Climate and average weather in Flint

In Flint, 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 Flint typically varies from 3°C to 19°C, and is rarely below -3°C or above 24°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 Flint for warm-weather activities is from late May to late September.

Hottest
Jul
19°
Coldest
Jan
Wettest
Jul
83 mm
Driest
Feb
56 mm
Rain / yr
849 mm
159 wet days
Daylight
7.3–16.7 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
29 m
53.2°N
Clearest
May
70% cloud

Flint is town in Wales, United Kingdom.

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

Flint 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 Flint, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

The hot season lasts 3.6 months, from June 1 to September 16, with daily high temperatures above 17°C. The hottest month of the year in Flint is July, with an average high of 19°C and low of 13°C.

The cool season lasts 3.9 months, from November 18 to March 16, with daily high temperatures below 10°C. The coldest month of the year in Flint is January, with an average low of 3°C and high of 7°C.

Days typically run about 5°C warmer than nights year-round.

-5°10°15°20°25°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan73
Feb83
Mar94
Apr126
May158
Jun1811
Jul1913
Aug1913
Sep1711
Oct138
Nov106
Dec83

How hot and cold Flint 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 -1°C (around January 29), with roughly 89 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C), worst in January.

-5°10°15°20°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan77-13
Feb78-13
Mar9904
Apr121236
May151568
Jun18181111
Jul19191313
Aug19191313
Sep17171011
Oct131368
Nov101026
Dec8803

Average hourly temperature in Flint

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 19°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near C.

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

Flint 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 / 6513.21.17.90.9
Feb / 5611.91.19.41.0
Mar / 6112.90.811.51.8
Apr12° / 6513.20.413.62.9
May15° / 6812.9015.64.1
Jun18° / 11°8113.4016.65.0
Jul19° / 13°8313.9016.25.4
Aug19° / 13°7813.9014.65.4
Sep17° / 11°6812.3012.44.8
Oct13° / 7213.40.110.33.4
Nov10° / 7414.20.28.41.9
Dec / 7713.70.97.41.0

Chance of rain

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

Flint gets about 849 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.

July is the wettest month by volume, with 83 mm over about 14 wet days; February is the driest, with 56 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecmostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetNov 9 · 49%Sep 1 · 39%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan4313
Feb4312
Mar4213
Apr4213
May4313
Jun4513
Jul4514
Aug4514
Sep4212
Oct4313
Nov4714
Dec4414

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Flint collects about 849 mm of rain across 159 wet days — roughly 71 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. July is the wettest month with 83 mm, while February is the driest at just 56 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 28% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075100JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec655661656881837868727477
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan65131
Feb56121
Mar61131
Apr65130
May68130
Jun81130
Jul83140
Aug78140
Sep68120
Oct72130
Nov74140
Dec77141

Snow in Flint

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.

Flint averages about 5 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Dec 13 to Apr 12 — about 4 months.

January is snowiest, with roughly 1.3 day of snow and an estimated 4 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 18 cm of snow.

01234JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonJan 29
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan14
Feb14
Mar14
Apr02
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct00
Nov02
Dec12

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Flint, 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 April 9 and lasts for 2.1 months, ending around June 12. The clearest month is May, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 30% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around September 15 and lasts for 2.3 months, ending around November 22. The cloudiest month is October, 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJun 1 · 31%Oct 9 · 23%mostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan2971
Feb2971
Mar2575
Apr2971
May3070
Jun2773
Jul2773
Aug2674
Sep2773
Oct2575
Nov2773
Dec2773

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 13, brings about 16 h 42 min of light; the shortest, around December 13, only 7 h 18 min — a swing of roughly 9 h 24 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan7.98:284:16
Feb9.47:435:11
Mar11.56:386:07
Apr13.65:227:04
May15.64:217:57
Jun16.63:528:34
Jul16.24:108:26
Aug14.64:597:34
Sep12.45:546:19
Oct10.36:495:06
Nov8.47:484:07
Dec7.48:303:48

Sunny days

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

Flint 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.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgloomymixedApr 225 daysAug 223 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan4Gloomy
Feb3Gloomy
Mar4Gloomy
Apr5Gloomy
May5Gloomy
Jun4Gloomy
Jul3Gloomy
Aug3Gloomy
Sep3Gloomy
Oct3Gloomy
Nov3Gloomy
Dec4Gloomy

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 Flint, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in August, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 7% 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 1 · 100%Aug 9 · 91%humidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)
Jan10000
Feb10000
Mar10000
Apr10000
May9730
Jun84142
Jul61346
Aug60347
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 Flint is typically light breeze, near 15 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 5.6 months, from around Oct 14 to Apr 2. The windiest month is January, averaging about 17 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Apr 3 to Oct 13, with July the calmest month at about 13 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeJan 10 · 17 km/hJul 28 · 12 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan17light breeze
Feb16light breeze
Mar16light breeze
Apr14light breeze
May13light breeze
Jun13light breeze
Jul13light breeze
Aug13light breeze
Sep14light breeze
Oct15light breeze
Nov15light breeze
Dec16light breeze

Best time to visit Flint

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 18 · 5.5

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
Jan0.9poor
Feb1.0poor
Mar1.8poor
Apr2.9poor
May4.1fair
Jun5.0fair
Jul5.4fair
Aug5.4fair
Sep4.8fair
Oct3.4poor
Nov1.9poor
Dec1.1poor

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

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 27 · 2.7

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 Flint, 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 19°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, Flint sees daytime highs around 19°C and nights near 13°C. Worth packing: rain gear and sun protection. About 14 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Flint

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 14 km away) is warmest in August at about 17°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°20°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbracingcool
Sea temperature (°C)Comfort
Jan7Bracing
Feb6Bracing
Mar7Bracing
Apr9Bracing
May11Bracing
Jun14Bracing
Jul16Cool
Aug17Cool
Sep16Cool
Oct14Bracing
Nov11Bracing
Dec9Bracing

UV index (midday) in Flint 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 Flint peaks around August 13 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 13UV 6Jan 1UV 1
UV index (midday)Level
Jan1Low
Feb1Low
Mar3Moderate
Apr3Moderate
May5High
Jun6High
Jul5High
Aug6High
Sep4Moderate
Oct2Low
Nov1Low
Dec1Low

Average hourly UV index in Flint

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 7 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
Aug70
Sep40
Oct00
Nov00
Dec00
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

Flint is mild enough that a frost-free day stays more likely than not even in midwinter. Nights are reliably above freezing from about March 11 to November 28 (263 days); outside that window a hard frost is an occasional risk.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecreliably frost-freeMar 1190%Nov 2890%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan8231
Feb8228
Mar929
Apr980
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct990
Nov957
Dec8331

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. Flint banks about 681 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
May50
Jun127
Jul186
Aug181
Sep110
Oct26
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.

Flint receives about 2.9 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — moderate — with a clear seasonal swing between 0.5 and 5.3 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 5.3 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is December, down near 0.5 kWh/m² — roughly 90% less than the June peak.

0123456JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightJun 185.3 kWhDec 220.5 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan0.7Dim
Feb1.4Dim
Mar2.6Moderate
Apr4.0Bright
May5.1Bright
Jun5.3Bright
Jul5.0Bright
Aug4.1Bright
Sep2.9Moderate
Oct1.7Dim
Nov0.8Dim
Dec0.5Dim

Where is Flint?

Flint sits at 53.2°N, 3.1°W, 29 m above sea level, in United Kingdom. The nearest listed city is Deeside, 8.0 km away.

Topography around Flint

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Flint has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 164 m around an average of 41 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 549 m; within 80 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,055 m.

The land around Flint is covered by grassland (40%) and water (25%) within 3 km, grassland (48%) and trees (21%) within 16 km, and grassland (49%) and water (20%) within 80 km.

3 km
164 m
16 km
549 m
80 km
1,055 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswaterwetland
Nearby: Deeside 8.0 km · Buckley 9.0 km · Heswall 9.0 km · Hawarden 10 km · Bebington 14 km · Ellesmere Port Town 16 km · Chester 17 km · Moreton 17 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 Flint (53.2449°, -3.1323°, elevation 29 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).