Climate averages 1991–2020
Potsdam weather
in August.
A warm, moderately wet month: one of the 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 Potsdam: daytime highs average 23.7°C and nights cool to about 15.4°C. By daytime temperature it is one of the warmest months of the year.
Expect about 59 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes August a moderately wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 42 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Berlin (27 km away). In August its highs average 23.9°C, about as warm as Potsdam, with 57 mm of rain.
Among the 120 cities listed in Germany, Potsdam ranks joint 29th of 120 for the warmest August highs and joint 12th of 120 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 120 cities is 22.9°C; Potsdam is 0.7°C warmer than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 4.6°C to 19.0°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 59 mm to 51 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
Potsdam climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 3.2°C-1.2°C | -1.2°C | 49 | 11.8 | 8.38 h |
| February | 4.8°C-0.7°C | -0.7°C | 36 | 9.2 | 9.910 h |
| March | 8.5°C1.4°C | 1.4°C | 46 | 11.1 | 11.812 h |
| April | 14.1°C5.1°C | 5.1°C | 35 | 8.8 | 13.914 h |
| May | 18.6°C9.8°C | 9.8°C | 56 | 10.1 | 15.716 h |
| June | 21.8°C13.3°C | 13.3°C | 57 | 10.5 | 16.717 h |
| July | 23.7°C15.5°C | 15.5°C | 77 | 11.5 | 16.316 h |
| August, selected | 23.7°C15.4°C | 15.4°C | 59 | 10.4 | 14.715 h |
| September | 19.0°C11.8°C | 11.8°C | 51 | 9.1 | 12.713 h |
| October | 13.5°C7.6°C | 7.6°C | 46 | 9.5 | 10.711 h |
| November | 7.7°C3.3°C | 3.3°C | 42 | 9.9 | 8.89 h |
| December | 4.1°C0.3°C | 0.3°C | 46 | 11.4 | 7.88 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
- Berlin in AugustGermany · 27 kmHigh 23.9°C · Low 15.0°C · 57 mm rain
- Magdeburg in AugustGermany · 102 kmHigh 23.7°C · Low 14.9°C · 63 mm rain
- Cottbus in AugustGermany · 112 kmHigh 23.9°C · Low 15.5°C · 62 mm rain
- Halle (Saale) in AugustGermany · 126 kmHigh 23.7°C · Low 15.0°C · 56 mm rain
- Leipzig in AugustGermany · 127 kmHigh 23.9°C · Low 15.0°C · 62 mm rain
- Gorzów Wielkopolski in AugustPoland · 151 kmHigh 23.6°C · Low 15.0°C · 65 mm rain
- Szczecin in AugustPoland · 152 kmHigh 22.9°C · Low 14.8°C · 68 mm rain
- Wolfsburg in AugustGermany · 155 kmHigh 23.0°C · Low 14.9°C · 61 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 Potsdam) is explained once on the Potsdam year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.