Climate averages 1991–2020

Rochdale weather
in July.

A mild, moderately wet month: the warmest and the joint 6th driest of the year.

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

Average high 18.7°C Daytime mean, July
Average low 11.7°C Night-time mean, July
Rainfall 84 mm 15 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 16 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Rochdale · average highYear overview

July is a mild month in Rochdale: daytime highs average 18.7°C and nights cool to about 11.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.

Expect about 84 mm of rain on roughly 15 days, which makes July a moderately wet month (the joint 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 16 h 30 min on an average July day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Oldham (9 km away). In July its highs average 18.3°C, about as warm as Rochdale, with 84 mm of rain.

Among the 143 cities listed in the United Kingdom, Rochdale ranks joint 117th of 143 for the warmest July highs and joint 125th of 143 for the driest July (rainfall, lowest first). The mean July high of those 143 cities is 20.0°C; Rochdale is 1.3°C cooler than that mean.

From July to August, average highs fall by 0.4°C to 18.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 84 mm to 89 mm.

The annual picture

July 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

Rochdale climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Rochdale, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 6.1°C1.4°C1.4°C8815.08.18 h
February 6.7°C1.2°C1.2°C7813.59.810 h
March 8.8°C2.1°C2.1°C7413.111.812 h
April 11.5°C3.8°C3.8°C6612.814.014 h
May 14.5°C6.8°C6.8°C6912.815.916 h
June 16.9°C9.7°C9.7°C8413.917.017 h
July, selected 18.7°C11.7°C11.7°C8415.116.516 h
August 18.3°C11.6°C11.6°C8915.214.815 h
September 16.0°C9.6°C9.6°C7612.412.813 h
October 12.5°C7.0°C7.0°C8914.510.611 h
November 8.7°C4.0°C4.0°C8815.38.79 h
December 6.3°C1.8°C1.8°C9915.07.68 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 Rochdale

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

Manchester, Stockport and Salford lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.