Climate and average weather in Mosbach

In Mosbach, 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 Mosbach typically varies from -1°C to 24°C, and is rarely below -8°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 Mosbach for warm-weather activities is from mid May to late September.

Hottest
Jul
24°
Coldest
Jan
-1°
Wettest
Dec
90 mm
Driest
Apr
52 mm
Rain / yr
847 mm
144 wet days
Daylight
8.0–16.0 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
186 m
49.4°N
Clearest
Aug
58% cloud

Mosbach 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 Mosbach, 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 20°C. The hottest month of the year in Mosbach is July, with an average high of 24°C and low of 14°C.

The cool season lasts 3.6 months, from November 15 to March 3, with daily high temperatures below 8°C. The coldest month of the year in Mosbach is January, with an average low of -1°C and high of 4°C.

Days typically run about 8°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 10°C) in August.

-10°10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan4-1
Feb5-1
Mar102
Apr155
May199
Jun2213
Jul2414
Aug2414
Sep1911
Oct147
Nov83
Dec40

How hot and cold Mosbach 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 29), with roughly 132 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)
Jan44-5-1
Feb55-5-1
Mar1010-12
Apr141535
May191989
Jun22221313
Jul24241414
Aug24241414
Sep19191011
Oct141457
Nov8803
Dec44-40

Average hourly temperature in Mosbach

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

Mosbach 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°7612.34.48.40.0
Feb / -1°6611.34.39.80.2
Mar10° / 7612.5211.52.0
Apr15° / 5210.40.213.44.2
May19° / 7913.1015.15.5
Jun22° / 13°6612.20166.2
Jul24° / 14°7412.7015.66.5
Aug24° / 14°6211.1014.26.7
Sep19° / 11°6310.3012.46.0
Oct14° / 7211.80.110.53.7
Nov / 7211.61.48.91.1
Dec / 9014.64.780.0

Chance of rain

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

Mosbach gets about 847 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 1.5 months, from around Nov 27 to Jan 12, peaking in December at about 48% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Apr 13.

December is the wettest month by volume, with 90 mm over about 15 wet days; April is the driest, with 52 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetDec 21 · 48%Apr 13 · 33%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan4012
Feb4111
Mar3913
Apr3510
May4213
Jun4012
Jul4013
Aug3611
Sep3610
Oct3712
Nov3912
Dec4615

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Mosbach collects about 847 mm of rain across 144 wet days — roughly 71 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. December is the wettest month with 90 mm, while April is the driest at just 52 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 29% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075100125JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec766676527966746263727290
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan76124
Feb66114
Mar76132
Apr52100
May79130
Jun66120
Jul74130
Aug62110
Sep63100
Oct72120
Nov72121
Dec90155

Snow in Mosbach

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.

Mosbach averages about 17 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Nov 7 to Apr 8 — about 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 65 cm of snow.

02468JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonJan 29
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan415
Feb419
Mar26
Apr01
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct00
Nov15
Dec519

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Mosbach, 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 27 and lasts for 6.0 months, ending around September 26. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 50% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around September 27 and lasts for 5.9 months, ending around March 26. 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecAug 1 · 51%Nov 30 · 21%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan2674
Feb2872
Mar3268
Apr3961
May3763
Jun4258
Jul4852
Aug5050
Sep4060
Oct3070
Nov2377
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 12, brings about 16 hours of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 8 hours — a swing of roughly 8 hours.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan8.48:214:45
Feb9.87:445:32
Mar11.56:476:19
Apr13.45:407:08
May15.14:477:53
Jun16.04:238:24
Jul15.64:398:19
Aug14.25:217:34
Sep12.46:076:29
Oct10.56:535:23
Nov8.97:444:34
Dec8.08:204:19

Sunny days

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

Mosbach averages about 6 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 3 and 9 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.2 months, from around May 25 to Sep 28. The sunniest month is July, with roughly 9 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is November, down near 3 sunny days — about 62% fewer than the July peak.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedJul 299 daysNov 133 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan5Gloomy
Feb5Gloomy
Mar6Gloomy
Apr8Gloomy
May7Gloomy
Jun7Gloomy
Jul9Mixed
Aug9Mixed
Sep8Gloomy
Oct5Gloomy
Nov3Gloomy
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 Mosbach, how humid it feels changes noticeably over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 3.4 months, from around May 29 to September 9. The muggiest month is July, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 15% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around September 10 to May 28, and April 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecApr 23 · 100%Jul 27 · 82%humidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan100000
Feb100000
Mar100000
Apr100000
May92710
Jun672481
Jul5134140
Aug5036140
Sep801730
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 Mosbach is typically calm, near 10 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 5.5 months, from around Oct 23 to Apr 8. The windiest month is December, averaging about 12 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Apr 9 to Oct 22, with August the calmest month at about 9 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeDec 30 · 12 km/hAug 4 · 8 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan12calm
Feb12calm
Mar12calm
Apr10calm
May10calm
Jun9calm
Jul9calm
Aug9calm
Sep9calm
Oct10calm
Nov11calm
Dec12calm

Best time to visit Mosbach

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 18 · 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
Feb0.2poor
Mar2.0poor
Apr4.2fair
May5.5good
Jun6.2good
Jul6.6good
Aug6.7good
Sep5.9good
Oct3.7fair
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 Mosbach for hot-weather activities is from late June to late August, with a peak score in the first week of August.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 2 · 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 Mosbach, 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 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, Mosbach sees daytime highs around 24°C and nights near 14°C. Worth packing: light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. About 13 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Mosbach 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 Mosbach peaks around July 15 at about 7 (very 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.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecLowModerateHighVery highHighModerateLowJul 15UV 7Jan 1UV 1
UV index (midday)Level
Jan1Low
Feb2Low
Mar4Moderate
Apr4Moderate
May6High
Jun7High
Jul8Very high
Aug6High
Sep4Moderate
Oct3Moderate
Nov1Low
Dec1Low

Average hourly UV index in Mosbach

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
Mar30
Apr40
May70
Jun7.53
Jul84.5
Aug6.51
Sep40
Oct00
Nov00
Dec00
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

The growing season in Mosbach typically lasts about 294 days, from around February 25 to December 15 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from April 10 to November 6.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonFeb 2550%Apr 1090%Nov 690%Dec 1550%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan4131
Feb4428
Mar7131
Apr9210
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct960
Nov7923
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. Mosbach banks about 1,090 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
Apr16
May122
Jun218
Jul288
Aug278
Sep146
Oct23
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.

Mosbach receives about 3.2 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — moderate — with a clear seasonal swing between 0.7 and 5.7 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.0 months, from around Mar 21 to Sep 18. The brightest month is June, averaging about 5.6 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is December, down near 0.8 kWh/m² — roughly 86% less than the June peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 275.7 kWhDec 220.7 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan1.0Dim
Feb1.8Dim
Mar3.0Moderate
Apr4.6Bright
May5.2Bright
Jun5.6Bright
Jul5.5Bright
Aug4.8Bright
Sep3.4Moderate
Oct2.0Moderate
Nov1.1Dim
Dec0.8Dim

Where is Mosbach?

Mosbach sits at 49.4°N, 9.2°E, 186 m above sea level, in Germany. The nearest listed city is Bad Rappenau, 13 km away.

Topography around Mosbach

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Mosbach has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 231 m around an average of 263 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 515 m; within 80 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 754 m.

The land around Mosbach is covered by trees (48%) and cropland (25%) within 3 km, trees (46%) and cropland (34%) within 16 km, and trees (46%) and cropland (30%) within 80 km.

3 km
231 m
16 km
515 m
80 km
754 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Bad Rappenau 13 km · Eberbach 17 km · Neckarsulm 19 km · Buchen in Odenwald 23 km · Sinsheim 23 km · Heilbronn 24 km · Eppingen 30 km · Öhringen 31 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 Mosbach (49.3536°, 9.1511°, elevation 186 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).