Climate and average weather in Hessisch Oldendorf

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

Best: mid May to late September

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Hessisch Oldendorf typically varies from -0°C to 23°C, and is rarely below -8°C or above 30°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 Hessisch Oldendorf for warm-weather activities is from mid May to late September.

Hottest
Jul
23°
Coldest
Jan
-0°
Wettest
Jul
78 mm
Driest
Feb
51 mm
Rain / yr
762 mm
146 wet days
Daylight
7.5–16.5 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
68 m
52.2°N
Clearest
Apr
66% cloud

Hessisch Oldendorf is human settlement in Germany.

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

Hessisch Oldendorf 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 mid May to late September.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Hessisch Oldendorf, 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 19°C. The hottest month of the year in Hessisch Oldendorf 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 Hessisch Oldendorf is January, with an average low of -0°C and high of 4°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)
Jan40
Feb50
Mar92
Apr145
May188
Jun2012
Jul2314
Aug2313
Sep1810
Oct137
Nov84
Dec51

How hot and cold Hessisch Oldendorf 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 -5°C (around January 27), with roughly 137 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)
Jan44-50
Feb55-40
Mar99-22
Apr141425
May181878
Jun20201112
Jul23231414
Aug22231313
Sep18181010
Oct131347
Nov8804
Dec55-31

Average hourly temperature in Hessisch Oldendorf

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 -0°C.

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

Hessisch Oldendorf 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 / -0°6612.83.580.0
Feb / -0°5111.13.99.50.1
Mar / 6012.4211.51.6
Apr14° / 5211.10.413.63.7
May18° / 6211.5015.45.3
Jun20° / 12°6812016.45.9
Jul23° / 14°7813.40166.2
Aug23° / 13°7412.7014.56.2
Sep18° / 10°6110.9012.45.6
Oct13° / 6512.5010.33.5
Nov / 5811.91.18.51.2
Dec / 6713.33.47.60.0

Chance of rain

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

Hessisch Oldendorf gets about 762 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 1.2 months, from around Dec 7 to Jan 12, peaking in December at about 45% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Apr 17.

July is the wettest month by volume, with 78 mm over about 13 wet days; February is the driest, with 51 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetDec 29 · 45%Apr 17 · 34%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan4113
Feb4011
Mar4012
Apr3611
May3812
Jun4112
Jul4213
Aug4113
Sep3811
Oct4013
Nov4012
Dec4213

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Hessisch Oldendorf collects about 762 mm of rain across 146 wet days — roughly 64 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. July is the wettest month with 78 mm, while February is the driest at just 51 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 29% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075100JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec665160526268787461655867
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan66134
Feb51114
Mar60122
Apr52110
May62120
Jun68120
Jul78130
Aug74130
Sep61110
Oct65130
Nov58121
Dec67133

Snow in Hessisch Oldendorf

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.

Hessisch Oldendorf averages about 14 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Nov 9 to Apr 15 — about 5.2 months.

January is snowiest, with roughly 3 days of snow and an estimated 10 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 48 cm of snow.

0246JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonJan 29
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan410
Feb414
Mar26
Apr02
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct00
Nov14
Dec313

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Hessisch Oldendorf, 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 22 and lasts for 6.3 months, ending around September 30. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 37% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 19 and lasts for 5.1 months, ending around March 21. 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecAug 1 · 42%Dec 26 · 19%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan2278
Feb2476
Mar2773
Apr3466
May3367
Jun3268
Jul3664
Aug3763
Sep3466
Oct2872
Nov2278
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 14, brings about 16 h 30 min of light; the shortest, around December 13, only 7 h 30 min — a swing of roughly 9 hours.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan8.08:334:32
Feb9.57:515:24
Mar11.56:486:18
Apr13.65:347:12
May15.44:368:03
Jun16.44:098:38
Jul16.04:268:31
Aug14.55:137:41
Sep12.46:056:29
Oct10.36:585:18
Nov8.57:544:22
Dec7.68:344:04

Sunny days

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

Hessisch Oldendorf 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 7 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 2.7 months, from around Mar 21 to Jun 11. The sunniest month is April, with roughly 6 sunny days (gloomy).

The greyest month is December, down near 3 sunny days — about 52% fewer than the April peak.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedApr 217 daysDec 203 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan4Gloomy
Feb3Gloomy
Mar4Gloomy
Apr6Gloomy
May6Gloomy
Jun5Gloomy
Jul5Gloomy
Aug6Gloomy
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 Hessisch Oldendorf, 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 20 · 100%Jul 28 · 84%humidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan100000
Feb100000
Mar100000
Apr100000
May93510
Jun731971
Jul5334121
Aug5335111
Sep811620
Oct96400
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 Hessisch Oldendorf 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 13 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 12, 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
Feb14light breeze
Mar14light breeze
Apr12calm
May11calm
Jun11calm
Jul11calm
Aug11calm
Sep12calm
Oct13light breeze
Nov14light breeze
Dec15light breeze

Best time to visit Hessisch Oldendorf

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late May, Hessisch Oldendorf 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 Hessisch Oldendorf for general outdoor tourist activities is from mid May to late September, with a peak score in the first week of August.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 1 · 6.6

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
Feb0.1poor
Mar1.6poor
Apr3.7fair
May5.3fair
Jun5.9good
Jul6.2good
Aug6.2good
Sep5.5good
Oct3.5poor
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 Hessisch Oldendorf 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 1 · 5.4

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 Hessisch Oldendorf, 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 4°C), pack a warm layer, a heavy coat and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Hessisch Oldendorf 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 Hessisch Oldendorf 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 Hessisch Oldendorf peaks around July 12 at about 6 (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 6 months of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecLowModerateHighModerateLowJul 12UV 6Dec 22UV 1
UV index (midday)Level
Jan1Low
Feb1Low
Mar3Moderate
Apr4Moderate
May6High
Jun6High
Jul6High
Aug5High
Sep4Moderate
Oct2Moderate
Nov1Low
Dec1Low

Average hourly UV index in Hessisch Oldendorf

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 1.5 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
Mar00
Apr40
May6.50
Jun7.50
Jul7.51.5
Aug60
Sep40
Oct00
Nov00
Dec00
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

The growing season in Hessisch Oldendorf typically lasts about 332 days, from around February 19 to January 16 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from April 16 to November 7.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonFeb 1950%Apr 1690%Nov 790%Jan 1650%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan4931
Feb5028
Mar7031
Apr9016
May990
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct960
Nov8223
Dec5831

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. Hessisch Oldendorf banks about 924 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
Apr7
May92
Jun178
Jul252
Aug246
Sep131
Oct18
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.

Hessisch Oldendorf 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 95.2 kWhDec 210.5 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan0.7Dim
Feb1.4Dim
Mar2.6Moderate
Apr4.2Bright
May5.0Bright
Jun5.3Bright
Jul5.1Bright
Aug4.3Bright
Sep3.0Moderate
Oct1.7Dim
Nov0.8Dim
Dec0.5Dim

Where is Hessisch Oldendorf?

Hessisch Oldendorf sits at 52.2°N, 9.2°E, 68 m above sea level, in Germany. The nearest listed city is Hameln, 11 km away.

Topography around Hessisch Oldendorf

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Hessisch Oldendorf has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 282 m around an average of 91 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 399 m; within 80 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 621 m.

The land around Hessisch Oldendorf is covered by cropland (54%) and trees (21%) within 3 km, trees (40%) and cropland (40%) within 16 km, and cropland (45%) and trees (35%) within 80 km.

3 km
282 m
16 km
399 m
80 km
621 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Hameln 11 km · Rinteln 12 km · Bad Münder am Deister 15 km · Bückeburg 17 km · Stadthagen 17 km · Bad Pyrmont 21 km · Springe 21 km · Porta Westfalica 24 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 Hessisch Oldendorf (52.1727°, 9.2491°, elevation 68 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).