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Sheffield weather

England · 556,500 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 19:04

Partly cloudy
12°
Partly cloudy
Feels like 12°C
Wind
3 km/h
Gusts
9 km/h
Humidity
91 %
Pressure
1029 hPa
Clouds
60 %
Storm
No
Rise 06:59 Set 16:40 Day 9 h 41 min UV 2 · Low

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Evening
Partly cloudy
Partly cloudy
12°10°
Feels like 12°
Wind ↑ SSE 4 km/h
Humidity 91 %
21:00
Partly cloudy
10°
SSE 4

Sheffield 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)
2°6°9°13°16°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed11°7°Thu 29 Oct: max 14° · min 10° · normal 8.9°Fri 30 Oct: max 13° · min 8° · normal 8.8°Sat 31 Oct: max 11° · min 8° · normal 8.7°Sun 1 Nov: max 11° · min 4° · normal 8.7°Mon 2 Nov: max 10° · min 5° · normal 8.6°Tue 3 Nov: max 11° · min 7° · normal 8.5°Wed 4 Nov: max 11° · min 7° · normal 8.4°

Hourly detail

ThuFriSatSunMonTueWedThu2°8°14°13°4°02
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Sheffield 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 July, when afternoons average 20 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average 2 °C.

There is no real dry season: monthly rainfall stays between 61 mm and 85 mm on average.

Even the coldest month, January, keeps nights above freezing on average (2 °C).

Forecast highs for the coming week average 11 °C, 2 °C cooler than a normal October (13 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan6 °C2 °C68 mm
Feb7 °C2 °C61 mm
Mar9 °C3 °C63 mm
Apr12 °C5 °C68 mm
May15 °C7 °C69 mm
Jun17 °C10 °C85 mm
Jul20 °C12 °C82 mm
Aug20 °C12 °C84 mm
Sep17 °C10 °C68 mm
Oct13 °C7 °C75 mm
Nov9 °C5 °C73 mm
Dec7 °C2 °C75 mm
Whole year13 °C7 °C870 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 53.38° N, 1.47° 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 Sheffield: pollution and pollen

2/6
Fair
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.512µg/m³
PM1019µg/m³
O₃44µg/m³
NO₂14µg/m³
SO₂1µg/m³

Pollen

AlderNone
BirchNone
GrassNone
MugwortNone
OliveNone
RagweedNone

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Sheffield

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Sheffield, 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 Sheffield

Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 05:50 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 Sheffield

Tide station used: Rotherham · 9 km away

TodayThu 29/10
High tide 03:19 1.1 m
Low tide 04:48 0.9 m
High tide 08:15 4.2 m
Low tide 12:03 0.8 m
High tide 20:37 4.0 m
TomorrowFri 30/10
Low tide 00:25 0.8 m
High tide 08:58 3.9 m
Low tide 12:53 0.9 m
High tide 21:19 3.7 m
SatSat 31/10
Low tide 01:20 0.9 m
High tide 09:43 3.5 m
Low tide 14:20 1.1 m
High tide 22:04 3.4 m
SunSun 01/11
Low tide 02:45 1.1 m
High tide 10:32 3.0 m
Low tide 19:04 1.1 m
High tide 22:55 3.0 m

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

Look up a past day in Sheffield

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

Sheffield weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Sheffield, 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 12 °C (feels like 12 °C) and the wind blows at 3 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, plus the tide times for Rotherham.

Sheffield weather data for developers

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