 Hawkins was awarded the Royal Meteorological Society’s Climate Science Communication Prize in 2017.Hawkins received the Royal Society's 2018 Kavli Medal "for significant contributions to understanding and quantifying natural climate variability and long-term climate change, and for actively communicating climate science and its various implications with broad audiences".In July 2019, Hawkins was included in the "Climate Home News" list of ten climate influencers.