Climate and average weather in Auerbach

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

Best: late May to mid September

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Auerbach typically varies from -4°C to 21°C, and is rarely below -12°C or above 28°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 Auerbach for warm-weather activities is from late May to mid September.

Hottest
Jul
21°
Coldest
Jan
-4°
Wettest
Jul
104 mm
Driest
Apr
59 mm
Rain / yr
940 mm
160 wet days
Daylight
7.8–16.2 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
458 m
50.5°N
Clearest
Aug
62% cloud

Auerbach is human settlement in Germany.

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

Auerbach 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 late May to mid September.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 3.7 months, from May 23 to September 13, with daily high temperatures above 17°C. The hottest month of the year in Auerbach is July, with an average high of 21°C and low of 12°C.

The cool season lasts 3.6 months, from November 17 to March 7, with daily high temperatures below 5°C. The coldest month of the year in Auerbach is January, with an average low of -4°C and high of 1°C.

Days typically run about 7°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 9°C) in August.

-10°10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan1-4
Feb2-4
Mar6-1
Apr113
May167
Jun1910
Jul2112
Aug2112
Sep168
Oct115
Nov51
Dec1-2

How hot and cold Auerbach 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 -9°C (around January 25), with roughly 173 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)
Jan01-9-4
Feb22-9-4
Mar66-5-1
Apr111103
May161657
Jun1919910
Jul21211212
Aug21211212
Sep161668
Oct111125
Nov55-31
Dec11-7-2

Average hourly temperature in Auerbach

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 21°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near -4°C.

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

Auerbach 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 / -4°771410.58.30.0
Feb / -4°60128.99.70.0
Mar / -1°7413.97.111.50.5
Apr11° / 5912.12.513.52.7
May16° / 8514.60.115.24.4
Jun19° / 10°9414.5016.15.4
Jul21° / 12°10415015.85.7
Aug21° / 12°9013.5014.35.9
Sep16° / 7711.8012.44.8
Oct11° / 7012.2110.42.5
Nov / 7112.24.88.70.3
Dec / -2°7914.59.67.90.0

Chance of rain

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

Auerbach gets about 940 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is often wet, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 3.0 months, from around Apr 30 to Jul 29, peaking in July at about 51% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Sep 21.

July is the wettest month by volume, with 104 mm over about 15 wet days; April is the driest, with 59 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJul 10 · 51%Sep 21 · 36%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan4414
Feb4312
Mar4414
Apr4112
May4715
Jun4815
Jul4815
Aug4414
Sep4012
Oct3912
Nov4112
Dec4715

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Auerbach collects about 940 mm of rain across 160 wet days — roughly 78 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. July is the wettest month with 104 mm, while April is the driest at just 59 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 31% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075100125JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec7760745985941049077707179
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan771411
Feb60129
Mar74147
Apr59123
May85150
Jun94150
Jul104150
Aug90140
Sep77120
Oct70121
Nov71125
Dec791510

Snow in Auerbach

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.

Auerbach averages about 45 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Oct 10 to May 3 — about 6.8 months.

January is snowiest, with roughly 10 days of snow and an estimated 45 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 205 cm of snow.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonJan 24
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan1145
Feb943
Mar729
Apr311
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct15
Nov526
Dec1046

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Auerbach, 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 March 31 and lasts for 6.0 months, ending around September 29. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 43% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 25 and lasts for 5.2 months, ending around March 30. The cloudiest month is December, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 80% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecAug 4 · 47%Dec 16 · 20%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan2278
Feb2476
Mar2773
Apr3466
May3268
Jun3367
Jul3961
Aug4357
Sep3466
Oct3169
Nov2377
Dec2080

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 16 h 12 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 7 h 48 min — a swing of roughly 8 h 24 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan8.38:134:27
Feb9.77:345:16
Mar11.56:346:06
Apr13.55:256:57
May15.24:297:44
Jun16.14:058:17
Jul15.84:218:11
Aug14.35:057:24
Sep12.45:536:16
Oct10.46:425:09
Nov8.77:354:16
Dec7.98:134:00

Sunny days

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

Auerbach averages about 5 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 3 and 7 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.1 months, from around Jun 22 to Oct 25. The sunniest month is August, with roughly 7 sunny days (gloomy).

The greyest month is November, down near 3 sunny days — about 49% fewer than the August peak.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedAug 87 daysNov 243 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan5Gloomy
Feb4Gloomy
Mar5Gloomy
Apr6Gloomy
May5Gloomy
Jun5Gloomy
Jul6Gloomy
Aug7Gloomy
Sep6Gloomy
Oct6Gloomy
Nov3Gloomy
Dec4Gloomy

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 Auerbach, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in July, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 5% 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 (%)Humid (%)
Jan10000
Feb10000
Mar10000
Apr10000
May9730
Jun82162
Jul68275
Aug67294
Sep9280
Oct10000
Nov10000
Dec10000

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.

Across the year, average wind speed in Auerbach is typically calm, near 12 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 5.7 months, from around Oct 13 to Apr 2. The windiest month is January, averaging about 14 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Apr 3 to Oct 12, with August the calmest month at about 10 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeJan 3 · 15 km/hAug 2 · 10 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan14light breeze
Feb14light breeze
Mar13light breeze
Apr11calm
May11calm
Jun10calm
Jul10calm
Aug10calm
Sep11calm
Oct12light breeze
Nov13light breeze
Dec14light breeze

Best time to visit Auerbach

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around early June, Auerbach is still near the start of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds not yet at full swing.

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 Auerbach for general outdoor tourist activities is from late May to mid September, with a peak score in the first week of August.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 3 · 6.1

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
Mar0.5poor
Apr2.7poor
May4.4fair
Jun5.3fair
Jul5.7good
Aug5.9good
Sep4.8fair
Oct2.5poor
Nov0.4poor
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 Auerbach for hot-weather activities is from mid July to late August, with a peak score in the first week of August.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 1 · 4.3

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 Auerbach, 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 21°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, Auerbach sees daytime highs around 21°C and nights near 12°C. Pack rain gear. Worth having: sun protection. About 15 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Auerbach 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 Auerbach peaks around July 13 at about 7 (very high) — sunscreen and a hat are worth it in the middle of the day. 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 7 months of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecLowModerateHighHighModerateLowJul 13UV 7Jan 1UV 1
UV index (midday)Level
Jan1Low
Feb2Low
Mar4Moderate
Apr4Moderate
May6High
Jun7High
Jul7Very high
Aug7High
Sep4Moderate
Oct3Moderate
Nov1Low
Dec1Low

Average hourly UV index in Auerbach

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 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 3.5 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
Mar30
Apr4.50
May70
Jun83.5
Jul83.5
Aug72.5
Sep4.50
Oct00
Nov00
Dec00

Air quality in Auerbach by month

GoodModeratePoorUnhealthyVery unhealthy

Average fine-particle pollution (PM2.5) through the year — so you can see which months the air is worst, not just the yearly average.

Air quality in Auerbach is worst in April — around 18 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 1.7× the cleanest month (December, 11 µg/m³).

Modeled monthly averages (CAMS reanalysis, 2015–2024).

0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateGoodApr 1518 µg/m³Dec 1311 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan13Moderate
Feb14Moderate
Mar17Moderate
Apr18Moderate
May16Moderate
Jun18Moderate
Jul16Moderate
Aug16Moderate
Sep16Moderate
Oct13Moderate
Nov12Good
Dec11Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

The growing season in Auerbach typically lasts about 240 days, from around March 26 to November 20 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from April 28 to October 11.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonMar 2650%Apr 2890%Oct 1190%Nov 2050%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan2431
Feb2428
Mar4331
Apr7527
May970
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep990
Oct8721
Nov5830
Dec3031

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. Auerbach banks about 648 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around July.

0200400600800JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr0
May45
Jun136
Jul202
Aug195
Sep68
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.

Auerbach receives about 3.1 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — moderate — with a clear seasonal swing between 0.7 and 5.3 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 5.9 months, from around Mar 20 to Sep 16. The brightest month is June, averaging about 5.3 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is December, down near 0.7 kWh/m² — roughly 86% less than the June peak.

0123456JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightJun 265.3 kWhDec 200.7 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan0.9Dim
Feb1.8Dim
Mar2.9Moderate
Apr4.4Bright
May5.1Bright
Jun5.3Bright
Jul5.2Bright
Aug4.5Bright
Sep3.1Moderate
Oct1.9Dim
Nov1.0Dim
Dec0.7Dim

Where is Auerbach?

Auerbach sits at 50.5°N, 12.4°E, 458 m above sea level, in Germany. The nearest listed city is Reichenbach/Vogtland, 14 km away.

Topography around Auerbach

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Auerbach has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 230 m around an average of 519 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 683 m; within 80 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,187 m.

The land around Auerbach is covered by trees (36%), grassland (26%) and cropland (21%) within 3 km, trees (58%) within 16 km, and trees (47%) and cropland (30%) within 80 km.

3 km
230 m
16 km
683 m
80 km
1,187 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Reichenbach/Vogtland 14 km · Plauen 19 km · Schneeberg 19 km · Greiz 22 km · Aue 23 km · Zwickau 25 km · Werdau 25 km · Schwarzenberg 27 km

Germany travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 2
Exercise Increased Caution
Power plugs
Type C / F
230 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 80% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$60,496
2025
Happiness
6.9 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
100%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
0.9
per 100k, 2023
Road deaths
3.8
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
High
World Bank
English
Very high
EF EPI 615
Religion
none 44%Roman Catholic 25%Protestant 23%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 Auerbach (50.5115°, 12.4008°, elevation 458 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. Monthly air-quality (PM2.5) seasonality is from the CAMS EAC4 reanalysis (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service), scaled to the WHO annual mean where available. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).