Climate and average weather in Sankt Wendel

In Sankt Wendel, 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 Sankt Wendel 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 Sankt Wendel for warm-weather activities is from late May to late September.

Hottest
Jul
23°
Coldest
Jan
-1°
Wettest
Dec
90 mm
Driest
Apr
54 mm
Rain / yr
795 mm
138 wet days
Daylight
7.9–16.1 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
301 m
49.5°N
Clearest
Aug
60% cloud

Sankt Wendel 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 Sankt Wendel, 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 12, with daily high temperatures above 19°C. The hottest month of the year in Sankt Wendel 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 Sankt Wendel is January, with an average low of -1°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 August.

-10°10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan4-1
Feb50
Mar92
Apr145
May189
Jun2112
Jul2314
Aug2314
Sep1810
Oct137
Nov73
Dec40

How hot and cold Sankt Wendel 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 136 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)
Jan34-5-1
Feb55-50
Mar99-12
Apr141425
May181879
Jun21211212
Jul23231414
Aug23231414
Sep1818910
Oct131347
Nov7703
Dec44-40

Average hourly temperature in Sankt Wendel

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

Sankt Wendel 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°7312.44.18.40.0
Feb / -0°6210.34.19.80.1
Mar / 6611.8211.51.8
Apr14° / 5410.90.313.43.8
May18° / 7012.4015.15.3
Jun21° / 12°6211.10166.2
Jul23° / 14°6411.4015.66.7
Aug23° / 14°6010.9014.26.7
Sep18° / 10°619.7012.45.8
Oct13° / 6611.4010.53.5
Nov / 6912.31.28.91.0
Dec / 9013.6480.0

Chance of rain

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

Sankt Wendel gets about 795 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 2.7 months, from around Oct 27 to Jan 17, peaking in December at about 46% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Sep 2.

December is the wettest month by volume, with 90 mm over about 14 wet days; April is the driest, with 54 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetDec 22 · 46%Sep 2 · 32%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan4012
Feb3810
Mar3712
Apr3711
May4012
Jun3711
Jul3611
Aug3511
Sep3410
Oct3711
Nov4112
Dec4414

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Sankt Wendel collects about 795 mm of rain across 138 wet days — roughly 66 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 54 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 29% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075100125JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec736266547062646061666990
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan73124
Feb62104
Mar66122
Apr54110
May70120
Jun62110
Jul64110
Aug60110
Sep61100
Oct66110
Nov69121
Dec90144

Snow in Sankt Wendel

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.

Sankt Wendel averages about 16 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Nov 9 to Apr 10 — about 5 months.

January is snowiest, with roughly 4 days of snow and an estimated 12 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 57 cm of snow.

02468JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonJan 30
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan412
Feb416
Mar26
Apr02
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct00
Nov15
Dec417

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Sankt Wendel, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows significant seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around March 15 and lasts for 6.5 months, ending around September 28. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 44% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around September 29 and lasts for 5.5 months, ending around March 14. The cloudiest month is November, 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJul 31 · 49%Nov 13 · 18%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan2377
Feb2674
Mar3169
Apr3763
May3466
Jun3664
Jul4357
Aug4456
Sep3763
Oct2872
Nov1981
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 19, brings about 16 h 06 min of light; the shortest, around December 18, only 7 h 54 min — a swing of roughly 8 h 12 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan8.48:294:52
Feb9.87:525:40
Mar11.56:556:27
Apr13.45:477:16
May15.14:548:01
Jun16.04:318:32
Jul15.64:478:27
Aug14.25:287:43
Sep12.46:156:36
Oct10.57:025:31
Nov8.97:524:41
Dec8.08:294:26

Sunny days

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

Sankt Wendel averages about 6 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 2 and 8 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.5 months, from around Jun 15 to Sep 29. The sunniest month is July, with roughly 7 sunny days (gloomy).

The greyest month is November, down near 3 sunny days — about 63% fewer than the July peak.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedJul 308 daysNov 252 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan4Gloomy
Feb5Gloomy
Mar6Gloomy
Apr7Gloomy
May6Gloomy
Jun6Gloomy
Jul8Gloomy
Aug8Gloomy
Sep7Gloomy
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 Sankt Wendel, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in July, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 10% 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 29 · 100%Jul 27 · 88%humidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)
Jan10000
Feb10000
Mar10000
Apr10000
May9361
Jun73226
Jul603010
Aug59329
Sep83151
Oct9640
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.

Across the year, average wind speed in Sankt Wendel is typically calm, near 12 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 5.7 months, from around Oct 15 to Apr 7. The windiest month is January, averaging about 14 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Apr 8 to Oct 14, with August the calmest month at about 10 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeJan 1 · 14 km/hAug 2 · 10 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan14light breeze
Feb14light breeze
Mar13light breeze
Apr12calm
May11calm
Jun11calm
Jul10calm
Aug10calm
Sep11calm
Oct12calm
Nov13light breeze
Dec14light breeze

Best time to visit Sankt Wendel

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late May, Sankt Wendel 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 Sankt Wendel 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 · 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
Feb0.2poor
Mar1.8poor
Apr3.8fair
May5.2fair
Jun6.2good
Jul6.7good
Aug6.7good
Sep5.7good
Oct3.5poor
Nov1.0poor
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 Sankt Wendel 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 · 5.9

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 Sankt Wendel, 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, Sankt Wendel sees daytime highs around 23°C and nights near 14°C. Worth packing: light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. About 11 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Sankt Wendel 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 Sankt Wendel peaks around July 16 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 16UV 7Jan 1UV 1
UV index (midday)Level
Jan1Low
Feb1Low
Mar3Moderate
Apr4Moderate
May6High
Jun7High
Jul8Very high
Aug7High
Sep4Moderate
Oct3Moderate
Nov1Low
Dec1Low

Average hourly UV index in Sankt Wendel

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 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
Mar2.50
Apr50
May72
Jun83
Jul84
Aug72
Sep4.50
Oct00
Nov00
Dec00

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

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

01020JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModerateGoodApr 1515 µg/m³Nov 239 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan10Good
Feb11Good
Mar14Moderate
Apr15Moderate
May13Moderate
Jun14Moderate
Jul12Good
Aug12Good
Sep11Good
Oct10Good
Nov9Good
Dec9Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

The growing season in Sankt Wendel typically lasts about 305 days, from around February 22 to December 23 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from April 13 to November 7.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonFeb 2250%Apr 1390%Nov 790%Dec 2350%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan4431
Feb4728
Mar7231
Apr9112
May990
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct960
Nov8022
Dec5431

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. Sankt Wendel banks about 972 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
Apr9
May101
Jun195
Jul266
Aug256
Sep130
Oct17
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.

Sankt Wendel receives about 3.2 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — moderate — with a clear seasonal swing between 0.7 and 5.6 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 5.5 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is December, down near 0.7 kWh/m² — roughly 87% less than the June peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 255.6 kWhDec 220.7 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan0.9Dim
Feb1.7Dim
Mar2.9Moderate
Apr4.5Bright
May5.2Bright
Jun5.6Bright
Jul5.4Bright
Aug4.7Bright
Sep3.3Moderate
Oct1.9Dim
Nov1.0Dim
Dec0.7Dim

Where is Sankt Wendel?

Sankt Wendel sits at 49.5°N, 7.2°E, 301 m above sea level, in Germany. The nearest listed city is Schiffweiler, 11 km away.

Topography around Sankt Wendel

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Sankt Wendel has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 235 m around an average of 330 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 385 m; within 80 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 750 m.

The land around Sankt Wendel is covered by trees (53%) and grassland (22%) within 3 km, trees (55%) and grassland (23%) within 16 km, and trees (52%), cropland (22%) and grassland (21%) within 80 km.

3 km
235 m
16 km
385 m
80 km
750 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaces
Nearby: Schiffweiler 11 km · Illingen 13 km · Neunkirchen 14 km · Bexbach 15 km · Eppelborn 16 km · Lebach 20 km · Homburg 20 km · Sulzbach 20 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 Sankt Wendel (49.4663°, 7.1681°, elevation 301 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).