Birtley weather
Loading live data…Light drizzle,much the same tomorrow
Met Office, the European and the American model agree on a high near 11° in Birtley today. Tomorrow: cloudy, around 11°, with a 6% chance of rain.
Latest for Birtley: Met Office (UKMO model): 8° Overcast · European (ECMWF): 10° Overcast · American (NOAA GFS): 10° Overcast.
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Birtley weather in numbers
from 30 years of measured normalsBirtley swings 17°C across the year, from 19°C highs in July to 2°C lows in January, and November is usually the wettest month in a year that brings about 656 mm of precipitation.
The weather map: all three models at once
Met Office, European, American side by side around Birtley and nearby towns.Live rain radar →Birtley hourly forecast: next 14 hours
consensus of the three modelsRain in the next 24 hours, model by model
each model's own hourly precipitation, side by sideLoading the three models…
Birtley 10-day forecast, out to 14 days
where the models agree, and where they splitBirtley, England is at its warmest in Jul (average highs near 19°C) and coldest in Jan (lows around 2°C), with roughly 656 mm of precipitation across the year. Below, compare what Met Office, European, American forecast for Birtley right now, and see exactly where they disagree.
We grade every model against the weather that actually happened, so you can see which forecast model is most accurate in United Kingdom before you trust any single number.
Birtley climate by month
average daytime high and overnight low across a typical year (1991-2020)Source: 1991-2020 averages, ERA5 for this place adjusted with NASA POWER.
How the weather around Birtley has changed since 1995
Birtley sits in the same roughly 50 km square of NASA's reanalysis as Newcastle upon Tyne. That square shows no clear change in temperature between 1995-2004 and 2015-2024. See the full 30-year picture on the Newcastle upon Tyne page.
Which forecast is most accurate in Birtley?
CheckWeather Score, graded against the weather that actually happened
The CheckWeather Score blends temperature, wind and rain accuracy, each measured against ERA5 (the recorded weather) over the last 30 days across 1950 cities. Lower error means a higher score. See which forecast model is most accurate in United Kingdom, how we measure forecast accuracy, or which model each weather app uses.
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Where the models disagree
temperature and rain, judged separatelyThe models often agree on temperature and still split on rain, and rain is usually what decides whether a plan survives. A wide rain range means the shower is genuinely uncertain, not that the forecast is wrong.