Stratford-upon-Avon weather by month
The best time to visit Stratford-upon-Avon is June to August — 94/100 in July, 24°C and 8 rainy days. The best season is summer, June to August (91/100 on average).
The worst month is December at 53/100 — cold, a little rain, clean air. See December →
Updated September 2026 · climate normals from ERA5 reanalysis
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Best season: June to August (91/100 on average) · worst December (53/100)
- Days
- 24°C
- Nights
- 13°C
- Wet days
- 8
- Sun
- 10.1 h
- Humidity
- 72%
- Daylight
- 16 h
Stratford-upon-Avon, month by month
Comfort score out of 100 for the kind of trip Stratford-upon-Avon is best for, the average high, rainy days and hours of sun a day from the climate normals, and how busy it tends to be.
What's on in Stratford-upon-Avon through the year
Festivals, natural spectacles, holidays and the seasons to watch out for — curated and sourced. The month pages carry the detail.
Crowds in Stratford-upon-Avon in July
How busy the place itself is — school and mass holidays, the months an editor tagged, and how sought-after the weather makes them. Never part of the comfort score.
Peak crowdstravelers describe it as peak season, Coach season, Summer holidays in United Kingdom
Sourced from traveler notes: “July in Stratford is high season and the forum is blunt that the town is always packed with…” — Tripadvisor community
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Good to know before you go to Stratford-upon-Avon
Real experiences from travellers' own write-ups, quoted with a link to the original.
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We bought the 5 House combo ticket covering Shakespeare's birthplace and the other family homes, which worked out noticeably cheaper than paying for each individually. Booking our Royal Shakespeare Company tickets weeks in advance meant we watched a genuinely excellent performance by actors who clearly specialize in his work, easily the highlight of the whole two-day stay. We stretched the visit to two nights rather than a rushed day trip, which gave us time for a relaxed cruise along the River Avon in the evening once the daytime crowds around the historic houses had thinned. Half-timbered Tudor cottages lined nearly every street we wandered, making it easy to just walk and soak in the atmosphere between scheduled stops.
Traveller notes on Stratford-upon-Avon
What people who have been say about the place — the year-round notes first, then month by month.
Detailed January-specific weather trip reports for Stratford-upon-Avon are limited on the forum, with more general discussion touching on rainfall and unpredictable conditions typical of a UK winter, and posters flagging that certain seasonal offerings like the open-top tour bus don't run during the colder, quieter months. Given the limited destination-specific detail, this note leans on the well-established regional pattern for England's Midlands in January: cold, frequently overcast and rain-prone, with genuinely short daylight hours and only occasional dry, bright spells. Posters generally recommend prioritizing Shakespeare's indoor historical sites and museums for a January visit, since the outdoor riverside and garden attractions that shine in warmer months are far less of a draw this time of year.
July in Stratford is high season and the forum is blunt that the town is always packed with visitors in summer. On weather they offer the English shrug — a couple of degrees warmer than northern England, but still England and therefore totally unpredictable — against a real July average near 21°C and rain on about twelve days. What July does reliably deliver is light: over sixteen hours of it, which is why regulars say a short visit works as a day trip in this month specifically, with time left over for a boat trip. The annual River Festival also lands in July.
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