Few Irish towns get more rain than Boherbue: 1,367 mm a year
Sunny July days climb to about 19.1°C. Its July afternoons stay fresher than in 94% of Irish towns. Warming shows here too: 0.2°C more than in 1981–2010, led by April. Comfortable outdoor weather lasts from June to September, with highs of 17–19°C.
Met Éireann 1991–2020 averages for the town’s own square kilometre.
A year in Boherbue at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Boherbue’s climate
Compared with Irish towns, with its place among towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500+ in County Cork beside it.
What a year in Boherbue feels like
Typical highs and lows by season and by month, from Met Éireann’s 1991–2020 averages.
About 1,367 mm of rain a year
December is the wettest month and May the driest. 5th wettest of 55 towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500+ in County Cork. The wettest month brings about 2.0 times the rain of the driest.
Rain by month
Millimetres
Living with Boherbue’s climate
What the averages mean for a garden, a free afternoon and a bad-weather day.
Highs of 17–27°C with lows of 8°C or more: Jun, Jul, Aug and Sep.
Parks & trails →Averages smooth over storms, floods and heatwaves; Boherbue’s hazards page covers the risks.
Flood & hazards →Met Éireann’s nearest station: Cork Airport
Cork Airport is 53 km south-east of Boherbue, the nearest of the 25 synoptic stations where Met Éireann records the weather around the clock. The station stands 155 m above sea level; Boherbue’s centre, 183 m.
| Month | High | Low | Rain | Air frosts | Sun (hours) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 8.3°C | 3.3°C | 131 mm | 3.4 | 61 |
| February | 8.6°C | 3.1°C | 99 mm | 3.4 | 74 |
| March | 9.9°C | 3.7°C | 91 mm | 2.3 | 111 |
| April | 12.0°C | 5.1°C | 87 mm | 0.9 | 160 |
| May | 14.6°C | 7.4°C | 80 mm | 0.0 | 191 |
| June | 17.1°C | 9.9°C | 83 mm | 0.0 | 184 |
| July | 18.6°C | 11.6°C | 86 mm | 0.0 | 164 |
| August | 18.5°C | 11.5°C | 96 mm | 0.0 | 158 |
| September | 16.6°C | 10.0°C | 91 mm | 0.0 | 129 |
| October | 13.4°C | 7.7°C | 132 mm | 0.2 | 99 |
| November | 10.4°C | 5.2°C | 127 mm | 0.9 | 75 |
| December | 8.7°C | 3.8°C | 136 mm | 2.8 | 55 |
| Year | 13.1°C | 6.9°C | 1,240 mm | 14 | 1,461 |
The table is Cork Airport’s own record, averaged over 1991–2020 from its daily readings (ours, not a Met Éireann table). The rest of the page is Met Éireann’s 1 km grid at Boherbue itself: past 40 km, the station’s frosts and sunshine don’t stand for the town.
How Boherbue compares
Against the 321 Irish towns and city neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, each read from Met Éireann’s grid at its own centre, and its place among towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500+ in County Cork.
Warmer than it used to be
Boherbue’s 1991–2020 average is 0.2°C warmer than 1981–2010’s. The biggest change is in April (+0.4°C).
A year’s rain is 1,367 mm, up 3% from 1,324 mm.
Change by month
The two periods share 1991–2010, so the gap is a decade’s step, not the change between two separate 30-year periods.
Boherbue and its neighbours
Kanturk has the warmest July afternoons (19.6°C, 0.5°C warmer). Choose a measure to recolour the map; tap a town for its climate.
The towns next door, side by side
The nearest towns of 1,000+ within 19 km: a hill, a valley or the sea can make a real difference over a short distance.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain a year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boherbue | 19.1°C | 2.3°C | 1,367 mm |
| Newmarket 7.2 km | 19.2°C about the same | 2.4°C about the same | 1,324 mm |
| Kanturk 10 km | 19.6°C 0.5°C warmer | 2.7°C about the same | 1,150 mm |
| Millstreet 11 km | 19.4°C about the same | 2.7°C about the same | 1,479 mm |
Each town’s colour is Met Éireann’s 1 km grid at its own centre, so towns a few kilometres apart can differ.
Boherbue weather by month
Average daily high and low, mean temperature and rain, 1991–2020, for the town itself (Met Éireann’s 1 km grid).
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Rain |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 8.4°C | 2.3°C | 5.3°C | 157 mm |
| February | 8.9°C | 2.2°C | 5.5°C | 118 mm |
| March | 10.5°C | 3.0°C | 6.8°C | 102 mm |
| April | 12.9°C | 4.3°C | 8.6°C | 94 mm |
| May | 15.5°C | 6.7°C | 11.1°C | 81 mm |
| June | 17.9°C | 9.2°C | 13.6°C | 82 mm |
| July | 19.1°C | 11.1°C | 15.1°C | 88 mm |
| August | 18.9°C | 10.9°C | 14.9°C | 96 mm |
| September | 17.1°C | 9.1°C | 13.1°C | 100 mm |
| October | 13.7°C | 6.7°C | 10.2°C | 138 mm |
| November | 10.5°C | 4.2°C | 7.3°C | 152 mm |
| December | 8.7°C | 2.8°C | 5.8°C | 161 mm |
| Year | 13.5°C | 6.0°C | 9.8°C | 1,367 mm |
Where Boherbue’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Temperature and rain: Met Éireann’s 1991–2020 averages on its 1 km grid (Climatological Notes 22 and 23), read at the grid point nearest Boherbue’s population centre (0.6 km away).
- Weather station: the nearest of Met Éireann’s 25 synoptic stations, Cork Airport, 53 km south-east, from Met Éireann’s station list.
- Frosts and degree days: Cork Airport’s daily readings, 1991–2020, in the station table only: past 40 km they don’t stand for the town.
- Then and now: Met Éireann’s 1981–2010 averages on the same 1 km grid, at the same point.
- Altitudes: the town’s ground from the Copernicus GLO-30 surface model (a few metres high in built-up places), the station’s from Met Éireann.
- Comparisons: every Irish town and city neighbourhood of 2,500 or more, read the same way; the five city totals are left out.
- Not on this page: sunshine, frost days, warm days, snow and wind. Met Éireann publishes no 1991–2020 grid for them, only tables for its stations, so no town has a figure of its own.
Met Éireann 30-year averages · Met Éireann open data. Under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).
Questions about Boherbue’s climate
How warm does Boherbue get in summer?
The warmest month is July, when afternoons average 19.1°C.
How cold does Boherbue get in winter?
February nights average 2.2°C, the coldest of the year. Met Éireann counts frosts only at its weather stations, so there is no frost count for the town itself.
How much rain does Boherbue get?
About 1,367 mm a year, more than 97% of Irish towns. December is the wettest month (161 mm) and May the driest (81 mm).
How sunny is it?
Met Éireann publishes its 1991–2020 sunshine averages for its weather stations only, not on the 1 km grid this page reads, so there is no sunshine figure for Boherbue itself. Its nearest synoptic station is Cork Airport.
Are these figures for Boherbue itself?
Yes: they are Met Éireann’s 1991–2020 averages on its 1 km grid, read at Boherbue’s population centre. The nearest of its synoptic weather stations, Cork Airport, is 53 km south-east.
Where do these figures come from?
Met Éireann’s 1991–2020 climate averages, published as maps of Ireland in 1 km squares (Climatological Notes 22 and 23); the page reads the square at Boherbue’s population centre. They are 30-year averages, not a forecast.
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