Weather in Kingston upon Hull in July

A good month. July works. It is not the peak, but nothing about it fights you. You should expect rain on 15 days of the month, which is more days wet than dry.

July ranks 4 of 12 in Kingston upon Hull: past the worst of the year but short of September, which is the month to book if the dates are open.

This is persistent light rain rather than storms: 15 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 July reaches 30 °C. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest July day reached 30.5 °C and the coldest night fell to 6.1 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 29 mm — roughly 40% of the month's rain in one day.

July is statistically steady but not small: the year-to-year variation is modest in relative terms, yet the wettest July on record still delivered 113 mm against 34 mm in the driest. In a month this wet, even a tame spread is a lot of rain in absolute terms — the 73 mm average is a reasonable planning figure, not a promise.

Wind is light at 10.3 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity runs at 80%, high enough to notice on the warm days without dominating them.

How July sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 18.9 °C in June, 21 here, 20.9 in August. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much.

Daylight in July

July is at or near the longest days of Kingston upon Hull's year: 16.6 hours of daylight, losing 1.1 hours across the month. Evenings are the real gain — dinner outdoors still happens in full light.

Sea temperature

The sea sits at about 15 °C in July — 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.

July in Kingston upon Hull versus nearby

If Kingston upon Hull is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Manchester is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 3 days more rain. Birmingham is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, the same number of rain days.

So: July is effectively as good as it gets here — 5 points behind September, which is inside the margin where the weather stops being the deciding factor and price starts being it.

Every month in Kingston upon Hull

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