Climate averages 1991–2020
Göttingen weather
in September.
A mild, moderately wet month: the 4th warmest and the 3rd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
September is a mild month in Göttingen: daytime highs average 18.4°C and nights cool to about 10.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 4th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 56 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes September a moderately wet month (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 42 min on an average September day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Kassel (39 km away). In September its highs average 18.4°C, about as warm as Göttingen, with 58 mm of rain.
Among the 120 cities listed in Germany, Göttingen ranks joint 86th of 120 for the warmest September highs and joint 24th of 120 for the driest September (rainfall, lowest first). The mean September high of those 120 cities is 18.8°C; Göttingen is 0.4°C cooler than that mean.
From September to October, average highs fall by 5.1°C to 13.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 56 mm to 60 mm.
The annual picture
September 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 | 22.5°C13.9°C | 13.9°C | 67 | 11.1 | 14.615 h |
| September, selected | 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
September in nearby cities
- Kassel in SeptemberGermany · 39 kmHigh 18.4°C · Low 10.6°C · 58 mm rain
- Hildesheim in SeptemberGermany · 69 kmHigh 18.4°C · Low 10.9°C · 57 mm rain
- Salzgitter in SeptemberGermany · 77 kmHigh 18.3°C · Low 11.1°C · 56 mm rain
- Paderborn in SeptemberGermany · 84 kmHigh 18.3°C · Low 11.1°C · 71 mm rain
- Detmold in SeptemberGermany · 86 kmHigh 18.4°C · Low 11.3°C · 65 mm rain
- Braunschweig in SeptemberGermany · 91 kmHigh 18.5°C · Low 11.2°C · 56 mm rain
- Hannover in SeptemberGermany · 94 kmHigh 18.7°C · Low 11.3°C · 59 mm rain
- Erfurt in SeptemberGermany · 99 kmHigh 18.7°C · Low 10.3°C · 52 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.