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Birkenhead weather

ENG · 325,264 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 19:09

Clear sky
12°
Clear sky
Feels like 12°C
Wind
9 km/h
Gusts
20 km/h
Humidity
87 %
Pressure
1028 hPa
Clouds
15 %
Storm
No
Rise 07:05 Set 16:46 Day 9 h 40 min UV 1 · Low

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Evening
Partly cloudy
Partly cloudy
12°11°
Feels like 12°
Wind ↑ SE 10 km/h
Gusts 20 km/h
Humidity 87 %
21:00
Partly cloudy
11°
SE 10

Birkenhead forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

≈ A week close to the usual temperatures
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
4°7°10°13°16°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed12°8°Thu 29 Oct: max 14° · min 11° · normal 10.4°Fri 30 Oct: max 13° · min 10° · normal 10.3°Sat 31 Oct: max 11° · min 8° · normal 10.2°Sun 1 Nov: max 13° · min 8° · normal 10.2°Mon 2 Nov: max 11° · min 6° · normal 10.1°Tue 3 Nov: max 12° · min 6° · normal 10.0°Wed 4 Nov: max 12° · min 8° · normal 9.9°

Hourly detail

ThuFriSatSunMonTueWedThu4°10°15°13°6°02
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Birkenhead climate: what a normal year looks like

From 17 h 00 min of daylight in late June to 7 h 29 min in late December.

The hottest stretch is August, when afternoons average 19 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average 4 °C.

There is no real dry season: monthly rainfall stays between 72 mm and 107 mm on average.

Even the coldest month, February, keeps nights above freezing on average (4 °C).

Forecast highs for the coming week average 12 °C, 1 °C cooler than a normal October (13 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan7 °C4 °C85 mm
Feb8 °C4 °C73 mm
Mar9 °C5 °C74 mm
Apr11 °C6 °C72 mm
May14 °C9 °C75 mm
Jun17 °C12 °C89 mm
Jul19 °C14 °C94 mm
Aug19 °C14 °C99 mm
Sep16 °C12 °C91 mm
Oct13 °C9 °C103 mm
Nov10 °C6 °C103 mm
Dec8 °C4 °C107 mm
Whole year13 °C8 °C1,070 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 53.39° N, 3.01° W, 1991–2020. ERA5 averages over a 0.25° grid (about 25 km): hills, a coastline or the heat of the city itself can shift local values by a degree or two.

Air you breathe in Birkenhead: pollution and pollen

1/6
Good
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.510µg/m³
PM1016µg/m³
O₃43µg/m³
NO₂15µg/m³
SO₂1µg/m³

Pollen

AlderNone
BirchNone
GrassNone
MugwortNone
OliveNone
RagweedNone

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Birkenhead

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Birkenhead, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.

Full-screen rain radar and next-hour rain on RainAtlas
Rain radar Last two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline

Moon over Birkenhead

Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 05:57 Set —
Fri 30/10 79%
Sat 31/10 69%
Sun 1/11 59%
Mon 2/11 49% Last quarter
Tue 3/11 38%
Wed 4/11 28%
Thu 5/11 19%
Fri 6/11 12%
Sat 7/11 6%
Sun 8/11 2%
Mon 9/11 0%
Tue 10/11 1% New moon

Moonrise and moonset in local time (Europe/London); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in Birkenhead

Curious about the weather in Birkenhead on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.

Birkenhead weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Birkenhead, ENG: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “clear sky”, it is 12 °C (feels like 12 °C) and the wind blows at 9 km/h.

Expected range today: 11 °C to 14 °C and a dry sky. The forecast comes from the AtmoAtlas engine, which combines ECMWF-AIFS, NOAA GFS and DWD ICON, adjusts cloud cover with METAR reports and uses convective energy (CAPE) to flag storms.

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Where does this forecast come from? Our engine, checked every day against 1125 weather stations