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Best time to visit Dublin

Ireland · 53.35°N 6.26°W · monthly climate normals, judged against the Warm preset (mean 14–24 °C57–75 °F, dry or showers)

The best time to visit Dublin is July to August, when mean temperatures sit around 15 °C59 °F and rainfall runs 56–72 mm2.2–2.8 in a month.

Rain is spread through the year, 56–80 mm2.2–3.1 in a month, with October the wettest month and February the driest. July is the hottest month at 15 °C59 °F and January the coldest at 5 °C41 °F.

Figures are 30-year monthly averages (WorldClim 2.1 monthly normals 1970–2000) for the 0.25° grid cell at 53.35, -6.26 — a climate guide, not a forecast.

Dublin weather by month

Pick the weather you like and every month is judged against it — temperature above the month names, rain below.

Weather you like

mean 14–24 °C57–75 °F, dry or showers

Good time to go for a Warm holiday: July to August.

Open Dublin on the interactive map ↗ the same verdict for every place on Earth, any month

▲ Temperature mean , coldest to warmest month
41°JAN722.841°FEB562.244°MAR562.246°APR562.211°51°MAY562.213°55°JUN562.215°59°JUL562.215°59°AUG722.813°55°SEP722.810°50°OCT803.145°NOV722.842°DEC803.1
▼ Rainfall per month, driest to wettest

Reading the chart. Gold is good: the month fits what you picked. Any other colour names the reason it doesn't — the temperature bar can be too cold or too hot, the rain bar too dry, too rainy or monsoon. A faded gold bar is a half that fits while the other half fails; a gold month name means both fit.

What the verdicts mean. Temperature is the monthly mean, judged against the preset's band (mean 14–24 °C57–75 °F for Warm). Rain is judged by each month's class within Dublin's own year rather than raw millimetres: dry under 60 mm2.4 in, showers 60–100 mm2.4–3.9 in, rainy from 100 mm3.9 in and 35 % of the wettest month. Too rainy is a rainy-season month the preset doesn't allow. Monsoon is the heaviest kind of rainy season — 180 mm7.1 in or more (120 mm4.7 in near the yearly peak) in a climate whose wettest month is at least three times its driest — so every monsoon month is rainy season too; the label says which kind. Full rules on the method page.

MonthRain Mean SeasonWarm verdict
January722.8541showerstoo cold
February562.2541drytoo cold
March562.2744drytoo cold
April562.2846drytoo cold
May562.21151drytoo cold
June562.21355drytoo cold
July562.21559drygood
August722.81559showersgood
September722.81355showerstoo cold
October803.11050showerstoo cold
November722.8745showerstoo cold
December803.1642showerstoo cold

When to go to Dublin, by holiday type

Looking forRuleMonths that fit
Warmmean 14–24 °C57–75 °F, dry or showersJuly to August
Tropicalmean 24–33 °C75–91 °F, anything but the monsoonno month
Beachmean 24–33 °C75–91 °F, dry or showersno month
Coolmean 0–14 °C32–57 °F, anything but the monsoonSeptember to June
Snowmean below 0 °C32 °F, any rainno month

Is there a rainy season in Dublin?

Not really. Rain is spread through the year, 56–80 mm2.2–3.1 in a month, with October the wettest month and February the driest.

July is the hottest month at 15 °C59 °F and January the coldest at 5 °C41 °F. Annual rainfall totals about 784 mm31 in.

Where to go instead when Dublin doesn't fit

The nearest destinations that do fit the Warm preset in the months Dublin doesn't:

Nearby destinations

distances in — tap a unit to switch.

The interactive map colours the whole world by how it fits your picks in any month, and shows this chart for any place you tap.