Ideal weather days in Cork
The best time to visit Cork for warm, dry weather is July and August, with 9 to 10 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Cork's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in July and August.
This station doesn't record cloud cover, so the sky setting is left out here.
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Your ideal days in Cork, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too cold294
- Too windy192
- Too wet128
- Too hot0
A day can fail more than one test.
Warm and dry, beach and mild days
With the Warm & dry preset (a high of 18–33 °C, no more than 1 mm of rain, wind under 20 km/h), Cork averaged 37 days a year in 2023–2025. Every number here is counted from real measured days in Ireland, not from climate averages.
Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are rare: no month averaged more than 0. Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are most common in (up to 5 a month, 15 a year).
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are too cold (a high under 18 °C): 294 a year, mostly in September to May. Another 192 are windy (mean wind over 20 km/h), mostly in July to April. A day can fail more than one test.
Cork weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Clear days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 10 °C 49 °F | 15 | 18 | 1 | 0 of 31 |
| February | 10 °C 50 °F | 12 | 19 | 0 | 0 of 28 |
| March | 11 °C 52 °F | 17 | 21 | 1 | 0 of 31 |
| April | 13 °C 55 °F | 13 | 17 | 1 | 0 of 30 |
| May | 16 °C 61 °F | 6 | 8 | 2 | 3 of 31 |
| June | 18 °C 64 °F | 10 | 10 | 1 | 7 of 30 |
| July | 19 °C 65 °F | 12 | 14 | 1 | 10 of 31 |
| August | 19 °C 65 °F | 13 | 16 | 2 | 9 of 31 |
| September | 17 °C 63 °F | 12 | 17 | 1 | 8 of 30 |
| October | 15 °C 58 °F | 18 | 16 | 1 | 0 of 31 |
| November | 13 °C 55 °F | 13 | 16 | 2 | 0 of 30 |
| December | 11 °C 52 °F | 15 | 20 | 1 | 0 of 31 |
| Year | 155 | 192 | 13 | 37 of 365 |
Typical high is the median daily maximum. A rain day has 1 mm or more; a windy day a mean wind above 20 km/h; a clear day a daytime cloud cover of 2/8 or less on average (9:00–17:00). Days are averaged over 2023–2025 and scaled to the length of each month.
Year by year
- 2023 31 warm, dry days
- 2024 31 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Cork for good weather?
The best time to visit Cork for warm, dry weather is July and August, with 9 to 10 such days a month. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are rare: no month averaged more than 0. Counted from measured days at Roches Point station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Cork?
On average 155 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was October (18 rain days), the driest May (6).
How many sunny days does Cork get a year?
About 13 days a year had mostly clear skies (daytime cloud cover of 2/8 or less on average, 9:00–17:00), most of them in August (2).
How warm does Cork get?
The median daily high ranged from 10 °C (49 °F) in January to 19 °C (65 °F) in July.
Nearby
- Dublin220 km67 days
- Belfast340 km, United Kingdom61 days
- Cardiff370 km, United Kingdom76 days
- Edinburgh570 km, United Kingdom61 days
Where is the best climate in Ireland?
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Source: Roches Point weather station (03952099999), 19 km from the centre of Cork, 41 m above sea level. Daily records from NOAA's Global Surface Summary of the Day, 2023–2025; 87% of days have a complete record. A single station may not represent every part of a city, and three years is a short record.