Climate and average weather in Omagh

In Omagh, the summers are mild, wet, 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 Omagh typically varies from 2°C to 18°C, and is rarely below -2°C or above 22°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 Omagh for warm-weather activities is from late May to late September.

Hottest
Jul
18°
Coldest
Jan
Wettest
Aug
90 mm
Driest
Apr
71 mm
Rain / yr
965 mm
176 wet days
Daylight
7.0–17.0 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
72 m
54.6°N
Clearest
May
76% cloud

Omagh is town in Northern Ireland.

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

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

The hot season lasts 3.8 months, from May 27 to September 19, with daily high temperatures above 15°C. The hottest month of the year in Omagh is July, with an average high of 18°C and low of 11°C.

The cool season lasts 3.8 months, from November 19 to March 13, with daily high temperatures below 9°C. The coldest month of the year in Omagh is January, with an average low of 3°C and high of 7°C.

Days typically run about 6°C warmer than nights year-round.

-5°10°15°20°25°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan73
Feb72
Mar93
Apr115
May147
Jun1610
Jul1811
Aug1811
Sep169
Oct127
Nov95
Dec73

How hot and cold Omagh 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 February 22), with roughly 113 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C), worst in February.

-5°10°15°20°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan77-13
Feb77-22
Mar9903
Apr111115
May141447
Jun1616810
Jul18181111
Aug17181111
Sep161689
Oct121247
Nov9915
Dec77-13

Average hourly temperature in Omagh

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 18°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near C.

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

Omagh 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 / 87162.17.60.7
Feb / 7213.61.59.30.9
Mar / 72151.111.51.6
Apr11° / 7114.50.313.72.5
May14° / 7413.90.115.83.6
Jun16° / 10°8014016.94.4
Jul18° / 11°8615.5016.44.8
Aug18° / 11°9015.6014.74.7
Sep16° / 7313.9012.54.1
Oct12° / 8614.30.110.22.9
Nov / 8714.80.28.21.6
Dec / 8914.417.10.9

Chance of rain

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

Omagh gets about 965 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is very wet, and that barely changes with the seasons — rain is spread fairly evenly through the year.

August is the wettest month by volume, with 90 mm over about 16 wet days; April is the driest, with 71 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecmostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJan 9 · 53%Oct 10 · 43%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan5116
Feb4814
Mar4815
Apr4715
May4614
Jun4714
Jul5016
Aug5116
Sep4614
Oct4614
Nov5015
Dec4614

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Omagh collects about 965 mm of rain across 176 wet days — roughly 80 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. August is the wettest month with 90 mm, while April is the driest at just 71 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 28% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075100125JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec877272717480869073868789
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan87162
Feb72142
Mar72151
Apr71150
May74140
Jun80140
Jul86160
Aug90160
Sep73140
Oct86140
Nov87150
Dec89141

Snow in Omagh

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.

Omagh averages about 6 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Nov 30 to Apr 5 — about 4.2 months.

January is snowiest, with roughly 2 days of snow and an estimated 9 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 24 cm of snow.

01234JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonJan 13
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan29
Feb25
Mar14
Apr00
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 Omagh, 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 March 23 and lasts for 2.4 months, ending around June 4. The clearest month is November, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 21% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around June 5 and lasts for 3.5 months, ending around September 20. The cloudiest month is July, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 90% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecMay 7 · 22%Jul 27 · 9%partly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan1981
Feb1981
Mar1882
Apr1981
May2080
Jun1486
Jul1090
Aug1288
Sep1684
Oct2080
Nov2179
Dec2080

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 17 hours of light; the shortest, around December 14, only 7 hours — a swing of roughly 10 hours.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan7.68:524:25
Feb9.38:045:24
Mar11.56:556:22
Apr13.75:367:23
May15.84:328:19
Jun16.94:008:59
Jul16.44:208:50
Aug14.75:127:55
Sep12.56:106:37
Oct10.27:095:20
Nov8.28:114:18
Dec7.18:553:56

Sunny days

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

Omagh gets about 2 sunny days a month gloomy — and it barely shifts through the year, holding between 1 and 3 days every month. Clear skies here are a flat line, not a season.

05JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgloomyMay 53 daysJul 301 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan2Gloomy
Feb2Gloomy
Mar2Gloomy
Apr2Gloomy
May2Gloomy
Jun1Gloomy
Jul1Gloomy
Aug1Gloomy
Sep1Gloomy
Oct2Gloomy
Nov2Gloomy
Dec3Gloomy

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 Omagh, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in July, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 3% 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
Jun90100
Jul73243
Aug72263
Sep88121
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 Omagh is typically light breeze, near 14 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 5.6 months, from around Oct 17 to Apr 5. The windiest month is January, averaging about 16 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Apr 6 to Oct 16, with July the calmest month at about 12 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeJan 9 · 17 km/hJul 18 · 12 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan16light breeze
Feb16light breeze
Mar15light breeze
Apr14light breeze
May13light breeze
Jun13light breeze
Jul12light breeze
Aug13light breeze
Sep14light breeze
Oct14light breeze
Nov15light breeze
Dec16light breeze

Best time to visit Omagh

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid September, Omagh 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 Omagh 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 21 · 4.9

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
Jan0.7poor
Feb0.9poor
Mar1.6poor
Apr2.5poor
May3.6fair
Jun4.4fair
Jul4.8fair
Aug4.7fair
Sep4.1fair
Oct2.9poor
Nov1.6poor
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 Omagh for hot-weather activities is from early July to mid August, with a peak score in the last week of July.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 25 · 1.6

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 Omagh, 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 18°C), the essentials are rain gear. 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, Omagh sees daytime highs around 18°C and nights near 11°C. Pack rain gear. About 16 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Omagh 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 Omagh peaks around July 13 at about 5 (high) — a little sun protection helps at midday. It bottoms out near January 1 at about 0 (low).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecLowModerateHighModerateLowJul 13UV 5Jan 1UV 0
UV index (midday)Level
Jan0Low
Feb1Low
Mar2Moderate
Apr3Moderate
May5High
Jun5Moderate
Jul5High
Aug5Moderate
Sep3Moderate
Oct2Low
Nov1Low
Dec0Low

Average hourly UV index in Omagh

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 May 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
Jun6.50
Jul6.50
Aug5.50
Sep2.50
Oct00
Nov00
Dec00
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

Omagh is mild enough that a frost-free day stays more likely than not even in midwinter. Nights are reliably above freezing from about March 29 to November 17 (234 days); outside that window a hard frost is an occasional risk.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecreliably frost-freeMar 2990%Nov 1790%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan7931
Feb7828
Mar8530
Apr940
May990
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct980
Nov9114
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. Omagh banks about 468 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
May20
Jun89
Jul141
Aug135
Sep74
Oct8
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.

Omagh receives about 2.5 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — moderate — with a clear seasonal swing between 0.4 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 4.6 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is December, down near 0.4 kWh/m² — roughly 90% less than the June peak.

0123456JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightJun 14.8 kWhDec 210.4 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan0.6Dim
Feb1.2Dim
Mar2.3Moderate
Apr3.7Moderate
May4.7Bright
Jun4.6Bright
Jul4.1Bright
Aug3.4Moderate
Sep2.5Moderate
Oct1.4Dim
Nov0.7Dim
Dec0.4Dim

Where is Omagh?

Omagh sits at 54.6°N, 7.3°W, 72 m above sea level, in United Kingdom. The nearest listed city is Londonderry County Borough, 44 km away.

AntrimBanbridgeColeraine

Topography around Omagh

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Omagh has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 93 m around an average of 86 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 505 m; within 80 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 708 m.

The land around Omagh is covered by grassland (61%) and trees (23%) within 3 km, grassland (84%) within 16 km, and grassland (77%) within 80 km.

3 km
93 m
16 km
505 m
80 km
708 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Londonderry County Borough 44 km · Derry 44 km · Letterkenny 48 km · Portadown 59 km · Craigavon 61 km · Antrim 71 km · Banbridge 71 km · Coleraine 72 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 Omagh (54.6°, -7.3°, elevation 72 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).