Weather in Kingston upon Hull in August

A good month. August is a solid month to be in Kingston upon Hull. Highs average 20.9 °C, lows 11.9 °C, and rain falls on 14 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

August ranks 2 of 12 in Kingston upon Hull. Only September scores clearly higher, and the difference is small enough to be settled by price rather than weather.

This is persistent light rain rather than storms: 14 wet days but only 2 heavy ones. It rarely cancels anything outright, and it rarely fully clears either. A jacket beats an umbrella. Nothing specialised needed — this is the month you pack for the trip rather than for the weather.

What the averages hide

Averages flatten a month, and this one hides a few things: it never really gets hot: not one day in an average August reaches 30 °C. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest August day reached 29.4 °C and the coldest night fell to 5.5 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 29 mm — roughly 39% of the month's rain in one day.

August is statistically steady but not small: the year-to-year variation is modest in relative terms, yet the wettest August on record still delivered 137 mm against 17 mm in the driest. In a month this wet, even a tame spread is a lot of rain in absolute terms — the 75 mm average is a reasonable planning figure, not a promise.

Wind is light at 11.2 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity runs at 81%, high enough to notice on the warm days without dominating them.

How August sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 21 °C in July, 20.9 here, 18.5 in September. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much.

Daylight in August

14.9 hours of daylight, losing 1.9 hours across the month. That is between Kingston upon Hull's extremes of 17 and 7.5 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

Sea temperature

The sea sits at about 15.8 °C in August — cold — a quick dip rather than a swim, and a wetsuit if you are in for longer. This is the warmest the water gets all year.

How busy it gets

Peak season. Expect the highest prices of the year and to be booking well ahead.

Crowd levels are estimated from climate desirability and school-holiday calendars, not from visitor numbers.

August in Kingston upon Hull versus nearby

If Kingston upon Hull is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Manchester is the weaker option in August — within a degree on temperature, 5 days more rain. Birmingham is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, the same number of rain days.

So: August is effectively as good as it gets here — 3 points behind September, which is inside the margin where the weather stops being the deciding factor and price starts being it.

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