Average Sunshine in Germany for July

The tables below give July 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 July sunshine

Place	Hours
Berlin	218
Bremen	191
Hamburg	207
Hannover	198
Kiel	219
Magdeburg	219
Potsdam	232
Rostock	234

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 July

Place	Hours
Cologne (Köln)	195
Dresden	211
Erfurt	219
Essen	186
Fichtelberg	192
Frankfurt	225
Gorlitz	222
Kassel	196
Leipzig	204
Saarbrüecken	240
Trier	183

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 July sunshine

Place	Hours
Constance (Konstanz)	245
Freiburg	252
Karlsruhe	244
Munich (München)	237
Nuremberg (Nürnberg)	236
Oberstdorf	188
Regensburg	236
Stuttgart	238
Zugspitze	175