*Photograph: Joe Buckley
A WARMER than average July was recorded nationwide which included Co Clare having its hottest day of the year.
As previously reported by The Clare Echo, Met Éireann’s weather station at Shannon Airport on Saturday July 12th recorded temperatures of 30.2°C which has been the warmest day of the year in the county so far, surpassing the 25°C from the end of April.
It was one of only three weather stations across the country to surpass 30°C alongside Mount Dillon, Co Roscommon and Oak Park, Co Carlow. Shannon had 155 daily sunshine hours during the month.
Nationally July 2025 was the ninth warmest July and twelfth warmest of any month in 126 years of records, Met Éireann detailed in their climate statement for July issued on Tuesday. It was the hottest July since 2021.
Average temperatures were 16.59 °C, which is 1.74 °C above the 1961-1990 long-term average (LTA) for July and 1.21 °C above the more recent 1991-2020 LTA.
A build-up of the Azores High over Ireland resulted in plenty of sunshine and a hot spell from Thursday July 10th to Sunday 13th, in which temperatures surpassed 27 °C on each day.
Rainfall was unevenly distributed across the country during the month, with levels well above average in parts of the East and West, and well below average in parts of the South and north Midlands.
Continuing the recent warmer-than-normal monthly trend, this is the fifth consecutive month with temperatures in the respective top nine averages on record in 126 years of records.
Of the top ten warmest July’s, five have occurred since 2001, they were in 2013, 2006, 2021, 2025 and 2018, listed in order of highest temperatures.
July 2025 observed an average of 96.0 mm rainfall, which is slightly above average at 103% of the 1991-2020 LTA, the wettest July since 2023 and 33rd wettest overall since 1941.
