Climate and average weather in Bad Reichenhall

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

Best: late May to late September

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Bad Reichenhall typically varies from -6°C to 22°C, and is rarely below -13°C or above 29°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 Bad Reichenhall for warm-weather activities is from late May to late September.

Hottest
Jul
22°
Coldest
Jan
-6°
Wettest
Jul
217 mm
Driest
Feb
105 mm
Rain / yr
1817 mm
197 wet days
Daylight
8.2–15.8 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
470 m
47.7°N
Clearest
Aug
58% cloud

Bad Reichenhall 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 late September.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 4.0 months, from May 19 to September 16, with daily high temperatures above 17°C. The hottest month of the year in Bad Reichenhall is July, with an average high of 22°C and low of 12°C.

The cool season lasts 3.5 months, from November 19 to March 3, with daily high temperatures below 5°C. The coldest month of the year in Bad Reichenhall is January, with an average low of -6°C and high of 1°C.

Days typically run about 8°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 10°C) in April.

-10°10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan1-6
Feb3-5
Mar7-1
Apr122
May177
Jun2011
Jul2212
Aug2112
Sep178
Oct134
Nov6-1
Dec2-4

How hot and cold Bad Reichenhall 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 21), with roughly 164 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)
Jan11-9-6
Feb33-8-5
Mar77-4-1
Apr121202
May171767
Jun20201011
Jul22221212
Aug21211212
Sep171788
Oct131334
Nov66-3-1
Dec22-7-4

Average hourly temperature in Bad Reichenhall

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 22°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near -6°C.

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

Bad Reichenhall 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 / -6°11713.912.38.70.0
Feb / -5°10513.312.19.90.0
Mar / -2°14017.111.911.60.9
Apr12° / 12115.86.513.32.7
May17° / 19619.81.514.94.2
Jun20° / 11°215200.215.74.8
Jul22° / 12°21720.6015.45.1
Aug21° / 12°19318.3014.15.4
Sep17° / 16515.70.512.44.7
Oct13° / 12013.93.110.63.1
Nov / -1°10913.189.10.6
Dec / -5°1211512.48.30.0

Chance of rain

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

Bad Reichenhall gets about 1817 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 4.7 months, from around Apr 24 to Sep 14, peaking in July at about 70% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Oct 21.

July is the wettest month by volume, with 217 mm over about 21 wet days; February is the driest, with 105 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJul 9 · 70%Oct 21 · 41%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan4414
Feb4913
Mar5317
Apr5416
May6320
Jun6620
Jul6621
Aug5918
Sep5316
Oct4414
Nov4413
Dec4915

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Bad Reichenhall collects about 1817 mm of rain across 197 wet days — roughly 151 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. July is the wettest month with 217 mm, while February is the driest at just 105 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 35% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

050100150200250JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec117105140121196215217193165120109121
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan1171412
Feb1051312
Mar1401712
Apr121167
May196202
Jun215200
Jul217210
Aug193180
Sep165161
Oct120143
Nov109138
Dec1211512

Snow in Bad Reichenhall

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.

Bad Reichenhall averages about 69 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Sep 6 to Jun 8 — about 9.1 months.

February is snowiest, with roughly 13 days of snow and an estimated 89 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 476 cm of snow.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonFeb 18
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan1279
Feb1289
Mar1277
Apr744
May28
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep14
Oct323
Nov862
Dec1290

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Bad Reichenhall, 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 13 and lasts for 3.5 months, ending around September 27. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 49% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 24 and lasts for 5.8 months, ending around April 17. The cloudiest month is March, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 67% 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 10 · 51%Feb 25 · 32%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan3664
Feb3466
Mar3367
Apr3862
May3862
Jun4159
Jul4852
Aug4951
Sep4159
Oct3961
Nov3466
Dec3565

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 15, brings about 15 h 48 min of light; the shortest, around December 14, only 8 h 12 min — a swing of roughly 7 h 36 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan8.77:594:36
Feb9.97:255:21
Mar11.66:316:05
Apr13.35:276:50
May14.94:377:32
Jun15.74:168:02
Jul15.44:317:57
Aug14.15:107:16
Sep12.45:536:13
Oct10.66:365:11
Nov9.17:234:24
Dec8.37:584:11

Sunny days

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

Bad Reichenhall gets about 8 sunny days a month gloomy — and it barely shifts through the year, holding between 6 and 9 days every month. Clear skies here are a flat line, not a season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgloomymixedJul 309 daysJun 146 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan8Gloomy
Feb7Gloomy
Mar7Gloomy
Apr7Gloomy
May7Gloomy
Jun6Gloomy
Jul8Mixed
Aug9Mixed
Sep8Gloomy
Oct8Mixed
Nov7Gloomy
Dec8Gloomy

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 Bad Reichenhall, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in July, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 12% of the time — humidity is not something you need to plan around here.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecMay 17 · 100%Jul 29 · 85%humidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)
Jan10000
Feb10000
Mar10000
Apr10000
May9640
Jun70256
Jul474112
Aug464410
Sep86131
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.

Wind in Bad Reichenhall is steady company: average speeds sit near 6 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmMar 15 · 7 km/hAug 13 · 5 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan6calm
Feb6calm
Mar7calm
Apr6calm
May6calm
Jun6calm
Jul5calm
Aug5calm
Sep5calm
Oct6calm
Nov6calm
Dec7calm

Best time to visit Bad Reichenhall

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 6 · 5.5

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
Mar0.9poor
Apr2.7poor
May4.2fair
Jun4.8fair
Jul5.1fair
Aug5.4fair
Sep4.7fair
Oct3.1poor
Nov0.7poor
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 Bad Reichenhall 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 2 · 3.9

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 Bad Reichenhall, 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 22°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, Bad Reichenhall sees daytime highs around 22°C and nights near 12°C. Pack rain gear. Worth having: sun protection. About 21 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Bad Reichenhall 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 Bad Reichenhall peaks around July 11 at about 8 (very high) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 22 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 highHighModerateLowJul 11UV 8Dec 22UV 1
UV index (midday)Level
Jan1Low
Feb2Low
Mar4Moderate
Apr6High
May7High
Jun8Very high
Jul8Very high
Aug7Very high
Sep5High
Oct3Moderate
Nov2Low
Dec1Low

Average hourly UV index in Bad Reichenhall

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 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
Mar4.50
Apr60
May7.53.5
Jun8.55
Jul8.55
Aug7.53.5
Sep5.50
Oct1.50
Nov00
Dec00

Air quality in Bad Reichenhall 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 Bad Reichenhall is worst in June — around 16 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), and holds fairly steady the rest of the year.

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

01020JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateGoodJun 1515 µg/m³Oct 2010 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan13Moderate
Feb12Moderate
Mar15Moderate
Apr15Moderate
May14Moderate
Jun16Moderate
Jul14Moderate
Aug13Moderate
Sep11Good
Oct10Good
Nov11Good
Dec12Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

The growing season in Bad Reichenhall typically lasts about 228 days, from around March 30 to November 12 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from April 29 to October 13.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonMar 3050%Apr 2990%Oct 1390%Nov 1250%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan1331
Feb1628
Mar3531
Apr7228
May980
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct8719
Nov4530
Dec1731

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. Bad Reichenhall banks about 712 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
May56
Jun156
Jul213
Aug204
Sep80
Oct3
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.

Bad Reichenhall receives about 3.4 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — moderate — with a clear seasonal swing between 1.0 and 5.5 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.0 months, from around Mar 17 to Sep 16. The brightest month is June, averaging about 5.4 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is December, down near 1.1 kWh/m² — roughly 80% less than the June peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 285.5 kWhDec 211.0 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan1.3Dim
Feb2.2Moderate
Mar3.4Moderate
Apr4.8Bright
May5.2Bright
Jun5.4Bright
Jul5.3Bright
Aug4.6Bright
Sep3.4Moderate
Oct2.4Moderate
Nov1.4Dim
Dec1.1Dim

Where is Bad Reichenhall?

Bad Reichenhall sits at 47.7°N, 12.9°E, 470 m above sea level, in Germany. The nearest listed city is Freilassing, 15 km away.

Burghausen

Topography around Bad Reichenhall

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Bad Reichenhall has large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,050 m around an average of 658 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,788 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 3,322 m.

The land around Bad Reichenhall is covered by trees (75%) within 3 km, trees (68%) and grassland (23%) within 16 km, and trees (50%) and grassland (31%) within 80 km.

3 km
1,050 m
16 km
1,788 m
80 km
3,322 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainsnow and icewater
Nearby: Freilassing 15 km · Salzburg 15 km · Traunstein 23 km · Traunreut 34 km · Saalfelden am Steinernen Meer 34 km · Zell am See 46 km · Kitzbuhel 48 km · Burghausen 49 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 Bad Reichenhall (47.7295°, 12.8782°, elevation 470 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).