Folkestone weather
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Met Office, the European and the American model agree on a high near 16° in Folkestone today. Tomorrow: heavy drizzle, around 16°, with a 100% chance of rain.
Latest for Folkestone: Met Office (UKMO model): 12° Drizzle · European (ECMWF): 12° Heavy drizzle · American (NOAA GFS): 11° Drizzle.
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Folkestone weather in numbers
measured normals and 10 years of recorded weatherFolkestone swings 18°C across the year, from 20°C highs in July to 2°C lows in January, and October is usually the wettest month in a year that brings about 798 mm of precipitation. Over 10 years of recorded weather it averages 9 days a year at 25°C or above, 1 of them at 30°C or above, 15 frost nights, and rain on 142 days.
Day counts are from the ERA5 reanalysis for Folkestone’s grid square, 2016 to 2025, counted the same way for every city so the numbers compare. A reanalysis square is an area, not a weather station, so it is good for counting days and not for a single day’s record.
The weather map: all three models at once
Met Office, European, American side by side around Folkestone and nearby towns.Live rain radar →Folkestone hourly forecast: next 14 hours
consensus of the three modelsRain in the next 24 hours, model by model
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Folkestone 10-day forecast, out to 14 days
where the models agree, and where they splitFolkestone, England is at its warmest in Jul (average highs near 20°C) and coldest in Jan (lows around 2°C), with roughly 798 mm of precipitation across the year. Below, compare what Met Office, European, American forecast for Folkestone 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.
Folkestone 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 Folkestone's weather has changed since 1995
30 years of daily data, 1995-2024, shown as changeAround Folkestone, 2015-2024 averaged 0.8°C warmer than 1995-2004. 6 of the 10 warmest years since 1995 fall in the last ten, and the warmest was 2022.
Average wind
2015-2024 against 1995-2004. Within the normal year-to-year swing
Bars: each year against the area's 30-year average. Dashed lines: the average of the first and the last ten years.
See the numbers year by year
| Year | Temp vs average | Wind vs avg |
|---|---|---|
| 1995 | −0.1°C | +2% |
| 1996 | −1.5°C | −1% |
| 1997 | −0.3°C | −5% |
| 1998 | −0.3°C | +5% |
| 1999 | +0.1°C | +2% |
| 2000 | −0.1°C | +4% |
| 2001 | −0.5°C | −1% |
| 2002 | +0.2°C | +2% |
| 2003 | −0.1°C | −7% |
| 2004 | −0.2°C | −4% |
| 2005 | −0.2°C | −5% |
| 2006 | +0.1°C | +1% |
| 2007 | +0.3°C | +2% |
| 2008 | −0.1°C | +5% |
| 2009 | −0.1°C | −2% |
| 2010 | −1.3°C | −7% |
| 2011 | +0.2°C | +1% |
| 2012 | −0.6°C | −1% |
| 2013 | −1.0°C | +1% |
| 2014 | +0.8°C | −1% |
| 2015 | +0.1°C | +7% |
| 2016 | +0.1°C | −1% |
| 2017 | +0.3°C | −2% |
| 2018 | +0.2°C | −2% |
| 2019 | +0.4°C | +1% |
| 2020 | +0.7°C | +7% |
| 2021 | −0.1°C | −2% |
| 2022 | +1.3°C | −4% |
| 2023 | +1.0°C | +4% |
| 2024 | +0.9°C | −1% |
Source: NASA POWER daily data from the MERRA-2 reanalysis, 1995-2024. Each value describes a grid square of about 50 km around Folkestone, not a weather station, and a square that takes in sea or a large lake runs milder than the city itself. That is why this section shows change against the square's own 30-year average rather than counts you could compare with a local station. Rain and snow are left out because their long-term record in this dataset is not consistent over time. "Within the normal year-to-year swing" means the change is smaller than the usual differences between single years.
Which forecast is most accurate in Folkestone?
CheckWeather Score, graded against the weather that actually happened
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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.