Climate averages 1991–2020
Esbjerg weather
in August.
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.
August is a mild month in Esbjerg: daytime highs average 19.4°C and nights cool to about 14.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 88 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes August a moderately wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 15 h 02 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Flensburg (98 km away). In August its highs average 20.6°C, 1.3°C warmer than Esbjerg, with 76 mm of rain.
Among the 5 cities listed in Denmark, Esbjerg ranks 5th of 5 for the warmest August highs and 5th of 5 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 5 cities is 20.2°C; Esbjerg is 0.9°C cooler than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 3.0°C to 16.3°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 88 mm to 85 mm.
The annual picture
August 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
Esbjerg climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 3.9°C0.9°C | 0.9°C | 70 | 13.5 | 7.88 h |
| February | 3.9°C0.6°C | 0.6°C | 57 | 11.1 | 9.610 h |
| March | 6.0°C1.7°C | 1.7°C | 53 | 11.2 | 11.812 h |
| April | 10.3°C4.6°C | 4.6°C | 42 | 9.7 | 14.114 h |
| May | 14.2°C8.5°C | 8.5°C | 49 | 10.3 | 16.216 h |
| June | 16.8°C11.8°C | 11.8°C | 66 | 10.9 | 17.417 h |
| July | 19.2°C14.2°C | 14.2°C | 71 | 11.7 | 16.917 h |
| August, selected | 19.4°C14.7°C | 14.7°C | 88 | 14.4 | 15.015 h |
| September | 16.3°C12.3°C | 12.3°C | 85 | 13.3 | 12.813 h |
| October | 12.1°C8.7°C | 8.7°C | 91 | 14.5 | 10.511 h |
| November | 7.9°C5.0°C | 5.0°C | 79 | 14.3 | 8.48 h |
| December | 5.1°C2.2°C | 2.2°C | 75 | 13.8 | 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
August in nearby cities
- Flensburg in AugustGermany · 98 kmHigh 20.6°C · Low 13.8°C · 76 mm rain
- Odense in AugustDenmark · 122 kmHigh 21.0°C · Low 14.0°C · 70 mm rain
- Århus in AugustDenmark · 134 kmHigh 20.3°C · Low 13.9°C · 70 mm rain
- Kiel in AugustGermany · 167 kmHigh 21.3°C · Low 14.3°C · 73 mm rain
- Neumünster in AugustGermany · 184 kmHigh 21.4°C · Low 14.0°C · 75 mm rain
- Aalborg in AugustDenmark · 197 kmHigh 20.0°C · Low 13.9°C · 79 mm rain
- Bremerhaven in AugustGermany · 213 kmHigh 20.9°C · Low 15.1°C · 84 mm rain
- Wilhelmshaven in AugustGermany · 215 kmHigh 21.3°C · Low 14.3°C · 82 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 Esbjerg) is explained once on the Esbjerg year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.