Esens climate by month
What the weather is like
Esens has an oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb): rain spread through the year and no real dry season.
The warmest month is August, when afternoons average 22° and nights 14°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 5° and lows of 1°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 15°.
About 863 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. December is the wettest month (73 mm, 17 wet days) and April the driest (42 mm, 10 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 36% in July to 55% in December.
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 Berlin, the capital, Esens is 3.3° cooler on a August afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 22° · August
- Coldest nights
- 1° · February
- Wettest month
- December
- Driest month
- April
- Clearest skies
- July · 36% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 18° · August
- Longest day
- 17 h 02 min
- Shortest day
- 7 h 29 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 | 5° | 5° | 8° | 12° | 16° | 19° | 21° | 22° | 18° | 14° | 9° | 6° |
| Average low | 1° | 1° | 2° | 5° | 9° | 12° | 14° | 14° | 12° | 8° | 4° | 2° |
| Precipitation | 70 mm | 53 mm | 62 mm | 42 mm | 55 mm | 75 mm | 86 mm | 82 mm | 90 mm | 91 mm | 84 mm | 73 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 16.4 | 12.4 | 11.1 | 10.1 | 10.8 | 12.5 | 14.9 | 17 | 14.4 | 15.3 | 16.6 | 17.1 |
| Cloud cover | 54% | 51% | 48% | 40% | 37% | 40% | 36% | 36% | 41% | 46% | 52% | 55% |
| Sea temperature | 5° | 4° | 5° | 7° | 10° | 14° | 17° | 18° | 17° | 14° | 11° | 7° |
| Daylight | 8h 00 | 9h 49 | 11h 47 | 13h 59 | 15h 54 | 17h 02 | 16h 34 | 14h 52 | 12h 45 | 10h 38 | 8h 38 | 7h 29 |
| Month score | 15 | 20 | 24 | 42 | 60 | 66 | 65 | 65 | 62 | 38 | 16 | 15 |