Climate averages 1991–2020
Bielefeld weather
in August.
A warm, moderately wet month: the 2nd warmest and the 9th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a warm month in Bielefeld: daytime highs average 22.4°C and nights cool to about 14.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 75 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes August a moderately wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 40 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Gütersloh (18 km away). In August its highs average 22.8°C, about as warm as Bielefeld, with 75 mm of rain.
Among the 120 cities listed in Germany, Bielefeld ranks joint 86th of 120 for the warmest August highs and joint 54th of 120 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 120 cities is 22.9°C; Bielefeld is 0.5°C cooler than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 3.9°C to 18.5°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 75 mm to 65 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
Bielefeld climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 4.2°C-0.2°C | -0.2°C | 77 | 14.0 | 8.38 h |
| February | 5.4°C-0.2°C | -0.2°C | 59 | 12.1 | 9.910 h |
| March | 9.0°C1.7°C | 1.7°C | 64 | 12.8 | 11.812 h |
| April | 13.6°C4.7°C | 4.7°C | 52 | 11.2 | 13.914 h |
| May | 17.6°C8.7°C | 8.7°C | 61 | 11.5 | 15.716 h |
| June | 20.5°C11.9°C | 11.9°C | 66 | 12.0 | 16.617 h |
| July | 22.6°C14.2°C | 14.2°C | 76 | 13.2 | 16.216 h |
| August, selected | 22.4°C14.1°C | 14.1°C | 75 | 12.6 | 14.715 h |
| September | 18.5°C11.1°C | 11.1°C | 65 | 10.7 | 12.713 h |
| October | 13.5°C7.5°C | 7.5°C | 70 | 12.9 | 10.711 h |
| November | 8.3°C3.7°C | 3.7°C | 67 | 13.3 | 8.99 h |
| December | 4.9°C0.9°C | 0.9°C | 77 | 14.1 | 7.88 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
- Gütersloh in AugustGermany · 18 kmHigh 22.8°C · Low 14.1°C · 75 mm rain
- Detmold in AugustGermany · 26 kmHigh 22.4°C · Low 14.4°C · 74 mm rain
- Paderborn in AugustGermany · 38 kmHigh 22.2°C · Low 14.1°C · 81 mm rain
- Minden in AugustGermany · 39 kmHigh 22.5°C · Low 14.5°C · 71 mm rain
- Osnabrück in AugustGermany · 42 kmHigh 22.5°C · Low 14.3°C · 80 mm rain
- Münster in AugustGermany · 63 kmHigh 22.6°C · Low 14.2°C · 77 mm rain
- Hamm in AugustGermany · 63 kmHigh 22.5°C · Low 14.3°C · 75 mm rain
- Arnsberg in AugustGermany · 79 kmHigh 21.1°C · Low 13.3°C · 84 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 Bielefeld) is explained once on the Bielefeld year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Gütersloh lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.