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Climate guideThirty-year normals for Alfeld, Lower Saxony
Alfeld climate by month
Oceanic · CfbBest May–Jun · Sep
Annual mean10°day and night
Seasonal swing17°warmest vs coolest
Precipitation750 mm156 wet days a year
51.98° N, 9.82° EElevation 145 mUTC+1 · Central European Standard Time
When to goAlfeld · weather score
Best timeMay–Jun · Sep
October: high / low14° / 7°
iSummary
What the weather is like
Alfeld has an oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb): rain spread through the year and no real dry season.
The warmest month is July, when afternoons average 24° 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 17°.
About 750 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. December is the wettest month (72 mm, 16 wet days) and April the driest (46 mm, 10 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 37% in August to 57% in December.
Compared with Berlin, the capital, Alfeld is 0.8° cooler on a July afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 24° · July
- Coldest nights
- -1° · January
- Wettest month
- December
- Driest month
- April
- Clearest skies
- August · 37% cloud
- Longest day
- 16 h 42 min
- Shortest day
- 7 h 47 min
iiCharts
Twelve months at a glance
Temperature and precipitation
Daily high/low range bars, monthly precipitation columnsTemperature curve
Average high, lowDaylight
Hours between sunrise and sunset on the 15th of each monthiiiData table
Climate normals month by month
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average high | 4° | 6° | 10° | 15° | 19° | 22° | 24° | 24° | 20° | 14° | 9° | 5° |
| Average low | -1° | 0° | 2° | 5° | 8° | 11° | 13° | 13° | 10° | 7° | 3° | 1° |
| Precipitation | 70 mm | 51 mm | 64 mm | 46 mm | 62 mm | 67 mm | 68 mm | 67 mm | 61 mm | 58 mm | 64 mm | 72 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 14.7 | 12.1 | 12.3 | 9.7 | 12.2 | 13.2 | 15.2 | 13.8 | 10.5 | 12.3 | 13.6 | 16 |
| Cloud cover | 54% | 51% | 49% | 42% | 40% | 40% | 38% | 37% | 43% | 47% | 54% | 57% |
| Daylight | 8h 16 | 9h 57 | 11h 48 | 13h 52 | 15h 40 | 16h 42 | 16h 16 | 14h 42 | 12h 43 | 10h 44 | 8h 51 | 7h 47 |
| Month score | 15 | 21 | 21 | 57 | 67 | 65 | 64 | 65 | 70 | 43 | 16 | 14 |
ivMonth by month
Alfeld in every month
January15
4° / -1°
70 mm · 14.7 wet days
February21
6° / 0°
51 mm · 12.1 wet days
March21
10° / 2°
64 mm · 12.3 wet days
April57
15° / 5°
46 mm · 9.7 wet days
May67
19° / 8°
62 mm · 12.2 wet days
June65
22° / 11°
67 mm · 13.2 wet days
July64
24° / 13°
68 mm · 15.2 wet days
August65
24° / 13°
67 mm · 13.8 wet days
September70
20° / 10°
61 mm · 10.5 wet days
October43
14° / 7°
58 mm · 12.3 wet days
November16
9° / 3°
64 mm · 13.6 wet days
December14
5° / 1°
72 mm · 16 wet days