Climate averages 1991–2020
Wakefield weather
in September.
A mild, moderately wet month: the 4th warmest and the joint 5th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
September is a mild month in Wakefield: daytime highs average 16.8°C and nights cool to about 10.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 4th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 60 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes September a moderately wet month (the joint 5th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 46 min on an average September day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Leeds (13 km away). In September its highs average 16.8°C, about as warm as Wakefield, with 60 mm of rain.
Among the 143 cities listed in the United Kingdom, Wakefield ranks joint 98th of 143 for the warmest September highs and joint 93rd of 143 for the driest September (rainfall, lowest first). The mean September high of those 143 cities is 17.3°C; Wakefield is 0.5°C cooler than that mean.
From September to October, average highs fall by 3.7°C to 13.1°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 60 mm to 64 mm.
The annual picture
September 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
Wakefield climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 6.5°C1.8°C | 1.8°C | 60 | 12.7 | 8.18 h |
| February | 7.2°C1.6°C | 1.6°C | 54 | 11.3 | 9.710 h |
| March | 9.3°C2.6°C | 2.6°C | 53 | 11.3 | 11.812 h |
| April | 11.9°C4.1°C | 4.1°C | 58 | 11.9 | 14.014 h |
| May | 14.9°C7.1°C | 7.1°C | 56 | 11.6 | 15.916 h |
| June | 17.6°C10.1°C | 10.1°C | 71 | 12.1 | 17.017 h |
| July | 19.7°C12.2°C | 12.2°C | 67 | 12.5 | 16.517 h |
| August | 19.3°C12.2°C | 12.2°C | 72 | 12.0 | 14.815 h |
| September, selected | 16.8°C10.1°C | 10.1°C | 60 | 10.2 | 12.813 h |
| October | 13.1°C7.5°C | 7.5°C | 64 | 12.1 | 10.611 h |
| November | 9.2°C4.4°C | 4.4°C | 64 | 12.7 | 8.79 h |
| December | 6.7°C2.2°C | 2.2°C | 67 | 12.7 | 7.68 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
September in nearby cities
- Leeds in SeptemberUnited Kingdom · 13 kmHigh 16.8°C · Low 10.1°C · 60 mm rain
- Barnsley in SeptemberUnited Kingdom · 15 kmHigh 16.5°C · Low 9.8°C · 63 mm rain
- Huddersfield in SeptemberUnited Kingdom · 19 kmHigh 16.4°C · Low 10.3°C · 69 mm rain
- Bradford in SeptemberUnited Kingdom · 21 kmHigh 16.2°C · Low 9.8°C · 69 mm rain
- Halifax, United Kingdom in SeptemberUnited Kingdom · 23 kmHigh 16.0°C · Low 9.8°C · 69 mm rain
- Rotherham in SeptemberUnited Kingdom · 30 kmHigh 17.3°C · Low 10.6°C · 58 mm rain
- Doncaster in SeptemberUnited Kingdom · 30 kmHigh 17.5°C · Low 10.3°C · 58 mm rain
- Sheffield in SeptemberUnited Kingdom · 33 kmHigh 17.1°C · Low 10.5°C · 63 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 Wakefield) is explained once on the Wakefield year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Leeds lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.