Climate and average weather in Traunstein

In Traunstein, 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 Traunstein typically varies from -6°C to 22°C, and is rarely below -13°C or above 29°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 Traunstein for warm-weather activities is from late May to late September.

Hottest
Jul
22°
Coldest
Jan
-6°
Wettest
Jul
223 mm
Driest
Feb
104 mm
Rain / yr
1845 mm
197 wet days
Daylight
8.2–15.8 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
597 m
47.9°N
Clearest
Aug
58% cloud

Traunstein 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 Traunstein, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

The hot season lasts 3.9 months, from May 20 to September 15, with daily high temperatures above 17°C. The hottest month of the year in Traunstein is July, with an average high of 22°C and low of 12°C.

The cool season lasts 3.5 months, from November 19 to March 3, with daily high temperatures below 5°C. The coldest month of the year in Traunstein is January, with an average low of -6°C and high of 1°C.

Days typically run about 9°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)
Jan1-6
Feb3-5
Mar7-1
Apr122
May177
Jun2010
Jul2212
Aug2112
Sep178
Oct134
Nov6-1
Dec2-5

How hot and cold Traunstein 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 27), with roughly 166 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)
Jan11-9-6
Feb33-8-5
Mar77-4-1
Apr121202
May171767
Jun20201010
Jul22221212
Aug21211212
Sep171778
Oct131334
Nov66-3-1
Dec22-8-5

Average hourly temperature in Traunstein

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 22°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near -6°C.

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

Traunstein 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 / -6°11513.912.18.60.0
Feb / -5°10413.1129.90.0
Mar / -2°14017.111.811.60.8
Apr12° / 12315.96.613.42.7
May17° / 20220.31.714.94.1
Jun20° / 10°22220.40.215.74.7
Jul22° / 12°22320.5015.45.1
Aug21° / 12°19918.50.114.15.3
Sep17° / 16915.70.512.44.7
Oct13° / 12213.93.210.63.1
Nov / -1°10912.97.69.10.7
Dec / -5°1201511.98.30.0

Chance of rain

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

Traunstein gets about 1845 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 5.8 months, from around Mar 21 to Sep 14, peaking in July at about 68% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Oct 21.

July is the wettest month by volume, with 223 mm over about 21 wet days; February is the driest, with 104 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJul 10 · 68%Oct 21 · 41%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan4414
Feb4913
Mar5317
Apr5516
May6420
Jun6820
Jul6621
Aug6019
Sep5416
Oct4414
Nov4313
Dec4815

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Traunstein collects about 1845 mm of rain across 197 wet days — roughly 154 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. July is the wettest month with 223 mm, while February is the driest at just 104 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 35% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

050100150200250JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec115104140123202222223199169122109120
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan1151412
Feb1041312
Mar1401712
Apr123167
May202202
Jun222200
Jul223210
Aug199190
Sep169161
Oct122143
Nov109138
Dec1201512

Snow in Traunstein

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.

Traunstein averages about 68 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Sep 13 to Jun 8 — about 8.8 months.

February is snowiest, with roughly 13 days of snow and an estimated 87 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 464 cm of snow.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonFeb 19
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan1276
Feb1287
Mar1275
Apr745
May29
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep14
Oct323
Nov860
Dec1286

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Traunstein, 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 13 and lasts for 3.4 months, ending around September 24. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 48% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 27 and lasts for 5.7 months, ending around April 17. The cloudiest month is March, 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecAug 11 · 50%Mar 2 · 32%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan3664
Feb3466
Mar3367
Apr3862
May3763
Jun4159
Jul4753
Aug4852
Sep4159
Oct3961
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)
Jan8.68:014:37
Feb9.97:275:22
Mar11.66:326:06
Apr13.45:286:51
May14.94:387:34
Jun15.74:168:03
Jul15.44:327:59
Aug14.15:107:17
Sep12.45:536:14
Oct10.66:375:12
Nov9.17:254:25
Dec8.37:594:12

Sunny days

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

Traunstein gets about 8 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.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgloomymixedAug 19 daysJun 106 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan8Gloomy
Feb7Gloomy
Mar7Gloomy
Apr7Gloomy
May7Gloomy
Jun6Gloomy
Jul8Mixed
Aug9Mixed
Sep7Gloomy
Oct8Gloomy
Nov7Gloomy
Dec8Gloomy

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 Traunstein, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in July, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 11% 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 10 · 100%Jul 28 · 86%humidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)
Jan10000
Feb10000
Mar10000
Apr10000
May9640
Jun71254
Jul474211
Aug47439
Sep87131
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 Traunstein is steady company: average speeds sit near 6 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmMar 14 · 7 km/hAug 16 · 5 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan6calm
Feb6calm
Mar7calm
Apr6calm
May6calm
Jun6calm
Jul6calm
Aug5calm
Sep6calm
Oct6calm
Nov6calm
Dec6calm

Best time to visit Traunstein

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around early June, Traunstein 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 Traunstein 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 · 5.4

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
Mar0.9poor
Apr2.7poor
May4.1fair
Jun4.7fair
Jul5.1fair
Aug5.3fair
Sep4.6fair
Oct3.1poor
Nov0.7poor
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 Traunstein 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 2 · 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 Traunstein, 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 22°C), the essentials are rain gear and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 1°C), pack a warm layer, a heavy coat and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Traunstein sees daytime highs around 22°C and nights near 12°C. Pack rain gear. Worth having: sun protection. About 21 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Traunstein 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 Traunstein 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 22 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 22UV 1
UV index (midday)Level
Jan1Low
Feb2Low
Mar4Moderate
Apr5High
May7High
Jun8Very high
Jul8Very high
Aug7High
Sep4Moderate
Oct3Moderate
Nov1Low
Dec1Low

Average hourly UV index in Traunstein

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 8.5 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
Jun84.5
Jul8.54.5
Aug73
Sep4.50
Oct00
Nov00
Dec00

Air quality in Traunstein 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 Traunstein is worst in June — around 16 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), and holds fairly steady the rest of the year.

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

01020JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateGoodJun 1515 µg/m³Oct 2010 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan13Moderate
Feb12Moderate
Mar15Moderate
Apr15Moderate
May14Moderate
Jun16Moderate
Jul14Moderate
Aug13Moderate
Sep11Good
Oct10Good
Nov11Good
Dec12Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

The growing season in Traunstein typically lasts about 226 days, from around March 31 to November 11 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from April 29 to October 12.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonMar 3150%Apr 2990%Oct 1290%Nov 1150%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan1331
Feb1628
Mar3531
Apr7128
May980
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct8619
Nov4430
Dec1731

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. Traunstein banks about 704 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
May56
Jun154
Jul212
Aug202
Sep78
Oct2
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.

Traunstein receives about 3.4 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — moderate — with a clear seasonal swing between 1.0 and 5.5 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.1 months, from around Mar 16 to Sep 16. The brightest month is June, averaging about 5.4 kWh/m² (bright).

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

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 295.5 kWhDec 211.0 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan1.3Dim
Feb2.2Moderate
Mar3.4Moderate
Apr4.8Bright
May5.2Bright
Jun5.4Bright
Jul5.3Bright
Aug4.6Bright
Sep3.4Moderate
Oct2.4Moderate
Nov1.4Dim
Dec1.1Dim

Where is Traunstein?

Traunstein sits at 47.9°N, 12.6°E, 597 m above sea level, in Germany. The nearest listed city is Traunreut, 11 km away.

Topography around Traunstein

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Traunstein has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 205 m around an average of 623 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,300 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 3,161 m.

The land around Traunstein is covered by trees (50%) and grassland (30%) within 3 km, trees (45%) and grassland (34%) within 16 km, and trees (49%) and grassland (28%) within 80 km.

3 km
205 m
16 km
1,300 m
80 km
3,161 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Traunreut 11 km · Bad Reichenhall 23 km · Freilassing 25 km · Salzburg 31 km · Burghausen 36 km · Rosenheim 39 km · Waldkraiburg 42 km · Mühldorf 43 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 Traunstein (47.8683°, 12.6433°, elevation 597 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).