Climate averages 1991–2020
Villingen-Schwenningen weather
in August.
A mild, 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 mild month in Villingen-Schwenningen: daytime highs average 21.2°C and nights cool to about 12.7°C. By daytime temperature it is one of the warmest months of the year.
Expect about 124 mm of rain on roughly 15 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 Freiburg (48 km away). In August its highs average 24.4°C, 3.2°C warmer than Villingen-Schwenningen, with 81 mm of rain.
Among the 120 cities listed in Germany, Villingen-Schwenningen ranks joint 114th of 120 for the warmest August highs and 120th of 120 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 120 cities is 22.9°C; Villingen-Schwenningen is 1.7°C cooler than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 4.3°C to 16.9°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 124 mm to 93 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
Villingen-Schwenningen climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 2.3°C-4.1°C | -4.1°C | 87 | 12.9 | 8.99 h |
| February | 3.4°C-4.1°C | -4.1°C | 75 | 11.1 | 10.210 h |
| March | 7.5°C-0.8°C | -0.8°C | 87 | 13.7 | 11.912 h |
| April | 12.0°C2.8°C | 2.8°C | 87 | 14.2 | 13.614 h |
| May | 15.9°C7.1°C | 7.1°C | 133 | 17.5 | 15.215 h |
| June | 19.3°C10.6°C | 10.6°C | 126 | 16.7 | 16.016 h |
| July | 21.2°C12.6°C | 12.6°C | 138 | 16.7 | 15.616 h |
| August, selected | 21.2°C12.7°C | 12.7°C | 124 | 15.4 | 14.314 h |
| September | 16.9°C8.9°C | 8.9°C | 93 | 12.5 | 12.613 h |
| October | 12.5°C5.1°C | 5.1°C | 91 | 12.7 | 10.911 h |
| November | 6.7°C0.4°C | 0.4°C | 83 | 12.3 | 9.39 h |
| December | 3.0°C-2.7°C | -2.7°C | 100 | 13.7 | 8.58 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
- Freiburg in AugustGermany · 48 kmHigh 24.4°C · Low 15.6°C · 81 mm rain
- Winterthur in AugustSwitzerland · 64 kmHigh 23.1°C · Low 14.6°C · 107 mm rain
- Tübingen in AugustGermany · 66 kmHigh 23.6°C · Low 14.3°C · 73 mm rain
- Konstanz in AugustGermany · 68 kmHigh 23.3°C · Low 16.8°C · 120 mm rain
- Reutlingen in AugustGermany · 71 kmHigh 23.5°C · Low 14.2°C · 75 mm rain
- Zürich in AugustSwitzerland · 77 kmHigh 23.2°C · Low 15.0°C · 147 mm rain
- Strasbourg in AugustFrance · 80 kmHigh 24.5°C · Low 15.3°C · 76 mm rain
- Basel in AugustSwitzerland · 89 kmHigh 24.5°C · Low 14.9°C · 125 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 Villingen-Schwenningen) is explained once on the Villingen-Schwenningen year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.