United Kingdom in SeptemberUnited Kingdom · 11 kmHigh 16.0°C · Low 9.8°C · 69 mm rain
- Leeds in SeptemberUnited Kingdom · 13 kmHigh 16.8°C · Low 10.1°C · 60 mm rain
- Huddersfield in SeptemberUnited Kingdom · 16 kmHigh 16.4°C · Low 10.3°C · 69 mm rain
- Wakefield in SeptemberUnited Kingdom · 21 kmHigh 16.8°C · Low 10.1°C · 60 mm rain
- Harrogate in SeptemberUnited Kingdom · 26 kmHigh 16.0°C · Low 9.3°C · 59 mm rain
- Burnley in SeptemberUnited Kingdom · 32 kmHigh 15.9°C · Low 9.4°C · 89 mm rain
- Barnsley in SeptemberUnited Kingdom · 32 kmHigh 16.5°C · Low 9.8°C · 63 mm rain
- Rochdale in SeptemberUnited Kingdom · 33 kmHigh 16.0°C · Low 9.6°C · 76 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.