Climate averages 1991–2020
Gent weather
in July.
A warm, moderately wet month: the warmest and the joint 10th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
July is a warm month in Gent: daytime highs average 22.3°C and nights cool to about 14.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 71 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes July a moderately wet month (the joint 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 16 h 04 min on an average July day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Aalst (26 km away). In July its highs average 22.6°C, about as warm as Gent, with 70 mm of rain.
Among the 18 cities listed in Belgium, Gent ranks joint 13th of 18 for the warmest July highs and joint 9th of 18 for the driest July (rainfall, lowest first). The mean July high of those 18 cities is 22.4°C; Gent is 0.2°C cooler than that mean.
From July to August, average highs fall by 0.1°C to 22.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 71 mm to 74 mm.
The annual picture
July in context
Monthly rainfall
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
Gent climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 6.3°C1.7°C | 1.7°C | 62 | 11.9 | 8.58 h |
| February | 7.2°C1.7°C | 1.7°C | 54 | 10.9 | 10.010 h |
| March | 10.4°C3.4°C | 3.4°C | 53 | 11.1 | 11.812 h |
| April | 14.2°C5.7°C | 5.7°C | 49 | 11.9 | 13.814 h |
| May | 17.6°C9.3°C | 9.3°C | 61 | 12.0 | 15.516 h |
| June | 20.3°C12.2°C | 12.2°C | 62 | 11.2 | 16.516 h |
| July, selected | 22.3°C14.4°C | 14.4°C | 71 | 12.2 | 16.116 h |
| August | 22.2°C14.4°C | 14.4°C | 74 | 11.6 | 14.615 h |
| September | 19.0°C12.0°C | 12.0°C | 56 | 10.5 | 12.713 h |
| October | 14.8°C8.9°C | 8.9°C | 58 | 11.2 | 10.811 h |
| November | 10.0°C5.3°C | 5.3°C | 62 | 11.8 | 9.09 h |
| December | 6.7°C2.5°C | 2.5°C | 71 | 12.6 | 8.08 h |
Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.
Compare places
July in nearby cities
- Aalst in JulyBelgium · 26 kmHigh 22.6°C · Low 14.5°C · 70 mm rain
- Brugge in JulyBelgium · 39 kmHigh 21.0°C · Low 15.0°C · 65 mm rain
- Kortrijk in JulyBelgium · 40 kmHigh 22.2°C · Low 14.3°C · 65 mm rain
- Anderlecht in JulyBelgium · 48 kmHigh 22.7°C · Low 14.4°C · 70 mm rain
- Brussels in JulyBelgium · 50 kmHigh 22.6°C · Low 14.3°C · 70 mm rain
- Schaerbeek in JulyBelgium · 50 kmHigh 22.6°C · Low 14.4°C · 73 mm rain
- Antwerp in JulyBelgium · 51 kmHigh 22.5°C · Low 14.6°C · 75 mm rain
- Ixelles in JulyBelgium · 52 kmHigh 22.3°C · Low 14.0°C · 70 mm rain
Read the numbers correctly
Climate, not a promise.
These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.
Sources, method and limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Gent) is explained once on the Gent year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.