Sande climate by month
What the weather is like
Sande 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 5° and lows of 0°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 16°.
About 854 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. December is the wettest month (72 mm, 17 wet days) and April the driest (43 mm, 10 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 37% in August to 56% in December.
The sea reaches about 19° 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, Sande is 2.5° cooler on a July afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 23° · July
- Coldest nights
- 0° · January
- Wettest month
- December
- Driest month
- April
- Clearest skies
- August · 37% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 19° · August
- Longest day
- 17 h 00 min
- Shortest day
- 7 h 31 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° | 6° | 9° | 14° | 18° | 20° | 23° | 23° | 19° | 14° | 9° | 5° |
| Average low | 0° | 0° | 2° | 4° | 8° | 11° | 13° | 13° | 11° | 7° | 3° | 1° |
| Precipitation | 73 mm | 53 mm | 67 mm | 43 mm | 58 mm | 84 mm | 87 mm | 76 mm | 82 mm | 79 mm | 80 mm | 72 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 | 55% | 52% | 49% | 41% | 38% | 41% | 38% | 37% | 42% | 47% | 52% | 56% |
| Sea temperature | 4° | 4° | 5° | 8° | 11° | 15° | 18° | 19° | 17° | 13° | 9° | 6° |
| Daylight | 8h 02 | 9h 50 | 11h 47 | 13h 59 | 15h 53 | 17h 00 | 16h 33 | 14h 51 | 12h 45 | 10h 39 | 8h 39 | 7h 31 |
| Month score | 15 | 20 | 24 | 50 | 69 | 66 | 64 | 64 | 62 | 37 | 16 | 14 |