Assens climate by month
What the weather is like
Assens has an oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb): rain spread through the year and no real dry season.
The warmest month is July, when afternoons average 21° and nights 14°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 4° and lows of 1°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 15°.
About 754 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. August is the wettest month (75 mm, 16 wet days) and April the driest (34 mm, 9 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 34% in July to 57% in January.
The sea reaches about 19° in August. Sea temperatures lag the air by a month or two, so late summer is usually warmer for swimming than early summer.
Compared with Copenhagen, the capital, Assens is 1.1° cooler on a July afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 21° · July
- Coldest nights
- 0° · February
- Wettest month
- August
- Driest month
- April
- Clearest skies
- July · 34% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 19° · August
- Longest day
- 17 h 24 min
- Shortest day
- 7 h 09 min
Twelve months at a glance
Temperature and precipitation
Daily high/low range bars, monthly precipitation columns, sea temperature lineTemperature curve
Average high, low and seaDaylight
Hours between sunrise and sunset on the 15th of each monthClimate normals month by month
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average high | 4° | 4° | 6° | 11° | 15° | 19° | 21° | 21° | 17° | 13° | 8° | 5° |
| Average low | 1° | 0° | 2° | 4° | 8° | 11° | 14° | 14° | 12° | 8° | 5° | 2° |
| Precipitation | 71 mm | 50 mm | 56 mm | 34 mm | 52 mm | 64 mm | 66 mm | 75 mm | 69 mm | 84 mm | 68 mm | 65 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 14.6 | 10.4 | 10.2 | 9.2 | 11.6 | 11.6 | 13.5 | 15.7 | 13.2 | 15 | 14.6 | 14.7 |
| Cloud cover | 57% | 54% | 48% | 40% | 36% | 37% | 34% | 35% | 41% | 46% | 53% | 57% |
| Sea temperature | 2° | 2° | 2° | 4° | 11° | 15° | 18° | 19° | 16° | 12° | 9° | 4° |
| Daylight | 7h 43 | 9h 40 | 11h 46 | 14h 07 | 16h 10 | 17h 24 | 16h 53 | 15h 03 | 12h 48 | 10h 33 | 8h 24 | 7h 09 |
| Month score | 14 | 23 | 26 | 35 | 55 | 70 | 67 | 65 | 61 | 33 | 15 | 14 |