Odense climate by month
What the weather is like
Odense has an oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb): rain spread through the year and no real dry season.
The warmest month is July, when afternoons average 23° and nights 13°. 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 649 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. August is the wettest month (66 mm, 15 wet days) and April the driest (32 mm, 8 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 34% in July 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, Odense is 0.9° warmer on a July afternoon and receives less precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 23° · July
- Coldest nights
- -1° · February
- Wettest month
- August
- Driest month
- April
- Clearest skies
- July · 34% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 18° · August
- Longest day
- 17 h 26 min
- Shortest day
- 7 h 08 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° | 8° | 13° | 17° | 20° | 23° | 23° | 18° | 13° | 8° | 5° |
| Average low | -1° | -1° | 1° | 3° | 7° | 10° | 13° | 13° | 10° | 7° | 3° | 0° |
| Precipitation | 58 mm | 40 mm | 47 mm | 32 mm | 48 mm | 62 mm | 59 mm | 66 mm | 61 mm | 68 mm | 55 mm | 53 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 13.7 | 10.1 | 9.7 | 8.4 | 11.2 | 11.7 | 13.3 | 14.8 | 12.2 | 14.4 | 13.8 | 13.9 |
| Cloud cover | 56% | 54% | 48% | 40% | 36% | 37% | 34% | 35% | 41% | 45% | 52% | 56% |
| Sea temperature | 3° | 2° | 3° | 5° | 11° | 14° | 17° | 18° | 15° | 12° | 8° | 4° |
| Daylight | 7h 42 | 9h 40 | 11h 46 | 14h 07 | 16h 11 | 17h 26 | 16h 55 | 15h 04 | 12h 48 | 10h 33 | 8h 23 | 7h 08 |
| Month score | 15 | 24 | 28 | 49 | 68 | 70 | 67 | 65 | 67 | 35 | 16 | 14 |