Ideal weather days in Dublin
The best time to visit Dublin for warm, dry weather is August, with about 19 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Dublin's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in August.
This station doesn't record cloud cover, so the sky setting is left out here.
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Your ideal days in Dublin, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too cold268
- Too wet113
- Too windy86
- 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), Dublin averaged 67 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 1. Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are most common in May, July and August (up to 9 a month, 42 a year).
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are too cold (a high under 18 °C): 268 a year, mostly in October to May. Another 113 are wet (more than 1 mm of rain), mostly in September to July. A day can fail more than one test.
Dublin weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Clear days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 8 °C 46 °F | 11 | 10 | 6 | 0 of 31 |
| February | 10 °C 50 °F | 12 | 8 | 1 | 0 of 28 |
| March | 11 °C 52 °F | 15 | 8 | 2 | 0 of 31 |
| April | 13 °C 55 °F | 12 | 6 | 4 | 1 of 30 |
| May | 17 °C 63 °F | 10 | 2 | 4 | 7 of 31 |
| June | 18 °C 64 °F | 11 | 3 | 2 | 15 of 30 |
| July | 19 °C 66 °F | 15 | 5 | 2 | 14 of 31 |
| August | 20 °C 68 °F | 9 | 6 | 1 | 19 of 31 |
| September | 17 °C 63 °F | 16 | 9 | 3 | 8 of 30 |
| October | 15 °C 58 °F | 13 | 7 | 1 | 3 of 31 |
| November | 11 °C 52 °F | 11 | 5 | 4 | 0 of 30 |
| December | 10 °C 50 °F | 12 | 15 | 2 | 0 of 31 |
| Year | 147 | 86 | 32 | 67 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 58 warm, dry days
- 2024 65 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Dublin for good weather?
The best time to visit Dublin for warm, dry weather is August, with about 19 such days a month. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are rare: no month averaged more than 1. Counted from measured days at Dublin station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Dublin?
On average 147 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was September (16 rain days), the driest August (9).
How many sunny days does Dublin get a year?
About 32 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 January (6).
How warm does Dublin get?
The median daily high ranged from 8 °C (46 °F) in January to 20 °C (68 °F) in August.
Nearby
- Belfast140 km, United Kingdom61 days
- Cork220 km37 days
- Cardiff290 km, United Kingdom76 days
- Edinburgh350 km, United Kingdom61 days
- London460 km, United Kingdom102 days
Where is the best climate in Ireland?
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Source: Dublin weather station (03969099999), 8 km from the centre of Dublin, 74 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.