Average Sunshine in Germany for March

The tables below give March 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 March sunshine

Place	Hours
Berlin	122
Bremen	102
Hamburg	105
Hannover	106
Kiel	106
Magdeburg	117
Potsdam	124
Rostock	109

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 March

Place	Hours
Cologne (Köln)	108
Dresden	112
Erfurt	112
Essen	103
Fichtelberg	104
Frankfurt	116
Gorlitz	121
Kassel	110
Leipzig	105
Saarbrüecken	119
Trier	97

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 March sunshine

Place	Hours
Constance (Konstanz)	125
Freiburg	123
Karlsruhe	122
Munich (München)	128
Nuremberg (Nürnberg)	123
Oberstdorf	122
Regensburg	126
Stuttgart	124
Zugspitze	154