Will it rain tomorrow in South Shields?

rain unlikely. Rain: 0.5 mm. Low 8 °C, High 12 °C.

What will the weather be like at the weekend in South Shields?

Sat 17/10: cloudy, 8 °C / 12 °C, rain unlikely.

How far ahead does this South Shields forecast go?

This page shows 7 days. The model run used here is from 15/10/2026, 23:19 UTC, and the page fetches a new one every 30 minutes.

South Shields weather

Temperature, rain and wind in South Shields (England, United Kingdom), a city of about 83,655 people: how it is right now, hour by hour into tomorrow, the next 7 days and what each month of the year is like.

Right now

Friday 16 October, 02:00 (Europe/London)

11 °C

Cloudy

Feels like

9 °C

Humidity

84%

Wind

12 km/h

WSW · Beaufort 3

Dew point

8 °C

Cloud cover

100%

Pressure

1,016 hPa

Hour by hour

Next 24 hours, in the city’s local time.

Time	Conditions	Temperature	Wind
01:00	Cloudy	11 °C	11 km/h
02:00	Cloudy	11 °C	12 km/h
03:00	Fair	11 °C	14 km/h
04:00	Fair	10 °C	17 km/h
05:00	Fair	10 °C	19 km/h
06:00	Clear sky	9 °C	20 km/h
07:00	Clear sky	9 °C	21 km/h
08:00	Clear sky	9 °C	22 km/h
09:00	Clear sky	9 °C	21 km/h
10:00	Clear sky	10 °C	20 km/h
11:00	Clear sky	11 °C	20 km/h
12:00	Clear sky	12 °C	22 km/h
13:00	Clear sky	12 °C	22 km/h
14:00	Fair	13 °C	22 km/h
15:00	Fair	13 °C	23 km/h
16:00	Fair	13 °C	22 km/h
17:00	Clear sky	12 °C	23 km/h
18:00	Clear sky	11 °C	24 km/h
19:00	Clear sky	11 °C	22 km/h
20:00	Clear sky	10 °C	20 km/h
21:00	Clear sky	9 °C	21 km/h
22:00	Clear sky	9 °C	24 km/h
23:00	Clear sky	9 °C	27 km/h
00:00	Fair	9 °C	32 km/h

Next 7 days

Day	Conditions	Low	High	Rain outlook
Fri 16/10	Clear sky	9 °C	13 °C	no rain expected · 0.0 mm
Sat 17/10	Cloudy	8 °C	12 °C	rain unlikely · 0.5 mm
Mon 19/10	Partly cloudy	10 °C	14 °C	rain unlikely · 0.7 mm
Tue 20/10	Rain	11 °C	13 °C	rain likely · 4.8 mm
Wed 21/10	Rain	8 °C	13 °C	rain possible · 1.5 mm
Thu 22/10	Light rain showers	7 °C	13 °C	rain possible · 0.9 mm
Fri 23/10	Cloudy	10 °C	14 °C	rain possible · 5.2 mm

This column is our own reading: the global model does not publish a probability of precipitation for this region, so we classify the day from the forecast symbol and the total in millimetres. It is not an official probability figure.

Our own chart, drawn from the 7-day forecast for South Shields shown above.

What each number means

Rain (mm): 1 millimetre of rain is 1 litre of water per square metre. Up to 2 mm in a day is drizzle; from 10 mm it is proper rain; more than 50 mm in a few hours is the amount that floods streets.
Humidity: Relative humidity is how much water vapour the air holds compared with the most it can hold at that temperature. Above 80% sweat evaporates slowly and heat feels worse; below 30% your throat and eyes dry out.
Dew point: The dew point is the temperature at which the air would start to condense. The closer it is to the air temperature, the muggier it feels. Above 20 °C the air already feels heavy.
Feels like: "Feels like" combines temperature, wind and humidity: strong wind carries heat away from the body, so it feels colder than the thermometer; high humidity in the heat makes it feel warmer.
Wind: Wind is given as a speed and the direction it blows from. Up to 20 km/h you barely notice it; at 40 km/h it moves branches and parasols; above 60 km/h it brings down trees and roof tiles.
Cloud cover: Cloud cover as a percentage is how much of the sky is covered. Up to 20% is a clear sky; above 80% the sun barely gets through.
Chance of rain: The model does not publish a probability of precipitation for this region. This column is our own reading: the global model does not publish a probability of precipitation for this region, so we classify the day from the forecast symbol and the total in millimetres. It is not an official probability figure.

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Frequently asked questions

Will it rain tomorrow in South Shields?: rain unlikely. Rain: 0.5 mm. Low 8 °C, High 12 °C.
What is the temperature in South Shields right now?: 11 °C, cloudy. Feels like: 9 °C. Humidity: 84%.
What will the weather be like at the weekend in South Shields?: Sat 17/10: cloudy, 8 °C / 12 °C, rain unlikely.
How far ahead does this South Shields forecast go?: This page shows 7 days. The model run used here is from 15/10/2026, 23:19 UTC, and the page fetches a new one every 30 minutes.

Nearby cities

Forecasts for places near South Shields:

How to read this page

How to read the min and the max

The week’s high (14 °C) arrives in the afternoon, about two hours after solar noon; the low (7 °C) just before sunrise. Both are air temperature in the shade, two metres above ground — in direct sun or over asphalt a thermometer reads higher.

Where this number comes from

The South Shields forecast comes from MET Norway, a partir do ECMWF HRES e, na área nórdica, do MEPS, run of 15/10/2026, 23:19 UTC. The month-by-month climate comes from NASA POWER, climatology of 2001–2020. Both are credited in full at the foot of this page.

What a forecast cannot promise

Out to two days accuracy is high; by day seven the trend matters more than the exact figure. For South Shields the model publishes no rain probability, so the expectation column is our reading.

Severe weather warnings

This page is informational. For official warnings of storms, gales or flooding affecting South Shields, go to your national weather service through the World Meteorological Organization warning portal.

WMO Severe Weather Information Centre

Understanding the weather and climate of South Shields

Is this week in South Shields above or below the October normal?

Within the week the highest maximum lands on Mon 19/10 (14 °C) and the lowest minimum on Thu 22/10 (7 °C). Forecast rain adds up to 14 mm over the period. The wettest day is Fri 23/10, with 5.2 mm.

What does the dew point say about how South Shields feels?

Right now in South Shields the air is at 11 °C with a dew point of 8 °C and relative humidity of 84%. With the two values that close, sweat evaporates slowly and the heat weighs more than the thermometer suggests — that is the working definition of muggy.

How far is South Shields from Newcastle upon Tyne?

The nearest large city to South Shields is Newcastle upon Tyne, about 12 km away in a straight line, to the west, with 300,125 inhabitants. At that range the model hands both places virtually the same grid point, so the forecast for South Shields and the one for Newcastle upon Tyne will almost always agree. Being larger, Newcastle upon Tyne shows up in more searches, and plenty of people end up reading its forecast assuming it covers South Shields.

Words on this page

Apparent temperature

The temperature the body actually feels, rather than the one on the thermometer. It combines air temperature with wind, which carries heat away faster, and humidity, which slows the evaporation of sweat. That is why 30 °C in dry air with a breeze is easier than 28 °C in still, muggy air.

Apparent temperature

Dew point

The temperature air would have to cool to, at constant pressure and moisture, for water to start condensing. The closer the dew point sits to the air temperature, the less room the vapour has and the muggier the day feels.

Dew point

Millimetre of rain

The depth of water rain would leave on a flat surface with no run-off. One millimetre is one litre per square metre, no matter how large the area measured is.

Standard definition by World Meteorological Organization (WMO) · Millimetre of rain

Relative humidity

How much water vapour the air holds compared with the most it could hold at that temperature, as a percentage. Because that ceiling rises with heat, the same amount of vapour reads high at dawn and low in the afternoon.

Relative humidity

Beaufort scale

A 0-to-12 scale that describes wind strength by what it visibly does: smoke rising straight up at 0, leaves moving at 3, large branches bending at 6, roof damage at 9, devastation at 12. It began at sea in the nineteenth century and now has an official equivalence in metres per second.

Standard definition by World Meteorological Organization (WMO) · Beaufort scale

Forecast model

A program that solves the equations of the atmosphere on a grid of points and steps forward in time from the state observed now. Your city forecast is the model value at the nearest grid point, which is why two neighbouring towns get almost the same numbers.

Standard definition by MET Norway (Meteorologisk institutt) · Forecast model

Model run

The time the model was executed with the latest observations. Every forecast belongs to a run, and runs age: one from six hours ago knows nothing about the shower that started afterwards. It is the first thing to check when two sources disagree.

Standard definition by MET Norway (Meteorologisk institutt) · Model run

Climate normal

The average of a climate element — temperature, rainfall, humidity — computed over a long, standardised period, usually thirty years. It does not predict anything: it says what is typical for that place in that month, and gives you a ruler for calling a week warm or wet.

Standard definition by World Meteorological Organization (WMO) · Climate normal

See the full weather glossary

Source, model and licence

Model: MET Norway, a partir do ECMWF HRES e, na área nórdica, do MEPS
Model run: 15/10/2026, 23:19 UTC
Source: MET Norway (Meteorologisk institutt) — Locationforecast 2.0 — Based on data from MET Norway. Licence: CC BY 4.0 / NLOD 2.0.
Cities, coordinates and population: Dados de cidades: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)

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