Climate averages 1991–2020
Mulhouse weather
in August.
A warm, moderately wet month: the warmest and the joint 6th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a warm month in Mulhouse: daytime highs average 24.3°C and nights cool to about 15.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 80 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes August a moderately wet month (the joint 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 17 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Basel (28 km away). In August its highs average 24.5°C, about as warm as Mulhouse, with 125 mm of rain.
Among the 57 cities listed in France, Mulhouse ranks joint 27th of 57 for the warmest August highs and 54th of 57 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 57 cities is 25.0°C; Mulhouse is 0.7°C cooler than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 4.5°C to 19.7°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 80 mm to 74 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
Mulhouse climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 5.0°C-1.2°C | -1.2°C | 75 | 12.5 | 8.99 h |
| February | 6.5°C-1.0°C | -1.0°C | 66 | 10.7 | 10.210 h |
| March | 10.7°C1.7°C | 1.7°C | 71 | 12.0 | 11.912 h |
| April | 14.7°C5.0°C | 5.0°C | 68 | 11.8 | 13.614 h |
| May | 18.4°C9.2°C | 9.2°C | 93 | 14.0 | 15.115 h |
| June | 22.1°C12.9°C | 12.9°C | 80 | 13.2 | 15.916 h |
| July | 24.2°C15.1°C | 15.1°C | 81 | 12.9 | 15.616 h |
| August, selected | 24.3°C15.1°C | 15.1°C | 80 | 12.0 | 14.314 h |
| September | 19.7°C11.2°C | 11.2°C | 74 | 10.9 | 12.613 h |
| October | 14.9°C7.0°C | 7.0°C | 83 | 12.1 | 10.911 h |
| November | 9.0°C2.5°C | 2.5°C | 81 | 11.8 | 9.39 h |
| December | 5.4°C-0.4°C | -0.4°C | 92 | 13.2 | 8.58 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
- Basel in AugustSwitzerland · 28 kmHigh 24.5°C · Low 14.9°C · 125 mm rain
- Freiburg in AugustGermany · 48 kmHigh 24.4°C · Low 15.6°C · 81 mm rain
- Bern in AugustSwitzerland · 90 kmHigh 21.8°C · Low 13.1°C · 101 mm rain
- Villingen-Schwenningen in AugustGermany · 93 kmHigh 21.2°C · Low 12.7°C · 124 mm rain
- Strasbourg in AugustFrance · 98 kmHigh 24.5°C · Low 15.3°C · 76 mm rain
- Zürich in AugustSwitzerland · 101 kmHigh 23.2°C · Low 15.0°C · 147 mm rain
- Luzern in AugustSwitzerland · 107 kmHigh 23.0°C · Low 15.2°C · 211 mm rain
- Winterthur in AugustSwitzerland · 108 kmHigh 23.1°C · Low 14.6°C · 107 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 Mulhouse) is explained once on the Mulhouse year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.