County Kildare climate

Monthly averages for Naas, 2021–2025 · Leinster

Kildare is flat, low-lying and far from the Atlantic, so it is relatively dry, with warm summer days and some of the coldest winter nights in Leinster on the Curragh and the bog.

Rain: about 971 mm falls in a year at Naas, on roughly 172 days, making Kildare the 32nd wettest of the 32 counties. October is the wettest month (121 mm) and August the driest (58 mm).

Temperature: July is the warmest month, with afternoons averaging 20°C, and January the coldest, with nights averaging 2°C. Frost is rare.

Sunshine: about 2476 hours a year, the 11th sunniest of the 32 counties. June is the sunniest month (10.5 hours a day) and December the dullest (3.1).

Compare Kildare with its neighbours →

Rainfall

Average total rainfall each month, in millimetres. 971 mm a year.

Temperature

Bars run from the average night-time low to the average daytime high, in °C.

Sunshine

Hours of sunshine on an average day in each month. About 2476 hours a year.

Kildare and its neighbours
County	Rain mm/yr	Rain days	July high	January low	Sun h/yr
Kildare	971	172	20°C	2°C	2476
Carlow	985	162	20°C	2°C	2457
Dublin	1000	162	20°C	3°C	2750
Kilkenny	1046	164	19°C	2°C	2460
Laois	976	165	20°C	2°C	2479
Meath	978	169	20°C	2°C	2506
Offaly	1064	178	19°C	2°C	2409
Wicklow	1132	168	19°C	3°C	2716

Recent extremes, 2021–2025

Hottest day: 30.0°C on 18 July 2022
Coldest night: −5.5°C on 14 December 2022
Wettest day: 38.9 mm on 16 April 2025
Wettest month: October 2022, 155 mm
Driest month: February 2023, 23 mm

Ireland's all-time records are on the records page.

Naas month by month
Month	High °C	Low °C	Rain mm	Rain days	Sun h/day	Wind km/h
January	7	2	79	12	3.8	16
February	9	4	74	14	4.0	19
March	11	4	75	14	6.2	15
April	13	5	72	15	8.3	13
May	16	8	77	15	10.4	13
June	18	11	68	13	10.5	14
July	20	12	90	17	9.0	12
August	20	12	58	12	9.1	14
September	17	10	96	14	7.1	14
October	14	9	121	17	5.6	16
November	11	6	76	14	4.1	16
December	9	4	85	15	3.1	18
Year	14	7	971	172	2476 h	15

Figures are averages for 2021–2025 at each county town, from the ERA5 weather reanalysis via Open-Meteo. They describe typical lowland weather in each county; hills and exposed coasts are wetter and windier.

Bordering counties: Carlow · Dublin · Kilkenny · Laois · Meath · Offaly · Wicklow. All counties: rainfall, temperature, sunshine.