Estavayer-le-Lac climate — normals and trends

Q: What is the climate of Estavayer-le-Lac?

Estavayer-le-Lac has a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 9.3 °C and it receives 1,127 mm of precipitation per year.

Q: What is the hottest day ever recorded in Estavayer-le-Lac?

The hottest day measured in Estavayer-le-Lac between 1940 and 2025 was 7 July 2015, reaching 36.3 °C.

Q: What is the coldest day in Estavayer-le-Lac?

The coldest day measured in Estavayer-le-Lac between 1940 and 2025 was 10 February 1956, at -21.2 °C.

Q: Does it snow in Estavayer-le-Lac?

Yes. Estavayer-le-Lac gets on average 101.1 cm of snow per year and has around 70 frost days.

Q: Has the climate of Estavayer-le-Lac warmed?

Yes: Estavayer-le-Lac warmed by +2.4 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

Q: What is the wettest day in Estavayer-le-Lac?

The wettest day measured in Estavayer-le-Lac between 1940 and 2025 was 10 June 1953, with 87 mm of rain in 24 hours.

Q: What was the windiest day in Estavayer-le-Lac?

The windiest day measured in Estavayer-le-Lac between 1940 and 2025 was 25 April 1972, with winds reaching 40.9 km/h.

Q: What is the warmest month in Estavayer-le-Lac?

The warmest month in Estavayer-le-Lac is July (18.2 °C on average); the coldest is January (0.6 °C).

Q: How much does it rain in Estavayer-le-Lac?

Estavayer-le-Lac receives on average 1,127 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 157 rainy days.

Q: Is it sunny in Estavayer-le-Lac?

Estavayer-le-Lac gets on average 8.6 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,139 hours per year over 1940-2025.

Estavayer-le-Lac (Switzerland) has a temperate oceanic climate (Cfb) under the Köppen-Geiger classification. Its mean annual temperature is 9.3 °C and it receives 1,127 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 (18.2 °C on average) and the coldest is January (0.6 °C). Rainfall peaks in May.

Estavayer-le-Lac averages 70 frost days, 3 hot days (≥ 30 °C) and 157 rainy days per year.

Estavayer-le-Lac has warmed by +2.4 °C between 1940 and 2025, or +0.29 °C per decade. This trend is statistically significant.

The number of frost days there went from about 96 to 45 per year over the period.

The hottest day of the period reached 36.3 °C (on 7 July 2015) and the coldest -21.2 °C (on 10 February 1956).

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

Estavayer-le-LacCanton of Fribourg

coords: 46.85°, 6.85°
period: 1940–2025 · 86 yrs

CfbTemperate oceanicWarmest monthJulyColdest monthJanuaryWettest monthMayDriest monthFebruary

Mean daily temperature

9.3°C

Average daily high

12.9°C

Average daily low

6.0°C

Annual rainfall

1,127mm

Sunshine / day

8.6h

Mean relative humidity

79%

Average peak wind

11.1km/h

Seasonal range

17.6°C

Frost days (< 0 °C)

70 d/yr

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

3 d/yr

Rainy days (≥ 1 mm)

157 d/yr

Annual snowfall

101.1 cm

Average feels-like high

11.2 °C

Average feels-like low

3.9 °C

Average peak gust

31.4 km/h

Tropical nights (≥ 20 °C)

1 d/yr

Solar radiation

12.6 MJ/m²

Has the climate changed?

One stripe per year, 1940 to 2025

+2.4 °C

since 1940

+0.3 °C per decade · r² = 0.62 · 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

36.3 °C

7 July 2015

Coldest day

-21.2 °C

10 February 1956

Wettest day

87 mm

10 June 1953

Windiest day

40.9 km/h

25 April 1972

Strongest gust

129.2 km/h

26 December 1999

Hottest feels-like

38.1 °C

26 June 2019

Coldest feels-like

-28.5 °C

10 February 1956

Snowiest day

25.3 cm

17 April 2005

Sunniest day

15.0 h

20 May 1940

Year	Hottest day	Coldest day	Annual mean	Rainfall	Hot days	Frost days
2025	34.6 °C13 August 2025	-7.5 °C22 November 2025	10.4 °C	1,224 mm	16	50
2024	32.1 °C30 July 2024	-5.8 °C21 January 2024	10.6 °C	1,328 mm	3	41
2023	34.2 °C24 August 2023	-7.5 °C19 January 2023	11.3 °C	1,341 mm	11	50
2022	34.0 °C19 July 2022	-7.9 °C11 December 2022	11.5 °C	1,078 mm	12	52
2021	29.9 °C17 June 2021	-7.9 °C13 February 2021	9.7 °C	1,335 mm	0	54
2020	33.2 °C31 July 2020	-3.5 °C7 February 2020	10.9 °C	1,100 mm	7	38
2019	35.2 °C24 July 2019	-5.3 °C25 January 2019	10.7 °C	1,187 mm	12	45
2018	32.8 °C5 August 2018	-10.9 °C27 February 2018	11.2 °C	1,034 mm	12	44
2017	31.0 °C3 August 2017	-8.4 °C7 January 2017	10.2 °C	1,058 mm	8	58
2016	31.2 °C23 June 2016	-6.9 °C18 January 2016	10.0 °C	1,343 mm	6	50
2015	36.3 °C7 July 2015	-6.3 °C8 February 2015	10.7 °C	988 mm	16	52
2014	31.3 °C9 June 2014	-10.7 °C29 December 2014	10.8 °C	1,204 mm	3	19
2013	33.5 °C27 July 2013	-8.5 °C26 January 2013	9.4 °C	1,289 mm	7	76
2012	31.7 °C19 August 2012	-13.3 °C7 February 2012	10.0 °C	1,369 mm	5	52
2011	31.6 °C22 August 2011	-6.3 °C23 January 2011	10.8 °C	984 mm	3	37
2010	32.6 °C14 July 2010	-10.8 °C27 December 2010	9.2 °C	1,106 mm	5	77
2009	32.6 °C20 August 2009	-11.8 °C20 December 2009	10.2 °C	960 mm	4	61
2008	29.5 °C23 June 2008	-6.1 °C29 December 2008	9.8 °C	1,153 mm	0	61
2007	29.7 °C15 July 2007	-6.3 °C25 January 2007	10.2 °C	1,260 mm	0	47
2006	31.9 °C21 July 2006	-7.5 °C16 January 2006	10.2 °C	1,201 mm	8	77
2005	31.9 °C28 July 2005	-12.9 °C1 March 2005	9.5 °C	939 mm	5	92
2004	29.6 °C2 August 2004	-7.6 °C30 January 2004	9.6 °C	1,091 mm	0	64
2003	34.7 °C13 August 2003	-8.5 °C13 January 2003	10.5 °C	869 mm	18	74
2002	31.2 °C17 June 2002	-7.9 °C2 January 2002	10.1 °C	1,314 mm	3	34
2001	29.9 °C26 June 2001	-10.4 °C14 December 2001	9.8 °C	1,392 mm	0	56
2000	28.9 °C20 August 2000	-11.0 °C26 January 2000	10.2 °C	1,126 mm	0	41
1999	29.2 °C4 July 1999	-9.0 °C13 February 1999	9.7 °C	1,434 mm	0	60
1998	31.8 °C11 August 1998	-7.3 °C22 November 1998	9.6 °C	1,086 mm	5	67
1997	27.8 °C5 August 1997	-5.3 °C1 January 1997	10.1 °C	1,001 mm	0	52
1996	28.3 °C6 June 1996	-9.6 °C27 December 1996	8.7 °C	1,110 mm	0	75
1995	31.4 °C21 July 1995	-11.2 °C5 January 1995	9.6 °C	1,381 mm	3	59
1994	32.0 °C3 July 1994	-5.9 °C19 January 1994	10.7 °C	1,207 mm	4	33
1993	28.7 °C30 July 1993	-9.4 °C3 January 1993	9.4 °C	1,125 mm	0	62
1992	30.6 °C7 August 1992	-7.7 °C22 January 1992	9.7 °C	1,272 mm	2	55
1991	29.9 °C7 August 1991	-9.5 °C7 February 1991	9.2 °C	1,031 mm	0	65
1990	29.9 °C28 July 1990	-5.5 °C7 December 1990	9.9 °C	1,127 mm	0	57
1989	29.6 °C16 August 1989	-4.8 °C26 November 1989	9.8 °C	864 mm	0	62
1988	29.8 °C23 July 1988	-8.1 °C22 November 1988	9.7 °C	1,356 mm	0	50
1987	28.7 °C21 August 1987	-16.3 °C12 January 1987	8.9 °C	1,204 mm	0	70
1986	30.9 °C3 August 1986	-13.2 °C10 February 1986	9.0 °C	1,203 mm	2	72
1985	30.3 °C26 July 1985	-16.2 °C6 January 1985	8.4 °C	1,065 mm	1	86
1984	31.8 °C11 July 1984	-7.5 °C19 February 1984	8.6 °C	1,164 mm	1	76
1983	35.4 °C31 July 1983	-7.2 °C3 December 1983	9.5 °C	1,262 mm	9	77
1982	28.9 °C9 July 1982	-6.2 °C25 February 1982	9.6 °C	1,333 mm	0	46
1981	29.4 °C5 August 1981	-10.5 °C20 December 1981	8.9 °C	1,437 mm	0	79
1980	29.3 °C2 August 1980	-8.0 °C2 December 1980	8.2 °C	1,207 mm	0	81
1979	28.5 °C29 July 1979	-10.9 °C2 January 1979	8.7 °C	1,214 mm	0	75
1978	28.3 °C29 July 1978	-8.4 °C6 January 1978	8.5 °C	1,359 mm	0	68
1977	28.1 °C3 July 1977	-5.5 °C10 April 1977	9.1 °C	1,447 mm	0	66
1976	30.3 °C16 July 1976	-11.4 °C29 January 1976	8.9 °C	936 mm	1	84
1975	28.5 °C14 July 1975	-7.8 °C24 November 1975	8.9 °C	1,157 mm	0	67
1974	29.6 °C16 August 1974	-5.8 °C14 December 1974	8.9 °C	1,240 mm	0	41
1973	28.5 °C5 July 1973	-11.5 °C3 December 1973	8.5 °C	1,103 mm	0	105
1972	28.2 °C9 July 1972	-5.6 °C1 February 1972	8.4 °C	1,059 mm	0	67
1971	30.3 °C18 August 1971	-16.8 °C6 March 1971	8.7 °C	945 mm	2	98
1970	29.2 °C6 August 1970	-9.0 °C16 February 1970	8.4 °C	1,404 mm	0	84
1969	28.3 °C17 July 1969	-10.7 °C7 February 1969	8.5 °C	1,099 mm	0	97
1968	31.0 °C1 July 1968	-12.8 °C13 January 1968	8.6 °C	1,308 mm	1	80
1967	30.0 °C18 July 1967	-12.5 °C10 January 1967	9.0 °C	1,074 mm	1	72
1966	29.9 °C13 August 1966	-13.7 °C16 January 1966	9.0 °C	1,245 mm	0	70
1965	29.7 °C25 June 1965	-9.0 °C18 February 1965	8.1 °C	1,475 mm	0	85
1964	31.3 °C18 July 1964	-9.6 °C30 December 1964	9.0 °C	918 mm	1	77
1963	27.3 °C24 July 1963	-15.3 °C14 January 1963	7.8 °C	1,103 mm	0	86
1962	31.0 °C14 August 1962	-14.7 °C24 December 1962	8.2 °C	1,035 mm	2	107
1961	28.0 °C1 July 1961	-8.5 °C18 December 1961	9.9 °C	995 mm	0	56
1960	28.3 °C25 August 1960	-15.9 °C14 January 1960	9.0 °C	1,161 mm	0	49
1959	29.6 °C10 July 1959	-7.6 °C5 January 1959	9.8 °C	953 mm	0	63
1958	31.1 °C1 August 1958	-8.9 °C24 January 1958	9.0 °C	1,274 mm	1	69
1957	32.9 °C6 July 1957	-10.2 °C19 January 1957	9.1 °C	975 mm	4	56
1956	27.4 °C9 August 1956	-21.2 °C10 February 1956	7.7 °C	993 mm	0	94
1955	29.7 °C18 July 1955	-9.4 °C15 February 1955	8.8 °C	1,120 mm	0	85
1954	27.3 °C3 August 1954	-14.2 °C1 February 1954	8.1 °C	1,134 mm	0	80
1953	27.3 °C25 July 1953	-10.7 °C15 January 1953	8.9 °C	896 mm	0	86
1952	33.5 °C2 July 1952	-9.1 °C21 January 1952	8.8 °C	1,225 mm	9	103
1951	28.5 °C31 July 1951	-7.6 °C4 March 1951	8.8 °C	1,076 mm	0	87
1950	32.5 °C4 July 1950	-10.2 °C22 January 1950	9.2 °C	1,018 mm	2	83
1949	30.6 °C13 July 1949	-15.1 °C6 March 1949	9.4 °C	769 mm	1	86
1948	26.6 °C27 July 1948	-9.4 °C20 February 1948	8.8 °C	1,146 mm	0	65
1947	31.3 °C2 August 1947	-14.2 °C29 January 1947	9.2 °C	972 mm	7	97
1946	29.7 °C5 August 1946	-12.4 °C16 December 1946	8.7 °C	926 mm	0	88
1945	31.4 °C15 July 1945	-13.9 °C11 January 1945	8.5 °C	805 mm	3	109
1944	32.8 °C23 August 1944	-11.9 °C19 February 1944	7.9 °C	1,005 mm	1	120
1943	29.4 °C18 August 1943	-8.4 °C10 January 1943	9.0 °C	729 mm	0	99
1942	27.3 °C5 July 1942	-18.3 °C23 January 1942	8.1 °C	743 mm	0	104
1941	30.5 °C25 July 1941	-15.5 °C29 December 1941	7.2 °C	830 mm	1	123
1940	26.1 °C4 August 1940	-19.7 °C14 February 1940	7.4 °C	896 mm	0	110

Normals computed over complete calendar years 1940–2025.

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Year

Across the whole year

Average daily high

14.7 °C

+1.8 °C

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

16 d/yr

+13

Frost days (< 0 °C)

50 d/yr

-20

Annual rainfall

1225 mm

+98 mm

Month by month

	High	vs. normal	Precipitation	vs. normal
Jan	5.5 °C	+2.5 °C	147 mm	+54 mm
Feb	6.5 °C	+1.8 °C	52 mm	-32 mm
Mar	11.0 °C	+2.3 °C	41 mm	-43 mm
Apr	15.7 °C	+3.1 °C	75 mm	-13 mm
May	17.5 °C	+0.8 °C	106 mm	+2 mm
Jun	25.7 °C	+5.4 °C	100 mm	+0 mm
Jul	23.1 °C	+0.5 °C	143 mm	+48 mm
Aug	25.2 °C	+3.1 °C	95 mm	-8 mm
Sep	18.4 °C	-0.2 °C	163 mm	+74 mm
Oct	12.9 °C	-0.8 °C	145 mm	+59 mm
Nov	8.5 °C	+0.9 °C	134 mm	+32 mm
Dec	5.7 °C	+1.6 °C	23 mm	-77 mm

The year's extremes

Hottest day

34.6 °C

13 Aug 2025

Coldest day

-7.5 °C

22 Nov 2025

Wettest day

34.5 mm

24 Nov 2025

Windiest day

27.5 km/h

23 Oct 2025

Strongest gust

88.9 km/h

23 Oct 2025

Hottest feels-like

35.6 °C

12 Aug 2025

Coldest feels-like

-11.7 °C

22 Nov 2025

Snowiest day

5.6 cm

20 Nov 2025

Sunniest day

15.0 h

30 May 2025

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Frequently asked questions

What is the climate of Estavayer-le-Lac?

Estavayer-le-Lac has a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 9.3 °C and it receives 1,127 mm of precipitation per year.

What is the hottest day ever recorded in Estavayer-le-Lac?

The hottest day measured in Estavayer-le-Lac between 1940 and 2025 was 7 July 2015, reaching 36.3 °C.

What is the coldest day in Estavayer-le-Lac?

The coldest day measured in Estavayer-le-Lac between 1940 and 2025 was 10 February 1956, at -21.2 °C.

Does it snow in Estavayer-le-Lac?

Yes. Estavayer-le-Lac gets on average 101.1 cm of snow per year and has around 70 frost days.

Has the climate of Estavayer-le-Lac warmed?

Yes: Estavayer-le-Lac warmed by +2.4 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

What is the wettest day in Estavayer-le-Lac?

The wettest day measured in Estavayer-le-Lac between 1940 and 2025 was 10 June 1953, with 87 mm of rain in 24 hours.

What was the windiest day in Estavayer-le-Lac?

The windiest day measured in Estavayer-le-Lac between 1940 and 2025 was 25 April 1972, with winds reaching 40.9 km/h.

What is the warmest month in Estavayer-le-Lac?

The warmest month in Estavayer-le-Lac is July (18.2 °C on average); the coldest is January (0.6 °C).

How much does it rain in Estavayer-le-Lac?

Estavayer-le-Lac receives on average 1,127 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 157 rainy days.

Is it sunny in Estavayer-le-Lac?

Estavayer-le-Lac gets on average 8.6 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,139 hours per year over 1940-2025.

What is the biggest single-day snowfall in Estavayer-le-Lac?

The heaviest 24-hour snowfall measured in Estavayer-le-Lac between 1940 and 2025 was 17 April 2005, with 25.3 cm.

Are there tropical nights in Estavayer-le-Lac?

Yes: Estavayer-le-Lac has on average 1 tropical nights per year (temperature staying above 20 °C), over 1940-2025.

What was the most extreme apparent temperature in Estavayer-le-Lac?

In Estavayer-le-Lac, between 1940 and 2025, the highest apparent temperature reached 38.1 °C on 26 June 2019, and the lowest was -28.5 °C on 10 February 1956.

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