Climate and average weather in Brough

In Brough, the summers are mild, showery, and mostly cloudy and the winters are cold, snowy, and mostly cloudy.

Best: early June to late September

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Brough typically varies from 2°C to 20°C, and is rarely below -2°C or above 25°C. July is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Brough for warm-weather activities is from early June to late September.

Hottest
Jul
20°
Coldest
Jan
Wettest
Jun
70 mm
Driest
Feb
42 mm
Rain / yr
680 mm
135 wet days
Daylight
7.2–16.8 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
8 m
53.7°N
Clearest
May
69% cloud

Brough is town in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

Air quality: WHO Ambient Air Quality Database. Density & description: Wikidata (CC0), GeoNames.

Brough weather by month, at a glance

The whole year in one picture — sky, rain, humidity, temperature and travel score. Click any band to jump to its full chart.

Each stripe is one measure across the whole year, stacked so a single day reads top to bottom. The sky band runs overcast grey on top down to clear blue at the base — more blue means sunnier — followed by the rainfall curve, the humidity band, a temperature strip that tints each stretch of the year by how warm its average high is, and the travel-score line at the foot. Scan straight down any date to read that day across every measure at once; the score climbs highest around early June to late September.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Brough, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

The hot season lasts 3.3 months, from June 11 to September 17, with daily high temperatures above 17°C. The hottest month of the year in Brough is July, with an average high of 20°C and low of 13°C.

The cool season lasts 3.8 months, from November 18 to March 12, with daily high temperatures below 9°C. The coldest month of the year in Brough is January, with an average low of 2°C and high of 7°C.

Days typically run about 6°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 8°C) in July.

10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan72
Feb82
Mar104
Apr125
May158
Jun1811
Jul2013
Aug2013
Sep1811
Oct148
Nov105
Dec73

How hot and cold Brough really feels

Feels-like highFeels-like lowactual air temp

The felt-temperature range through the year — heat index on the day's high (summer humidity), wind chill on the night's low (winter wind). The dashed lines are the plain thermometer; the gap is how much hotter or colder it really feels.

On the coldest nights, wind chill pulls the feels-like down to about -3°C (around February 3), with roughly 116 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C), worst in February.

-5°10°15°20°25°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan77-22
Feb78-22
Mar1010-14
Apr121225
May151558
Jun18181011
Jul20201313
Aug20201313
Sep18181011
Oct141458
Nov101015
Dec77-23

Average hourly temperature in Brough

A compact picture of the whole year, hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled average temperature. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

Read left to right for the day of the year and top to bottom for the hour of the day; the color is the modeled temperature, cool blues through to hot reds on the same scale as the other charts. A vertical slice is a single day's swing — coolest just before dawn, warmest in the mid-afternoon — while a horizontal slice follows one hour across the seasons. The darker overlay marks night and the lighter one the twilight around sunrise and sunset. Colors run warmest on July afternoons, near 20°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near C.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM

Brough weather by month

Every month at a glance. Click a month for its detailed page.

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysSnow daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan / 5211.41.17.80.8
Feb / 429.41.29.41.1
Mar10° / 4510.8111.52.0
Apr12° / 5311.50.113.73.1
May15° / 5411.2015.64.3
Jun18° / 11°7012.6016.75.2
Jul20° / 13°6712.6016.35.8
Aug20° / 13°7011.5014.65.9
Sep18° / 11°5610.3012.55.4
Oct14° / 5911010.33.8
Nov10° / 5811.80.28.32.0
Dec / 5511.30.97.30.9

Chance of rain

How likely it is to rain on a typical day, and how that shifts across the wetter and drier seasons.

Brough gets about 680 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is often wet, and that barely changes with the seasons — rain is spread fairly evenly through the year.

June is the wettest month by volume, with 70 mm over about 13 wet days; February is the driest, with 42 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecmostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJun 12 · 42%Mar 15 · 33%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan3711
Feb349
Mar3511
Apr3712
May3811
Jun4113
Jul4013
Aug3812
Sep3510
Oct3611
Nov3912
Dec3711

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Brough collects about 680 mm of rain across 135 wet days — roughly 57 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. June is the wettest month with 70 mm, while February is the driest at just 42 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 30% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075100JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec524245535470677056595855
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan52111
Feb4291
Mar45111
Apr53120
May54110
Jun70130
Jul67130
Aug70120
Sep56100
Oct59110
Nov58120
Dec55111

Snow in Brough

Average snowy days through the year, the snow-season span, and estimated snowfall — for ski trips and the perennial 'will there be snow at Christmas?' question.

Brough averages about 5 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Nov 25 to Mar 28 — about 4.1 months.

March is snowiest, with roughly 0.9 day of snow and an estimated 2 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 13 cm of snow.

01234JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonMar 2
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan13
Feb14
Mar12
Apr00
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct00
Nov01
Dec12

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

How often the daytime sky is clear, partly cloudy or overcast.

In Brough, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows mild seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around July 11 and lasts for 2.1 months, ending around September 11. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 33% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around May 21 and lasts for 1.7 months, ending around July 10. The cloudiest month is June, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 75% of the time.

0%100%10%90%20%80%30%70%40%60%50%50%60%40%70%30%80%20%90%10%100%0%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecAug 11 · 34%Jun 16 · 23%mostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan3070
Feb3070
Mar2971
Apr3070
May3169
Jun2575
Jul3169
Aug3367
Sep2872
Oct2773
Nov3268
Dec3367

Daylight, sunrise and sunset

DaylightNight

Hours of daylight through the year, with sunrise and sunset times.

The gold band is daylight — sunrise runs along its lower edge, sunset along the upper — so it widens toward summer and pinches toward winter, with night the dark area above and below. The longest day, around June 14, brings about 16 h 48 min of light; the shortest, around December 13, only 7 h 12 min — a swing of roughly 9 h 36 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan7.88:204:03
Feb9.47:344:59
Mar11.56:285:56
Apr13.75:116:54
May15.64:087:49
Jun16.73:398:26
Jul16.33:588:18
Aug14.64:487:25
Sep12.55:446:09
Oct10.36:404:55
Nov8.37:403:55
Dec7.38:223:35

Sunny days

How many genuinely sunny days each month brings — days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — banded into plain-language zones.

Brough gets about 4 sunny days a month gloomy — and it barely shifts through the year, holding between 3 and 5 days every month. Clear skies here are a flat line, not a season.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgloomymixedDec 295 daysJun 153 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan5Gloomy
Feb4Gloomy
Mar4Gloomy
Apr4Gloomy
May5Gloomy
Jun3Gloomy
Jul4Gloomy
Aug4Gloomy
Sep4Gloomy
Oct4Gloomy
Nov5Gloomy
Dec5Gloomy

Humidity comfort

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Share of days at each humidity comfort level, based on the dew point — the measure that tracks how muggy it actually feels.

Humidity comfort is graded by the dew point — the temperature at which the air would be fully saturated — because it tracks how muggy it actually feels far better than relative humidity does. A low dew point feels dry and crisp; a high one feels sticky and oppressive no matter the reading on a humidity gauge.

In Brough, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in August, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 8% of the time — humidity is not something you need to plan around here.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecMay 6 · 100%Aug 6 · 88%humidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)
Jan10000
Feb10000
Mar10000
Apr10000
May9730
Jun85142
Jul64306
Aug63298
Sep83161
Oct9640
Nov10000
Dec10000

Wind

Average wind speed through the year, banded into plain-language speed zones so a number reads as 'breezy' or 'calm' without knowing the scale.

This is the average sustained wind speed at the standard 10 metres above open ground — the steady flow a weather station reports, not the sharper gusts that come and go, which can run half again as fast. It's the number that says whether a place is generally breezy or calm.

Across the year, average wind speed in Brough is typically light breeze, near 17 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 6.0 months, from around Oct 5 to Apr 4. The windiest month is January, averaging about 19 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Apr 5 to Oct 4, with July the calmest month at about 14 km/h.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezebreezyJan 10 · 19 km/hJul 23 · 14 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan19light breeze
Feb19light breeze
Mar18light breeze
Apr16light breeze
May16light breeze
Jun15light breeze
Jul14light breeze
Aug15light breeze
Sep16light breeze
Oct17light breeze
Nov18light breeze
Dec18light breeze

Best time to visit Brough

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

To characterize how pleasant the weather is in Brough throughout the year, we compute two travel scores — one for general sightseeing, one for beach and pool weather.

Around mid September, Brough is still near the tail of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds already thinning.

Inferred from the travel-score curve; month-by-month visitor numbers are a planned addition.

The travel score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 18°C and 28°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Brough for general outdoor tourist activities is from late May to late September, with a peak score in the last week of July.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 28 · 6.0

The travel score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

Travel score (0–10)Rating
Jan0.8poor
Feb1.1poor
Mar2.0poor
Apr3.1poor
May4.3fair
Jun5.2fair
Jul5.8good
Aug5.9good
Sep5.4fair
Oct3.8fair
Nov2.0poor
Dec0.9poor

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Brough for hot-weather activities is from mid July to late August, with a peak score in the last week of July.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 30 · 3.7

The beach/pool score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

What to pack for Brough, by month

EssentialRecommendedOptional

Month by month, what's worth putting in the bag — from the temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind. Tap a month for a quick packing note.

For a warm-season trip around July (highs near 20°C), the essentials are rain gear and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 7°C), pack a warm layer, a heavy coat and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Brough sees daytime highs around 20°C and nights near 13°C. Worth packing: rain gear and sun protection. About 13 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Brough

Average ocean temperature at the nearest coast, month by month, banded into swim-comfort zones — the other half of the beach question.

The sea at the nearest coast (about 34 km away) is warmest in August at about 15°C and coldest in February near 6°C.

The water stays below 20°C all year — cool enough that most swimmers want a wetsuit.

5°10°15°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbracingcool
Sea temperature (°C)Comfort
Jan7Bracing
Feb6Bracing
Mar6Bracing
Apr7Bracing
May9Bracing
Jun11Bracing
Jul14Bracing
Aug15Bracing
Sep14Bracing
Oct13Bracing
Nov11Bracing
Dec9Bracing

UV index (midday) in Brough by month

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV index through the year, shaded by the WHO exposure levels — how much sun protection each month calls for.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Brough peaks around August 12 at about 6 (high) — a little sun protection helps at midday. It bottoms out near January 1 at about 1 (low).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — in 6 months of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecLowModerateHighModerateLowAug 12UV 6Jan 1UV 1
UV index (midday)Level
Jan1Low
Feb1Low
Mar3Moderate
Apr3Moderate
May5High
Jun6High
Jul6High
Aug6High
Sep4Moderate
Oct2Low
Nov1Low
Dec1Low

Average hourly UV index in Brough

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Modeled clear-sky UV for every hour of every day — when in the day sun protection actually matters.

The whole year hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled clear-sky UV index — the midday peak scaled down as the sun sits lower in the sky. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

UV falls off far faster than brightness as the sun drops, so even in August the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 6.5 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended). Mornings and late afternoons stay comparatively gentle year round.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM
UV ≥ 3 (h/day)UV ≥ 6 (h/day)
Jan00
Feb00
Mar00
Apr1.50
May6.50
Jun70
Jul70
Aug6.50
Sep3.50
Oct00
Nov00
Dec00
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayReliably frost-free (≥90%)

Brough is mild enough that a frost-free day stays more likely than not even in midwinter. Nights are reliably above freezing from about March 16 to November 19 (249 days); outside that window a hard frost is an occasional risk.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecreliably frost-freeMar 1690%Nov 1990%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan7831
Feb7728
Mar8914
Apr980
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct990
Nov9212
Dec7831

Growing degree days

Degree days (base 10°C)Frost-free shaded

Growing degree days tally heat above 10°C: each day adds however many degrees its average temperature runs over that threshold, and cold days add nothing. Brough banks about 723 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around July.

0200400600800JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr0
May44
Jun127
Jul202
Aug200
Sep120
Oct29
Nov0
Dec0

Solar energy

Average daily shortwave solar energy reaching the ground, banded into brightness zones so the number means something at a glance.

Solar energy is how much sunlight actually reaches the ground each day, measured in kilowatt-hours per square metre (kWh/m²) — the combined effect of how long the sun is up, how high it climbs, and how much cloud gets in the way. It's the raw fuel a solar panel has to work with: for scale, 1 kWh/m² a day is dim and wintry, while 7+ is desert-bright.

Brough receives about 2.9 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — moderate — with a clear seasonal swing between 0.5 and 5.2 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 5.9 months, from around Mar 22 to Sep 16. The brightest month is June, averaging about 5.2 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is December, down near 0.6 kWh/m² — roughly 89% less than the June peak.

0123456JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightJun 275.2 kWhDec 220.5 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan0.7Dim
Feb1.5Dim
Mar2.7Moderate
Apr4.1Bright
May5.2Bright
Jun5.2Bright
Jul5.1Bright
Aug4.3Bright
Sep3.0Moderate
Oct1.7Dim
Nov0.9Dim
Dec0.6Dim

Where is Brough?

Brough sits at 53.7°N, 0.6°W, 8 m above sea level, in United Kingdom. The nearest listed city is Kingston upon Hull, 16 km away.

Topography around Brough

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 3, 16 and 80 km of Brough.

Within 3 km, the terrain around Brough has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 146 m around an average of 20 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 171 m; within 80 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 528 m.

The land around Brough is covered by water (27%), cropland (23%) and grassland (21%) within 3 km, cropland (56%) within 16 km, and cropland (45%) and grassland (22%) within 80 km.

3 km
146 m
16 km
171 m
80 km
528 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswaterwetland
Nearby: Kingston upon Hull 16 km · Beverley 16 km · Scunthorpe 17 km · Goole 20 km · Thorne 29 km · Selby 33 km · Grimsby 37 km · Cleethorpes 40 km

United Kingdom travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 2
Exercise Increased Caution
Power plugs
Type D / G / M
230 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 89% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$57,602
2025
Happiness
6.7 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
100%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
1.1
per 100k, 2021
Road deaths
3.2
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
High
World Bank
Religion
Christian 60%none 26%Muslim 4%other 2%

Sources: World Bank, US State Department, World Happiness Report, WHO/UNICEF, EF EPI, CIA World Factbook.

Data sources

Temperature, precipitation, cloud, humidity, wind and solar figures are a 1991–2020 climatology for Brough (53.7286°, -0.5722°, elevation 8 m), computed from hourly ERA5 reanalysis — contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. Sun figures are astronomical calculations, not observations. City data © GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Map outlines from Natural Earth (public domain); interactive map © Google. Sea temperatures are the NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology (public domain), sampled at the nearest ocean point. UV index is derived from CAMS (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service) clear-sky UV data — contains modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).