Climate and average weather in Bad Wildungen

In Bad Wildungen, the summers are warm, showery, and partly cloudy and the winters are cold, snowy, and mostly cloudy.

Best: late May to late September

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Bad Wildungen typically varies from -1°C to 22°C, and is rarely below -9°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 Wildungen for warm-weather activities is from late May to late September.

Hottest
Jul
22°
Coldest
Jan
-1°
Wettest
Jul
67 mm
Driest
Feb
44 mm
Rain / yr
662 mm
134 wet days
Daylight
7.7–16.3 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
276 m
51.1°N
Clearest
Aug
63% cloud

Bad Wildungen 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 Wildungen, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

The hot season lasts 3.6 months, from May 26 to September 13, with daily high temperatures above 18°C. The hottest month of the year in Bad Wildungen is July, with an average high of 22°C and low of 13°C.

The cool season lasts 3.7 months, from November 15 to March 6, with daily high temperatures below 7°C. The coldest month of the year in Bad Wildungen is January, with an average low of -1°C and high of 3°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)
Jan3-1
Feb4-1
Mar81
Apr134
May178
Jun2011
Jul2213
Aug2213
Sep1810
Oct126
Nov73
Dec40

How hot and cold Bad Wildungen 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 -6°C (around January 24), with roughly 148 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)
Jan33-6-1
Feb44-5-1
Mar88-21
Apr131314
May171768
Jun20201111
Jul22221313
Aug22221313
Sep1818810
Oct121236
Nov77-13
Dec34-40

Average hourly temperature in Bad Wildungen

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 -1°C.

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

Bad Wildungen 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 / -1°5511.84.38.20.0
Feb / -1°449.44.59.60.0
Mar / 5011.42.211.51.4
Apr13° / 4610.50.513.53.5
May17° / 6011.5015.35.1
Jun20° / 11°5811.5016.25.9
Jul22° / 13°6712.6015.96.3
Aug22° / 13°6311014.46.4
Sep18° / 10°559.9012.45.5
Oct12° / 5310.60.110.43.2
Nov / 5211.41.78.70.8
Dec / -0°6012.54.37.80.0

Chance of rain

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

Bad Wildungen gets about 662 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 1.3 months, from around Dec 7 to Jan 15, peaking in December at about 43% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Oct 18.

July is the wettest month by volume, with 67 mm over about 13 wet days; February is the driest, with 44 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetDec 25 · 43%Oct 18 · 31%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan3712
Feb349
Mar3611
Apr3511
May3712
Jun3912
Jul3913
Aug3611
Sep3410
Oct3411
Nov3811
Dec4013

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Bad Wildungen collects about 662 mm of rain across 134 wet days — roughly 55 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. July is the wettest month with 67 mm, while February is the driest at just 44 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 29% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075100JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec554450466058676355535260
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan55124
Feb4495
Mar50112
Apr46111
May60120
Jun58120
Jul67130
Aug63110
Sep55100
Oct53110
Nov52112
Dec60134

Snow in Bad Wildungen

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 Wildungen averages about 18 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Nov 4 to Apr 14 — about 5.3 months.

January is snowiest, with roughly 4 days of snow and an estimated 13 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 65 cm of snow.

02468JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonJan 27
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan413
Feb517
Mar27
Apr12
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct00
Nov26
Dec418

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Bad Wildungen, 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 16 and lasts for 6.5 months, ending around September 28. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 40% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 20 and lasts for 4.8 months, ending around March 15. The cloudiest month is December, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 84% 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 2 · 44%Dec 21 · 15%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan2080
Feb2476
Mar2971
Apr3664
May3367
Jun3367
Jul3862
Aug4060
Sep3367
Oct2872
Nov1981
Dec1684

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 18 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 7 h 42 min — a swing of roughly 8 h 36 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan8.28:284:37
Feb9.67:485:28
Mar11.56:486:19
Apr13.55:377:11
May15.34:407:59
Jun16.24:158:33
Jul15.94:328:26
Aug14.45:167:39
Sep12.46:066:29
Oct10.46:565:21
Nov8.77:504:27
Dec7.88:294:10

Sunny days

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

Bad Wildungen averages about 5 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 2 and 7 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.3 months, from around Jun 23 to Sep 30. The sunniest month is August, with roughly 6 sunny days (gloomy).

The greyest month is November, down near 3 sunny days — about 55% fewer than the August peak.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedAug 37 daysNov 212 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan4Gloomy
Feb4Gloomy
Mar5Gloomy
Apr6Gloomy
May6Gloomy
Jun5Gloomy
Jul6Gloomy
Aug6Gloomy
Sep6Gloomy
Oct5Gloomy
Nov3Gloomy
Dec3Gloomy

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 Wildungen, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in July, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 8% of the time — humidity is not something you need to plan around here.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecApr 28 · 100%Jul 25 · 90%humidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)
Jan10000
Feb10000
Mar10000
Apr10000
May9451
Jun76194
Jul61308
Aug62317
Sep87121
Oct9820
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 Bad Wildungen is typically calm, near 12 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 5.6 months, from around Oct 16 to Apr 4. The windiest month is January, averaging about 14 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Apr 5 to Oct 15, with July the calmest month at about 10 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeJan 4 · 14 km/hJul 31 · 10 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan14light breeze
Feb13light breeze
Mar13light breeze
Apr11calm
May11calm
Jun10calm
Jul10calm
Aug10calm
Sep11calm
Oct12calm
Nov12light breeze
Dec13light breeze

Best time to visit Bad Wildungen

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late May, Bad Wildungen 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 Wildungen 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 3 · 6.7

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
Feb0.1poor
Mar1.4poor
Apr3.5poor
May5.1fair
Jun5.9good
Jul6.3good
Aug6.4good
Sep5.5fair
Oct3.2poor
Nov0.8poor
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 Wildungen 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 · 5.3

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 Bad Wildungen, 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 light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 3°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 Wildungen sees daytime highs around 22°C and nights near 13°C. Worth packing: light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. About 13 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Bad Wildungen 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 Wildungen peaks around July 13 at about 7 (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.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecLowModerateHighModerateLowJul 13UV 7Jan 1UV 1
UV index (midday)Level
Jan1Low
Feb1Low
Mar3Moderate
Apr4Moderate
May6High
Jun6High
Jul7High
Aug6High
Sep4Moderate
Oct2Moderate
Nov1Low
Dec1Low

Average hourly UV index in Bad Wildungen

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 7.5 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 3 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
Mar1.50
Apr4.50
May70
Jun7.52
Jul7.53
Aug6.50
Sep40
Oct00
Nov00
Dec00

Air quality in Bad Wildungen 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 Wildungen is worst in April — around 15 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 1.7× the cleanest month (November, 9 µg/m³).

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

01020JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModerateGoodApr 1415 µg/m³Nov 199 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan11Good
Feb11Good
Mar14Moderate
Apr15Moderate
May14Moderate
Jun14Moderate
Jul12Moderate
Aug12Moderate
Sep12Good
Oct10Good
Nov9Good
Dec9Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

The growing season in Bad Wildungen typically lasts about 285 days, from around March 1 to December 10 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from April 21 to October 22.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonMar 150%Apr 2190%Oct 2290%Dec 1050%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan4031
Feb4128
Mar6431
Apr8722
May990
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct9414
Nov7630
Dec4831

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 Wildungen banks about 828 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around July.

02004006008001,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr3
May76
Jun166
Jul238
Aug229
Sep108
Oct7
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 Wildungen receives about 3.0 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — moderate — with a clear seasonal swing between 0.6 and 5.4 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 5.9 months, from around Mar 21 to Sep 17. The brightest month is June, averaging about 5.3 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is December, down near 0.6 kWh/m² — roughly 89% less than the June peak.

0123456JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightJun 265.4 kWhDec 220.6 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan0.8Dim
Feb1.6Dim
Mar2.8Moderate
Apr4.4Bright
May5.0Bright
Jun5.4Bright
Jul5.2Bright
Aug4.5Bright
Sep3.0Moderate
Oct1.8Dim
Nov0.9Dim
Dec0.6Dim

Where is Bad Wildungen?

Bad Wildungen sits at 51.1°N, 9.1°E, 276 m above sea level, in Germany. The nearest listed city is Schwalmstadt, 22 km away.

Topography around Bad Wildungen

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Bad Wildungen has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 345 m around an average of 304 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 524 m; within 80 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 780 m.

The land around Bad Wildungen is covered by trees (47%) and cropland (25%) within 3 km, trees (53%) and cropland (27%) within 16 km, and trees (53%) and cropland (25%) within 80 km.

3 km
345 m
16 km
524 m
80 km
780 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Schwalmstadt 22 km · Frankenberg 24 km · Baunatal 25 km · Korbach 25 km · Bad Arolsen 30 km · Stadtallendorf 34 km · Kassel 34 km · Kirchhain 35 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 Wildungen (51.1196°, 9.1248°, elevation 276 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).