Climate averages 1991–2020

Paisley weather
in July.

A mild, wet month: the warmest and the joint 5th driest of the year.

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

Average high 17.4°C Daytime mean, July

Average low 11.3°C Night-time mean, July

Rainfall 92 mm 16 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 17 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

July is a mild month in Paisley: daytime highs average 17.4°C and nights cool to about 11.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.

Expect about 92 mm of rain on roughly 16 days, which makes July a wet month (the joint 5th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 16 h 56 min on an average July day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Glasgow (12 km away). In July its highs average 17.5°C, about as warm as Paisley, with 92 mm of rain.

Among the 143 cities listed in the United Kingdom, Paisley ranks joint 139th of 143 for the warmest July highs and joint 134th of 143 for the driest July (rainfall, lowest first). The mean July high of those 143 cities is 20.0°C; Paisley is 2.5°C cooler than that mean.

From July to August, average highs fall by 0.2°C to 17.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 92 mm to 105 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

Paisley climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Paisley, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January	6.1°C1.8°C	1.8°C	125	17.5	7.78 h
February	6.6°C1.7°C	1.7°C	104	14.9	9.510 h
March	8.2°C2.4°C	2.4°C	92	14.9	11.812 h
April	10.8°C3.9°C	3.9°C	77	14.1	14.114 h
May	13.8°C6.6°C	6.6°C	78	13.6	16.216 h
June	16.0°C9.5°C	9.5°C	84	14.4	17.517 h
July, selected	17.4°C11.3°C	11.3°C	92	15.7	16.917 h
August	17.2°C11.1°C	11.1°C	105	16.4	15.115 h
September	15.1°C9.4°C	9.4°C	90	14.1	12.813 h
October	11.8°C6.7°C	6.7°C	122	16.1	10.510 h
November	8.5°C3.9°C	3.9°C	117	16.9	8.48 h
December	6.2°C1.8°C	1.8°C	124	16.3	7.17 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 Paisley

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