Plan your celebrations with the Met Office's hour-by-hour weather forecast for Bristol this New Year's Eve and New Year's Day.

With 2026 just around the corner, the Met Office has shared its weather predictions for Bristol’s New Year's Eve and New Year's Day.

Here’s what you can expect:

New Year’s Eve (December 31)

New Year’s Eve is expected to kick off with a partly cloudy night until 8am, clear until 11pm when its expected to turn partly cloudy once more. There’s also <5% chance of precipitation expected.

Temperatures are expected to start off at 1 °C, before going down to 0°C from 6am to 9am. Temperatures are expected to rise back to 1°C by 10am, and reach 2°C by 11am, 3°C by noon and 4°C by 3pm, before going back down to 2°C by 4pm, 1°C by 5pm, and 0°C by 10pm.

A calm, gentle breeze is expected throughout the day, starting from a northern direction from midnight before turning to north/north-eastern by 2am, northeast by by 8am, eastern by 9am, north/north-western by 11am, western by 3pm and west/southwestern by 5pm. Wind speeds are expected to start off at 3mph, and change to 2mph by 8am, 3mph by 1pm, 3mph by 4pm and 5mph by 7pm.

New Year’s Day (January 1)

New Year’s Day is expected to kick off with a partly cloudy night until 5pm, and change to partly clear from 6pm and 7pm, and returning to partly cloudy from 8pm.

There’s a <5% chance of precipitation expected between midnight and 2am, 10% chance at 3am, 20% chance between 4am and 6am, <5% chance between 7am and 8am, 10% chance between 9am and 11am, 20% chance at noon, 30% chance between 1pm and 4pm, 10% chance between 5pm and 9pm and <5% chance from 10pm.

Temperatures are expected to start off at 1 °C, before going up to 2°C by 2am, 3°C by 3am, 4°C by 8am, 5°C by 10am, 6°C by 11am and 7°C by 1pm . Temperatures are expected to fall back to 5°C by 4pm, 5°C by 6pm and 4°C by 8pm.

A gentle breeze is expected throughout the day, starting from a west/south-western direction from midnight, and changing to south-western by 1am, west/south-western by 6am, western from 9am, west/south-western from 5pm, western from 6pm, west/south-western from 9pm and western from 10pm. Wind speeds are expected to start off at 5mph, and change to 6mph by 3am, 7mph by 5am, 8mph by 7am, 9mph by 8am, 10mph by 10am, 11mph by noon, 10mph by 2pm, 9mph by 3pm, 8mph by 4pm and 7mph by 11pm.