Climate averages 1991–2020
Gelsenkirchen weather
in July.
A warm, moderately wet month: the warmest and the 11th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
July is a warm month in Gelsenkirchen: daytime highs average 23.0°C and nights cool to about 14.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 82 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes July a moderately wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 16 h 08 min on an average July day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Essen (8 km away). In July its highs average 22.8°C, about as warm as Gelsenkirchen, with 82 mm of rain.
Among the 120 cities listed in Germany, Gelsenkirchen ranks joint 53rd of 120 for the warmest July highs and joint 78th of 120 for the driest July (rainfall, lowest first). The mean July high of those 120 cities is 23.0°C; Gelsenkirchen is level with that mean.
From July to August, average highs fall by 0.3°C to 22.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 82 mm to 81 mm.
The annual picture
July 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
Gelsenkirchen climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 5.1°C0.5°C | 0.5°C | 78 | 13.9 | 8.48 h |
| February | 6.4°C0.6°C | 0.6°C | 64 | 12.0 | 9.910 h |
| March | 10.0°C2.5°C | 2.5°C | 65 | 12.8 | 11.812 h |
| April | 14.3°C5.3°C | 5.3°C | 51 | 10.8 | 13.814 h |
| May | 18.1°C9.3°C | 9.3°C | 62 | 11.5 | 15.616 h |
| June | 21.0°C12.4°C | 12.4°C | 70 | 12.0 | 16.517 h |
| July, selected | 23.0°C14.7°C | 14.7°C | 82 | 13.6 | 16.116 h |
| August | 22.8°C14.5°C | 14.5°C | 81 | 12.5 | 14.615 h |
| September | 19.0°C11.6°C | 11.6°C | 69 | 11.0 | 12.713 h |
| October | 14.2°C8.2°C | 8.2°C | 71 | 12.0 | 10.711 h |
| November | 9.1°C4.4°C | 4.4°C | 71 | 13.1 | 8.99 h |
| December | 5.7°C1.5°C | 1.5°C | 84 | 14.1 | 7.98 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
July in nearby cities
- Essen in JulyGermany · 8 kmHigh 22.8°C · Low 14.4°C · 82 mm rain
- Bochum in JulyGermany · 9 kmHigh 22.7°C · Low 14.4°C · 89 mm rain
- Gladbeck in JulyGermany · 11 kmHigh 22.9°C · Low 14.5°C · 82 mm rain
- Recklinghausen in JulyGermany · 14 kmHigh 22.8°C · Low 14.4°C · 89 mm rain
- Castrop-Rauxel in JulyGermany · 16 kmHigh 22.8°C · Low 14.4°C · 89 mm rain
- Oberhausen in JulyGermany · 16 kmHigh 23.0°C · Low 14.7°C · 79 mm rain
- Marl in JulyGermany · 17 kmHigh 22.8°C · Low 14.5°C · 78 mm rain
- Mülheim in JulyGermany · 17 kmHigh 22.9°C · Low 15.0°C · 82 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 Gelsenkirchen) is explained once on the Gelsenkirchen year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Essen, Mülheim and Gladbeck lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.