When is the best time to visit Ireland?

Most guides agree on May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep. Cliffs of Moher & the Burren: May to June, and September — the cliffs are busiest in the middle of the summer day and the Burren flowers in late spring. Dublin: May to September (and it will rain in all of them). Galway: May to September, and July for the arts festival — it rains in all of them. Killarney & the Ring of Kerry: May to June, and September — the summer fills the Ring with coaches and it rains in every season anyway.

When is the rainy season in Ireland?

No guide in Ireland has a month above 250 mm; the wet months are wet, not under water.

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Best time to visit Ireland

Every guide's best months, checked against its own thirty-year rainfall: a filled month is recommended, a hatched one has over 250 mm of rain. Most of Ireland agrees on May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep.

Place	J	F	M	A	M	J	J	A	S	O	N	D	In words
Cliffs of Moher & the BurrenMay to June, and September — the cliffs are busiest in the middle of the summer day and the Burren flowers in late spring													May to June, and September — the cliffs are busiest in the middle of the summer day and the Burren flowers in late spring
DublinMay to September (and it will rain in all of them)													May to September (and it will rain in all of them)
GalwayMay to September, and July for the arts festival — it rains in all of them													May to September, and July for the arts festival — it rains in all of them
Killarney & the Ring of KerryMay to June, and September — the summer fills the Ring with coaches and it rains in every season anyway													May to June, and September — the summer fills the Ring with coaches and it rains in every season anyway
Cork & KinsaleMay to September — this is the wettest corner of a wet country and the summer is the driest of it													May to September — this is the wettest corner of a wet country and the summer is the driest of it

best month · over 250 mm · the letters are the months, January to December.

The guides in Ireland

green grass covered mountain under cloudy sky during daytime

Cliffs of Moher & the BurrenIrelandTwo hundred metres of sheer Atlantic cliff, and behind them a limestone desert with Mediterranean flowers in it

The red frontage of the Temple Bar pub in Dublin, hung with flowers

DublinIrelandA small capital with a very large literature, and a pub for every page of it

Stone bridge over a flowing river at sunset

GalwayIrelandA small city that plays music every night of the week, on the edge of the wildest coast in Ireland

Killarney & the Ring of KerryIrelandLakes under sandstone mountains, a national park you can walk into from the town, and the most driven road in Ireland around it

River flowing between buildings under a clear sky

Cork & KinsaleIrelandIreland's second city, built on an island in a river, with a food town and a harbour twenty minutes away