Kolding climate by month
What the weather is like
Kolding has an oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb): rain spread through the year and no real dry season.
The warmest month is July, when afternoons average 22° and nights 12°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 4° and lows of -1°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 16°.
About 845 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. August is the wettest month (84 mm, 16 wet days) and April the driest (39 mm, 9 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 36% in May to 56% in January.
The sea reaches about 18° 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, Kolding is 0.1° warmer on a July afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 22° · July
- Coldest nights
- -1° · January
- Wettest month
- August
- Driest month
- April
- Clearest skies
- May · 36% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 18° · August
- Longest day
- 17 h 27 min
- Shortest day
- 7 h 07 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° | 7° | 13° | 17° | 20° | 22° | 22° | 18° | 13° | 8° | 5° |
| Average low | -1° | -1° | 0° | 3° | 7° | 10° | 12° | 12° | 10° | 6° | 3° | 0° |
| Precipitation | 77 mm | 59 mm | 63 mm | 39 mm | 56 mm | 67 mm | 70 mm | 84 mm | 81 mm | 98 mm | 75 mm | 76 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 | 56% | 55% | 49% | 41% | 36% | 38% | 36% | 36% | 42% | 46% | 53% | 56% |
| Sea temperature | 2° | 2° | 2° | 4° | 11° | 14° | 17° | 18° | 15° | 12° | 9° | 4° |
| Daylight | 7h 41 | 9h 39 | 11h 46 | 14h 08 | 16h 12 | 17h 27 | 16h 56 | 15h 05 | 12h 48 | 10h 32 | 8h 22 | 7h 07 |
| Month score | 14 | 23 | 26 | 45 | 64 | 69 | 66 | 65 | 64 | 33 | 15 | 14 |