Climate and average weather in Greenford

In Greenford, the summers are mild, showery, and partly 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 Greenford typically varies from 3°C to 21°C, and is rarely below -2°C or above 27°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 Greenford for warm-weather activities is from late May to late September.

Hottest
Jul
21°
Coldest
Jan
Wettest
Nov
63 mm
Driest
Mar
42 mm
Rain / yr
640 mm
124 wet days
Daylight
7.6–16.4 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
34 m
51.5°N
Clearest
Jul
67% cloud

Greenford is suburb in the London Borough of Ealing in west London, England.

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

Greenford 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 Greenford, 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 7 to September 15, with daily high temperatures above 18°C. The hottest month of the year in Greenford is July, with an average high of 21°C and low of 13°C.

The cool season lasts 3.8 months, from November 17 to March 13, with daily high temperatures below 10°C. The coldest month of the year in Greenford is January, with an average low of 3°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)
Jan73
Feb83
Mar104
Apr136
May169
Jun1911
Jul2113
Aug2113
Sep1811
Oct148
Nov105
Dec83

How hot and cold Greenford 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 -2°C (around January 27), with roughly 96 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C), worst in January.

-5°10°15°20°25°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan77-13
Feb88-13
Mar101004
Apr131336
May161669
Jun19191111
Jul21211313
Aug21211313
Sep18181111
Oct141468
Nov101025
Dec88-13

Average hourly temperature in Greenford

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 21°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near C.

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

Greenford 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 / 5510.90.98.11.0
Feb / 459.31.19.61.2
Mar10° / 4210.20.611.52.3
Apr13° / 4910.90.213.53.6
May16° / 529.8015.35.0
Jun19° / 11°5610016.35.9
Jul21° / 13°5410.6015.96.4
Aug21° / 13°6210.2014.46.3
Sep18° / 11°479012.45.8
Oct14° / 5911.2010.44.0
Nov10° / 63110.18.62.3
Dec / 5811.20.87.71.2

Chance of rain

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

Greenford gets about 640 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is often wet, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 3.9 months, from around Sep 24 to Jan 20, peaking in December at about 38% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Sep 5.

November is the wettest month by volume, with 63 mm over about 11 wet days; March is the driest, with 42 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetDec 24 · 38%Sep 5 · 27%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan3511
Feb349
Mar3310
Apr3511
May3310
Jun3410
Jul3311
Aug3310
Sep319
Oct3611
Nov3611
Dec3711

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Greenford collects about 640 mm of rain across 124 wet days — roughly 53 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. November is the wettest month with 63 mm, while March is the driest at just 42 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 29% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec554542495256546247596358
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan55111
Feb4591
Mar42101
Apr49110
May52100
Jun56100
Jul54110
Aug62100
Sep4790
Oct59110
Nov63110
Dec58111

Snow in Greenford

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.

Greenford averages about 4 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Nov 30 to Mar 25 — about 3.8 months.

February is snowiest, with roughly 1.1 day of snow and an estimated 3 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 12 cm of snow.

01234JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonFeb 6
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan13
Feb13
Mar12
Apr01
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct00
Nov01
Dec13

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Greenford, 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 June 25 and lasts for 2.7 months, ending around September 15. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 35% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around December 17 and lasts for 3.7 months, ending around April 8. The cloudiest month is March, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 72% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJul 30 · 36%Mar 9 · 27%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan2971
Feb2971
Mar2872
Apr3169
May3070
Jun3169
Jul3466
Aug3565
Sep3169
Oct3169
Nov2971
Dec3169

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 15, brings about 16 h 24 min of light; the shortest, around December 14, only 7 h 36 min — a swing of roughly 8 h 48 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan8.18:084:13
Feb9.67:275:05
Mar11.56:265:56
Apr13.55:146:49
May15.34:177:39
Jun16.33:508:13
Jul15.94:088:06
Aug14.44:537:18
Sep12.45:446:07
Oct10.46:354:58
Nov8.67:304:03
Dec7.78:093:46

Sunny days

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

Greenford gets about 5 sunny days a month gloomy — and it barely shifts through the year, holding between 3 and 6 days every month. Clear skies here are a flat line, not a season.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgloomymixedJul 246 daysJun 133 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan5Gloomy
Feb4Gloomy
Mar5Gloomy
Apr5Gloomy
May5Gloomy
Jun4Gloomy
Jul5Gloomy
Aug5Gloomy
Sep5Gloomy
Oct5Gloomy
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 Greenford, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in August, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 11% of the time — humidity is not something you need to plan around here.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecApr 28 · 100%Aug 8 · 86%humidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)
Jan10000
Feb10000
Mar10000
Apr10000
May9550
Jun78193
Jul54379
Aug523711
Sep75223
Oct90100
Nov9910
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 Greenford 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 13 to Apr 1. The windiest month is January, averaging about 17 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Apr 2 to Oct 12, with July the calmest month at about 13 km/h.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezebreezyJan 8 · 17 km/hJul 30 · 13 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan17light breeze
Feb16light breeze
Mar16light breeze
Apr14light breeze
May14light breeze
Jun13light breeze
Jul13light breeze
Aug13light breeze
Sep14light breeze
Oct15light breeze
Nov15light breeze
Dec16light breeze

Best time to visit Greenford

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid September, Greenford 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 Greenford 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 23 · 6.5

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
Jan1.0poor
Feb1.2poor
Mar2.3poor
Apr3.6fair
May5.0fair
Jun5.9good
Jul6.4good
Aug6.3good
Sep5.8good
Oct4.0fair
Nov2.3poor
Dec1.2poor

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 Greenford 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 28 · 4.6

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 Greenford, 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 21°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, Greenford sees daytime highs around 21°C and nights near 13°C. Worth packing: rain gear and sun protection. About 11 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Greenford 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 Greenford peaks around August 10 at about 6 (high) — sunscreen and a hat are worth it in the middle of the day. 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 10UV 6Jan 1UV 1
UV index (midday)Level
Jan1Low
Feb1Low
Mar3Moderate
Apr3Moderate
May6High
Jun6High
Jul6High
Aug6High
Sep4Moderate
Oct2Moderate
Nov1Low
Dec1Low

Average hourly UV index in Greenford

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), and 1.5 hours reach 6 or more. 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
Apr30
May6.50
Jun7.51
Jul7.51.5
Aug71.5
Sep40
Oct00
Nov00
Dec00
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

Greenford is mild enough that a frost-free day stays more likely than not even in midwinter. Nights are reliably above freezing from about March 12 to November 18 (252 days); outside that window a hard frost is an occasional risk.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecreliably frost-freeMar 1290%Nov 1890%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan7831
Feb7828
Mar9011
Apr970
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct990
Nov9215
Dec8131

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. Greenford banks about 872 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around July.

02004006008001,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr3
May74
Jun158
Jul230
Aug224
Sep139
Oct42
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.

Greenford receives about 2.9 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — moderate — with a clear seasonal swing between 0.6 and 5.3 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 5.9 months, from around Mar 22 to Sep 17. The brightest month is June, averaging about 5.2 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is December, down near 0.7 kWh/m² — roughly 87% less than the June peak.

0123456JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightJun 245.3 kWhDec 220.6 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan0.8Dim
Feb1.5Dim
Mar2.7Moderate
Apr4.2Bright
May5.0Bright
Jun5.2Bright
Jul5.0Bright
Aug4.2Bright
Sep3.0Moderate
Oct1.8Dim
Nov1.0Dim
Dec0.7Dim

Where is Greenford?

Greenford sits at 51.5°N, 0.4°W, 34 m above sea level, in United Kingdom. The nearest listed city is Northolt, 2.0 km away.

Topography around Greenford

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Greenford has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 73 m around an average of 32 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 161 m; within 80 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 303 m.

The land around Greenford is covered by artificial surfaces (53%) and trees (29%) within 3 km, artificial surfaces (41%), trees (32%) and grassland (21%) within 16 km, and grassland (31%), cropland (31%) and trees (27%) within 80 km.

3 km
73 m
16 km
161 m
80 km
303 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Northolt 2.0 km · Southall 2.0 km · West Ealing 3.0 km · Brent 5.0 km · South Ruislip 5.0 km · Ealing Common 5.0 km · Wembley 5.0 km · Hayes 5.0 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 Greenford (51.5287°, -0.3551°, elevation 34 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).