Climate averages 1991–2020
Copenhagen weather
in July.
A mild, moderately wet month: the warmest and the 11th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
July is a mild month in Copenhagen: daytime highs average 20.9°C and nights cool to about 14.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 72 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes July a moderately wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 16 h 54 min on an average July day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Malmö (28 km away). In July its highs average 21.2°C, about as warm as Copenhagen, with 58 mm of rain.
Among the 5 cities listed in Denmark, Copenhagen ranks 2nd of 5 for the warmest July highs and joint 4th of 5 for the driest July (rainfall, lowest first). The mean July high of those 5 cities is 20.5°C; Copenhagen is 0.5°C warmer than that mean.
From July to August, average highs fall by 0.4°C to 20.6°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 72 mm to 77 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
Copenhagen climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 3.0°C-0.5°C | -0.5°C | 50 | 11.7 | 7.78 h |
| February | 3.3°C-0.7°C | -0.7°C | 41 | 9.5 | 9.610 h |
| March | 6.0°C0.5°C | 0.5°C | 43 | 10.0 | 11.812 h |
| April | 10.8°C3.7°C | 3.7°C | 41 | 9.3 | 14.114 h |
| May | 15.4°C7.9°C | 7.9°C | 52 | 10.3 | 16.216 h |
| June | 18.6°C11.7°C | 11.7°C | 71 | 11.2 | 17.417 h |
| July, selected | 20.9°C14.2°C | 14.2°C | 72 | 12.0 | 16.917 h |
| August | 20.6°C14.5°C | 14.5°C | 77 | 12.8 | 15.115 h |
| September | 16.7°C11.5°C | 11.5°C | 59 | 10.2 | 12.813 h |
| October | 11.7°C7.6°C | 7.6°C | 60 | 11.7 | 10.511 h |
| November | 7.2°C4.0°C | 4.0°C | 50 | 11.0 | 8.48 h |
| December | 4.1°C0.9°C | 0.9°C | 53 | 11.5 | 7.27 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
- Malmö in JulySweden · 28 kmHigh 21.2°C · Low 14.0°C · 58 mm rain
- Lund in JulySweden · 39 kmHigh 21.1°C · Low 13.4°C · 74 mm rain
- Helsingborg in JulySweden · 42 kmHigh 21.0°C · Low 13.7°C · 81 mm rain
- Halmstad in JulySweden · 112 kmHigh 21.0°C · Low 13.6°C · 90 mm rain
- Odense in JulyDenmark · 140 kmHigh 21.3°C · Low 13.7°C · 70 mm rain
- Århus in JulyDenmark · 156 kmHigh 20.6°C · Low 13.6°C · 66 mm rain
- Rostock in JulyGermany · 179 kmHigh 21.9°C · Low 14.7°C · 77 mm rain
- Växjö in JulySweden · 192 kmHigh 20.8°C · Low 13.0°C · 88 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 Copenhagen) is explained once on the Copenhagen year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.