Anfield weather

    Live weather and game-time forecast for Anfield, with kickoff conditions for every Liverpool home match.

    Home team: Liverpool
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    Capacity: 61,276

    Game-time forecast at Anfield

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    The next English Premier League game at Anfield is Manchester City at Liverpool, Sunday 11 October at 4:30 pm venue time. Live conditions at the ground are briefly unavailable — the reading refreshes on its own.

    Next match at Anfield: Liverpool v City

    Liverpool v Manchester City weather at Anfield

    Liverpool host Manchester City at Anfield on Sunday 11 October at 4:30 pm venue time.

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    Live readings are context only. The game-time read uses the forecast at kick-off.

    Why Anfield plays differently

    Anfield sits a couple of miles from the Mersey estuary, so Atlantic weather arrives quickly and changes fast. The stands are tall and close to the pitch, which shelters the playing surface from the worst of the wind, but wet days are frequent through the winter months and a saturated pitch slows passing. Our English Premier League research found rain alone does not significantly move goal totals, so treat the forecast as context, not a signal.

    Game-time weather read

    No fixture is scheduled at Anfield yet. The game-time weather read is written automatically 3 hours before kick-off once a match is on the calendar.

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    Upcoming games at Anfield

    • Manchester City at LiverpoolSun, 11 Oct, 4:30 pm venue time
    • Brighton & Hove Albion at LiverpoolSun, 25 Oct, 2:00 pm venue time
    • Arsenal at LiverpoolSun, 1 Nov, 4:30 pm venue time

    Last games at Anfield: conditions vs total

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    Anfield weather FAQs

    Our study of 6,120 English Premier League matches found wet matches scored almost identically to dry ones (2.85 vs 2.78 goals on average), well inside statistical noise. Rain changes how the game looks more than how many goals it produces.

    Liverpool is one of the windier Premier League cities because Atlantic systems come straight off the Irish Sea. The tall stands shelter the pitch itself, so only genuinely strong wind days tend to affect crosses and long balls.

    All kickoff times on this page are shown in UK local time (Europe/London), which is GMT in winter and BST in summer.

    About this page

    Anfield weather is updated live and produces a game-time forecast read for every home fixture. The page uses one permanent URL for the ground; match-up details rotate as the schedule changes, so search results always point to current conditions. Our own studies of 6,120 English Premier League matches found rain, wind and temperature all leave goal totals statistically unchanged, so these pages stay honest: conditions and context, not exaggerated edge claims.

    What the research says

    The published studies behind the read on this page at Anfield. Every figure is season-adjusted, with sample sizes and t-statistics shown.

    • English Premier League Rain & Goals

      Rain does not lower English Premier League scoring. Across 1,451 wet matches since 2010 the season-adjusted gap against dry matches is +0.06 goals (t = 1.15), and wet matches go Over 2.5 within noise of the closing odds (z = 1.61). A published null.

      6,120 league matches, 2010-11 to 2026-27, every one with kickoff-hour weather at the stadium's own coordinates and closing Over/Under 2.5 odds

    • English Premier League Wind & Goals

      Wind does not lower English Premier League scoring. Matches in 20–30 km/h of kickoff wind sit -0.03 goals from calm matches of the same season (t = -0.52), and go Over 2.5 within noise of the closing odds (z = -0.50). Another published null.

      6,120 league matches, 2010-11 to 2026-27, every one with kickoff-hour wind at the stadium's own coordinates and closing Over/Under 2.5 odds

    • English Premier League Temperature & Goals

      Temperature does not move English Premier League scoring. Matches below 5°C sit +0.03 season-adjusted goals from the mild control (t = 0.46), and matches at 20°C or warmer sit -0.03 (t = -0.30). A third published null.

      6,120 league matches, 2010-11 to 2026-27, every one with kickoff-hour temperature at the stadium's own coordinates and closing Over/Under 2.5 odds

    • English Premier League Rain, Wind & Goals

      Rain and wind together do not move English Premier League scoring. Across 1,451 wet matches the season-adjusted gap from the dry-and-calm control is +0.08 goals (t = 1.28); the wet-and-windy subset is +0.03 goals (t = 0.37). A fourth published null.

      6,120 league matches, 2010-11 to 2026-27, every one with kickoff-hour rainfall and wind at the stadium's own coordinates and closing Over/Under 2.5 odds

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