Climate averages 1991–2020

Tübingen weather
in August.

A warm, moderately wet month: the warmest and the 8th driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 23.6°C Daytime mean, August
Average low 14.3°C Night-time mean, August
Rainfall 73 mm 12 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 14 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Tübingen · average highYear overview

August is a warm month in Tübingen: daytime highs average 23.6°C and nights cool to about 14.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.

Expect about 73 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes August a moderately wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 21 min on an average August day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Reutlingen (12 km away). In August its highs average 23.5°C, about as warm as Tübingen, with 75 mm of rain.

Among the 120 cities listed in Germany, Tübingen ranks joint 33rd 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; Tübingen is 0.7°C warmer than that mean.

From August to September, average highs fall by 4.4°C to 19.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 73 mm to 63 mm.

The annual picture

August in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. -5051015202530 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm
Average monthly rainfall totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 1000

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Tübingen climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Tübingen, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 4.5°C-2.0°C-2.0°C7012.38.89 h
February 5.8°C-2.2°C-2.2°C6010.710.210 h
March 9.9°C0.9°C0.9°C7012.511.912 h
April 14.4°C4.3°C4.3°C6111.713.614 h
May 18.1°C8.6°C8.6°C9314.515.215 h
June 21.4°C12.2°C12.2°C8013.316.016 h
July 23.5°C14.3°C14.3°C8413.115.716 h
August, selected 23.6°C14.3°C14.3°C7312.214.314 h
September 19.2°C10.4°C10.4°C6310.812.613 h
October 14.6°C6.7°C6.7°C6911.510.911 h
November 8.7°C2.1°C2.1°C6811.69.39 h
December 5.0°C-0.7°C-0.7°C7813.58.48 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

Distance from Tübingen

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 limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Tübingen) is explained once on the Tübingen year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.