Climate averages 1991–2020
Dresden weather
in August.
A warm, wet month: one of the warmest and the 11th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a warm month in Dresden: daytime highs average 23.6°C and nights cool to about 14.7°C. By daytime temperature it is one of the warmest months of the year.
Expect about 90 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes August a wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 34 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Ústí nad Labem (48 km away). In August its highs average 23.9°C, about as warm as Dresden, with 85 mm of rain.
Among the 120 cities listed in Germany, Dresden ranks joint 33rd of 120 for the warmest August highs and 108th of 120 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 120 cities is 22.9°C; Dresden is 0.7°C warmer than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 4.7°C to 18.9°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 90 mm to 69 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
Dresden climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 3.1°C-2.0°C | -2.0°C | 62 | 13.7 | 8.58 h |
| February | 4.7°C-1.8°C | -1.8°C | 50 | 11.3 | 10.010 h |
| March | 8.6°C0.8°C | 0.8°C | 63 | 12.9 | 11.812 h |
| April | 14.0°C4.4°C | 4.4°C | 50 | 11.1 | 13.814 h |
| May | 18.4°C9.1°C | 9.1°C | 75 | 12.8 | 15.516 h |
| June | 21.5°C12.7°C | 12.7°C | 86 | 13.1 | 16.516 h |
| July | 23.6°C14.9°C | 14.9°C | 95 | 13.1 | 16.116 h |
| August, selected | 23.6°C14.7°C | 14.7°C | 90 | 11.9 | 14.615 h |
| September | 18.9°C11.0°C | 11.0°C | 69 | 11.3 | 12.713 h |
| October | 13.6°C7.0°C | 7.0°C | 58 | 11.5 | 10.811 h |
| November | 7.8°C2.8°C | 2.8°C | 59 | 11.3 | 9.09 h |
| December | 4.0°C-0.4°C | -0.4°C | 62 | 12.8 | 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
- Ústí nad Labem in AugustCzechia · 48 kmHigh 23.9°C · Low 15.1°C · 85 mm rain
- Chemnitz in AugustGermany · 62 kmHigh 22.4°C · Low 14.0°C · 95 mm rain
- Cottbus in AugustGermany · 89 kmHigh 23.9°C · Low 15.5°C · 62 mm rain
- Zwickau in AugustGermany · 95 kmHigh 23.0°C · Low 14.4°C · 79 mm rain
- Liberec in AugustCzechia · 98 kmHigh 22.4°C · Low 14.0°C · 96 mm rain
- Leipzig in AugustGermany · 101 kmHigh 23.9°C · Low 15.0°C · 62 mm rain
- Prague in AugustCzechia · 117 kmHigh 24.8°C · Low 15.0°C · 73 mm rain
- Gera in AugustGermany · 118 kmHigh 23.3°C · Low 14.8°C · 68 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 Dresden) is explained once on the Dresden year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.