Climate averages 1991–2020
Braunschweig weather
in December.
A cold, moderately wet month: the 11th warmest and the joint 7th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
December is a cold month in Braunschweig: daytime highs average 4.4°C and nights cool to about 0.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 11th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 58 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes December a moderately wet month (the joint 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 7 h 48 min on an average December day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Salzgitter (14 km away). In December its highs average 4.4°C, about as warm as Braunschweig, with 58 mm of rain.
Among the 120 cities listed in Germany, Braunschweig ranks joint 84th of 120 for the warmest December highs and joint 16th of 120 for the driest December (rainfall, lowest first). The mean December high of those 120 cities is 4.9°C; Braunschweig is 0.4°C cooler than that mean.
From December to January, average highs fall by 0.8°C to 3.6°C, and monthly rainfall stays at 58 mm.
The annual picture
December 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
Braunschweig climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 3.6°C-0.6°C | -0.6°C | 58 | 12.7 | 8.38 h |
| February | 5.0°C-0.5°C | -0.5°C | 44 | 10.6 | 9.910 h |
| March | 8.6°C1.4°C | 1.4°C | 53 | 12.5 | 11.812 h |
| April | 13.7°C4.7°C | 4.7°C | 44 | 9.8 | 13.914 h |
| May | 17.7°C8.9°C | 8.9°C | 59 | 10.8 | 15.716 h |
| June | 20.7°C12.2°C | 12.2°C | 63 | 11.4 | 16.717 h |
| July | 22.9°C14.6°C | 14.6°C | 76 | 12.8 | 16.316 h |
| August | 22.7°C14.5°C | 14.5°C | 65 | 11.6 | 14.715 h |
| September | 18.5°C11.2°C | 11.2°C | 56 | 10.0 | 12.713 h |
| October | 13.3°C7.4°C | 7.4°C | 55 | 11.3 | 10.711 h |
| November | 7.9°C3.5°C | 3.5°C | 52 | 11.5 | 8.89 h |
| December, selected | 4.4°C0.5°C | 0.5°C | 58 | 13.1 | 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
December in nearby cities
- Salzgitter in DecemberGermany · 14 kmHigh 4.4°C · Low 0.4°C · 58 mm rain
- Wolfsburg in DecemberGermany · 24 kmHigh 4.5°C · Low 0.6°C · 55 mm rain
- Hildesheim in DecemberGermany · 41 kmHigh 4.5°C · Low 0.5°C · 60 mm rain
- Celle in DecemberGermany · 50 kmHigh 4.6°C · Low 0.8°C · 61 mm rain
- Hannover in DecemberGermany · 55 kmHigh 4.8°C · Low 0.8°C · 60 mm rain
- Magdeburg in DecemberGermany · 77 kmHigh 4.5°C · Low 0.3°C · 50 mm rain
- Göttingen in DecemberGermany · 91 kmHigh 4.4°C · Low 0.3°C · 67 mm rain
- Minden in DecemberGermany · 110 kmHigh 4.9°C · Low 1.1°C · 67 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 Braunschweig) is explained once on the Braunschweig year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Salzgitter lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.