Climate and average weather in Geretsried

In Geretsried, 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 Geretsried typically varies from -5°C to 21°C, and is rarely below -13°C or above 28°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 Geretsried for warm-weather activities is from late May to late September.

Hottest
Jul
21°
Coldest
Jan
-5°
Wettest
Jun
187 mm
Driest
Feb
80 mm
Rain / yr
1523 mm
184 wet days
Daylight
8.2–15.8 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
607 m
47.9°N
Clearest
Aug
59% cloud

Geretsried is main settlement of Geretsried.

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

Geretsried 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 Geretsried, 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 22 to September 14, with daily high temperatures above 17°C. The hottest month of the year in Geretsried is July, with an average high of 21°C and low of 12°C.

The cool season lasts 3.5 months, from November 18 to March 4, with daily high temperatures below 6°C. The coldest month of the year in Geretsried is January, with an average low of -5°C and high of 2°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)
Jan2-5
Feb3-4
Mar8-1
Apr122
May177
Jun2011
Jul2112
Aug2112
Sep179
Oct135
Nov70
Dec2-4

How hot and cold Geretsried 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 24), with roughly 163 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)
Jan22-9-5
Feb33-8-4
Mar78-4-1
Apr121202
May171767
Jun20201011
Jul21211212
Aug21211212
Sep171789
Oct131335
Nov77-20
Dec22-7-4

Average hourly temperature in Geretsried

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 21°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near -5°C.

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

Geretsried 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 / -5°8812.510.38.60.0
Feb / -4°801210.59.90.0
Mar / -1°10815.39.711.61.0
Apr12° / 11015.45.813.42.8
May17° / 17519.31.314.94.2
Jun20° / 11°18719.50.115.74.8
Jul21° / 12°18318.4015.45.4
Aug21° / 12°17317.5014.15.5
Sep17° / 13414.60.412.44.8
Oct13° / 9913.22.310.63.2
Nov / -0°9211.96.69.10.7
Dec / -4°9513.910.38.30.0

Chance of rain

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

Geretsried gets about 1523 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 5.7 months, from around Mar 24 to Sep 12, peaking in June at about 65% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jan 18.

June is the wettest month by volume, with 187 mm over about 20 wet days; February is the driest, with 80 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJun 12 · 65%Jan 18 · 38%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan4013
Feb4412
Mar4815
Apr5315
May6119
Jun6420
Jul6018
Aug5718
Sep5015
Oct4213
Nov4012
Dec4514

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Geretsried collects about 1523 mm of rain across 184 wet days — roughly 127 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. June is the wettest month with 187 mm, while February is the driest at just 80 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 36% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

050100150200JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec8880108110175187183173134999295
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan881310
Feb801211
Mar1081510
Apr110156
May175191
Jun187200
Jul183180
Aug173180
Sep134150
Oct99132
Nov92127
Dec951410

Snow in Geretsried

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.

Geretsried averages about 57 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Sep 24 to May 30 — about 8.2 months.

February is snowiest, with roughly 11 days of snow and an estimated 65 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 343 cm of snow.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonFeb 13
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan1057
Feb1165
Mar1053
Apr638
May17
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep01
Oct215
Nov746
Dec1061

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Geretsried, 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 15 and lasts for 3.3 months, ending around September 21. 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 25 and lasts for 7.7 months, ending around June 14. The cloudiest month is February, 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJul 28 · 51%Nov 30 · 32%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan3763
Feb3367
Mar3664
Apr3862
May3565
Jun4060
Jul4852
Aug4951
Sep4060
Oct3862
Nov3466
Dec3466

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 15 h 48 min of light; the shortest, around December 13, 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)
Jan8.68:054:41
Feb9.97:315:26
Mar11.66:376:11
Apr13.45:336:56
May14.94:427:38
Jun15.74:218:08
Jul15.44:368:03
Aug14.15:157:21
Sep12.45:586:19
Oct10.66:425:16
Nov9.17:294:29
Dec8.38:044:16

Sunny days

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

Geretsried gets about 7 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 289 daysNov 166 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan8Mixed
Feb6Gloomy
Mar7Gloomy
Apr7Gloomy
May7Gloomy
Jun7Gloomy
Jul9Mixed
Aug9Mixed
Sep8Gloomy
Oct8Gloomy
Nov6Gloomy
Dec7Gloomy

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 Geretsried, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in July, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 9% 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 11 · 100%Jul 31 · 88%humidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)
Jan10000
Feb10000
Mar10000
Apr10000
May9730
Jun73234
Jul51399
Aug50429
Sep87121
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 Geretsried is steady company: average speeds sit near 7 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeMar 15 · 8 km/hAug 12 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan8calm
Feb8calm
Mar8calm
Apr7calm
May7calm
Jun6calm
Jul6calm
Aug6calm
Sep6calm
Oct7calm
Nov7calm
Dec8calm

Best time to visit Geretsried

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around early June, Geretsried 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 Geretsried 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 1 · 5.6

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
Mar1.0poor
Apr2.7poor
May4.1fair
Jun4.8fair
Jul5.4fair
Aug5.4fair
Sep4.7fair
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 Geretsried 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 · 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 Geretsried, 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 21°C), the essentials are rain gear and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 2°C), pack a warm layer, a heavy coat and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Geretsried sees daytime highs around 21°C and nights near 12°C. Pack rain gear. Worth having: sun protection. About 18 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Geretsried 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 Geretsried 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 20 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 20UV 1
UV index (midday)Level
Jan1Low
Feb2Low
Mar4Moderate
Apr5High
May7High
Jun8Very high
Jul8Very high
Aug7High
Sep4Moderate
Oct3Moderate
Nov1Low
Dec1Low

Average hourly UV index in Geretsried

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 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
May7.52.5
Jun8.54.5
Jul84.5
Aug72.5
Sep4.50
Oct00
Nov00
Dec00

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

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

01020JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModerateGoodJun 1615 µg/m³Nov 139 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan12Good
Feb11Good
Mar14Moderate
Apr14Moderate
May13Moderate
Jun15Moderate
Jul13Moderate
Aug12Moderate
Sep11Good
Oct10Good
Nov9Good
Dec10Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

The growing season in Geretsried typically lasts about 231 days, from around March 29 to November 14 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from April 28 to October 16.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonMar 2950%Apr 2890%Oct 1690%Nov 1450%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan1631
Feb1928
Mar3931
Apr7327
May980
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct9016
Nov5130
Dec2231

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. Geretsried banks about 707 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
May54
Jun152
Jul212
Aug204
Sep82
Oct4
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.

Geretsried receives about 3.4 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — moderate — with a clear seasonal swing between 1.0 and 5.4 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.1 months, from around Mar 15 to Sep 17. The brightest month is June, averaging about 5.3 kWh/m² (bright).

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

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 295.4 kWhDec 201.0 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan1.3Dim
Feb2.2Moderate
Mar3.4Moderate
Apr4.7Bright
May5.1Bright
Jun5.3Bright
Jul5.3Bright
Aug4.6Bright
Sep3.4Moderate
Oct2.4Moderate
Nov1.4Dim
Dec1.1Dim

Where is Geretsried?

Geretsried sits at 47.9°N, 11.5°E, 607 m above sea level, in Germany. The nearest listed city is Wolfratshausen, 8.0 km away.

Topography around Geretsried

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Geretsried has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 136 m around an average of 616 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 791 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,535 m.

The land around Geretsried is covered by trees (60%) and grassland (21%) within 3 km, trees (51%) and grassland (33%) within 16 km, and trees (47%) and grassland (28%) within 80 km.

3 km
136 m
16 km
791 m
80 km
2,535 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Wolfratshausen 8.0 km · Bad Tölz 12 km · Penzberg 14 km · Holzkirchen 17 km · Starnberg 19 km · Taufkirchen 24 km · Weilheim 24 km · Gauting 25 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 Geretsried (47.8578°, 11.4805°, elevation 607 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).