Climate and average weather in Borna

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

Best: early May to late September

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Borna typically varies from -1°C to 24°C, and is rarely below -9°C or above 31°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 Borna for warm-weather activities is from early May to late September.

Hottest
Jul
24°
Coldest
Jan
-1°
Wettest
Jul
74 mm
Driest
Apr
40 mm
Rain / yr
668 mm
132 wet days
Daylight
7.7–16.3 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
142 m
51.1°N
Clearest
Aug
61% cloud
Air quality
Good
PM10 15.3 µg/m³ · 2019

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

Borna 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 early May to late September.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Borna, 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 25 to September 12, with daily high temperatures above 19°C. The hottest month of the year in Borna is July, with an average high of 24°C and low of 14°C.

The cool season lasts 3.6 months, from November 16 to March 6, with daily high temperatures below 7°C. The coldest month of the year in Borna 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 10°C) in July.

-10°10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3-1
Feb5-1
Mar92
Apr145
May189
Jun2212
Jul2414
Aug2414
Sep1910
Oct147
Nov83
Dec40

How hot and cold Borna 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 26), with roughly 142 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
Feb55-5-1
Mar99-22
Apr141425
May181879
Jun21221212
Jul24241414
Aug23241414
Sep19191010
Oct141447
Nov8803
Dec44-40

Average hourly temperature in Borna

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 24°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near -1°C.

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

Borna 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°5412.15.38.20.0
Feb / -1°4210.44.39.60.1
Mar / 5412.13.111.51.6
Apr14° / 409.10.513.54.1
May18° / 5810.9015.35.7
Jun22° / 12°6011.3016.26.2
Jul24° / 14°7411.9015.96.6
Aug24° / 14°6111.1014.46.7
Sep19° / 10°589.6012.45.9
Oct14° / 5210.40.110.43.8
Nov / 5710.71.68.71.1
Dec / 5812.74.17.80.0

Chance of rain

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

Borna gets about 668 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 2.0 months, from around Dec 3 to Feb 2, peaking in December at about 43% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Apr 20.

July is the wettest month by volume, with 74 mm over about 12 wet days; April is the driest, with 40 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetDec 17 · 43%Apr 20 · 29%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan3812
Feb3710
Mar3912
Apr319
May3511
Jun3811
Jul3812
Aug3611
Sep3310
Oct3310
Nov3611
Dec4113

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Borna collects about 668 mm of rain across 132 wet days — roughly 56 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. July is the wettest month with 74 mm, while April is the driest at just 40 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 29% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075100JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec544254405860746158525758
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan54125
Feb42104
Mar54123
Apr4091
May58110
Jun60110
Jul74120
Aug61110
Sep58100
Oct52100
Nov57112
Dec58134

Snow in Borna

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.

Borna averages about 19 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Nov 4 to Apr 18 — about 5.5 months.

January is snowiest, with roughly 5 days of snow and an estimated 15 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 63 cm of snow.

02468JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonJan 26
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan515
Feb417
Mar39
Apr12
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct01
Nov26
Dec414

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Borna, 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 April 7 and lasts for 5.7 months, ending around September 26. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 44% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around September 27 and lasts for 6.0 months, ending around March 29. The cloudiest month is December, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 77% 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 31 · 48%Dec 21 · 22%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan2773
Feb2674
Mar2971
Apr3763
May3565
Jun3763
Jul4357
Aug4456
Sep3763
Oct3268
Nov2773
Dec2377

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)
Jan8.28:154:24
Feb9.67:355:14
Mar11.56:346:05
Apr13.55:236:57
May15.34:277:46
Jun16.24:018:19
Jul15.94:188:13
Aug14.45:037:25
Sep12.45:536:16
Oct10.46:435:07
Nov8.77:374:14
Dec7.88:153:57

Sunny days

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

Borna averages about 6 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 4 and 9 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.0 months, from around Jun 27 to Sep 25. The sunniest month is July, with roughly 7 sunny days (gloomy).

The greyest month is November, down near 4 sunny days — about 41% fewer than the July peak.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedJul 309 daysNov 194 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan5Gloomy
Feb4Gloomy
Mar5Gloomy
Apr7Gloomy
May7Gloomy
Jun6Gloomy
Jul7Gloomy
Aug8Gloomy
Sep6Gloomy
Oct6Gloomy
Nov4Gloomy
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 Borna, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in July, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 14% 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 22 · 100%Jul 30 · 81%humidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan100000
Feb100000
Mar100000
Apr100000
May92710
Jun712261
Jul5135140
Aug5234140
Sep841420
Oct98200
Nov100000
Dec100000

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 Borna is typically calm, near 12 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 5.5 months, from around Oct 17 to Mar 31. The windiest month is January, averaging about 14 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Apr 1 to Oct 16, with August the calmest month at about 10 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeJan 3 · 14 km/hAug 1 · 9 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan14light breeze
Feb13light breeze
Mar13light breeze
Apr11calm
May10calm
Jun10calm
Jul10calm
Aug10calm
Sep11calm
Oct12calm
Nov12light breeze
Dec14light breeze

Best time to visit Borna

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid May, Borna 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 Borna for general outdoor tourist activities is from early May to late September, with a peak score in the last week of July.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 31 · 6.8

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
Mar1.6poor
Apr4.0fair
May5.7good
Jun6.2good
Jul6.6good
Aug6.6good
Sep5.9good
Oct3.8fair
Nov1.2poor
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 Borna for hot-weather activities is from early July to late August, with a peak score in the first week of August.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 1 · 6.0

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 Borna, 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 24°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, Borna sees daytime highs around 24°C and nights near 14°C. Worth packing: light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. About 12 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Borna 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 Borna peaks around July 11 at about 6 (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 11UV 6Jan 1UV 1
UV index (midday)Level
Jan1Low
Feb1Low
Mar3Moderate
Apr4Moderate
May6High
Jun6High
Jul7High
Aug6High
Sep4Moderate
Oct2Moderate
Nov1Low
Dec1Low

Average hourly UV index in Borna

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 2.5 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
Mar20
Apr3.50
May6.50
Jun7.52.5
Jul7.52.5
Aug6.50
Sep40
Oct00
Nov00
Dec00

Air quality in Borna 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 Borna is worst in June — around 15 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 1.9× the cleanest month (December, 8 µg/m³).

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

01020JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModerateGoodJun 1515 µg/m³Dec 128 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan10Good
Feb10Good
Mar14Moderate
Apr15Moderate
May13Moderate
Jun15Moderate
Jul13Moderate
Aug13Moderate
Sep12Good
Oct10Good
Nov9Good
Dec8Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

The growing season in Borna typically lasts about 294 days, from around February 27 to December 17 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from April 17 to October 28.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonFeb 2750%Apr 1790%Oct 2890%Dec 1750%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan4131
Feb4328
Mar6531
Apr8918
May990
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct949
Nov7630
Dec5131

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. Borna banks about 1,023 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around July.

02505007501,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr11
May110
Jun203
Jul274
Aug267
Sep139
Oct19
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.

Borna receives about 3.0 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — moderate — with a clear seasonal swing between 0.6 and 5.3 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 5.9 months, from around Mar 22 to Sep 17. The brightest month is June, averaging about 5.3 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is December, down near 0.7 kWh/m² — roughly 87% less than the June peak.

0123456JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightJun 255.3 kWhDec 210.6 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan0.8Dim
Feb1.6Dim
Mar2.8Moderate
Apr4.4Bright
May5.1Bright
Jun5.3Bright
Jul5.2Bright
Aug4.5Bright
Sep3.1Moderate
Oct1.9Dim
Nov1.0Dim
Dec0.7Dim

Where is Borna?

Borna sits at 51.1°N, 12.5°E, 142 m above sea level, in Germany. The nearest listed city is Altenburg, 16 km away.

Topography around Borna

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Borna has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 51 m around an average of 150 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 220 m; within 80 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 995 m.

The land around Borna is covered by trees (34%) and cropland (25%) within 3 km, cropland (46%) and trees (27%) within 16 km, and cropland (49%) and trees (30%) within 80 km.

3 km
51 m
16 km
220 m
80 km
995 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Altenburg 16 km · Markkleeberg 19 km · Grimma 20 km · Leipzig 25 km · Zeitz 26 km · Gohlis 28 km · Meerane 31 km · Wurzen 32 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 Borna (51.1242°, 12.4964°, elevation 142 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).