Climate averages 1991–2020
Erfurt weather
in August.
A warm, moderately 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 Erfurt: daytime highs average 23.2°C and nights cool to about 14.0°C. By daytime temperature it is one of the warmest months of the year.
Expect about 60 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes August a moderately wet month (the 10th 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 Jena (39 km away). In August its highs average 23.6°C, about as warm as Erfurt, with 61 mm of rain.
Among the 120 cities listed in Germany, Erfurt ranks joint 42nd of 120 for the warmest August highs and joint 15th of 120 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 120 cities is 22.9°C; Erfurt is 0.3°C warmer than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 4.4°C to 18.7°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 60 mm to 52 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
Erfurt climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 3.3°C-1.7°C | -1.7°C | 43 | 11.0 | 8.58 h |
| February | 4.9°C-1.5°C | -1.5°C | 35 | 9.3 | 10.010 h |
| March | 8.7°C0.6°C | 0.6°C | 47 | 11.5 | 11.812 h |
| April | 13.7°C3.8°C | 3.8°C | 41 | 9.4 | 13.814 h |
| May | 17.7°C8.3°C | 8.3°C | 63 | 11.0 | 15.516 h |
| June | 20.9°C11.8°C | 11.8°C | 57 | 11.3 | 16.516 h |
| July | 23.2°C14.1°C | 14.1°C | 70 | 11.8 | 16.116 h |
| August, selected | 23.2°C14.0°C | 14.0°C | 60 | 10.6 | 14.615 h |
| September | 18.7°C10.3°C | 10.3°C | 52 | 9.4 | 12.713 h |
| October | 13.4°C6.4°C | 6.4°C | 46 | 10.4 | 10.811 h |
| November | 7.7°C2.4°C | 2.4°C | 49 | 10.4 | 9.09 h |
| December | 4.1°C-0.4°C | -0.4°C | 49 | 11.6 | 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
- Jena in AugustGermany · 39 kmHigh 23.6°C · Low 14.7°C · 61 mm rain
- Gera in AugustGermany · 74 kmHigh 23.3°C · Low 14.8°C · 68 mm rain
- Halle (Saale) in AugustGermany · 86 kmHigh 23.7°C · Low 15.0°C · 56 mm rain
- Göttingen in AugustGermany · 99 kmHigh 22.5°C · Low 13.9°C · 67 mm rain
- Leipzig in AugustGermany · 101 kmHigh 23.9°C · Low 15.0°C · 62 mm rain
- Zwickau in AugustGermany · 106 kmHigh 23.0°C · Low 14.4°C · 79 mm rain
- Kassel in AugustGermany · 114 kmHigh 22.6°C · Low 14.0°C · 72 mm rain
- Bamberg in AugustGermany · 120 kmHigh 23.9°C · Low 14.6°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 Erfurt) is explained once on the Erfurt year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.