Average Sunshine in Germany for February

The tables below give February 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 February sunshine

Place	Hours
Berlin	72
Bremen	71
Hamburg	67
Hannover	67
Kiel	64
Magdeburg	70
Potsdam	74
Rostock	64

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 February

Place	Hours
Cologne (Köln)	79
Dresden	75
Erfurt	72
Essen	76
Fichtelberg	77
Frankfurt	75
Gorlitz	76
Kassel	72
Leipzig	68
Saarbrüecken	80
Trier	56

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 February sunshine

Place	Hours
Constance (Konstanz)	73
Freiburg	82
Karlsruhe	77
Munich (München)	84
Nuremberg (Nürnberg)	83
Oberstdorf	85
Regensburg	78
Stuttgart	80
Zugspitze	132