Climate averages 1991–2020
Freiburg weather
in August.
A warm, moderately wet month: one of the warmest and the 4th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a warm month in Freiburg: daytime highs average 24.4°C and nights cool to about 15.6°C. By daytime temperature it is one of the warmest months of the year.
Expect about 81 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes August a moderately wet month (the 4th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 18 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Mulhouse (48 km away). In August its highs average 24.3°C, about as warm as Freiburg, with 80 mm of rain.
Among the 120 cities listed in Germany, Freiburg ranks joint 8th of 120 for the warmest August highs and joint 83rd of 120 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 120 cities is 22.9°C; Freiburg is 1.5°C warmer than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 4.4°C to 20.0°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 81 mm to 77 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
Freiburg climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 5.3°C-1.2°C | -1.2°C | 91 | 13.3 | 8.99 h |
| February | 6.5°C-1.1°C | -1.1°C | 77 | 11.5 | 10.210 h |
| March | 10.7°C2.1°C | 2.1°C | 83 | 13.3 | 11.912 h |
| April | 15.1°C5.6°C | 5.6°C | 74 | 13.1 | 13.614 h |
| May | 18.9°C9.9°C | 9.9°C | 105 | 15.4 | 15.115 h |
| June | 22.4°C13.5°C | 13.5°C | 89 | 14.2 | 16.016 h |
| July | 24.4°C15.5°C | 15.5°C | 89 | 13.5 | 15.616 h |
| August, selected | 24.4°C15.6°C | 15.6°C | 81 | 12.3 | 14.314 h |
| September | 20.0°C11.8°C | 11.8°C | 77 | 11.3 | 12.613 h |
| October | 15.4°C8.0°C | 8.0°C | 85 | 12.2 | 10.911 h |
| November | 9.5°C3.2°C | 3.2°C | 89 | 12.4 | 9.39 h |
| December | 5.8°C0.2°C | 0.2°C | 108 | 14.4 | 8.58 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
- Mulhouse in AugustFrance · 48 kmHigh 24.3°C · Low 15.1°C · 80 mm rain
- Villingen-Schwenningen in AugustGermany · 48 kmHigh 21.2°C · Low 12.7°C · 124 mm rain
- Basel in AugustSwitzerland · 53 kmHigh 24.5°C · Low 14.9°C · 125 mm rain
- Strasbourg in AugustFrance · 66 kmHigh 24.5°C · Low 15.3°C · 76 mm rain
- Winterthur in AugustSwitzerland · 85 kmHigh 23.1°C · Low 14.6°C · 107 mm rain
- Zürich in AugustSwitzerland · 87 kmHigh 23.2°C · Low 15.0°C · 147 mm rain
- Konstanz in AugustGermany · 106 kmHigh 23.3°C · Low 16.8°C · 120 mm rain
- Tübingen in AugustGermany · 106 kmHigh 23.6°C · Low 14.3°C · 73 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 Freiburg) is explained once on the Freiburg year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.