Climate averages 1991–2020
Lüneburg 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 Lüneburg: daytime highs average 22.5°C and nights cool to about 14.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 73 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes August a moderately wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 47 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Hamburg (44 km away). In August its highs average 22.2°C, about as warm as Lüneburg, with 76 mm of rain.
Among the 120 cities listed in Germany, Lüneburg ranks joint 76th of 120 for the warmest August highs and joint 46th of 120 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 120 cities is 22.9°C; Lüneburg is 0.4°C cooler than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 4.0°C to 18.5°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 73 mm to 53 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
Lüneburg climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 3.7°C-0.4°C | -0.4°C | 55 | 11.8 | 8.18 h |
| February | 4.9°C-0.3°C | -0.3°C | 44 | 10.3 | 9.810 h |
| March | 8.4°C1.2°C | 1.2°C | 49 | 10.5 | 11.812 h |
| April | 13.6°C4.5°C | 4.5°C | 45 | 10.3 | 13.914 h |
| May | 17.7°C8.6°C | 8.6°C | 60 | 10.8 | 15.816 h |
| June | 20.6°C11.9°C | 11.9°C | 68 | 11.5 | 16.917 h |
| July | 22.8°C14.3°C | 14.3°C | 82 | 12.9 | 16.416 h |
| August, selected | 22.5°C14.3°C | 14.3°C | 73 | 12.2 | 14.815 h |
| September | 18.5°C11.2°C | 11.2°C | 53 | 9.8 | 12.713 h |
| October | 13.3°C7.4°C | 7.4°C | 52 | 10.7 | 10.611 h |
| November | 7.7°C3.5°C | 3.5°C | 48 | 10.7 | 8.79 h |
| December | 4.5°C0.7°C | 0.7°C | 55 | 11.7 | 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
- Hamburg in AugustGermany · 44 kmHigh 22.2°C · Low 14.1°C · 76 mm rain
- Norderstedt in AugustGermany · 57 kmHigh 21.8°C · Low 14.1°C · 75 mm rain
- Lübeck in AugustGermany · 71 kmHigh 21.9°C · Low 14.4°C · 75 mm rain
- Celle in AugustGermany · 73 kmHigh 22.9°C · Low 14.7°C · 67 mm rain
- Schwerin in AugustGermany · 78 kmHigh 22.1°C · Low 14.3°C · 73 mm rain
- Wolfsburg in AugustGermany · 95 kmHigh 23.0°C · Low 14.9°C · 61 mm rain
- Neumünster in AugustGermany · 96 kmHigh 21.4°C · Low 14.0°C · 75 mm rain
- Hannover in AugustGermany · 108 kmHigh 22.8°C · Low 14.5°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 Lüneburg) is explained once on the Lüneburg year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.