Climate averages 1991–2020
Karlsruhe weather
in July.
A warm, moderately wet month: the 2nd warmest and the joint 9th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
July is a warm month in Karlsruhe: daytime highs average 25.0°C and nights cool to about 15.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 70 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes July a moderately wet month (the joint 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 15 h 45 min on an average July day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Pforzheim (26 km away). In July its highs average 24.2°C, 0.8°C cooler than Karlsruhe, with 79 mm of rain.
Among the 120 cities listed in Germany, Karlsruhe ranks joint 2nd of 120 for the warmest July highs and joint 15th of 120 for the driest July (rainfall, lowest first). The mean July high of those 120 cities is 23.0°C; Karlsruhe is 2.0°C warmer than that mean.
From July to August, average highs rise by 0.1°C to 25.1°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 70 mm to 62 mm.
The annual picture
July 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
Karlsruhe climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 5.2°C-0.3°C | -0.3°C | 68 | 12.6 | 8.79 h |
| February | 6.8°C-0.1°C | -0.1°C | 61 | 11.1 | 10.110 h |
| March | 10.9°C2.5°C | 2.5°C | 68 | 12.4 | 11.912 h |
| April | 15.5°C5.7°C | 5.7°C | 52 | 10.8 | 13.714 h |
| May | 19.3°C10.1°C | 10.1°C | 79 | 12.8 | 15.315 h |
| June | 22.8°C13.7°C | 13.7°C | 67 | 12.2 | 16.116 h |
| July, selected | 25.0°C15.9°C | 15.9°C | 70 | 12.2 | 15.816 h |
| August | 25.1°C15.8°C | 15.8°C | 62 | 11.1 | 14.414 h |
| September | 20.5°C12.0°C | 12.0°C | 62 | 9.9 | 12.713 h |
| October | 15.3°C8.1°C | 8.1°C | 66 | 11.3 | 10.811 h |
| November | 9.5°C3.7°C | 3.7°C | 70 | 11.6 | 9.29 h |
| December | 5.9°C0.9°C | 0.9°C | 83 | 14.3 | 8.38 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
July in nearby cities
- Pforzheim in JulyGermany · 26 kmHigh 24.2°C · Low 15.2°C · 79 mm rain
- Heidelberg, Germany in JulyGermany · 49 kmHigh 24.9°C · Low 15.6°C · 73 mm rain
- Ludwigshafen am Rhein in JulyGermany · 53 kmHigh 25.2°C · Low 15.8°C · 61 mm rain
- Mannheim in JulyGermany · 54 kmHigh 25.0°C · Low 15.7°C · 61 mm rain
- Ludwigsburg in JulyGermany · 59 kmHigh 23.9°C · Low 14.5°C · 76 mm rain
- Heilbronn in JulyGermany · 61 kmHigh 24.7°C · Low 15.5°C · 74 mm rain
- Stuttgart in JulyGermany · 62 kmHigh 24.1°C · Low 14.6°C · 79 mm rain
- Kaiserslautern in JulyGermany · 67 kmHigh 24.0°C · Low 15.4°C · 72 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 Karlsruhe) is explained once on the Karlsruhe year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.