Climate guideThirty-year normals for Görlitz
Görlitz climate by month
Warm-summer humid continental · DfbBest May · Aug–Sep
Annual mean9°day and night
Seasonal swing19°warmest vs coolest
Precipitation703 mm139 wet days a year
51.16° N, 14.99° EElevation 210 mUTC+2 · Central European Summer Time
When to goGörlitz · weather score
Best timeMay · Aug–Sep
October: high / low14° / 6°
iSummary
What the weather is like
Görlitz 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 2° and lows of -3°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 19°.
About 703 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. July is the wettest month (94 mm, 14 wet days) and April the driest (42 mm, 8 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 35% in August to 55% in December.
Compared with Berlin, the capital, Görlitz 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
- April
- Clearest skies
- August · 35% cloud
- Longest day
- 16 h 32 min
- Shortest day
- 7 h 56 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 | 2° | 4° | 8° | 15° | 19° | 22° | 25° | 25° | 19° | 14° | 8° | 4° |
| Average low | -3° | -2° | 0° | 4° | 8° | 11° | 13° | 13° | 9° | 6° | 2° | -1° |
| Precipitation | 49 mm | 42 mm | 51 mm | 42 mm | 63 mm | 68 mm | 94 mm | 84 mm | 55 mm | 46 mm | 53 mm | 56 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 13.3 | 10.1 | 11.8 | 8.4 | 12.2 | 13.2 | 14 | 12.2 | 10.2 | 10.3 | 10.6 | 12.5 |
| Cloud cover | 52% | 52% | 48% | 39% | 39% | 39% | 37% | 35% | 41% | 44% | 54% | 55% |
| Daylight | 8h 23 | 10h 01 | 11h 49 | 13h 49 | 15h 33 | 16h 32 | 16h 08 | 14h 37 | 12h 42 | 10h 46 | 8h 57 | 7h 56 |
| Month score | 17 | 25 | 23 | 59 | 67 | 65 | 64 | 69 | 71 | 46 | 23 | 18 |
ivMonth by month
Görlitz in every month
January17
2° / -3°
49 mm · 13.3 wet days
February25
4° / -2°
42 mm · 10.1 wet days
March23
8° / 0°
51 mm · 11.8 wet days
April59
15° / 4°
42 mm · 8.4 wet days
May67
19° / 8°
63 mm · 12.2 wet days
June65
22° / 11°
68 mm · 13.2 wet days
July64
25° / 13°
94 mm · 14 wet days
August69
25° / 13°
84 mm · 12.2 wet days
September71
19° / 9°
55 mm · 10.2 wet days
October46
14° / 6°
46 mm · 10.3 wet days
November23
8° / 2°
53 mm · 10.6 wet days
December18
4° / -1°
56 mm · 12.5 wet days