Climate averages 1991–2020
Chemnitz weather
in August.
A warm, wet month: one of the warmest and the 10th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a warm month in Chemnitz: daytime highs average 22.4°C and nights cool to about 14.0°C. By daytime temperature it is one of the warmest months of the year.
Expect about 95 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes August a wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 33 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Zwickau (33 km away). In August its highs average 23.0°C, 0.6°C warmer than Chemnitz, with 79 mm of rain.
Among the 120 cities listed in Germany, Chemnitz ranks joint 86th of 120 for the warmest August highs and 111th of 120 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 120 cities is 22.9°C; Chemnitz is 0.5°C cooler than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 4.5°C to 17.9°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 95 mm to 76 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
Chemnitz climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 2.6°C-2.3°C | -2.3°C | 76 | 14.4 | 8.58 h |
| February | 3.8°C-2.3°C | -2.3°C | 60 | 12.2 | 10.010 h |
| March | 7.7°C0.4°C | 0.4°C | 74 | 14.5 | 11.812 h |
| April | 13.0°C4.0°C | 4.0°C | 57 | 11.9 | 13.814 h |
| May | 17.3°C8.5°C | 8.5°C | 85 | 14.5 | 15.515 h |
| June | 20.3°C11.9°C | 11.9°C | 96 | 14.3 | 16.416 h |
| July | 22.4°C14.0°C | 14.0°C | 108 | 14.6 | 16.016 h |
| August, selected | 22.4°C14.0°C | 14.0°C | 95 | 13.9 | 14.615 h |
| September | 17.9°C10.4°C | 10.4°C | 76 | 12.3 | 12.713 h |
| October | 12.9°C6.7°C | 6.7°C | 68 | 11.9 | 10.811 h |
| November | 7.2°C2.4°C | 2.4°C | 69 | 12.0 | 9.09 h |
| December | 3.5°C-0.8°C | -0.8°C | 77 | 14.3 | 8.08 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
- Zwickau in AugustGermany · 33 kmHigh 23.0°C · Low 14.4°C · 79 mm rain
- Gera in AugustGermany · 60 kmHigh 23.3°C · Low 14.8°C · 68 mm rain
- Dresden in AugustGermany · 62 kmHigh 23.6°C · Low 14.7°C · 90 mm rain
- Leipzig in AugustGermany · 68 kmHigh 23.9°C · Low 15.0°C · 62 mm rain
- Ústí nad Labem in AugustCzechia · 80 kmHigh 23.9°C · Low 15.1°C · 85 mm rain
- Jena in AugustGermany · 95 kmHigh 23.6°C · Low 14.7°C · 61 mm rain
- Halle (Saale) in AugustGermany · 98 kmHigh 23.7°C · Low 15.0°C · 56 mm rain
- Pilsen in AugustCzechia · 125 kmHigh 23.8°C · Low 14.2°C · 69 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 Chemnitz) is explained once on the Chemnitz year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.