WEATHER · CLIMATE NORMALS · 1991–2020
Birmingham AL Climate — Averages by Month
What the weather in Birmingham AL, USaverages across a standard 30-year period. Each month's figure is the 1991–2020 mean temperature and total rainfall from the ERA5 reanalysis — the long-run normal a place settles around, not a forecast for any particular day.
Month-by-month normals
| Month | Avg temperature | Avg rainfall |
|---|---|---|
| January | 6.8 °C · coldest | 129.0 mm |
| February | 9.0 °C | 132.8 mm |
| March | 13.0 °C | 147.9 mm · wettest |
| April | 17.1 °C | 121.6 mm |
| May | 21.5 °C | 102.4 mm |
| June | 25.1 °C | 113.2 mm |
| July | 26.6 °C · warmest | 119.4 mm |
| August | 26.2 °C | 100.5 mm |
| September | 23.4 °C | 89.4 mm |
| October | 17.6 °C | 88.0 mm |
| November | 11.7 °C | 107.6 mm |
| December | 8.1 °C | 134.3 mm |
How to read these numbers
These are reanalysis normals, not readings from a single weather station. They come from the ERA5 0.25° (~25 km) global reanalysis grid, sampled at the grid cell nearest Birmingham AL — centred at 33.50°N, 86.75°W. A reanalysis blends observations with a physics model onto an even grid, so a coastal or mountain city's cell can read a little cooler, warmer, wetter or drier than the city centre itself. The month-to-month shape — when it's hot, when it rains — is what these normals capture best.
“Normal” means the 1991–2020 average, the current World Meteorological Organization standard period. A normal is what a place tends toward over decades — any single day, month or year can and will depart from it.