11-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Clear sky
2°
Feels like -2°
Wind↑ N 15 km/h
Gusts41 km/h
Humidity 87 %
Afternoon
Clear sky
7°
Feels like 4°
Wind↑ NE 19 km/h
Humidity 59 %
12-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Overcast
2°
Feels like -0°
Wind↑ ENE 9 km/h
Gusts16 km/h
Humidity 77 %
Afternoon
Partly cloudy
6°
Feels like 2°
Wind↑ E 24 km/h
Gusts34 km/h
Humidity 47 %
13-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Drizzle
5°
Feels like 0°
Wind↑ E 20 km/h
Gusts43 km/h
Humidity 72 %
💧 0.6 mm
Afternoon
Overcast
9°
Feels like 6°
Wind↑ E 17 km/h
Gusts38 km/h
Humidity 99 %
💧 0.1 mm
14-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Light rain
6°
Feels like 1°
Wind↑ WSW 32 km/h
Gusts58 km/h
Humidity 83 %
💧 1.4 mm
Afternoon
Partly cloudy
8°
Feels like 6°
Wind↑ S 13 km/h
Gusts26 km/h
Humidity 61 %
Reading 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)
Reading climate: what a normal year looks like
From 16 h 38 min of daylight in late June to 7 h 50 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 50 mm and 69 mm on average.
A normal year brings roughly 730 mm of rain — less than 70% 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
8 °C
3 °C
61 mm
Feb
8 °C
3 °C
50 mm
Mar
10 °C
4 °C
50 mm
Apr
13 °C
6 °C
58 mm
May
16 °C
8 °C
63 mm
Jun
19 °C
11 °C
61 mm
Jul
22 °C
13 °C
63 mm
Aug
22 °C
14 °C
67 mm
Sep
18 °C
11 °C
56 mm
Oct
14 °C
8 °C
68 mm
Nov
10 °C
5 °C
69 mm
Dec
8 °C
3 °C
64 mm
Whole year
14 °C
7 °C
730 mm
Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 51.46° N, 0.97° 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 Reading: pollution and pollen
1/6
Good
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.59µg/m³
PM1016µg/m³
O₃31µg/m³
NO₂15µg/m³
SO₂1µg/m³
Pollen
AlderNone
BirchNone
GrassNone
MugwortNone
OliveNone
RagweedNone
Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.
Rain radar around Reading
Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Reading, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.
Rain radarLast two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline
Moon over Reading
Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 06:05 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 Reading
Curious about the weather in Reading on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.
Reading weather at a glance
This page gathers everything about the weather in Reading, ENG: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “mainly clear”, it is 10 °C (feels like 10 °C) and the wind blows at 4 km/h.
Expected range today: 10 °C to 15 °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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