Climate and average weather in Dublin

In Dublin, the summers are muggy, sweltering, wet, and partly cloudy and the winters are cool and partly cloudy.

Best: early March to mid May

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Dublin typically varies from 38°F to 92°F, and is rarely below 25°F or above 99°F. July is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Dublin for warm-weather activities are from early March to mid May and late September to late November.

Hottest
Jul
92°
Coldest
Jan
38°
Wettest
Jun
4.1 in
Driest
May
2.2 in
Rain / yr
41.0 in
117 wet days
Daylight
9.9–14.1 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
220 ft
32.5°N
Clearest
Oct
46% cloud

Dublin is city in and the county seat of Laurens County, Georgia, United States.

Density
390/km²
people per km²
Founded
1812

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

Dublin 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 March to mid May.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 4.4 months, from May 14 to September 24, with daily high temperatures above 84°F. The hottest month of the year in Dublin is July, with an average high of 92°F and low of 74°F.

The cool season lasts 3.1 months, from November 26 to February 26, with daily high temperatures below 65°F. The coldest month of the year in Dublin is January, with an average low of 38°F and high of 59°F.

Days typically run about 20°F warmer than nights year-round.

20°40°60°80°100°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°F)Avg low (°F)
Jan5938
Feb6342
Mar7047
Apr7855
May8564
Jun8971
Jul9274
Aug9173
Sep8668
Oct7856
Nov6846
Dec6141

How hot and cold Dublin 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 hottest afternoons, once humidity is folded in, Dublin feels like about 99°F (around July 23). About 100 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in July.

40°60°80°100°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°F)Air high (°F)Feels-like low (°F)Air low (°F)
Jan59593338
Feb63633742
Mar70704547
Apr78785555
May85856464
Jun93897171
Jul98927474
Aug97917373
Sep88866868
Oct78785756
Nov68684346
Dec61613641

Average hourly temperature in Dublin

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 92°F, and coldest before dawn in January, near 38°F.

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

Dublin weather by month

Every month at a glance. Click a month for its detailed page.

MonthHigh / Low (°F)Rainfall (inches)Wet daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan59° / 38°3.79.210.14.6
Feb63° / 42°3.88.210.85.6
Mar70° / 47°3.88.811.86.8
Apr78° / 55°3.27.912.87.2
May85° / 64°2.27.813.65.8
Jun89° / 71°4.114.114.13.7
Jul92° / 74°3.915.613.92.8
Aug91° / 73°3.814.813.23.1
Sep86° / 68°3.69.312.25.0
Oct78° / 56°2.76.211.27.5
Nov68° / 46°2.76.710.36.9
Dec61° / 41°3.58.49.95.2

Chance of rain

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

Dublin gets about 41.0 in 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 3.5 months, from around May 26 to Sep 8, peaking in July at about 52% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Oct 20.

June is the wettest month by volume, with 4.1 in over about 14 wet days; May is the driest, with 2.2 in.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJul 27 · 52%Oct 20 · 19%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan299
Feb298
Mar289
Apr278
May278
Jun4514
Jul5016
Aug4815
Sep319
Oct216
Nov227
Dec278

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Dublin collects about 41.0 in of rain across 117 wet days — roughly 3.4 in in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. June is the wettest month with 4.1 in, while May is the driest at just 2.2 in. The three wettest months alone bring about 29% of the year’s total.

012345JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec3.73.83.83.22.24.13.93.83.62.72.73.5
Rainfall (in)Rain days
Jan3.79
Feb3.88
Mar3.89
Apr3.28
May2.28
Jun4.114
Jul3.916
Aug3.815
Sep3.69
Oct2.76
Nov2.77
Dec3.58

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Dublin, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows moderate seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around August 31 and lasts for 3.1 months, ending around December 2. The clearest month is October, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 60% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around December 3 and lasts for 4.1 months, ending around April 6. The cloudiest month is February, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 54% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecOct 23 · 63%Dec 31 · 45%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan4852
Feb4654
Mar5149
Apr5644
May5644
Jun5149
Jul4951
Aug4951
Sep5743
Oct6040
Nov5842
Dec4852

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 7, brings about 14 h 06 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 9 h 54 min — a swing of roughly 4 h 12 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan10.17:395:43
Feb10.87:226:10
Mar11.86:496:34
Apr12.86:086:56
May13.65:387:18
Jun14.15:287:36
Jul13.95:397:36
Aug13.25:597:12
Sep12.26:206:32
Oct11.26:415:52
Nov10.37:085:26
Dec9.97:325:24

Sunny days

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

Dublin averages about 11 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 6 and 15 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.4 months, from around Sep 10 to Dec 22. The sunniest month is October, with roughly 14 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is July, down near 7 sunny days — about 51% fewer than the October peak.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergloomymixedbrightOct 2615 daysJul 286 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan12Mixed
Feb10Mixed
Mar12Mixed
Apr12Mixed
May11Mixed
Jun8Mixed
Jul7Gloomy
Aug8Gloomy
Sep11Mixed
Oct14Mixed
Nov14Mixed
Dec11Mixed

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 Dublin, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 5.1 months, from around May 12 to October 12. The muggiest month is July, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 97% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around October 13 to May 11, and January is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 97% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 27 · 99%Jul 19 · 2%oppressivemuggyhumidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan8983100
Feb8794000
Mar78148000
Apr621915500
May2823222340
Jun291736360
Jul02732581
Aug13829563
Sep11111933260
Oct4418191550
Nov77118310
Dec84104100

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 Dublin is typically calm, near 6 mph, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 6.3 months, from around Nov 1 to May 10. The windiest month is March, averaging about 7 mph (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around May 11 to Oct 31, with August the calmest month at about 5 mph.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeMar 7 · 7 mphAug 11 · 5 mph
Wind speed (mph)Feels
Jan7calm
Feb7calm
Mar7calm
Apr7calm
May6calm
Jun5calm
Jul5calm
Aug5calm
Sep6calm
Oct6calm
Nov7calm
Dec7calm

Best time to visit Dublin

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around early May, Dublin 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 64°F and 82°F. Based on this score, the best times of year to visit Dublin for general outdoor tourist activities run from early March to mid May and again from late September to late November, with a peak score in the last week of October.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationOct 23 · 7.8

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
Jan4.7fair
Feb5.6good
Mar6.8good
Apr7.2good
May5.7good
Jun3.7fair
Jul2.9poor
Aug3.2poor
Sep5.1fair
Oct7.4good
Nov6.9good
Dec5.2fair

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 75°F and 93°F. Based on this score, the best times of year to visit Dublin for hot-weather activities run from early April to mid June and again from late August to late October, with a peak score in the second week of May.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationMay 11 · 7.5

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 Dublin, 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 92°F), the essentials are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 59°F), pack a warm layer and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Dublin sees daytime highs around 92°F and nights near 74°F. Pack light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. About 16 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Dublin 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 Dublin peaks around June 23 at about 10 (very high) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 19 at about 3 (moderate).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — in 11 months of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateHighVery highHighModerateJun 23UV 10Dec 19UV 3
UV index (midday)Level
Jan4Moderate
Feb5High
Mar6High
Apr7High
May9Very high
Jun10Very high
Jul10Very high
Aug9Very high
Sep7Very high
Oct6High
Nov4Moderate
Dec3Moderate

Average hourly UV index in Dublin

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 June the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8.5 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 5.5 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)
Jan30
Feb50
Mar61
Apr6.53
May85
Jun8.55.5
Jul85.5
Aug7.54.5
Sep6.53.5
Oct5.50
Nov40
Dec10

Air quality in Dublin by month

GoodModeratePoorUnhealthyVery unhealthy

Average fine-particle pollution (PM2.5) through the year — so you can see which months the air is worst, not just the yearly average.

Air quality in Dublin is worst in July — around 19 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 2.2× the cleanest month (December, 9 µg/m³).

Modeled monthly averages (CAMS reanalysis, 2015–2024).

0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodGoodModerateGoodJul 1619 µg/m³Dec 239 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan9Good
Feb11Good
Mar13Moderate
Apr11Good
May12Moderate
Jun16Moderate
Jul19Moderate
Aug16Moderate
Sep13Moderate
Oct10Good
Nov10Good
Dec9Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

Dublin is mild enough that a frost-free day stays more likely than not even in midwinter. Nights are reliably above freezing from about March 7 to November 21 (260 days); outside that window a hard frost is an occasional risk.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecreliably frost-freeMar 790%Nov 2190%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan7331
Feb8328
Mar946
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct990
Nov926
Dec8031

Growing degree days

Degree days (base 50°F)Frost-free shaded

Growing degree days tally heat above 50°F: each day adds however many degrees its average temperature runs over that threshold, and cold days add nothing. Dublin banks about 6,061 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around July.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°F·days)
Jan0
Feb59
Mar271
Apr488
May747
Jun901
Jul1,025
Aug996
Sep809
Oct528
Nov207
Dec28

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.

Dublin receives about 4.6 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 2.5 and 6.3 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.3 months, from around Mar 12 to Sep 20. The brightest month is May, averaging about 6.3 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 2.5 kWh/m² — roughly 60% less than the May peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseMay 126.3 kWhDec 222.5 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan2.8Moderate
Feb3.5Moderate
Mar4.7Bright
Apr5.8Bright
May6.3Intense
Jun6.1Intense
Jul6.1Intense
Aug5.5Bright
Sep4.7Bright
Oct4.0Bright
Nov3.1Moderate
Dec2.5Moderate

Where is Dublin?

Dublin sits at 32.5°N, 82.9°W, 220 ft above sea level, in United States. The nearest listed city is Milledgeville, 42 mi away.

Topography around Dublin

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 2, 10 and 50 miles of Dublin.

Within 2 miles, the terrain around Dublin has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 154 ft around an average of 230 ft above sea level; within 10 miles, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 266 ft; within 50 miles, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 653 ft.

The land around Dublin is covered by trees (69%) within 2 miles, trees (71%) and grassland (20%) within 10 miles, and trees (79%) within 50 miles.

2 miles
154 ft
10 miles
266 ft
50 miles
653 ft
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Milledgeville 42 mi · Warner Robins 42 mi · Macon 47 mi · Perry 48 mi · Statesboro 66 mi · Evans 82 mi · Martinez 83 mi · Tifton 83 mi

United States travel facts

Power plugs
Type A / B
120 V · 60 Hz
Prices
≈ 100% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$90,027
2025
Happiness
6.8 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
98%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
5.8
per 100k, 2023
Road deaths
12.7
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
High
World Bank
Religion
Protestant 47%unaffiliated 23%Roman Catholic 21%Jewish 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 Dublin (32.5404°, -82.9038°, elevation 220 ft), 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. Monthly air-quality (PM2.5) seasonality is from the CAMS EAC4 reanalysis (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service), scaled to the WHO annual mean where available. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).