Climate and average weather in Bludenz

In Bludenz, the summers are mild, wet, and partly cloudy and the winters are very cold, snowy, and partly cloudy.

Best: mid June to mid September

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Bludenz typically varies from -7°C to 20°C, and is rarely below -15°C or above 26°C. July is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Bludenz for warm-weather activities is from mid June to mid September.

Hottest
Jul
20°
Coldest
Jan
-7°
Wettest
Jun
190 mm
Driest
Feb
98 mm
Rain / yr
1653 mm
184 wet days
Daylight
8.3–15.7 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
567 m
47.2°N
Clearest
Aug
59% cloud

Bludenz is town in the municipality of the same name in Austria.

Air quality
Excellent
PM10 13.8 µg/m³ · 2017

Air quality: WHO Ambient Air Quality Database. Density & description: Wikidata (CC0), GeoNames.

Bludenz weather by month, at a glance

The whole year in one picture — sky, rain, humidity, temperature and travel score. Click any band to jump to its full chart.

Each stripe is one measure across the whole year, stacked so a single day reads top to bottom. The sky band runs overcast grey on top down to clear blue at the base — more blue means sunnier — followed by the rainfall curve, the humidity band, a temperature strip that tints each stretch of the year by how warm its average high is, and the travel-score line at the foot. Scan straight down any date to read that day across every measure at once; the score climbs highest around mid June to mid September.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Bludenz, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

The hot season lasts 3.9 months, from May 23 to September 17, with daily high temperatures above 15°C. The hottest month of the year in Bludenz is July, with an average high of 20°C and low of 11°C.

The cool season lasts 3.5 months, from November 19 to March 4, with daily high temperatures below 4°C. The coldest month of the year in Bludenz is January, with an average low of -7°C and high of 1°C.

Days typically run about 9°C warmer than nights year-round.

-20°-10°10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan1-7
Feb2-6
Mar6-2
Apr101
May155
Jun189
Jul2011
Aug2010
Sep167
Oct123
Nov6-2
Dec1-6

How hot and cold Bludenz really feels

Feels-like highFeels-like lowactual air temp

The felt-temperature range through the year — heat index on the day's high (summer humidity), wind chill on the night's low (winter wind). The dashed lines are the plain thermometer; the gap is how much hotter or colder it really feels.

On the coldest nights, wind chill pulls the feels-like down to about -10°C (around January 20), with roughly 168 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C), worst in January.

-10°10°20°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan11-10-7
Feb22-9-6
Mar66-4-2
Apr101001
May151555
Jun181899
Jul20201011
Aug20201010
Sep161677
Oct121233
Nov56-4-2
Dec11-9-6

Average hourly temperature in Bludenz

A compact picture of the whole year, hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled average temperature. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

Read left to right for the day of the year and top to bottom for the hour of the day; the color is the modeled temperature, cool blues through to hot reds on the same scale as the other charts. A vertical slice is a single day's swing — coolest just before dawn, warmest in the mid-afternoon — while a horizontal slice follows one hour across the seasons. The darker overlay marks night and the lighter one the twilight around sunrise and sunset. Colors run warmest on July afternoons, near 20°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near -7°C.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM

Bludenz weather by month

Every month at a glance. Click a month for its detailed page.

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysSnow daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan / -7°10512.8128.70.0
Feb / -6°9811.811.5100.0
Mar / -3°12015.113.211.60.5
Apr10° / 11815.39.813.32.0
May15° / 17319.65.314.83.4
Jun18° / 19019.31.515.64.5
Jul20° / 11°18218.70.615.35.1
Aug20° / 10°18817.40.4145.3
Sep16° / 13514.62.612.44.3
Oct12° / 11112.5510.62.8
Nov / -2°11512.710.19.10.5
Dec / -6°1181412.68.40.0

Chance of rain

How likely it is to rain on a typical day, and how that shifts across the wetter and drier seasons.

Bludenz gets about 1653 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is very wet, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 5.2 months, from around Apr 6 to Sep 11, peaking in June at about 67% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Oct 21.

June is the wettest month by volume, with 190 mm over about 19 wet days; February is the driest, with 98 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJun 6 · 67%Oct 21 · 38%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan4113
Feb4312
Mar4715
Apr5215
May6320
Jun6419
Jul6019
Aug5617
Sep4915
Oct4013
Nov4313
Dec4514

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Bludenz collects about 1653 mm of rain across 184 wet days — roughly 138 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. June is the wettest month with 190 mm, while February is the driest at just 98 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 34% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

050100150200JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec10598120118173190182188135111115118
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan1051312
Feb981212
Mar1201513
Apr1181510
May173205
Jun190192
Jul182191
Aug188170
Sep135153
Oct111135
Nov1151310
Dec1181413

Snow in Bludenz

Average snowy days through the year, the snow-season span, and estimated snowfall — for ski trips and the perennial 'will there be snow at Christmas?' question.

Bludenz averages about 85 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Aug 22 to Jul 20 — about 10.9 months.

December is snowiest, with roughly 12 days of snow and an estimated 86 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 523 cm of snow.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonDec 27
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan1279
Feb1286
Mar1371
Apr1058
May523
Jun27
Jul14
Aug00
Sep313
Oct526
Nov1070
Dec1386

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

How often the daytime sky is clear, partly cloudy or overcast.

In Bludenz, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows moderate seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around June 19 and lasts for 3.1 months, ending around September 20. The clearest month is July, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 49% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around April 14 and lasts for 2.2 months, ending around June 18. The cloudiest month is May, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 65% of the time.

0%100%10%90%20%80%30%70%40%60%50%50%60%40%70%30%80%20%90%10%100%0%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJul 23 · 50%May 6 · 32%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan4258
Feb3961
Mar4060
Apr3961
May3565
Jun4060
Jul4951
Aug4852
Sep4258
Oct4060
Nov3664
Dec4060

Daylight, sunrise and sunset

DaylightNight

Hours of daylight through the year, with sunrise and sunset times.

The gold band is daylight — sunrise runs along its lower edge, sunset along the upper — so it widens toward summer and pinches toward winter, with night the dark area above and below. The longest day, around June 13, brings about 15 h 42 min of light; the shortest, around December 13, only 8 h 18 min — a swing of roughly 7 h 24 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan8.78:094:51
Feb10.07:365:34
Mar11.66:436:18
Apr13.35:407:02
May14.84:517:43
Jun15.64:308:12
Jul15.34:468:07
Aug14.05:237:27
Sep12.46:056:25
Oct10.66:475:24
Nov9.17:344:38
Dec8.48:084:26

Sunny days

How many genuinely sunny days each month brings — days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — banded into plain-language zones.

Bludenz averages about 8 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 5 and 10 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.1 months, from around Nov 20 to Feb 20. The sunniest month is January, with roughly 10 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is June, down near 6 sunny days — about 36% fewer than the January peak.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedJan 1510 daysJun 105 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan10Mixed
Feb8Mixed
Mar8Mixed
Apr7Gloomy
May6Gloomy
Jun6Gloomy
Jul9Mixed
Aug9Mixed
Sep8Mixed
Oct8Gloomy
Nov8Gloomy
Dec9Mixed

Humidity comfort

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Share of days at each humidity comfort level, based on the dew point — the measure that tracks how muggy it actually feels.

Humidity comfort is graded by the dew point — the temperature at which the air would be fully saturated — because it tracks how muggy it actually feels far better than relative humidity does. A low dew point feels dry and crisp; a high one feels sticky and oppressive no matter the reading on a humidity gauge.

In Bludenz, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in August, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 0% of the time — humidity is not something you need to plan around here.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccomfortabledry
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)
Jan1000
Feb1000
Mar1000
Apr1000
May1000
Jun919
Jul7921
Aug8119
Sep982
Oct1000
Nov1000
Dec1000

Wind

Average wind speed through the year, banded into plain-language speed zones so a number reads as 'breezy' or 'calm' without knowing the scale.

This is the average sustained wind speed at the standard 10 metres above open ground — the steady flow a weather station reports, not the sharper gusts that come and go, which can run half again as fast. It's the number that says whether a place is generally breezy or calm.

Wind in Bludenz is steady company: average speeds sit near 5 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmDec 22 · 5 km/hAug 12 · 4 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan5calm
Feb5calm
Mar5calm
Apr5calm
May5calm
Jun4calm
Jul4calm
Aug4calm
Sep4calm
Oct5calm
Nov5calm
Dec5calm

Best time to visit Bludenz

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

To characterize how pleasant the weather is in Bludenz throughout the year, we compute two travel scores — one for general sightseeing, one for beach and pool weather.

Around early September, Bludenz is still near the tail of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds already thinning.

Inferred from the travel-score curve; month-by-month visitor numbers are a planned addition.

The travel score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 18°C and 28°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Bludenz for general outdoor tourist activities is from mid June to mid September, with a peak score in the last week of July.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 31 · 5.3

The travel score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

Travel score (0–10)Rating
Jan0.0poor
Feb0.0poor
Mar0.6poor
Apr2.0poor
May3.4poor
Jun4.5fair
Jul5.1fair
Aug5.2fair
Sep4.3fair
Oct2.8poor
Nov0.5poor
Dec0.0poor

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Bludenz for hot-weather activities is from early July to late August, with a peak score in the last week of July.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 31 · 2.9

The beach/pool score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

What to pack for Bludenz, by month

EssentialRecommendedOptional

Month by month, what's worth putting in the bag — from the temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind. Tap a month for a quick packing note.

For a warm-season trip around July (highs near 20°C), the essentials are rain gear and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 1°C), pack a warm layer, a heavy coat and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Bludenz sees daytime highs around 20°C and nights near 11°C. Pack rain gear. Worth having: sun protection. About 19 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Bludenz by month

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV index through the year, shaded by the WHO exposure levels — how much sun protection each month calls for.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Bludenz peaks around July 16 at about 9 (very high) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near January 1 at about 1 (low).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — in 8 months of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecLowModerateHighVery highModerateLowJul 16UV 9Jan 1UV 1
UV index (midday)Level
Jan1Low
Feb3Moderate
Mar5High
Apr6High
May8Very high
Jun8Very high
Jul9Very high
Aug8Very high
Sep5Moderate
Oct3Moderate
Nov2Low
Dec1Low

Average hourly UV index in Bludenz

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Modeled clear-sky UV for every hour of every day — when in the day sun protection actually matters.

The whole year hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled clear-sky UV index — the midday peak scaled down as the sun sits lower in the sky. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

UV falls off far faster than brightness as the sun drops, so even in July the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8.5 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 5.5 hours reach 6 or more. Mornings and late afternoons stay comparatively gentle year round.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM
UV ≥ 3 (h/day)UV ≥ 6 (h/day)
Jan00
Feb00
Mar5.50
Apr60
May84
Jun84.5
Jul8.55.5
Aug7.53.5
Sep5.50
Oct2.50
Nov00
Dec00
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayTypical season (≥50%)

The growing season in Bludenz typically lasts about 211 days, from around April 9 to November 5 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from May 5 to October 10.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonFeb 1110%Apr 950%May 590%Oct 1090%Nov 550%Jan 1810%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan1131
Feb1228
Mar2931
Apr6030
May955
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep980
Oct8121
Nov3530
Dec1331

Growing degree days

Degree days (base 10°C)Frost-free shaded

Growing degree days tally heat above 10°C: each day adds however many degrees its average temperature runs over that threshold, and cold days add nothing. Bludenz banks about 465 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around July.

0200400600JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr0
May13
Jun102
Jul160
Aug152
Sep38
Oct0
Nov0
Dec0

Solar energy

Average daily shortwave solar energy reaching the ground, banded into brightness zones so the number means something at a glance.

Solar energy is how much sunlight actually reaches the ground each day, measured in kilowatt-hours per square metre (kWh/m²) — the combined effect of how long the sun is up, how high it climbs, and how much cloud gets in the way. It's the raw fuel a solar panel has to work with: for scale, 1 kWh/m² a day is dim and wintry, while 7+ is desert-bright.

Bludenz receives about 3.5 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — moderate — with a clear seasonal swing between 1.1 and 5.6 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.2 months, from around Mar 14 to Sep 18. The brightest month is June, averaging about 5.5 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is December, down near 1.2 kWh/m² — roughly 78% less than the June peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 285.6 kWhDec 201.1 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan1.4Dim
Feb2.3Moderate
Mar3.6Moderate
Apr4.9Bright
May5.3Bright
Jun5.5Bright
Jul5.5Bright
Aug4.7Bright
Sep3.6Moderate
Oct2.5Moderate
Nov1.6Dim
Dec1.2Dim

Where is Bludenz?

Bludenz sits at 47.2°N, 9.8°E, 567 m above sea level, in Austria. The nearest listed city is Feldkirch, 19 km away.

LustenauDavosBregenzChur

Topography around Bludenz

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 3, 16 and 80 km of Bludenz.

Within 3 km, the terrain around Bludenz has large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,126 m around an average of 805 m above sea level; within 16 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,463 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 3,280 m.

The land around Bludenz is covered by trees (70%) within 3 km, trees (52%) and grassland (40%) within 16 km, and grassland (43%) and trees (39%) within 80 km.

3 km
1,126 m
16 km
2,463 m
80 km
3,280 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainsnow and icewatermoss and lichen
Nearby: Feldkirch 19 km · Vaduz 23 km · Hohenems 25 km · Dornbirn 29 km · Lustenau 33 km · Davos 39 km · Bregenz 39 km · Chur 40 km

Austria travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 1
Exercise Normal Precautions
Power plugs
Type C / F
230 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 82% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$62,930
2025
Happiness
6.8 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
99%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
0.9
per 100k, 2023
Road deaths
4.9
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
High
World Bank
English
Very high
EF EPI 616
Religion
Roman Catholic 55%none 22%Muslim 8%other 5%

Sources: World Bank, US State Department, World Happiness Report, WHO/UNICEF, EF EPI, CIA World Factbook.

Data sources

Temperature, precipitation, cloud, humidity, wind and solar figures are a 1991–2020 climatology for Bludenz (47.1548°, 9.8225°, elevation 567 m), computed from hourly ERA5 reanalysis — contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. Sun figures are astronomical calculations, not observations. City data © GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Map outlines from Natural Earth (public domain); interactive map © Google. UV index is derived from CAMS (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service) clear-sky UV data — contains modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).