Climate averages 1991–2020

Burnley weather
in July.

A mild, wet month: the warmest and the 7th driest of the year.

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

Average high 18.5°C Daytime mean, July

Average low 11.5°C Night-time mean, July

Rainfall 101 mm 16 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 17 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

July is a mild month in Burnley: daytime highs average 18.5°C and nights cool to about 11.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.

Expect about 101 mm of rain on roughly 16 days, which makes July a wet month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 16 h 32 min on an average July day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Blackburn (17 km away). In July its highs average 18.2°C, about as warm as Burnley, with 99 mm of rain.

Among the 143 cities listed in the United Kingdom, Burnley ranks joint 124th of 143 for the warmest July highs and 143rd of 143 for the driest July (rainfall, lowest first). The mean July high of those 143 cities is 20.0°C; Burnley is 1.5°C cooler than that mean.

From July to August, average highs fall by 0.4°C to 18.1°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 101 mm to 106 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

Burnley climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Burnley, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January	5.9°C1.3°C	1.3°C	106	15.9	8.08 h
February	6.5°C1.1°C	1.1°C	95	14.1	9.710 h
March	8.6°C2.0°C	2.0°C	88	13.9	11.812 h
April	11.3°C3.7°C	3.7°C	77	13.6	14.014 h
May	14.3°C6.6°C	6.6°C	82	13.6	15.916 h
June	16.8°C9.6°C	9.6°C	95	14.6	17.017 h
July, selected	18.5°C11.5°C	11.5°C	101	16.1	16.517 h
August	18.1°C11.5°C	11.5°C	106	16.0	14.815 h
September	15.9°C9.4°C	9.4°C	89	13.1	12.813 h
October	12.4°C6.8°C	6.8°C	104	15.1	10.611 h
November	8.6°C3.8°C	3.8°C	103	15.9	8.69 h
December	6.2°C1.6°C	1.6°C	118	15.6	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

July in nearby cities

Distance from Burnley

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