Climate averages 1991–2020
Hamburg weather
in August.
A warm, moderately wet month: the 2nd warmest and the 11th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a warm month in Hamburg: daytime highs average 22.2°C and nights cool to about 14.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 76 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes August a moderately wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 49 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Norderstedt (17 km away). In August its highs average 21.8°C, about as warm as Hamburg, with 75 mm of rain.
Among the 120 cities listed in Germany, Hamburg ranks joint 95th of 120 for the warmest August highs and joint 61st of 120 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 120 cities is 22.9°C; Hamburg is 0.7°C cooler than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 3.9°C to 18.3°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 76 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
Hamburg climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 3.8°C-0.4°C | -0.4°C | 61 | 12.4 | 8.18 h |
| February | 4.8°C-0.4°C | -0.4°C | 49 | 10.5 | 9.810 h |
| March | 8.3°C1.0°C | 1.0°C | 53 | 10.8 | 11.812 h |
| April | 13.3°C4.3°C | 4.3°C | 47 | 10.5 | 14.014 h |
| May | 17.4°C8.4°C | 8.4°C | 64 | 11.2 | 15.916 h |
| June | 20.2°C11.7°C | 11.7°C | 71 | 12.2 | 16.917 h |
| July | 22.4°C14.1°C | 14.1°C | 85 | 13.3 | 16.516 h |
| August, selected | 22.2°C14.1°C | 14.1°C | 76 | 13.1 | 14.815 h |
| September | 18.3°C11.1°C | 11.1°C | 56 | 10.3 | 12.813 h |
| October | 13.1°C7.3°C | 7.3°C | 56 | 11.2 | 10.611 h |
| November | 7.7°C3.5°C | 3.5°C | 52 | 11.3 | 8.79 h |
| December | 4.5°C0.7°C | 0.7°C | 62 | 12.3 | 7.68 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
- Norderstedt in AugustGermany · 17 kmHigh 21.8°C · Low 14.1°C · 75 mm rain
- Lüneburg in AugustGermany · 44 kmHigh 22.5°C · Low 14.3°C · 73 mm rain
- Lübeck in AugustGermany · 58 kmHigh 21.9°C · Low 14.4°C · 75 mm rain
- Neumünster in AugustGermany · 58 kmHigh 21.4°C · Low 14.0°C · 75 mm rain
- Kiel in AugustGermany · 86 kmHigh 21.3°C · Low 14.3°C · 73 mm rain
- Bremerhaven in AugustGermany · 94 kmHigh 20.9°C · Low 15.1°C · 84 mm rain
- Schwerin in AugustGermany · 94 kmHigh 22.1°C · Low 14.3°C · 73 mm rain
- Bremen in AugustGermany · 95 kmHigh 22.0°C · Low 14.2°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 Hamburg) is explained once on the Hamburg year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.