Climate averages 1991–2020
Sunderland weather
in July.
A mild, moderately wet month: the warmest and the 10th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
July is a mild month in Sunderland: daytime highs average 19.0°C and nights cool to about 12.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 61 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes July a moderately wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 16 h 45 min on an average July day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is South Shields (11 km away). In July its highs average 18.8°C, about as warm as Sunderland, with 61 mm of rain.
Among the 143 cities listed in the United Kingdom, Sunderland ranks joint 108th of 143 for the warmest July highs and joint 61st of 143 for the driest July (rainfall, lowest first). The mean July high of those 143 cities is 20.0°C; Sunderland is 1.0°C cooler than that mean.
From July to August, average highs fall by 0.3°C to 18.7°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 61 mm to 68 mm.
The annual picture
July 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
Sunderland climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 6.5°C2.2°C | 2.2°C | 53 | 12.2 | 7.98 h |
| February | 7.1°C2.2°C | 2.2°C | 46 | 11.0 | 9.610 h |
| March | 8.9°C2.9°C | 2.9°C | 43 | 10.6 | 11.812 h |
| April | 11.1°C4.5°C | 4.5°C | 51 | 11.0 | 14.114 h |
| May | 13.9°C7.2°C | 7.2°C | 48 | 11.3 | 16.116 h |
| June | 16.6°C10.1°C | 10.1°C | 60 | 11.5 | 17.217 h |
| July, selected | 19.0°C12.3°C | 12.3°C | 61 | 12.0 | 16.717 h |
| August | 18.7°C12.2°C | 12.2°C | 68 | 12.3 | 15.015 h |
| September | 16.4°C10.3°C | 10.3°C | 52 | 9.7 | 12.813 h |
| October | 12.9°C7.7°C | 7.7°C | 58 | 11.8 | 10.511 h |
| November | 9.2°C4.8°C | 4.8°C | 62 | 12.5 | 8.58 h |
| December | 6.7°C2.6°C | 2.6°C | 59 | 12.4 | 7.37 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
- South Shields in JulyUnited Kingdom · 11 kmHigh 18.8°C · Low 12.5°C · 61 mm rain
- Newcastle upon Tyne in JulyUnited Kingdom · 17 kmHigh 18.5°C · Low 12.0°C · 61 mm rain
- Hartlepool in JulyUnited Kingdom · 27 kmHigh 18.7°C · Low 12.7°C · 61 mm rain
- Stockton-on-Tees in JulyUnited Kingdom · 38 kmHigh 19.0°C · Low 12.5°C · 62 mm rain
- Middlesbrough in JulyUnited Kingdom · 38 kmHigh 18.8°C · Low 12.7°C · 62 mm rain
- Darlington in JulyUnited Kingdom · 44 kmHigh 19.0°C · Low 11.8°C · 64 mm rain
- Carlisle in JulyUnited Kingdom · 99 kmHigh 18.2°C · Low 11.3°C · 81 mm rain
- Harrogate in JulyUnited Kingdom · 102 kmHigh 18.8°C · Low 11.4°C · 65 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 Sunderland) is explained once on the Sunderland year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Newcastle upon Tyne and South Shields lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.