Climate averages 1991–2020

Walthamstow weather
in August.

A mild, moderately wet month: the 2nd warmest and the wettest of the year.

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

Average high 21.4°C Daytime mean, August
Average low 13.7°C Night-time mean, August
Rainfall 62 mm 10 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 15 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Walthamstow · average highYear overview

August is a mild month in Walthamstow: daytime highs average 21.4°C and nights cool to about 13.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 62 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes August a moderately wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 37 min on an average August day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Ilford (7 km away). In August its highs average 21.3°C, about as warm as Walthamstow, with 62 mm of rain.

Among the 143 cities listed in the United Kingdom, Walthamstow ranks joint 1st of 143 for the warmest August highs and joint 30th of 143 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 143 cities is 19.7°C; Walthamstow is 1.7°C warmer than that mean.

From August to September, average highs fall by 2.8°C to 18.6°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 62 mm to 45 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. 0510152025 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

Walthamstow climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Walthamstow, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 7.3°C2.4°C2.4°C5310.78.48 h
February 7.9°C2.3°C2.3°C449.19.910 h
March 10.4°C3.6°C3.6°C4110.111.812 h
April 13.4°C5.3°C5.3°C4910.913.814 h
May 16.6°C8.5°C8.5°C529.815.616 h
June 19.5°C11.5°C11.5°C569.516.617 h
July 21.7°C13.7°C13.7°C5610.216.116 h
August, selected 21.4°C13.7°C13.7°C629.814.615 h
September 18.6°C11.4°C11.4°C458.812.713 h
October 14.6°C8.7°C8.7°C5710.510.711 h
November 10.4°C5.2°C5.2°C6010.88.99 h
December 7.7°C3.1°C3.1°C5711.17.98 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 Walthamstow

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

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