Climate averages 1991–2020
Jena weather
in August.
A warm, moderately wet month: one of the warmest and the 10th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a warm month in Jena: daytime highs average 23.6°C and nights cool to about 14.7°C. By daytime temperature it is one of the warmest months of the year.
Expect about 61 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes August a moderately wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 34 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Gera (35 km away). In August its highs average 23.3°C, about as warm as Jena, with 68 mm of rain.
Among the 120 cities listed in Germany, Jena ranks joint 33rd of 120 for the warmest August highs and joint 19th of 120 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 120 cities is 22.9°C; Jena is 0.7°C warmer than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 4.4°C to 19.1°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 61 mm to 55 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
Jena 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-1.1°C | -1.1°C | 44 | 11.2 | 8.58 h |
| February | 5.3°C-1.0°C | -1.0°C | 35 | 9.5 | 10.010 h |
| March | 9.1°C1.2°C | 1.2°C | 48 | 12.2 | 11.812 h |
| April | 14.2°C4.6°C | 4.6°C | 40 | 9.3 | 13.814 h |
| May | 18.2°C9.1°C | 9.1°C | 62 | 10.6 | 15.516 h |
| June | 21.4°C12.6°C | 12.6°C | 59 | 11.2 | 16.416 h |
| July | 23.6°C14.8°C | 14.8°C | 71 | 11.6 | 16.016 h |
| August, selected | 23.6°C14.7°C | 14.7°C | 61 | 10.6 | 14.615 h |
| September | 19.1°C11.0°C | 11.0°C | 55 | 9.8 | 12.713 h |
| October | 13.9°C7.3°C | 7.3°C | 48 | 10.0 | 10.811 h |
| November | 8.2°C3.2°C | 3.2°C | 50 | 10.4 | 9.09 h |
| December | 4.5°C0.2°C | 0.2°C | 50 | 11.5 | 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
- Gera in AugustGermany · 35 kmHigh 23.3°C · Low 14.8°C · 68 mm rain
- Erfurt in AugustGermany · 39 kmHigh 23.2°C · Low 14.0°C · 60 mm rain
- Zwickau in AugustGermany · 67 kmHigh 23.0°C · Low 14.4°C · 79 mm rain
- Halle (Saale) in AugustGermany · 67 kmHigh 23.7°C · Low 15.0°C · 56 mm rain
- Leipzig in AugustGermany · 71 kmHigh 23.9°C · Low 15.0°C · 62 mm rain
- Chemnitz in AugustGermany · 95 kmHigh 22.4°C · Low 14.0°C · 95 mm rain
- Bayreuth in AugustGermany · 109 kmHigh 23.2°C · Low 14.0°C · 79 mm rain
- Bamberg in AugustGermany · 125 kmHigh 23.9°C · Low 14.6°C · 69 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 Jena) is explained once on the Jena year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.