Climate averages 1991–2020
Munich weather
in August.
A warm, wet month: one of the 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 Munich: daytime highs average 22.8°C and nights cool to about 13.5°C. By daytime temperature it is one of the warmest months of the year.
Expect about 99 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes August a wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 19 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Augsburg (56 km away). In August its highs average 23.2°C, about as warm as Munich, with 105 mm of rain.
Among the 120 cities listed in Germany, Munich ranks joint 56th of 120 for the warmest August highs and joint 112th of 120 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 120 cities is 22.9°C; Munich is 0.1°C cooler than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 4.6°C to 18.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 99 mm to 81 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
Munich climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 3.4°C-3.5°C | -3.5°C | 62 | 11.4 | 8.89 h |
| February | 5.1°C-3.5°C | -3.5°C | 53 | 10.4 | 10.210 h |
| March | 9.3°C-0.2°C | -0.2°C | 70 | 12.7 | 11.912 h |
| April | 13.8°C3.3°C | 3.3°C | 65 | 11.9 | 13.614 h |
| May | 17.7°C7.9°C | 7.9°C | 106 | 15.1 | 15.215 h |
| June | 20.9°C11.6°C | 11.6°C | 106 | 14.3 | 16.016 h |
| July | 22.8°C13.5°C | 13.5°C | 104 | 14.5 | 15.616 h |
| August, selected | 22.8°C13.5°C | 13.5°C | 99 | 13.2 | 14.314 h |
| September | 18.2°C9.6°C | 9.6°C | 81 | 11.8 | 12.613 h |
| October | 13.8°C5.5°C | 5.5°C | 68 | 11.3 | 10.911 h |
| November | 7.8°C0.8°C | 0.8°C | 63 | 10.3 | 9.39 h |
| December | 3.8°C-2.4°C | -2.4°C | 67 | 12.9 | 8.48 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
- Augsburg in AugustGermany · 56 kmHigh 23.2°C · Low 13.9°C · 105 mm rain
- Landshut in AugustGermany · 61 kmHigh 23.5°C · Low 14.6°C · 109 mm rain
- Ingolstadt in AugustGermany · 71 kmHigh 23.9°C · Low 14.6°C · 77 mm rain
- Innsbruck (approximate) in AugustAustria · 98 kmHigh 23.4°C · Low 13.5°C · 206 mm rain
- Regensburg in AugustGermany · 105 kmHigh 24.0°C · Low 14.4°C · 84 mm rain
- Salzburg in AugustAustria · 116 kmHigh 23.4°C · Low 13.5°C · 193 mm rain
- Ulm in AugustGermany · 121 kmHigh 22.9°C · Low 13.9°C · 88 mm rain
- Nuremberg in AugustGermany · 151 kmHigh 23.8°C · Low 14.3°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 Munich) is explained once on the Munich year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.