Budapest or Munich: which climate?
Budapest (Hungary) has a warm-summer humid continental climate, whereas Munich (Germany) has a warm-summer humid continental climate, according to the Köppen-Geiger classification.
The values compared here are normals computed over 86 complete calendar years, from 1940 to 2025, using ERA5 reanalysis data from the Copernicus programme. The same method and the same period apply to Budapest and to Munich.
Budapest is warmer than Munich by 1.5 °C in annual average: 10.4 °C against 8.9 °C.
Munich gets more rain than Budapest: 940 mm per year against 602 mm.
Budapest gets 8.6 hours of sunshine per day on average, against 8.1 hours in Munich.
Munich has warmed by +2.4 °C between 1940 and 2025, against +1.8 °C in Budapest. Munich is therefore warming faster than Budapest. Both trends are statistically significant.
Budapest averages 16 hot days (≥ 30 °C) and 85 frost days per year; Munich averages 5 and 90.
Data from ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus Climate Change Service), redistributed under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. Normals are recomputed whenever the archive is updated.
| Indicator | Budapest | Munich | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mean daily temperature | 10.4 °C | 8.9 °C | -1.5 °C |
| Average daily high | 14.7 °C | 13.0 °C | -1.7 °C |
| Average daily low | 6.3 °C | 5.1 °C | -1.2 °C |
| Annual rainfall | 602 mm | 940 mm | +338 mm |
| Sunshine / day | 8.6 h | 8.1 h | -0.5 h |
| Hot days (≥ 30 °C) | 16 d/yr | 5 d/yr | -11 d/yr |
| Frost days (< 0 °C) | 85 d/yr | 90 d/yr | +5 d/yr |
| Rainy days (≥ 1 mm) | 108 d/yr | 155 d/yr | +47 d/yr |
| Mean relative humidity | 74 % | 77 % | +3 % |
| Average peak wind | 15.1 km/h | 14.9 km/h | negligible |
A difference is only reported when it exceeds the resolution of the data. ERA5 is a reanalysis on a grid of about 31 km: two nearby cities often fall in the same cell, and below half a degree you are reading the grid, not the climate.