Climate averages 1991–2020
Zürich weather
in June.
A mild, wet month: the 3rd warmest and the 9th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
June is a mild month in Zürich: daytime highs average 21.4°C and nights cool to about 12.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 3rd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 143 mm of rain on roughly 16 days, which makes June a wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 15 h 52 min on an average June day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Winterthur (20 km away). In June its highs average 21.2°C, about as warm as Zürich, with 113 mm of rain.
Among the 8 cities listed in Switzerland, Zürich ranks 3rd of 8 for the warmest June highs and 6th of 8 for the driest June (rainfall, lowest first). The mean June high of those 8 cities is 21.0°C; Zürich is 0.4°C warmer than that mean.
From June to July, average highs rise by 1.9°C to 23.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 143 mm to 146 mm.
The annual picture
June 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
Zürich climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 4.8°C-1.4°C | -1.4°C | 92 | 12.9 | 8.99 h |
| February | 6.1°C-1.5°C | -1.5°C | 85 | 11.9 | 10.210 h |
| March | 10.3°C1.1°C | 1.1°C | 98 | 14.2 | 11.912 h |
| April | 14.1°C4.2°C | 4.2°C | 106 | 13.9 | 13.614 h |
| May | 17.9°C8.6°C | 8.6°C | 144 | 16.0 | 15.115 h |
| June, selected | 21.4°C12.5°C | 12.5°C | 143 | 15.5 | 15.916 h |
| July | 23.3°C14.6°C | 14.6°C | 146 | 15.4 | 15.516 h |
| August | 23.2°C15.0°C | 15.0°C | 147 | 14.4 | 14.314 h |
| September | 18.9°C11.2°C | 11.2°C | 123 | 12.4 | 12.613 h |
| October | 14.6°C7.3°C | 7.3°C | 103 | 12.7 | 10.911 h |
| November | 8.8°C2.6°C | 2.6°C | 106 | 13.0 | 9.49 h |
| December | 5.2°C-0.4°C | -0.4°C | 106 | 14.0 | 8.59 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
June in nearby cities
- Winterthur in JuneSwitzerland · 20 kmHigh 21.2°C · Low 12.3°C · 113 mm rain
- Luzern in JuneSwitzerland · 40 kmHigh 21.2°C · Low 12.1°C · 200 mm rain
- Konstanz in JuneGermany · 57 kmHigh 21.5°C · Low 14.8°C · 123 mm rain
- Sankt Gallen in JuneSwitzerland · 62 kmHigh 19.4°C · Low 10.7°C · 172 mm rain
- Basel in JuneSwitzerland · 76 kmHigh 22.3°C · Low 12.7°C · 118 mm rain
- Villingen-Schwenningen in JuneGermany · 77 kmHigh 19.3°C · Low 10.6°C · 126 mm rain
- Vaduz in JuneLiechtenstein · 77 kmHigh 21.3°C · Low 12.0°C · 217 mm rain
- Freiburg in JuneGermany · 87 kmHigh 22.4°C · Low 13.5°C · 89 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 Zürich) is explained once on the Zürich year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.