Climate averages 1991–2020
Hagen weather
in August.
A warm, wet month: the 2nd warmest and the 9th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a warm month in Hagen: daytime highs average 22.2°C and nights cool to about 14.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 103 mm of rain on roughly 15 days, which makes August a wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 36 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Witten (12 km away). In August its highs average 22.2°C, about as warm as Hagen, with 85 mm of rain.
Among the 120 cities listed in Germany, Hagen ranks joint 95th of 120 for the warmest August highs and 116th of 120 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 120 cities is 22.9°C; Hagen is 0.7°C cooler than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 3.7°C to 18.4°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 103 mm to 92 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
Hagen climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 4.6°C0.3°C | 0.3°C | 108 | 15.6 | 8.48 h |
| February | 5.7°C0.2°C | 0.2°C | 89 | 13.5 | 9.910 h |
| March | 9.4°C2.4°C | 2.4°C | 91 | 14.7 | 11.812 h |
| April | 13.8°C5.4°C | 5.4°C | 70 | 12.5 | 13.814 h |
| May | 17.5°C9.3°C | 9.3°C | 83 | 13.9 | 15.616 h |
| June | 20.4°C12.3°C | 12.3°C | 91 | 14.4 | 16.517 h |
| July | 22.4°C14.6°C | 14.6°C | 111 | 15.7 | 16.116 h |
| August, selected | 22.2°C14.5°C | 14.5°C | 103 | 15.2 | 14.615 h |
| September | 18.4°C11.6°C | 11.6°C | 92 | 13.3 | 12.713 h |
| October | 13.8°C8.2°C | 8.2°C | 94 | 13.6 | 10.711 h |
| November | 8.7°C4.3°C | 4.3°C | 95 | 14.7 | 8.99 h |
| December | 5.4°C1.4°C | 1.4°C | 112 | 16.4 | 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
- Witten in AugustGermany · 12 kmHigh 22.2°C · Low 14.5°C · 85 mm rain
- Iserlohn in AugustGermany · 16 kmHigh 21.2°C · Low 13.5°C · 84 mm rain
- Dortmund in AugustGermany · 17 kmHigh 22.4°C · Low 14.3°C · 87 mm rain
- Lüdenscheid in AugustGermany · 19 kmHigh 20.4°C · Low 12.8°C · 99 mm rain
- Bochum in AugustGermany · 22 kmHigh 22.4°C · Low 14.2°C · 85 mm rain
- Castrop-Rauxel in AugustGermany · 24 kmHigh 22.5°C · Low 14.3°C · 85 mm rain
- Wuppertal in AugustGermany · 25 kmHigh 22.1°C · Low 14.2°C · 99 mm rain
- Remscheid in AugustGermany · 28 kmHigh 21.0°C · Low 13.2°C · 99 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 Hagen) is explained once on the Hagen year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.