Average Sunshine in Germany for August

The tables below give August averages for the hours of sunshine at cities throughout Germany.

You can jump to a separate table for each section of the country: Northern, Central and Southern Germany.

The annual totals are averages of weather data collected from 1961 to 1990.

Northern Germany

Included here are cities in the states of Berlin, Brandenburg, Bremen, Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern), Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen), Saxony-Anhalt (Sachsen-Anhalt) and Schleswig-Holstein.

Total August sunshine

Place	Hours
Berlin	210
Bremen	193
Hamburg	207
Hannover	197
Kiel	220
Magdeburg	207
Potsdam	220
Rostock	225

Central Germany

This section covers the states of Hesse (Hessen), North Rhine-Westphalia (Nordrhein-Westfalen), Rhineland-Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz), Saarland, Saxony (Sachsen) and Thuringia (Thüringen). Besides cities, the list includes Fichtelberg, a high point in the Ore Mountains where the weather station sits near the peak, at 1213 metres (3980 feet) elevation.

Average hours of sun in August

Place	Hours
Cologne (Köln)	184
Dresden	197
Erfurt	204
Essen	183
Fichtelberg	190
Frankfurt	204
Gorlitz	210
Kassel	188
Leipzig	194
Saarbrüecken	216
Trier	172

Southern Germany

Cities in Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria (Bayern) states are in the table below. Also included is Oberstdorf, a mountain vacation town and ski holiday destination in the Bavarian Alps. The most extreme weather station on the list is Zugspitze at 2960 metres (9711 feet) elevation, near the top of Germany's highest peak.

Average August sunshine

Place	Hours
Constance (Konstanz)	215
Freiburg	228
Karlsruhe	221
Munich (München)	213
Nuremberg (Nürnberg)	215
Oberstdorf	173
Regensburg	216
Stuttgart	214
Zugspitze	179