11-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Overcast
5°
Feels like 3°
Wind↑ NNE 11 km/h
Gusts27 km/h
Humidity 95 %
Evening
Drizzle
8°
Feels like 5°
Wind↑ NNE 20 km/h
Gusts39 km/h
Humidity 86 %
💧 0.2 mm
12-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Clear sky
6°
Feels like 2°
Wind↑ N 18 km/h
Gusts43 km/h
Humidity 92 %
Evening
Mainly clear
5°
Feels like 3°
Wind↑ WNW 8 km/h
Humidity 80 %
13-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Partly cloudy
4°
Feels like 1°
Wind↑ W 12 km/h
Gusts38 km/h
Humidity 90 %
Evening
Overcast
9°
Feels like 6°
Wind↑ W 17 km/h
Gusts37 km/h
Humidity 82 %
14-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Clear sky
3°
Feels like 3°
Wind↑ WNW 5 km/h
Humidity 82 %
Leicester 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)
Hourly detail
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)
Leicester climate: what a normal year looks like
From 16 h 51 min of daylight in late June to 7 h 37 min in late December.
The hottest stretch is August, when afternoons average 21 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average 2 °C.
There is no real dry season: monthly rainfall stays between 47 mm and 72 mm on average.
A normal year brings roughly 740 mm of rain — less than 69% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.
Forecast highs for the coming week average 12 °C, 2 °C cooler than a normal October (14 °C).
30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month
Typical high
Typical low
Rainfall
Jan
7 °C
2 °C
56 mm
Feb
8 °C
2 °C
47 mm
Mar
10 °C
3 °C
51 mm
Apr
13 °C
5 °C
59 mm
May
16 °C
8 °C
63 mm
Jun
18 °C
11 °C
70 mm
Jul
21 °C
13 °C
72 mm
Aug
21 °C
13 °C
70 mm
Sep
18 °C
11 °C
60 mm
Oct
14 °C
8 °C
67 mm
Nov
10 °C
5 °C
63 mm
Dec
7 °C
2 °C
62 mm
Whole year
13 °C
7 °C
740 mm
Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 52.64° N, 1.13° 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 Leicester: pollution and pollen
2/6
Fair
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.512µg/m³
PM1018µg/m³
O₃33µg/m³
NO₂20µg/m³
SO₂1µg/m³
Pollen
AlderNone
BirchNone
GrassNone
MugwortNone
OliveNone
RagweedNone
Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.
Rain radar around Leicester
Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Leicester, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.
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Rain radarLast two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline
Moon over Leicester
Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 05:56 Set —
Fri30/1079%
Sat31/1069%
Sun1/1159%
Mon2/1149%Last quarter
Tue3/1138%
Wed4/1128%
Thu5/1119%
Fri6/1112%
Sat7/116%
Sun8/112%
Mon9/110%
Tue10/111%New moon
Moonrise and moonset in local time (Europe/London); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.
Look up a past day in Leicester
Curious about the weather in Leicester on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.
Leicester weather at a glance
This page gathers everything about the weather in Leicester, England: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “partly cloudy”, it is 14 °C (feels like 14 °C) and the wind blows at 6 km/h.
Expected range today: 10 °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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