See the latest weather forecast for Reading & Leeds 2022
The dual event returns later this week
By Tom Skinner
Reading & Leeds festival returns for its 2022 editions this week – you can see the latest weather forecasts for both sites below.
The dual event is set to take place between this Friday and Sunday (August 26-28), with headliners including The 1975, Dave and Arctic Monkeys. Those with weekend tickets are able to attend from Thursday (August 25); an Early Entry Pass grants access from Wednesday (24).
Fans heading to the southern edition of R&L can expect a peak temperature of 26°, with the northern leg due to see highs of 23°. At the time of writing (12pm, August 22), the forecast suggests a largely dry and sunny weekend for both festivals.
You can see the latest forecasts for Reading & Leeds below, per BBC Weather.
Reading Festival
Thursday, August 25: Sunny and a gentle breeze. Temperatures to peak at 26°, with lows of 13°.
Friday, August 26: Sunny and a gentle breeze. Temperatures to peak at 25°, with lows of 12°.
Saturday, August 27: Sunny and a gentle breeze. Temperatures to peak at 24°, with lows of 12°.
Sunday August 28: Sunny and a gentle breeze. Temperatures to peak at 23°, with lows of 12°.
Leeds Festival
Thursday, August 25: Sunny and a gentle breeze. Temperatures to peak at 23°, with lows of 11°.
Friday, August 26: Sunny intervals and a gentle breeze. Temperatures to peak at 22°, with lows of 11°.
Saturday, August 27: Sunny intervals and a gentle breeze. Temperatures to peak at 21°, with lows of 10°.
Sunday August 28: Sunny intervals and a gentle breeze. Temperatures to peak at 22°, with lows of 11°.
Earlier this month, The 1975 were announced as last-minute headliners for Reading & Leeds 2022 after Rage Against The Machine were forced to cancel due to injury. Charli XCX and AJ Tracey also joined the bill last week, replacing Måneskin and Jack Harlow respectively. You can see the revised line-up poster above.
The 1975 made their return to the stage this past weekend with two shows at Summer Sonic 2022, where they debuted some new music from their forthcoming fifth album Being Funny in a Foreign Language (out October 14).
In Rolling Stone UK’s recent cover story, frontman Matty Healy discussed embracing ideals and being more earnest on the band’s upcoming album.
“This record definitely takes those ideas and says, ‘Well, nihilism in your 20s is very sexy, and very cool and well done, and maybe appropriate,’” he said. “As you get a little bit older, those postmodern, exciting ideas have to — do — start making way for more traditional values, which aren’t that sexy, which aren’t that hip-shaking. They’re responsibility, adulthood, these kinds of ideas.
“What I’m asking on this record in the context of love is, can you find true love, versus all of this irony, all of this postmodernism, all of this… I don’t want to say neoliberalism but versus the internet, versus technology?”
He continued: “Can we find true love in a way that we were culturally in pursuit of at the beginning of the 20th century?” Well, can we find true love now? “I don’t know. It’s really hard.”