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ENG · 8,961,989 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 16:04

Partly cloudy
14°
Partly cloudy
Feels like 14°C
Wind
3 km/h
Gusts
10 km/h
Humidity
80 %
Pressure
1029 hPa
Clouds
52 %
Storm
No
Rise 06:48 Set 16:39 Day 9 h 50 min UV 2 · Low

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Afternoon
Partly cloudy
Partly cloudy
16°14°
Feels like 16°
Wind ↑ SE 6 km/h
Gusts 15 km/h
Humidity 68 %
Evening
Partly cloudy
Partly cloudy
13°11°
Feels like 13°
Wind ↑ ENE 5 km/h
Humidity 84 %
18:00
Partly cloudy
13°
E 5
21:00
Clear sky
11°
ENE 4

London 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)
5°8°12°15°18°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed12°7°Thu 29 Oct: max 16° · min 11° · normal 10.2°Fri 30 Oct: max 15° · min 9° · normal 10.1°Sat 31 Oct: max 13° · min 10° · normal 10.0°Sun 1 Nov: max 12° · min 9° · normal 10.0°Mon 2 Nov: max 13° · min 9° · normal 9.8°Tue 3 Nov: max 12° · min 8° · normal 9.7°Wed 4 Nov: max 12° · min 7° · normal 9.6°

Hourly detail

ThuFriSatSunMonTueWedThu5°11°17°16°6°02
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

London climate: what a normal year looks like

From 16 h 38 min of daylight in late June to 7 h 49 min in late December.

The hottest stretch is August, when afternoons average 22 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average 3 °C.

There is no real dry season: monthly rainfall stays between 47 mm and 67 mm on average.

A normal year brings roughly 700 mm of rain — less than 74% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 13 °C, 1 °C cooler than a normal October (14 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan8 °C3 °C59 mm
Feb8 °C3 °C50 mm
Mar10 °C4 °C47 mm
Apr13 °C6 °C54 mm
May17 °C9 °C58 mm
Jun19 °C12 °C62 mm
Jul22 °C14 °C61 mm
Aug22 °C14 °C68 mm
Sep19 °C11 °C51 mm
Oct14 °C9 °C63 mm
Nov11 °C6 °C66 mm
Dec8 °C3 °C62 mm
Whole year14 °C8 °C700 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 51.51° N, 0.13° 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 London: pollution and pollen

2/6
Fair
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.512µg/m³
PM1021µg/m³
O₃10µg/m³
NO₂49µg/m³
SO₂3µg/m³

Pollen

AlderNone
BirchNone
GrassNone
MugwortNone
OliveNone
RagweedNone

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around London

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

Rain radar Last two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline

Moon over London

Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 06:01 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.

Sea and tides near London

Tide station used: London

TodayThu 29/10
High tide 03:24 7.6 m
Low tide 09:43 0.9 m
High tide 15:40 7.7 m
Low tide 22:03 1.1 m
TomorrowFri 30/10
High tide 04:05 7.4 m
Low tide 10:24 1.1 m
High tide 16:26 7.5 m
Low tide 22:42 1.4 m
SatSat 31/10
High tide 04:48 7.0 m
Low tide 11:09 1.3 m
High tide 17:17 7.1 m
Low tide 23:26 1.8 m
SunSun 01/11
High tide 05:37 6.7 m
Low tide 12:00 1.5 m
High tide 18:15 6.8 m

Indicative heights above chart datum. Coefficient: 20 for the weakest tides, 120 for the strongest.

Look up a past day in London

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

London weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in London, ENG: 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 3 km/h.

Expected range today: 11 °C to 16 °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, plus the tide times for London.

London weather data for developers

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