Climate averages 1991–2020

Cannock weather
in August.

A mild, moderately wet month: the 2nd warmest and the 9th driest of the year.

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

Average high 19.3°C Daytime mean, August
Average low 12.1°C Night-time mean, August
Rainfall 67 mm 12 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 15 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Cannock · average highYear overview

August is a mild month in Cannock: daytime highs average 19.3°C and nights cool to about 12.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 67 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes August a moderately wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 44 min on an average August day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Walsall (12 km away). In August its highs average 19.6°C, about as warm as Cannock, with 62 mm of rain.

Among the 143 cities listed in the United Kingdom, Cannock ranks joint 94th of 143 for the warmest August highs and joint 82nd of 143 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 143 cities is 19.7°C; Cannock is 0.4°C cooler than that mean.

From August to September, average highs fall by 2.5°C to 16.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 67 mm to 60 mm.

The annual picture

August in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. -50510152025 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm
Average monthly rainfall totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 1000

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

Every month, side by side

Cannock climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Cannock, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 6.3°C1.6°C1.6°C5712.38.28 h
February 7.0°C1.4°C1.4°C4910.99.810 h
March 9.2°C2.4°C2.4°C5211.611.812 h
April 11.9°C4.1°C4.1°C5912.413.914 h
May 15.0°C7.0°C7.0°C6311.715.716 h
June 17.7°C10.0°C10.0°C7211.816.817 h
July 19.7°C12.0°C12.0°C7012.316.316 h
August, selected 19.3°C12.1°C12.1°C6711.914.715 h
September 16.8°C9.9°C9.9°C6010.412.713 h
October 13.0°C7.3°C7.3°C6911.810.711 h
November 9.0°C4.2°C4.2°C6612.88.89 h
December 6.5°C2.1°C2.1°C6612.07.78 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

Distance from Cannock

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

Stafford lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.