Climate guideThirty-year normals for Garching
Garching climate by month
Warm-summer humid continental · DfbBest Jul–Sep
Annual mean9°day and night
Seasonal swing19°warmest vs coolest
Precipitation943 mm152 wet days a year
48.25° N, 11.65° EElevation 485 mUTC+2 · Central European Summer Time
When to goGarching · weather score
Best timeJul–Sep
October: high / low14° / 5°
iSummary
What the weather is like
Garching has a warm-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfb): warm summers, cold winters and precipitation in every season.
The warmest month is July, when afternoons average 25° and nights 13°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 3° and lows of -3°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 19°.
About 943 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. July is the wettest month (125 mm, 16 wet days) and November the driest (64 mm, 10 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 33% in July to 51% in December.
Compared with Berlin, the capital, Garching is 0.6° cooler on a July afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 25° · July
- Coldest nights
- -3° · January
- Wettest month
- July
- Driest month
- November
- Clearest skies
- July · 33% cloud
- Longest day
- 16 h 03 min
- Shortest day
- 8 h 22 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 | 3° | 5° | 10° | 15° | 19° | 23° | 25° | 25° | 19° | 14° | 8° | 4° |
| Average low | -3° | -3° | 0° | 4° | 8° | 12° | 13° | 13° | 9° | 5° | 1° | -2° |
| Precipitation | 54 mm | 47 mm | 63 mm | 61 mm | 97 mm | 108 mm | 125 mm | 108 mm | 81 mm | 67 mm | 64 mm | 68 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 12.8 | 10.7 | 11.5 | 10.3 | 15.7 | 15.5 | 15.8 | 14.2 | 11.4 | 10.6 | 10.2 | 13.5 |
| Cloud cover | 46% | 45% | 46% | 41% | 40% | 38% | 33% | 34% | 40% | 44% | 50% | 51% |
| Daylight | 8h 46 | 10h 13 | 11h 50 | 13h 39 | 15h 11 | 16h 03 | 15h 42 | 14h 22 | 12h 38 | 10h 54 | 9h 16 | 8h 22 |
| Month score | 21 | 27 | 24 | 55 | 63 | 64 | 66 | 65 | 69 | 48 | 26 | 17 |
ivMonth by month
Garching in every month
January21
3° / -3°
54 mm · 12.8 wet days
February27
5° / -3°
47 mm · 10.7 wet days
March24
10° / 0°
63 mm · 11.5 wet days
April55
15° / 4°
61 mm · 10.3 wet days
May63
19° / 8°
97 mm · 15.7 wet days
June64
23° / 12°
108 mm · 15.5 wet days
July66
25° / 13°
125 mm · 15.8 wet days
August65
25° / 13°
108 mm · 14.2 wet days
September69
19° / 9°
81 mm · 11.4 wet days
October48
14° / 5°
67 mm · 10.6 wet days
November26
8° / 1°
64 mm · 10.2 wet days
December17
4° / -2°
68 mm · 13.5 wet days