Climate and average weather in Nidda

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

Best: late May to late September

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Nidda typically varies from -1°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 Nidda for warm-weather activities is from late May to late September.

Hottest
Jul
23°
Coldest
Jan
-1°
Wettest
Dec
80 mm
Driest
Apr
53 mm
Rain / yr
784 mm
141 wet days
Daylight
7.8–16.2 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
135 m
50.4°N
Clearest
Aug
61% cloud

Nidda 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 Nidda, 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 Nidda is July, with an average high of 23°C and low of 14°C.

The cool season lasts 3.6 months, from November 15 to March 4, with daily high temperatures below 7°C. The coldest month of the year in Nidda is January, with an average low of -1°C and high of 3°C.

Days typically run about 7°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)
Jan3-1
Feb5-1
Mar92
Apr145
May189
Jun2112
Jul2314
Aug2313
Sep1810
Oct137
Nov73
Dec40

How hot and cold Nidda 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 24), with roughly 138 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)
Jan33-5-1
Feb55-5-1
Mar99-22
Apr141425
May181879
Jun21211212
Jul23231414
Aug23231313
Sep1818910
Oct131347
Nov7703
Dec44-40

Average hourly temperature in Nidda

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 -1°C.

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

Nidda 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°6912.74.18.30.0
Feb / -1°5510.54.19.70.1
Mar / 6112.42.111.51.7
Apr14° / 5310.70.313.53.9
May18° / 6711.8015.25.4
Jun21° / 12°6811.9016.16.0
Jul23° / 14°7512.6015.86.4
Aug23° / 13°6711.1014.36.6
Sep18° / 10°639.8012.45.7
Oct13° / 6311.50.110.53.4
Nov / 6411.91.38.80.9
Dec / 8014.44.77.90.0

Chance of rain

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

Nidda gets about 784 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 2.0 months, from around Dec 3 to Jan 31, peaking in December at about 49% 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 80 mm over about 14 wet days; April is the driest, with 53 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetDec 23 · 49%Apr 13 · 33%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan4113
Feb3911
Mar3912
Apr3511
May3912
Jun4012
Jul3913
Aug3611
Sep3510
Oct3612
Nov4012
Dec4514

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Nidda collects about 784 mm of rain across 141 wet days — roughly 65 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. December is the wettest month with 80 mm, while April is the driest at just 53 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 29% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075100JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec695561536768756763636480
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan69134
Feb55114
Mar61122
Apr53110
May67120
Jun68120
Jul75130
Aug67110
Sep63100
Oct63120
Nov64121
Dec80145

Snow in Nidda

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.

Nidda averages about 17 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Nov 7 to Apr 10 — about 5.1 months.

January is snowiest, with roughly 4 days of snow and an estimated 13 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 58 cm of snow.

02468JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonJan 28
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan413
Feb415
Mar26
Apr01
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct00
Nov15
Dec517

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Nidda, 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 18 and lasts for 6.3 months, ending around September 25. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 43% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around September 26 and lasts for 5.7 months, ending around March 17. The cloudiest month is December, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 81% 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 · 46%Dec 3 · 18%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan2476
Feb2773
Mar3169
Apr3862
May3466
Jun3664
Jul4258
Aug4357
Sep3565
Oct2971
Nov2080
Dec1981

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 12 min of light; the shortest, around December 13, only 7 h 48 min — a swing of roughly 8 h 24 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan8.38:264:41
Feb9.77:475:30
Mar11.56:486:19
Apr13.55:387:10
May15.24:437:57
Jun16.14:198:30
Jul15.84:358:24
Aug14.35:197:38
Sep12.46:076:30
Oct10.56:565:22
Nov8.87:484:30
Dec7.98:264:14

Sunny days

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

Nidda 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 8 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.4 months, from around Jun 19 to Sep 29. The sunniest month is August, with roughly 7 sunny days (gloomy).

The greyest month is November, down near 3 sunny days — about 58% fewer than the August peak.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedAug 18 daysNov 243 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan4Gloomy
Feb4Gloomy
Mar6Gloomy
Apr7Gloomy
May6Gloomy
Jun5Gloomy
Jul7Gloomy
Aug7Gloomy
Sep6Gloomy
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 Nidda, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in July, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 12% 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 25 · 85%humidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan100000
Feb100000
Mar100000
Apr100000
May92710
Jun712361
Jul5532120
Aug5534110
Sep831520
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 Nidda is typically calm, near 11 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 5.7 months, from around Oct 15 to Apr 6. The windiest month is January, averaging about 13 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Apr 7 to Oct 14, with July the calmest month at about 10 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeJan 4 · 13 km/hJul 31 · 9 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan13light breeze
Feb13light breeze
Mar12light breeze
Apr11calm
May10calm
Jun10calm
Jul10calm
Aug9calm
Sep10calm
Oct11calm
Nov12calm
Dec13light breeze

Best time to visit Nidda

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late May, Nidda 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 Nidda 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 4 · 6.9

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
Mar1.7poor
Apr3.9fair
May5.4fair
Jun6.0good
Jul6.5good
Aug6.6good
Sep5.7good
Oct3.4poor
Nov0.9poor
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 Nidda 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 2 · 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 Nidda, 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 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, Nidda 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 Nidda 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 Nidda peaks around July 15 at about 7 (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.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecLowModerateHighModerateLowJul 15UV 7Jan 1UV 1
UV index (midday)Level
Jan1Low
Feb2Low
Mar3Moderate
Apr4Moderate
May6High
Jun6High
Jul7High
Aug6High
Sep4Moderate
Oct2Moderate
Nov1Low
Dec1Low

Average hourly UV index in Nidda

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 3.5 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
Mar20
Apr4.50
May70
Jun7.52.5
Jul83.5
Aug6.50
Sep40
Oct00
Nov00
Dec00
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

The growing season in Nidda typically lasts about 297 days, from around February 24 to December 17 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from April 17 to November 6.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonFeb 2450%Apr 1790%Nov 690%Dec 1750%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan4231
Feb4428
Mar6931
Apr8918
May990
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct960
Nov7823
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. Nidda banks about 952 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
Apr9
May100
Jun190
Jul260
Aug252
Sep127
Oct14
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.

Nidda receives about 3.1 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — moderate — with a clear seasonal swing between 0.6 and 5.5 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 5.9 months, from around Mar 21 to Sep 17. The brightest month is June, averaging about 5.5 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is December, down near 0.6 kWh/m² — roughly 88% less than the June peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 255.5 kWhDec 220.6 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan0.8Dim
Feb1.6Dim
Mar2.8Moderate
Apr4.5Bright
May5.2Bright
Jun5.5Bright
Jul5.3Bright
Aug4.6Bright
Sep3.1Moderate
Oct1.8Dim
Nov0.9Dim
Dec0.6Dim

Where is Nidda?

Nidda sits at 50.4°N, 9.0°E, 135 m above sea level, in Germany. The nearest listed city is Büdingen, 16 km away.

Topography around Nidda

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Nidda has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 181 m around an average of 177 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 522 m; within 80 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 917 m.

The land around Nidda is covered by cropland (34%), trees (33%) and grassland (24%) within 3 km, trees (43%), cropland (31%) and grassland (22%) within 16 km, and trees (54%) and cropland (20%) within 80 km.

3 km
181 m
16 km
522 m
80 km
917 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaces
Nearby: Büdingen 16 km · Friedberg 20 km · Bad Nauheim 20 km · Nidderau 22 km · Butzbach 24 km · Karben 26 km · Bruchköbel 27 km · Gelnhausen 27 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 Nidda (50.4133°, 9.0064°, elevation 135 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).