Climate and average weather in Diepholz

In Diepholz, 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 Diepholz typically varies from 1°C to 23°C, and is rarely below -7°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 Diepholz for warm-weather activities is from early May to late September.

Hottest
Jul
23°
Coldest
Jan
Wettest
Jul
76 mm
Driest
Apr
48 mm
Rain / yr
738 mm
141 wet days
Daylight
7.4–16.6 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
40 m
52.6°N
Clearest
Apr
66% cloud

Diepholz is place in Lower Saxony.

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

Diepholz 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 Diepholz, 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 25 to September 13, with daily high temperatures above 19°C. The hottest month of the year in Diepholz is July, with an average high of 23°C and low of 14°C.

The cool season lasts 3.6 months, from November 17 to March 7, with daily high temperatures below 8°C. The coldest month of the year in Diepholz is January, with an average low of 1°C and high of 5°C.

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

-10°10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan51
Feb51
Mar92
Apr145
May189
Jun2112
Jul2314
Aug2314
Sep1911
Oct147
Nov84
Dec51

How hot and cold Diepholz 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 -4°C (around January 27), with roughly 132 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C), worst in January.

-5°10°15°20°25°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan55-41
Feb55-41
Mar99-12
Apr141425
May181879
Jun21211212
Jul23231414
Aug23231414
Sep19191011
Oct141457
Nov8814
Dec55-31

Average hourly temperature in Diepholz

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 23°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near C.

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

Diepholz 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 / 6613.32.580.0
Feb / 5110.639.50.2
Mar / 5511.51.211.51.8
Apr14° / 4810.90.213.64.0
May18° / 5811015.55.5
Jun21° / 12°6311.7016.56.0
Jul23° / 14°7613.2016.16.2
Aug23° / 14°7412.7014.56.2
Sep19° / 11°5810.3012.45.8
Oct14° / 6211.3010.33.8
Nov / 5812.10.68.51.4
Dec / 6812.52.57.50.1

Chance of rain

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

Diepholz gets about 738 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is often wet, and that barely changes with the seasons — rain is spread fairly evenly through the year.

July is the wettest month by volume, with 76 mm over about 13 wet days; April is the driest, with 48 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecmostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetNov 6 · 43%Sep 18 · 33%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan4213
Feb3811
Mar3712
Apr3511
May3711
Jun3912
Jul4213
Aug4113
Sep3510
Oct3711
Nov4012
Dec4013

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Diepholz collects about 738 mm of rain across 141 wet days — roughly 62 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. July is the wettest month with 76 mm, while April is the driest at just 48 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 30% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075100JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec665155485863767458625868
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan66133
Feb51113
Mar55121
Apr48110
May58110
Jun63120
Jul76130
Aug74130
Sep58100
Oct62110
Nov58121
Dec68133

Snow in Diepholz

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.

Diepholz averages about 10 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Nov 15 to Apr 4 — about 4.6 months.

February is snowiest, with roughly 3 days of snow and an estimated 11 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 34 cm of snow.

0246JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonFeb 3
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan38
Feb311
Mar13
Apr01
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct00
Nov12
Dec310

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Diepholz, 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 19 and lasts for 2.8 months, ending around June 11. The clearest month is April, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 36% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 19 and lasts for 5.0 months, ending around March 18. 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecApr 21 · 38%Dec 15 · 19%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan2377
Feb2377
Mar2872
Apr3664
May3268
Jun2872
Jul3466
Aug3367
Sep3367
Oct2872
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 15, brings about 16 h 36 min of light; the shortest, around December 14, only 7 h 24 min — a swing of roughly 9 h 12 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan8.08:384:33
Feb9.57:555:27
Mar11.56:516:21
Apr13.65:377:16
May15.54:378:08
Jun16.54:108:44
Jul16.14:288:37
Aug14.55:157:46
Sep12.46:096:33
Oct10.37:025:21
Nov8.57:594:24
Dec7.58:404:05

Sunny days

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

Diepholz 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 6 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 2.8 months, from around Mar 16 to Jun 7. The sunniest month is April, with roughly 6 sunny days (gloomy).

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

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedApr 206 daysDec 163 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan4Gloomy
Feb4Gloomy
Mar5Gloomy
Apr6Gloomy
May6Gloomy
Jun4Gloomy
Jul5Gloomy
Aug5Gloomy
Sep5Gloomy
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 Diepholz, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in July, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 13% 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 24 · 100%Jul 27 · 84%humidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan100000
Feb100000
Mar100000
Apr100000
May94510
Jun751951
Jul5335121
Aug5135131
Sep791930
Oct94600
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 Diepholz is typically light breeze, near 13 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 5.6 months, from around Oct 12 to Mar 30. The windiest month is January, averaging about 15 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Mar 31 to Oct 11, with July the calmest month at about 11 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeJan 5 · 16 km/hJul 29 · 11 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan15light breeze
Feb15light breeze
Mar14light breeze
Apr12light breeze
May12calm
Jun12calm
Jul11calm
Aug11calm
Sep12light breeze
Oct13light breeze
Nov14light breeze
Dec15light breeze

Best time to visit Diepholz

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid May, Diepholz 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 Diepholz 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 · 6.5

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
Mar1.8poor
Apr4.0fair
May5.5good
Jun6.0good
Jul6.3good
Aug6.2good
Sep5.7good
Oct3.8fair
Nov1.4poor
Dec0.1poor

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 Diepholz for hot-weather activities is from early July to late August, with a peak score in the last week of July.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 31 · 5.5

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 Diepholz, 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 23°C), the essentials are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 5°C), pack a warm layer, a heavy coat and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Diepholz sees daytime highs around 23°C and nights near 14°C. Worth packing: light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. About 13 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Diepholz 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 Diepholz peaks around July 15 at about 6 (high) — a little sun protection helps at midday. 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 6 months of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecLowModerateHighModerateLowJul 15UV 6Jan 1UV 1
UV index (midday)Level
Jan1Low
Feb1Low
Mar3Moderate
Apr4Moderate
May5High
Jun6High
Jul6High
Aug5High
Sep4Moderate
Oct2Moderate
Nov1Low
Dec1Low

Average hourly UV index in Diepholz

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 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended). 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
Mar00
Apr3.50
May6.50
Jun70
Jul70
Aug6.50
Sep40
Oct00
Nov00
Dec00
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayReliably frost-free (≥90%)

Diepholz is mild enough that a frost-free day stays more likely than not even in midwinter. Nights are reliably above freezing from about April 12 to November 10 (213 days); outside that window a hard frost is an occasional risk.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecreliably frost-freeApr 1290%Nov 1090%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan5431
Feb5528
Mar7531
Apr9113
May990
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct970
Nov8421
Dec6331

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. Diepholz banks about 981 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
May104
Jun187
Jul261
Aug253
Sep141
Oct25
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.

Diepholz receives about 2.9 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — moderate — with a clear seasonal swing between 0.5 and 5.2 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 5.2 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is December, down near 0.5 kWh/m² — roughly 90% less than the June peak.

0123456JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightJun 75.2 kWhDec 210.5 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan0.7Dim
Feb1.4Dim
Mar2.6Moderate
Apr4.2Bright
May5.0Bright
Jun5.2Bright
Jul5.0Bright
Aug4.2Bright
Sep2.9Moderate
Oct1.7Dim
Nov0.8Dim
Dec0.5Dim

Where is Diepholz?

Diepholz sits at 52.6°N, 8.4°E, 40 m above sea level, in Germany. The nearest listed city is Lohne, 11 km away.

Topography around Diepholz

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Diepholz has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 23 m around an average of 39 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 129 m; within 80 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 417 m.

The land around Diepholz is covered by grassland (33%), cropland (31%) and trees (22%) within 3 km, cropland (47%), trees (23%) and grassland (22%) within 16 km, and cropland (46%) and trees (29%) within 80 km.

3 km
23 m
16 km
129 m
80 km
417 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswaterwetland
Nearby: Lohne 11 km · Vechta 15 km · Damme 15 km · Rahden 25 km · Espelkamp 30 km · Wildeshausen 32 km · Bad Essen 32 km · Bramsche 34 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 Diepholz (52.6069°, 8.3703°, elevation 40 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).