Offenburg climate — normals and trends

Q: What is the climate of Offenburg?

Offenburg has a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 10.3 °C and it receives 940 mm of precipitation per year.

Q: What is the hottest day ever recorded in Offenburg?

The hottest day measured in Offenburg between 1940 and 2025 was 25 July 2019, reaching 38.7 °C.

Q: What is the coldest day in Offenburg?

The coldest day measured in Offenburg between 1940 and 2025 was 6 January 1947, at -22.7 °C.

Q: Does it snow in Offenburg?

Yes. Offenburg gets on average 45.3 cm of snow per year and has around 64 frost days.

Q: Has the climate of Offenburg warmed?

Yes: Offenburg warmed by +2.1 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

Q: What is the wettest day in Offenburg?

The wettest day measured in Offenburg between 1940 and 2025 was 23 May 1978, with 60 mm of rain in 24 hours.

Q: What was the windiest day in Offenburg?

The windiest day measured in Offenburg between 1940 and 2025 was 26 December 1999, with winds reaching 51.3 km/h.

Q: What is the warmest month in Offenburg?

The warmest month in Offenburg is July (19.4 °C on average); the coldest is January (1.2 °C).

Q: How much does it rain in Offenburg?

Offenburg receives on average 940 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 148 rainy days.

Q: Is it sunny in Offenburg?

Offenburg gets on average 8.2 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 2,993 hours per year over 1940-2025.

Offenburg (Germany) has a temperate oceanic climate (Cfb) under the Köppen-Geiger classification. Its mean annual temperature is 10.3 °C and it receives 940 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 (19.4 °C on average) and the coldest is January (1.2 °C). Rainfall peaks in December.

Offenburg averages 64 frost days, 10 hot days (≥ 30 °C) and 148 rainy days per year.

Offenburg has warmed by +2.1 °C between 1940 and 2025, or +0.25 °C per decade. This trend is statistically significant.

The number of frost days there went from about 81 to 47 per year over the period.

The hottest day of the period reached 38.7 °C (on 25 July 2019) and the coldest -22.7 °C (on 6 January 1947).

Data from ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus Climate Change Service), redistributed under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. Normals are recomputed whenever the archive is updated.

Climate normals · ERA5

OffenburgBaden-Wurttemberg

coords: 48.47°, 7.94°
period: 1940–2025 · 86 yrs

CfbTemperate oceanicWarmest monthJulyColdest monthJanuaryWettest monthDecemberDriest monthSeptember

Mean daily temperature

10.3°C

Average daily high

14.3°C

Average daily low

6.5°C

Annual rainfall

940mm

Sunshine / day

8.2h

Mean relative humidity

76%

Average peak wind

13.4km/h

Seasonal range

18.2°C

Frost days (< 0 °C)

64 d/yr

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

10 d/yr

Rainy days (≥ 1 mm)

148 d/yr

Annual snowfall

45.3 cm

Average feels-like high

12.5 °C

Average feels-like low

4.3 °C

Average peak gust

32.1 km/h

Tropical nights (≥ 20 °C)

2 d/yr

Solar radiation

11.8 MJ/m²

Has the climate changed?

One stripe per year, 1940 to 2025

+2.1 °C

since 1940

+0.3 °C per decade · r² = 0.44 · p = < 0.001

19402025

Trend fitted by linear regression (ordinary least squares) on annual means. A trend is shown only when it is statistically significant (p < 0.05).

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

Hottest day

38.7 °C

25 July 2019

Coldest day

-22.7 °C

6 January 1947

Wettest day

60 mm

23 May 1978

Windiest day

51.3 km/h

26 December 1999

Strongest gust

126.4 km/h

26 December 1999

Hottest feels-like

39.7 °C

5 July 1952

Coldest feels-like

-28.2 °C

6 January 1947

Snowiest day

15.6 cm

6 March 2009

Sunniest day

15.0 h

19 May 1940

Year	Hottest day	Coldest day	Annual mean	Rainfall	Hot days	Frost days
2025	36.5 °C30 June 2025	-9.1 °C31 December 2025	11.6 °C	825 mm	28	55
2024	34.0 °C24 August 2024	-7.5 °C20 January 2024	12.1 °C	1,088 mm	17	33
2023	35.1 °C9 July 2023	-5.7 °C9 February 2023	12.6 °C	976 mm	26	46
2022	36.7 °C19 July 2022	-15.8 °C17 December 2022	12.5 °C	921 mm	28	47
2021	32.8 °C17 June 2021	-16.8 °C11 February 2021	10.5 °C	1,030 mm	5	54
2020	37.0 °C31 July 2020	-4.6 °C7 February 2020	12.4 °C	826 mm	19	36
2019	38.7 °C25 July 2019	-5.7 °C19 January 2019	11.8 °C	904 mm	24	43
2018	35.5 °C4 August 2018	-12.3 °C28 February 2018	12.3 °C	745 mm	23	51
2017	34.4 °C22 June 2017	-12.0 °C7 January 2017	11.3 °C	989 mm	18	49
2016	34.6 °C27 August 2016	-11.7 °C18 January 2016	11.0 °C	919 mm	14	46
2015	38.5 °C5 July 2015	-4.9 °C3 February 2015	11.7 °C	750 mm	28	48
2014	36.0 °C9 June 2014	-13.8 °C29 December 2014	12.0 °C	882 mm	10	17
2013	36.5 °C27 July 2013	-9.2 °C13 February 2013	10.4 °C	1,056 mm	13	72
2012	36.8 °C19 August 2012	-15.2 °C12 February 2012	10.9 °C	909 mm	13	49
2011	34.3 °C23 August 2011	-7.4 °C3 January 2011	11.5 °C	796 mm	11	38
2010	36.6 °C10 July 2010	-15.7 °C26 December 2010	9.7 °C	1,043 mm	13	78
2009	36.0 °C20 August 2009	-13.6 °C20 December 2009	10.9 °C	851 mm	10	65
2008	31.7 °C2 July 2008	-7.4 °C17 February 2008	10.7 °C	942 mm	4	62
2007	33.5 °C16 July 2007	-13.4 °C26 January 2007	11.1 °C	1,034 mm	6	43
2006	35.6 °C25 July 2006	-9.8 °C24 January 2006	11.0 °C	898 mm	19	74
2005	33.6 °C28 July 2005	-11.5 °C1 March 2005	10.5 °C	845 mm	13	75
2004	32.3 °C23 July 2004	-7.3 °C4 January 2004	10.5 °C	799 mm	15	72
2003	37.6 °C7 August 2003	-15.8 °C1 February 2003	11.5 °C	653 mm	31	80
2002	34.6 °C18 June 2002	-9.9 °C5 January 2002	11.2 °C	1,172 mm	5	42
2001	33.7 °C15 August 2001	-16.0 °C24 December 2001	10.7 °C	1,176 mm	17	64
2000	33.1 °C20 June 2000	-11.2 °C26 January 2000	11.4 °C	1,008 mm	9	34
1999	32.3 °C3 July 1999	-14.1 °C12 February 1999	10.8 °C	1,199 mm	8	51
1998	35.9 °C11 August 1998	-9.8 °C1 February 1998	10.4 °C	985 mm	13	62
1997	31.2 °C25 August 1997	-14.1 °C1 January 1997	10.3 °C	843 mm	4	69
1996	31.6 °C7 June 1996	-15.9 °C31 December 1996	9.0 °C	853 mm	2	92
1995	33.9 °C21 July 1995	-13.9 °C5 January 1995	10.4 °C	1,120 mm	9	61
1994	35.0 °C4 August 1994	-7.9 °C17 February 1994	11.4 °C	1,066 mm	17	30
1993	31.7 °C30 July 1993	-12.3 °C4 January 1993	10.0 °C	886 mm	5	65
1992	35.1 °C8 August 1992	-13.8 °C19 February 1992	10.7 °C	936 mm	16	49
1991	34.5 °C11 July 1991	-14.0 °C7 February 1991	10.0 °C	757 mm	14	79
1990	34.3 °C5 August 1990	-6.9 °C11 December 1990	10.9 °C	888 mm	13	50
1989	34.3 °C16 August 1989	-9.3 °C26 November 1989	10.9 °C	792 mm	10	61
1988	33.1 °C23 July 1988	-8.1 °C21 November 1988	10.6 °C	1,157 mm	6	53
1987	31.2 °C30 June 1987	-22.7 °C13 January 1987	9.1 °C	1,060 mm	3	83
1986	35.5 °C3 August 1986	-16.5 °C27 February 1986	9.5 °C	1,164 mm	7	76
1985	34.3 °C14 August 1985	-20.3 °C8 January 1985	9.3 °C	839 mm	5	80
1984	35.3 °C11 July 1984	-7.6 °C17 February 1984	9.4 °C	1,030 mm	6	66
1983	38.2 °C31 July 1983	-8.2 °C3 December 1983	10.5 °C	1,100 mm	18	69
1982	33.0 °C9 July 1982	-13.5 °C14 January 1982	10.2 °C	1,059 mm	5	62
1981	31.3 °C5 August 1981	-10.9 °C20 December 1981	9.9 °C	1,254 mm	2	71
1980	31.6 °C2 August 1980	-16.1 °C2 December 1980	9.2 °C	1,063 mm	3	71
1979	30.4 °C29 July 1979	-12.9 °C1 January 1979	9.9 °C	946 mm	1	60
1978	31.6 °C30 July 1978	-10.2 °C18 February 1978	9.3 °C	1,160 mm	1	64
1977	31.3 °C13 June 1977	-9.7 °C30 November 1977	10.4 °C	1,032 mm	1	42
1976	34.9 °C16 July 1976	-16.2 °C30 December 1976	10.4 °C	780 mm	20	70
1975	31.8 °C4 August 1975	-14.8 °C19 December 1975	10.1 °C	962 mm	5	55
1974	34.0 °C16 August 1974	-4.3 °C14 December 1974	10.5 °C	1,175 mm	3	21
1973	31.2 °C5 July 1973	-19.6 °C2 December 1973	9.6 °C	997 mm	7	90
1972	30.7 °C9 July 1972	-12.8 °C1 February 1972	9.3 °C	934 mm	2	67
1971	34.7 °C18 August 1971	-17.5 °C2 January 1971	10.0 °C	754 mm	16	72
1970	31.0 °C6 August 1970	-11.6 °C16 February 1970	9.6 °C	1,242 mm	2	82
1969	31.7 °C24 July 1969	-14.7 °C21 December 1969	9.4 °C	1,043 mm	4	82
1968	32.2 °C1 July 1968	-17.7 °C13 January 1968	9.6 °C	1,207 mm	2	78
1967	32.4 °C31 July 1967	-18.8 °C10 January 1967	10.3 °C	971 mm	12	66
1966	32.7 °C13 August 1966	-20.5 °C17 January 1966	10.4 °C	1,111 mm	5	56
1965	30.1 °C30 June 1965	-16.0 °C22 February 1965	9.4 °C	1,378 mm	1	67
1964	36.2 °C18 July 1964	-11.6 °C30 December 1964	10.3 °C	737 mm	16	71
1963	31.9 °C2 August 1963	-18.2 °C18 January 1963	8.9 °C	750 mm	6	93
1962	33.8 °C13 August 1962	-20.0 °C26 December 1962	9.3 °C	793 mm	10	84
1961	32.0 °C12 July 1961	-11.7 °C18 December 1961	11.2 °C	834 mm	14	44
1960	31.1 °C23 June 1960	-17.5 °C14 January 1960	10.4 °C	968 mm	1	45
1959	33.3 °C10 July 1959	-8.0 °C17 January 1959	11.0 °C	735 mm	5	62
1958	30.9 °C1 August 1958	-11.8 °C11 March 1958	10.2 °C	1,096 mm	2	64
1957	34.9 °C6 July 1957	-15.0 °C18 January 1957	10.2 °C	852 mm	9	62
1956	30.3 °C9 July 1956	-20.9 °C10 February 1956	8.5 °C	1,003 mm	2	88
1955	30.5 °C18 July 1955	-7.8 °C19 February 1955	9.5 °C	804 mm	2	95
1954	31.1 °C3 August 1954	-16.5 °C3 January 1954	9.3 °C	1,017 mm	2	66
1953	31.2 °C2 September 1953	-14.9 °C15 January 1953	10.1 °C	723 mm	6	77
1952	35.8 °C2 July 1952	-11.0 °C25 January 1952	10.0 °C	1,024 mm	15	83
1951	31.3 °C31 July 1951	-5.5 °C6 March 1951	10.3 °C	885 mm	1	47
1950	33.2 °C4 July 1950	-13.6 °C31 December 1950	10.4 °C	841 mm	10	68
1949	35.2 °C13 July 1949	-17.2 °C5 March 1949	10.9 °C	625 mm	14	71
1948	29.7 °C27 July 1948	-10.2 °C27 December 1948	10.0 °C	985 mm	0	66
1947	34.2 °C29 July 1947	-22.7 °C6 January 1947	10.6 °C	819 mm	27	88
1946	31.8 °C5 August 1946	-15.5 °C19 December 1946	9.8 °C	783 mm	5	85
1945	34.0 °C15 July 1945	-18.9 °C11 January 1945	9.6 °C	785 mm	7	93
1944	36.9 °C23 August 1944	-13.8 °C26 February 1944	9.6 °C	888 mm	7	89
1943	35.6 °C20 August 1943	-13.6 °C9 January 1943	10.5 °C	653 mm	11	70
1942	32.2 °C5 July 1942	-21.6 °C23 January 1942	9.1 °C	669 mm	8	105
1941	31.3 °C8 July 1941	-18.1 °C29 December 1941	8.6 °C	901 mm	6	81
1940	27.8 °C2 July 1940	-20.4 °C23 January 1940	8.4 °C	877 mm	0	100

Normals computed over complete calendar years 1940–2025.

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Year

Across the whole year

Average daily high

16.6 °C

+2.3 °C

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

28 d/yr

+18

Frost days (< 0 °C)

55 d/yr

-9

Annual rainfall

825 mm

-115 mm

Month by month

	High	vs. normal	Precipitation	vs. normal
Jan	6.9 °C	+3.0 °C	103 mm	+18 mm
Feb	7.4 °C	+1.5 °C	59 mm	-18 mm
Mar	13.3 °C	+3.0 °C	22 mm	-54 mm
Apr	17.6 °C	+3.1 °C	47 mm	-24 mm
May	21.3 °C	+2.5 °C	47 mm	-39 mm
Jun	27.7 °C	+5.6 °C	54 mm	-24 mm
Jul	25.4 °C	+1.2 °C	85 mm	+14 mm
Aug	26.5 °C	+2.6 °C	72 mm	+2 mm
Sep	20.1 °C	-0.1 °C	147 mm	+81 mm
Oct	15.2 °C	+0.5 °C	84 mm	+10 mm
Nov	9.8 °C	+1.4 °C	74 mm	-16 mm
Dec	7.3 °C	+2.4 °C	30 mm	-66 mm

The year's extremes

Hottest day

36.5 °C

30 Jun 2025

Coldest day

-9.1 °C

31 Dec 2025

Wettest day

24.2 mm

22 Sep 2025

Windiest day

31.3 km/h

23 Oct 2025

Strongest gust

86.4 km/h

9 Jan 2025

Hottest feels-like

38.5 °C

1 Jul 2025

Coldest feels-like

-13.2 °C

31 Dec 2025

Snowiest day

1.3 cm

2 Jan 2025

Sunniest day

15.0 h

17 May 2025

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Frequently asked questions

What is the climate of Offenburg?

Offenburg has a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 10.3 °C and it receives 940 mm of precipitation per year.

What is the hottest day ever recorded in Offenburg?

The hottest day measured in Offenburg between 1940 and 2025 was 25 July 2019, reaching 38.7 °C.

What is the coldest day in Offenburg?

The coldest day measured in Offenburg between 1940 and 2025 was 6 January 1947, at -22.7 °C.

Does it snow in Offenburg?

Yes. Offenburg gets on average 45.3 cm of snow per year and has around 64 frost days.

Has the climate of Offenburg warmed?

Yes: Offenburg warmed by +2.1 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

What is the wettest day in Offenburg?

The wettest day measured in Offenburg between 1940 and 2025 was 23 May 1978, with 60 mm of rain in 24 hours.

What was the windiest day in Offenburg?

The windiest day measured in Offenburg between 1940 and 2025 was 26 December 1999, with winds reaching 51.3 km/h.

What is the warmest month in Offenburg?

The warmest month in Offenburg is July (19.4 °C on average); the coldest is January (1.2 °C).

How much does it rain in Offenburg?

Offenburg receives on average 940 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 148 rainy days.

Is it sunny in Offenburg?

Offenburg gets on average 8.2 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 2,993 hours per year over 1940-2025.

What is the biggest single-day snowfall in Offenburg?

The heaviest 24-hour snowfall measured in Offenburg between 1940 and 2025 was 6 March 2009, with 15.6 cm.

Are there tropical nights in Offenburg?

Yes: Offenburg has on average 2 tropical nights per year (temperature staying above 20 °C), over 1940-2025.

What was the most extreme apparent temperature in Offenburg?

In Offenburg, between 1940 and 2025, the highest apparent temperature reached 39.7 °C on 5 July 1952, and the lowest was -28.2 °C on 6 January 1947.

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