Climate and average weather in Guiseley

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

Best: early June to mid September

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Guiseley typically varies from 1°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 Guiseley for warm-weather activities is from early June to mid September.

Hottest
Jul
19°
Coldest
Jan
Wettest
Dec
83 mm
Driest
Mar
62 mm
Rain / yr
865 mm
156 wet days
Daylight
7.1–16.9 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
140 m
53.9°N
Clearest
May
71% cloud

Guiseley is town in the City of Leeds metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England.

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

Guiseley 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 mid September.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Guiseley, 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 5 to September 15, with daily high temperatures above 16°C. The hottest month of the year in Guiseley is July, with an average high of 19°C and low of 11°C.

The cool season lasts 3.9 months, from November 17 to March 15, with daily high temperatures below 8°C. The coldest month of the year in Guiseley 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 7°C) in May.

-5°10°15°20°25°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan62
Feb61
Mar82
Apr114
May146
Jun179
Jul1911
Aug1811
Sep169
Oct127
Nov94
Dec62

How hot and cold Guiseley 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 January 28), with roughly 150 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)
Jan66-32
Feb66-31
Mar88-22
Apr111104
May141446
Jun161789
Jul18191111
Aug18181111
Sep161679
Oct121247
Nov8904
Dec66-22

Average hourly temperature in Guiseley

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

Guiseley 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 / 7514.43.37.70.3
Feb / 6712.83.59.40.5
Mar / 6212.72.411.51.3
Apr11° / 6412.10.813.72.5
May14° / 6212.2015.73.7
Jun17° / 7913.1016.74.6
Jul19° / 11°7614016.35.3
Aug18° / 11°8213.8014.65.2
Sep16° / 6811.2012.54.5
Oct12° / 7312.90.110.22.9
Nov / 7513.50.78.31.4
Dec / 8313.72.27.20.4

Chance of rain

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

Guiseley gets about 865 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 4.5 months, from around Oct 25 to Mar 9, peaking in January at about 48% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Sep 7.

December is the wettest month by volume, with 83 mm over about 14 wet days; March is the driest, with 62 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJan 11 · 48%Sep 7 · 37%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan4614
Feb4513
Mar4113
Apr4012
May4112
Jun4313
Jul4414
Aug4414
Sep3811
Oct4113
Nov4514
Dec4414

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Guiseley collects about 865 mm of rain across 156 wet days — roughly 72 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. December is the wettest month with 83 mm, while March is the driest at just 62 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 28% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075100JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec756762646279768268737583
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan75143
Feb67134
Mar62132
Apr64121
May62120
Jun79130
Jul76140
Aug82140
Sep68110
Oct73130
Nov75141
Dec83142

Snow in Guiseley

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.

Guiseley averages about 13 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Nov 11 to Apr 22 — about 5.4 months.

February is snowiest, with roughly 4 days of snow and an estimated 15 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 51 cm of snow.

0246JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonFeb 7
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan312
Feb415
Mar29
Apr14
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct00
Nov13
Dec28

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Guiseley, 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 30 and lasts for 2.7 months, ending around September 18. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 30% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around December 5 and lasts for 3.9 months, ending around April 2. The cloudiest month is February, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 77% 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 · 31%Feb 5 · 23%mostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan2476
Feb2377
Mar2476
Apr2773
May2872
Jun2476
Jul2872
Aug3070
Sep2674
Oct2476
Nov2674
Dec2476

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 20, brings about 16 h 54 min of light; the shortest, around December 19, only 7 h 06 min — a swing of roughly 9 h 48 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan7.78:254:07
Feb9.47:395:03
Mar11.56:336:00
Apr13.75:156:59
May15.74:127:54
Jun16.73:428:32
Jul16.34:018:23
Aug14.64:527:30
Sep12.55:486:14
Oct10.26:454:59
Nov8.37:453:59
Dec7.28:283:38

Sunny days

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

Guiseley gets about 3 sunny days a month gloomy — and it barely shifts through the year, holding between 2 and 4 days every month. Clear skies here are a flat line, not a season.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgloomymixedApr 94 daysOct 152 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan3Gloomy
Feb3Gloomy
Mar3Gloomy
Apr4Gloomy
May4Gloomy
Jun3Gloomy
Jul4Gloomy
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 Guiseley, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in August, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 4% 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
May9910
Jun9191
Jul73233
Aug72234
Sep89101
Oct9820
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 Guiseley is typically light breeze, near 16 km/h, and varies moderately with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 5.6 months, from around Oct 16 to Apr 3. The windiest month is January, averaging about 18 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Apr 4 to Oct 15, with July the calmest month at about 14 km/h.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezebreezyJan 9 · 19 km/hJul 26 · 14 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 Guiseley

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid September, Guiseley 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 Guiseley 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 20 · 5.4

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
Jan0.3poor
Feb0.5poor
Mar1.3poor
Apr2.5poor
May3.7fair
Jun4.6fair
Jul5.3fair
Aug5.2fair
Sep4.5fair
Oct2.9poor
Nov1.4poor
Dec0.4poor

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

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 28 · 2.3

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 Guiseley, 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 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, Guiseley sees daytime highs around 19°C and nights near 11°C. Pack rain gear. Worth having: sun protection. About 14 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Guiseley 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 Guiseley peaks around August 11 at about 6 (high) — a little sun protection helps at midday. It bottoms out near December 21 at about 0 (low).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecLowModerateHighModerateLowAug 11UV 6Dec 21UV 0
UV index (midday)Level
Jan1Low
Feb1Low
Mar3Moderate
Apr3Moderate
May5High
Jun5High
Jul6High
Aug6High
Sep4Moderate
Oct2Low
Nov1Low
Dec0Low

Average hourly UV index in Guiseley

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%)

Guiseley is mild enough that a frost-free day stays more likely than not even in midwinter. Nights are reliably above freezing from about April 17 to November 11 (209 days); outside that window a hard frost is an occasional risk.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecreliably frost-freeApr 1790%Nov 1190%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan7031
Feb6728
Mar7931
Apr9019
May990
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct980
Nov8721
Dec7131

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. Guiseley banks about 475 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around July.

0200400600JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr0
May15
Jun86
Jul152
Aug145
Sep71
Oct5
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.

Guiseley receives about 2.6 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — moderate — with a clear seasonal swing between 0.5 and 4.7 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 4.7 kWh/m² (bright).

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

0123456JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightJun 254.7 kWhDec 230.5 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan0.6Dim
Feb1.3Dim
Mar2.4Moderate
Apr3.8Moderate
May4.7Bright
Jun4.7Bright
Jul4.6Bright
Aug3.8Moderate
Sep2.7Moderate
Oct1.5Dim
Nov0.8Dim
Dec0.5Dim

Where is Guiseley?

Guiseley sits at 53.9°N, 1.7°W, 140 m above sea level, in United Kingdom. The nearest listed city is Yeadon, 2.0 km away.

Topography around Guiseley

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Guiseley has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 227 m around an average of 154 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 386 m; within 80 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 740 m.

The land around Guiseley is covered by grassland (48%) and trees (32%) within 3 km, grassland (55%) and trees (23%) within 16 km, and grassland (54%) and cropland (24%) within 80 km.

3 km
227 m
16 km
386 m
80 km
740 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Yeadon 2.0 km · Baildon 6.0 km · Shipley 6.0 km · Horsforth 6.0 km · Saltaire 7.0 km · Bingley 9.0 km · Bradford 9.0 km · Pudsey 10 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 Guiseley (53.8756°, -1.7123°, elevation 140 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).