Climate averages 1991–2020
Göttingen weather
in August.
A warm, moderately wet month: the 2nd warmest and the joint 10th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a warm month in Göttingen: daytime highs average 22.5°C and nights cool to about 13.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 67 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes August a moderately wet month (the joint 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 37 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Kassel (39 km away). In August its highs average 22.6°C, about as warm as Göttingen, with 72 mm of rain.
Among the 120 cities listed in Germany, Göttingen ranks joint 76th of 120 for the warmest August highs and joint 30th of 120 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 120 cities is 22.9°C; Göttingen is 0.4°C cooler than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 4.2°C to 18.4°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 67 mm to 56 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
Göttingen climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 3.6°C-0.9°C | -0.9°C | 66 | 13.2 | 8.48 h |
| February | 5.0°C-0.9°C | -0.9°C | 52 | 11.2 | 9.910 h |
| March | 8.8°C1.1°C | 1.1°C | 59 | 12.6 | 11.812 h |
| April | 13.6°C4.1°C | 4.1°C | 47 | 10.5 | 13.814 h |
| May | 17.4°C8.4°C | 8.4°C | 61 | 11.4 | 15.616 h |
| June | 20.5°C11.7°C | 11.7°C | 66 | 12.3 | 16.617 h |
| July | 22.7°C13.9°C | 13.9°C | 75 | 12.8 | 16.116 h |
| August, selected | 22.5°C13.9°C | 13.9°C | 67 | 11.1 | 14.615 h |
| September | 18.4°C10.5°C | 10.5°C | 56 | 10.0 | 12.713 h |
| October | 13.3°C6.9°C | 6.9°C | 60 | 11.6 | 10.711 h |
| November | 7.9°C3.2°C | 3.2°C | 60 | 11.9 | 8.99 h |
| December | 4.4°C0.3°C | 0.3°C | 67 | 14.0 | 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
August in nearby cities
- Kassel in AugustGermany · 39 kmHigh 22.6°C · Low 14.0°C · 72 mm rain
- Hildesheim in AugustGermany · 69 kmHigh 22.4°C · Low 14.2°C · 70 mm rain
- Salzgitter in AugustGermany · 77 kmHigh 22.5°C · Low 14.4°C · 65 mm rain
- Paderborn in AugustGermany · 84 kmHigh 22.2°C · Low 14.1°C · 81 mm rain
- Detmold in AugustGermany · 86 kmHigh 22.4°C · Low 14.4°C · 74 mm rain
- Braunschweig in AugustGermany · 91 kmHigh 22.7°C · Low 14.5°C · 65 mm rain
- Hannover in AugustGermany · 94 kmHigh 22.8°C · Low 14.5°C · 72 mm rain
- Erfurt in AugustGermany · 99 kmHigh 23.2°C · Low 14.0°C · 60 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 Göttingen) is explained once on the Göttingen year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.