Climate and average weather in Chapeltown

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

Best: late May to late September

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Chapeltown typically varies from 2°C to 20°C, and is rarely below -3°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 Chapeltown for warm-weather activities is from late May to late September.

Hottest
Jul
20°
Coldest
Jan
Wettest
Aug
79 mm
Driest
Feb
55 mm
Rain / yr
800 mm
150 wet days
Daylight
7.2–16.8 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
111 m
53.5°N
Clearest
Aug
71% cloud

Chapeltown is suburb of Sheffield in South Yorkshire, England.

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

Chapeltown 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 late May to late September.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 3.4 months, from June 6 to September 15, with daily high temperatures above 17°C. The hottest month of the year in Chapeltown is July, with an average high of 20°C and low of 12°C.

The cool season lasts 3.9 months, from November 16 to March 14, with daily high temperatures below 9°C. The coldest month of the year in Chapeltown is January, with an average low of 2°C and high of 6°C.

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

-5°10°15°20°25°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan62
Feb72
Mar93
Apr124
May157
Jun1710
Jul2012
Aug1912
Sep1710
Oct137
Nov94
Dec72

How hot and cold Chapeltown 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 134 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)
Jan66-32
Feb77-32
Mar99-13
Apr121214
May151547
Jun1717910
Jul20201212
Aug19191212
Sep1617810
Oct131347
Nov9914
Dec77-22

Average hourly temperature in Chapeltown

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

Chapeltown 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 / 6212.92.17.80.5
Feb / 5511.62.59.40.7
Mar / 5712.21.911.51.6
Apr12° / 6312.40.713.72.8
May15° / 6312.2015.64.1
Jun17° / 10°7812.8016.75.0
Jul20° / 12°7513.3016.25.6
Aug19° / 12°7913014.65.6
Sep17° / 10°6310.5012.54.9
Oct13° / 6812.7010.33.2
Nov / 68130.58.41.6
Dec / 7013.127.30.6

Chance of rain

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

Chapeltown gets about 800 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.

August is the wettest month by volume, with 79 mm over about 13 wet days; February is the driest, with 55 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecmostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJan 7 · 44%Sep 7 · 35%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan4213
Feb4112
Mar4012
Apr4012
May4112
Jun4313
Jul4213
Aug4213
Sep3611
Oct4113
Nov4313
Dec4213

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Chapeltown collects about 800 mm of rain across 150 wet days — roughly 67 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. August is the wettest month with 79 mm, while February is the driest at just 55 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 29% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075100JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec625557636378757963686870
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan62132
Feb55123
Mar57122
Apr63121
May63120
Jun78130
Jul75130
Aug79130
Sep63110
Oct68130
Nov68131
Dec70132

Snow in Chapeltown

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.

Chapeltown averages about 10 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Nov 15 to Apr 21 — about 5.2 months.

February is snowiest, with roughly 3 days of snow and an estimated 10 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 36 cm of snow.

01234JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonFeb 28
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan28
Feb310
Mar26
Apr13
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct00
Nov13
Dec25

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Chapeltown, 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 10 and lasts for 2.3 months, ending around September 17. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 31% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around May 27 and lasts for 1.4 months, ending around July 9. 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 6 · 32%Jun 17 · 23%mostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan2773
Feb2773
Mar2773
Apr2872
May2872
Jun2575
Jul2971
Aug3169
Sep2872
Oct2773
Nov2971
Dec2872

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 18, brings about 16 h 48 min of light; the shortest, around December 17, 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)
Jan7.88:224:08
Feb9.47:375:04
Mar11.56:316:00
Apr13.75:156:57
May15.64:137:51
Jun16.73:448:28
Jul16.24:038:20
Aug14.64:527:28
Sep12.55:486:13
Oct10.36:434:59
Nov8.47:424:00
Dec7.38:243:40

Sunny days

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

Chapeltown 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 275 daysSep 273 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan4Gloomy
Feb3Gloomy
Mar4Gloomy
Apr4Gloomy
May4Gloomy
Jun3Gloomy
Jul4Gloomy
Aug3Gloomy
Sep3Gloomy
Oct3Gloomy
Nov4Gloomy
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 Chapeltown, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in August, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 5% of the time — humidity is not something you need to plan around here.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccomfortabledry
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)
Jan10000
Feb10000
Mar10000
Apr10000
May9820
Jun88111
Jul71264
Aug69265
Sep87121
Oct9730
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 Chapeltown is typically light breeze, near 16 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 5.7 months, from around Oct 11 to Apr 2. The windiest month is January, averaging about 18 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Apr 3 to Oct 10, with July the calmest month at about 14 km/h.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezebreezyJan 10 · 18 km/hJul 27 · 13 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan18light breeze
Feb18light breeze
Mar17light breeze
Apr15light breeze
May15light breeze
Jun14light breeze
Jul14light breeze
Aug14light breeze
Sep15light breeze
Oct16light breeze
Nov17light breeze
Dec17light breeze

Best time to visit Chapeltown

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid September, Chapeltown 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 Chapeltown for general outdoor tourist activities is from early June to late September, with a peak score in the third week of July.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 21 · 5.7

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
Jan0.5poor
Feb0.7poor
Mar1.6poor
Apr2.8poor
May4.0fair
Jun5.0fair
Jul5.6good
Aug5.6good
Sep4.9fair
Oct3.2poor
Nov1.6poor
Dec0.6poor

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 Chapeltown for hot-weather activities is from early July to mid August, with a peak score in the last week of July.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 28 · 3.0

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 Chapeltown, 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 6°C), pack a warm layer, a heavy coat and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Chapeltown sees daytime highs around 20°C and nights near 12°C. Worth packing: rain gear and sun protection. About 13 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Chapeltown 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 Chapeltown 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
May6High
Jun5High
Jul6High
Aug6High
Sep4Moderate
Oct2Low
Nov1Low
Dec1Low

Average hourly UV index in Chapeltown

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
Apr20
May6.50
Jun70
Jul70
Aug6.50
Sep40
Oct00
Nov00
Dec00
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

Chapeltown is mild enough that a frost-free day stays more likely than not even in midwinter. Nights are reliably above freezing from about April 3 to November 15 (227 days); outside that window a hard frost is an occasional risk.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecreliably frost-freeApr 390%Nov 1590%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan7331
Feb7128
Mar8431
Apr946
May990
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct980
Nov9016
Dec7531

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. Chapeltown banks about 597 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
May29
Jun111
Jul178
Aug172
Sep94
Oct13
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.

Chapeltown receives about 2.7 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — moderate — with a clear seasonal swing between 0.5 and 4.8 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 4.8 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is December, down near 0.5 kWh/m² — roughly 89% less than the June peak.

0123456JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightJun 274.8 kWhDec 210.5 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan0.7Dim
Feb1.4Dim
Mar2.5Moderate
Apr3.9Moderate
May4.8Bright
Jun4.8Bright
Jul4.7Bright
Aug3.9Moderate
Sep2.8Moderate
Oct1.6Dim
Nov0.8Dim
Dec0.5Dim

Where is Chapeltown?

Chapeltown sits at 53.5°N, 1.5°W, 111 m above sea level, in United Kingdom. The nearest listed city is Hoyland Nether, 4.0 km away.

Topography around Chapeltown

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Chapeltown has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 259 m around an average of 131 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 533 m; within 80 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 653 m.

The land around Chapeltown is covered by trees (44%) and grassland (26%) within 3 km, grassland (34%), trees (28%) and artificial surfaces (20%) within 16 km, and grassland (43%) and cropland (31%) within 80 km.

3 km
259 m
16 km
533 m
80 km
653 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Hoyland Nether 4.0 km · Wombwell 8.0 km · Burngreave 8.0 km · Rawmarsh 8.0 km · Rotherham 9.0 km · Sheffield 9.0 km · Wath upon Dearne 9.0 km · Barnsley 9.0 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 Chapeltown (53.4651°, -1.4722°, elevation 111 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. 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).