Average Sunshine in Germany for January

The tables below give January 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 January sunshine

Place	Hours
Berlin	45
Bremen	41
Hamburg	42
Hannover	42
Kiel	39
Magdeburg	47
Potsdam	47
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 January

Place	Hours
Cologne (Köln)	47
Dresden	56
Erfurt	50
Essen	45
Fichtelberg	64
Frankfurt	41
Gorlitz	56
Kassel	39
Leipzig	47
Saarbrüecken	42
Trier	25

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 January sunshine

Place	Hours
Constance (Konstanz)	43
Freiburg	52
Karlsruhe	47
Munich (München)	61
Nuremberg (Nürnberg)	47
Oberstdorf	57
Regensburg	44
Stuttgart	60
Zugspitze	116