City Ground weather

Live weather and game-time forecast for the City Ground, with kickoff conditions for every Nottingham Forest home match.

Home team: Nottingham Forest

Nottingham

Capacity: 30,404

Game-time forecast at City Ground

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No English Premier League game is scheduled at City Ground right now. The next fixture appears here automatically as soon as the draw lists one. Other venues are still hosting games this round. Live conditions at the ground are briefly unavailable — the reading refreshes on its own.

Live stadium conditions

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

Why City Ground plays differently

The City Ground stands on the banks of the Trent in the East Midlands, a spot prone to autumn mist and damp, still air off the river. The low, older stands give limited shelter from crosswinds. Inland and away from the hills, Nottingham sits in one of England's drier halves — rain days are fewer here than at the north-west grounds.

Game-time weather read

No fixture is scheduled at City Ground yet. The game-time weather read is written automatically 6 hours before kick-off once a match is on the calendar.

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Upcoming games at City Ground

No English Premier League game is scheduled at City Ground right now. This list fills itself the moment the draw lists one. Recent results, the venue scoring baseline and the live conditions read above are current either way.

Weather normals at City Ground, month by month

Measured at the ground for every English Premier League game we have archived here (80 games). Months with fewer than 5 games are left out rather than averaged from a handful.

Month	Games	Avg temp	Avg wind	Wet games
January	6	5.8°C	13.4 km/h	0%
February	9	9.0°C	12.5 km/h	11%
March	6	9.5°C	15.0 km/h	33%
April	10	12.2°C	16.7 km/h	30%
May	8	19.6°C	15.4 km/h	13%
August	8	21.4°C	14.6 km/h	13%
September	7	15.6°C	16.1 km/h	17%
October	7	13.1°C	15.7 km/h	17%
November	10	11.1°C	14.3 km/h	10%
December	9	6.3°C	17.8 km/h	0%

Scoring in matched conditions at City Ground

Games here have averaged 2.5 combined goals across all conditions. Each slice below needs at least 10 games at this ground to appear.

Mild (18°C+)

2.4

16 games · -0.1 vs venue average

Any rain

2.7

11 games · +0.2 vs venue average

These are descriptive historical averages at this ground, not predictions for any future game, and not a claim about betting markets. Slices overlap — a cold game can also be a windy one.

Last games at City Ground: conditions vs total

Date	Match	Conditions	Our read	Total
18 Oct 2026	Nott'm Forest v Arsenal	—	—	1 (0-1)
19 Sept 2026	Nott'm Forest v Coventry	—	—	1 (0-1)
5 Sept 2026	Nott'm Forest v Tottenham	—	—	0 (0-0)
22 Aug 2026	Nott'm Forest v Leeds	—	—	1 (0-1)
24 May 2026	Nott'm Forest v Bournemouth	—	—	2 (1-1)

Rows without conditions are archive results — final scores at this ground. Rows tagged with conditions and our read build up as we grade games here.

City Ground weather FAQs

Autumn and winter evenings often bring mist and heavy dew off the river, which greases the surface. Persistent rain is less common than at the western grounds — Nottingham is relatively dry by English standards.

Our three English Premier League studies — rain, wind and temperature across 6,120 matches — found no significant scoring effects anywhere, and Nottingham's moderate inland climate is rarely extreme.

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

City Ground 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 City Ground. 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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