Average Sunshine in Germany for December

The tables below give December 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 December sunshine

Place	Hours
Berlin	37
Bremen	36
Hamburg	35
Hannover	34
Kiel	35
Magdeburg	41
Potsdam	39
Rostock	37

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 December

Place	Hours
Cologne (Köln)	44
Dresden	46
Erfurt	42
Essen	39
Fichtelberg	57
Frankfurt	39
Gorlitz	45
Kassel	31
Leipzig	37
Saarbrüecken	43
Trier	20

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 December sunshine

Place	Hours
Constance (Konstanz)	37
Freiburg	53
Karlsruhe	47
Munich (München)	49
Nuremberg (Nürnberg)	43
Oberstdorf	48
Regensburg	38
Stuttgart	55
Zugspitze	116