Elland Road weather

Live weather and game-time forecast for Elland Road, with kickoff conditions for every Leeds United home match.

Home team: Leeds United

Leeds

Capacity: 37,645

Game-time forecast at Elland Road

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No English Premier League game is scheduled at Elland Road 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 Elland Road plays differently

Elland Road is a big, single-bowl ground on the western edge of Leeds, with the Pennines rising beyond — the hills that give West Yorkshire its cold, wet winters. It is one of the chillier venues in the league and catches more snow threats than most. The bowl's height does blunt the wind at pitch level on all but the stormiest days.

Game-time weather read

No fixture is scheduled at Elland Road 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 Elland Road

No English Premier League game is scheduled at Elland Road 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 Elland Road, 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	8	7.0°C	15.9 km/h	13%
February	10	6.9°C	17.9 km/h	30%
March	6	8.0°C	16.3 km/h	0%
April	10	10.3°C	12.7 km/h	20%
May	8	13.3°C	18.0 km/h	50%
August	7	18.4°C	14.4 km/h	43%
September	6	17.9°C	11.7 km/h	0%
October	10	12.2°C	16.4 km/h	56%
November	6	8.8°C	21.5 km/h	50%
December	9	6.4°C	15.4 km/h	44%

Scoring in matched conditions at Elland Road

Games here have averaged 2.9 combined goals across all conditions. Each slice below needs at least 10 games at this ground to appear.

Any rain

3.2

25 games · +0.3 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 Elland Road: conditions vs total

Date	Match	Conditions	Our read	Total
18 Oct 2026	Leeds v Man United	—	—	2 (1-1)
20 Sept 2026	Leeds v Crystal Palace	—	—	0 (0-0)
14 Sept 2026	Leeds v Newcastle	—	—	5 (4-1)
30 Aug 2026	Leeds v Brentford	—	—	2 (1-1)
17 May 2026	Leeds v Brighton	—	—	1 (1-0)

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.

Elland Road weather FAQs

Yes — Leeds sits against the Pennines and regularly records some of the league's coldest kickoffs, with occasional snow. Our temperature study found cold does not move scoring: freezing matches averaged within 0.03 goals of mild ones across 6,120 games.

Leeds is in the Pennine rain shadow, so it is actually drier than Manchester despite the proximity. Wet days are common in winter but the totals are moderate.

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

Elland Road 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 Elland Road. 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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