Rocherath climate — normals and trends
Rocherath has a warm-summer humid continental climate, averaging 7.8 °C annually with 1,051 mm of rain per year.
Climate normals · ERA5
RocherathWallonia
- coords
- 50.44°, 6.30°
- period
- 1940–2025 · 86 yrs
The normals for this period
The average of every indicator across the whole window: temperature, water, sky, wind and notable days.
Mean daily temperature
7.8°C
Average daily high
10.8°C
Average daily low
4.6°C
Annual rainfall
1,051mm
Sunshine / day
7.5h
Mean relative humidity
83%
Average peak wind
20.6km/h
Seasonal range
16.0°C
Frost days (< 0 °C)
86 d/yr
Hot days (≥ 30 °C)
1 d/yr
Rainy days (≥ 1 mm)
178 d/yr
Annual snowfall
102.0 cm
Average feels-like high
7.9 °C
Average feels-like low
1.1 °C
Average peak gust
41.3 km/h
Tropical nights (≥ 20 °C)
0 d/yr
Solar radiation
10.7 MJ/m²
Has the climate changed?
What the yearly averages say about warming here, and whether the slope is statistically solid.
+2.0 °C
since 1940
+0.2 °C per decade · r² = 0.41 · p = < 0.001
Trend fitted by linear regression (ordinary least squares) on annual means. A trend is shown only when it is statistically significant (p < 0.05).
Climate month by month
How an average year unfolds: when it rains, when it turns hot, when the sun is out.
A climograph overlays rainfall (bars) and temperature (line): the standard reading in climatology, where you can see at a glance whether the warm season is also the dry one.
Records for the period
The most extreme days ever measured here, then the year-by-year detail.
Hottest day
36.0 °C
25 July 2019
Coldest day
-22.4 °C
1 January 1979
Wettest day
106 mm
14 July 2021
Windiest day
60.6 km/h
24 November 1984
Strongest gust
138.6 km/h
24 November 1984
Hottest feels-like
38.3 °C
27 June 2026
Coldest feels-like
-27.9 °C
1 February 1956
Snowiest day
21.8 cm
1 February 1953
Sunniest day
15.4 h
3 July 2019
Normals computed over complete calendar years 1940–2025.
A specific year
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Across the whole year
Month by month
| High | vs. normal | Precipitation | vs. normal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 2.6 °C | +1.0 °C | 163 mm | +74 mm |
| Feb | 4.2 °C | +1.4 °C | 47 mm | -31 mm |
| Mar | 10.8 °C | +4.1 °C | 13 mm | -70 mm |
| Apr | 14.2 °C | +3.5 °C | 80 mm | +1 mm |
| May | 16.9 °C | +2.1 °C | 65 mm | -32 mm |
| Jun | 21.9 °C | +4.1 °C | 82 mm | -18 mm |
| Jul | 21.5 °C | +2.0 °C | 164 mm | +62 mm |
| Aug | 21.9 °C | +2.6 °C | 47 mm | -49 mm |
| Sep | 16.7 °C | +0.6 °C | 127 mm | +49 mm |
| Oct | 11.2 °C | -0.3 °C | 107 mm | +33 mm |
| Nov | 7.7 °C | +1.7 °C | 66 mm | -18 mm |
| Dec | 5.8 °C | +2.9 °C | 39 mm | -53 mm |
The year's extremes
What was the weather like that day?
The weather actually measured on a given date, anywhere in the covered window.
Rocherath (Belgium) has a warm-summer humid continental climate (Dfb) under the Köppen-Geiger classification. Its mean annual temperature is 7.8 °C and it receives 1,051 mm of precipitation per year.
These figures are normals computed over 86 complete calendar years, from 1940 to 2025, using ERA5 reanalysis data from the Copernicus programme.
The warmest month is July (15.7 °C on average) and the coldest is January (-0.3 °C). Rainfall peaks in July.
Rocherath averages 86 frost days, 1 hot days (≥ 30 °C) and 178 rainy days per year.
Rocherath has warmed by +2.0 °C between 1940 and 2025, or +0.23 °C per decade. This trend is statistically significant.
The number of frost days there went from about 106 to 66 per year over the period.
The hottest day of the period reached 36.0 °C (on 25 July 2019) and the coldest -22.4 °C (on 1 January 1979).
Data from ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus Climate Change Service), redistributed under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. Normals are recomputed whenever the archive is updated.
Frequently asked questions
What is the climate of Rocherath?
Rocherath has a warm-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfb). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 7.8 °C and it receives 1,051 mm of precipitation per year.
What is the hottest day ever recorded in Rocherath?
The hottest day measured in Rocherath between 1940 and 2025 was 25 July 2019, reaching 36.0 °C.
What is the coldest day in Rocherath?
The coldest day measured in Rocherath between 1940 and 2025 was 1 January 1979, at -22.4 °C.
Does it snow in Rocherath?
Yes. Rocherath gets on average 102.0 cm of snow per year and has around 86 frost days.
Has the climate of Rocherath warmed?
Yes: Rocherath warmed by +2.0 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.
What is the wettest day in Rocherath?
The wettest day measured in Rocherath between 1940 and 2025 was 14 July 2021, with 106 mm of rain in 24 hours.
What was the windiest day in Rocherath?
The windiest day measured in Rocherath between 1940 and 2025 was 24 November 1984, with winds reaching 60.6 km/h.
What is the warmest month in Rocherath?
The warmest month in Rocherath is July (15.7 °C on average); the coldest is January (-0.3 °C).
How much does it rain in Rocherath?
Rocherath receives on average 1,051 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 178 rainy days.
Is it sunny in Rocherath?
Rocherath gets on average 7.5 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 2,738 hours per year over 1940-2025.
What is the biggest single-day snowfall in Rocherath?
The heaviest 24-hour snowfall measured in Rocherath between 1940 and 2025 was 1 February 1953, with 21.8 cm.
Are there tropical nights in Rocherath?
Almost never: tropical nights (temperature staying above 20 °C) are virtually non-existent in Rocherath.
What was the most extreme apparent temperature in Rocherath?
In Rocherath, between 1940 and 2025, the highest apparent temperature reached 38.3 °C on 27 June 2026, and the lowest was -27.9 °C on 1 February 1956.
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