Climate averages 1991–2020
Saarbrücken weather
in August.
A warm, moderately wet month: one of the warmest and the 3rd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a warm month in Saarbrücken: daytime highs average 23.9°C and nights cool to about 15.0°C. By daytime temperature it is one of the warmest months of the year.
Expect about 60 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes August a moderately wet month (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 25 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Kaiserslautern (60 km away). In August its highs average 23.9°C, about as warm as Saarbrücken, with 65 mm of rain.
Among the 120 cities listed in Germany, Saarbrücken ranks joint 18th of 120 for the warmest August highs and joint 15th of 120 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 120 cities is 22.9°C; Saarbrücken is 1.0°C warmer than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 4.5°C to 19.5°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 60 mm to 64 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
Saarbrücken climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 4.9°C0.0°C | 0.0°C | 79 | 12.6 | 8.79 h |
| February | 6.3°C0.0°C | 0.0°C | 68 | 10.6 | 10.110 h |
| March | 10.2°C2.4°C | 2.4°C | 70 | 11.7 | 11.912 h |
| April | 14.4°C5.4°C | 5.4°C | 54 | 10.4 | 13.714 h |
| May | 18.2°C9.5°C | 9.5°C | 68 | 12.0 | 15.315 h |
| June | 21.7°C12.8°C | 12.8°C | 58 | 10.8 | 16.216 h |
| July | 23.9°C15.0°C | 15.0°C | 61 | 10.8 | 15.816 h |
| August, selected | 23.9°C15.0°C | 15.0°C | 60 | 10.7 | 14.414 h |
| September | 19.5°C11.4°C | 11.4°C | 64 | 9.5 | 12.713 h |
| October | 14.5°C8.0°C | 8.0°C | 71 | 11.5 | 10.811 h |
| November | 8.9°C3.9°C | 3.9°C | 75 | 12.5 | 9.29 h |
| December | 5.5°C1.1°C | 1.1°C | 99 | 14.4 | 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
August in nearby cities
- Kaiserslautern in AugustGermany · 60 kmHigh 23.9°C · Low 15.3°C · 65 mm rain
- Metz in AugustFrance · 62 kmHigh 24.0°C · Low 14.8°C · 64 mm rain
- Trier in AugustGermany · 64 kmHigh 23.3°C · Low 14.1°C · 70 mm rain
- Luxembourg in AugustLuxembourg · 76 kmHigh 22.7°C · Low 13.7°C · 62 mm rain
- Nancy in AugustFrance · 86 kmHigh 24.2°C · Low 14.9°C · 68 mm rain
- Strasbourg in AugustFrance · 90 kmHigh 24.5°C · Low 15.3°C · 76 mm rain
- Karlsruhe in AugustGermany · 104 kmHigh 25.1°C · Low 15.8°C · 62 mm rain
- Worms in AugustGermany · 107 kmHigh 24.8°C · Low 15.3°C · 52 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 Saarbrücken) is explained once on the Saarbrücken year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.