Climate and average weather in Burghausen

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

Best: late April to late September

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Burghausen typically varies from -2°C to 25°C, and is rarely below -10°C or above 32°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 Burghausen for warm-weather activities is from late April to late September.

Hottest
Jul
25°
Coldest
Jan
-2°
Wettest
Jul
111 mm
Driest
Feb
56 mm
Rain / yr
992 mm
152 wet days
Daylight
8.1–15.9 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
422 m
48.2°N
Clearest
Aug
56% cloud

Burghausen is city in the Altötting district, Upper Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany.

Air quality
Moderate
PM2.5 11.1 µg/m³ · 2019
Density
920/km²
people per km²

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

Burghausen 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 April to late September.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 3.8 months, from May 20 to September 12, with daily high temperatures above 20°C. The hottest month of the year in Burghausen is July, with an average high of 25°C and low of 15°C.

The cool season lasts 3.5 months, from November 16 to March 1, with daily high temperatures below 8°C. The coldest month of the year in Burghausen is January, with an average low of -2°C and high of 3°C.

Days typically run about 8°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)
Jan3-2
Feb5-1
Mar102
Apr156
May2010
Jun2313
Jul2515
Aug2415
Sep1911
Oct147
Nov83
Dec4-1

How hot and cold Burghausen 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 29), with roughly 130 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C), worst in January.

-10°10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan33-6-2
Feb55-5-1
Mar1010-12
Apr151546
May2020910
Jun23231313
Jul25251515
Aug24241515
Sep19191011
Oct141457
Nov8803
Dec44-4-1

Average hourly temperature in Burghausen

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 25°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near -2°C.

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

Burghausen 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 / -2°6611.56.28.60.0
Feb / -1°5611.15.19.90.2
Mar10° / 78133.311.62.2
Apr15° / 6511.70.713.44.3
May20° / 10°10614.4014.95.6
Jun23° / 13°11014.7015.86.0
Jul25° / 15°11114.8015.46.2
Aug24° / 15°10213.4014.16.4
Sep19° / 11°8912.2012.45.7
Oct14° / 7411.90.310.63.9
Nov / 6410.72.791.2
Dec / -1°7112.95.98.20.0

Chance of rain

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

Burghausen gets about 992 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 4.6 months, from around Apr 27 to Sep 12, peaking in July at about 50% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jan 18.

July is the wettest month by volume, with 111 mm over about 15 wet days; February is the driest, with 56 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJul 8 · 50%Jan 18 · 34%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan3712
Feb4011
Mar4113
Apr4012
May4614
Jun4915
Jul4815
Aug4413
Sep4112
Oct3712
Nov3611
Dec4113

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Burghausen collects about 992 mm of rain across 152 wet days — roughly 83 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. July is the wettest month with 111 mm, while February is the driest at just 56 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 33% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075100125150JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec6656786510611011110289746471
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan66126
Feb56115
Mar78133
Apr65121
May106140
Jun110150
Jul111150
Aug102130
Sep89120
Oct74120
Nov64113
Dec71136

Snow in Burghausen

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.

Burghausen averages about 24 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Oct 24 to Apr 22 — about 6 months.

January is snowiest, with roughly 6 days of snow and an estimated 22 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 93 cm of snow.

02468JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonJan 26
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan622
Feb524
Mar39
Apr14
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct00
Nov311
Dec622

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Burghausen, 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 6 and lasts for 5.6 months, ending around September 23. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 52% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around September 24 and lasts for 6.4 months, ending around April 5. The cloudiest month is December, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 72% 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 3 · 54%Dec 4 · 27%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan3268
Feb3268
Mar3466
Apr4159
May4060
Jun4456
Jul5149
Aug5248
Sep4159
Oct3664
Nov2971
Dec2872

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 19, brings about 15 h 54 min of light; the shortest, around December 18, only 8 h 06 min — a swing of roughly 7 h 48 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan8.68:014:35
Feb9.97:265:20
Mar11.66:316:05
Apr13.45:276:51
May14.94:367:34
Jun15.84:148:04
Jul15.44:307:59
Aug14.15:097:17
Sep12.45:536:13
Oct10.66:375:11
Nov9.07:254:23
Dec8.28:004:10

Sunny days

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

Burghausen averages about 7 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 4 and 10 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.7 months, from around Apr 5 to Sep 23. The sunniest month is July, with roughly 9 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is November, down near 5 sunny days — about 46% fewer than the July peak.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedJul 3110 daysNov 194 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan6Gloomy
Feb6Gloomy
Mar7Gloomy
Apr8Mixed
May8Gloomy
Jun8Gloomy
Jul9Mixed
Aug10Mixed
Sep8Gloomy
Oct7Gloomy
Nov5Gloomy
Dec5Gloomy

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 Burghausen, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 3.2 months, from around June 5 to September 9. The muggiest month is July, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 26% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around September 10 to June 4, and October is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 100% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecOct 1 · 100%Jul 30 · 68%humiddrycomfortablecomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan100000
Feb100000
Mar100000
Apr100000
May92810
Jun5730131
Jul3737251
Aug3342241
Sep722440
Oct97300
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 Burghausen is typically calm, near 9 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 4.7 months, from around Dec 3 to Apr 25. The windiest month is March, averaging about 11 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around May 15 to Dec 2, with August the calmest month at about 8 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeMar 13 · 11 km/hAug 14 · 8 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan10calm
Feb11calm
Mar11calm
Apr10calm
May9calm
Jun9calm
Jul9calm
Aug8calm
Sep9calm
Oct9calm
Nov9calm
Dec10calm

Best time to visit Burghausen

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around early May, Burghausen 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 Burghausen for general outdoor tourist activities is from late April to late September, with a peak score in the third week of August.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 18 · 6.5

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
Feb0.3poor
Mar2.2poor
Apr4.3fair
May5.6good
Jun6.0good
Jul6.2good
Aug6.4good
Sep5.7good
Oct3.9fair
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 Burghausen for hot-weather activities is from mid June to late August, with a peak score in the first week of August.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 3 · 5.8

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 Burghausen, 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 25°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, Burghausen sees daytime highs around 25°C and nights near 15°C. Pack rain gear. Worth having: light clothes and sun protection. About 15 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Burghausen 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 Burghausen peaks around July 10 at about 8 (very high) — sunscreen and a hat are worth it in the middle of the day. 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 7 months of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecLowModerateHighVery highHighModerateLowJul 10UV 8Dec 22UV 1
UV index (midday)Level
Jan1Low
Feb2Low
Mar4Moderate
Apr5High
May7High
Jun8Very high
Jul8Very high
Aug7High
Sep4Moderate
Oct3Moderate
Nov1Low
Dec1Low

Average hourly UV index in Burghausen

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 4.5 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
Mar40
Apr60
May7.53
Jun84.5
Jul8.54.5
Aug73
Sep4.50
Oct00
Nov00
Dec00
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

The growing season in Burghausen typically lasts about 279 days, from around March 1 to December 4 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from April 4 to November 5.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonMar 150%Apr 490%Nov 590%Dec 450%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan3331
Feb3928
Mar7131
Apr954
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct970
Nov7724
Dec4331

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. Burghausen banks about 1,196 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around July.

05001,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr26
May149
Jun242
Jul306
Aug294
Sep154
Oct26
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.

Burghausen receives about 3.3 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — moderate — with a clear seasonal swing between 0.9 and 5.7 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.0 months, from around Mar 20 to Sep 17. The brightest month is June, averaging about 5.6 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is December, down near 0.9 kWh/m² — roughly 84% less than the June peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 285.7 kWhDec 200.9 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan1.1Dim
Feb2.0Dim
Mar3.2Moderate
Apr4.7Bright
May5.3Bright
Jun5.6Bright
Jul5.5Bright
Aug4.8Bright
Sep3.4Moderate
Oct2.2Moderate
Nov1.3Dim
Dec0.9Dim

Where is Burghausen?

Burghausen sits at 48.2°N, 12.8°E, 422 m above sea level, in Germany. The nearest listed city is Mühldorf, 25 km away.

Bad ReichenhallVilshofen

Topography around Burghausen

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Burghausen has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 168 m around an average of 423 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 235 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,398 m.

The land around Burghausen is covered by trees (33%), cropland (24%) and artificial surfaces (22%) within 3 km, trees (43%), cropland (28%) and grassland (22%) within 16 km, and trees (42%), cropland (30%) and grassland (22%) within 80 km.

3 km
168 m
16 km
235 m
80 km
2,398 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Mühldorf 25 km · Traunreut 29 km · Waldkraiburg 32 km · Traunstein 36 km · Freilassing 38 km · Salzburg 44 km · Bad Reichenhall 49 km · Vilshofen 57 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 Burghausen (48.1692°, 12.8314°, elevation 422 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).