Climate and average weather in Zevenaar

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

Best: early May to late September

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Zevenaar typically varies from 1°C to 23°C, and is rarely below -6°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 Zevenaar for warm-weather activities is from early May to late September.

Hottest
Jul
23°
Coldest
Jan
Wettest
Jul
78 mm
Driest
Apr
47 mm
Rain / yr
756 mm
142 wet days
Daylight
7.5–16.5 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
12 m
51.9°N
Clearest
Jul
65% cloud

Zevenaar is town in Zevenaar, Netherlands.

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

Zevenaar 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 early May to late September.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Zevenaar, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

The hot season lasts 3.8 months, from May 24 to September 15, with daily high temperatures above 19°C. The hottest month of the year in Zevenaar is July, with an average high of 23°C and low of 14°C.

The cool season lasts 3.6 months, from November 18 to March 7, with daily high temperatures below 9°C. The coldest month of the year in Zevenaar is January, with an average low of 1°C and high of 5°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)
Jan51
Feb61
Mar103
Apr145
May189
Jun2112
Jul2314
Aug2214
Sep1911
Oct148
Nov95
Dec62

How hot and cold Zevenaar 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 -4°C (around January 25), with roughly 122 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C), worst in January.

-5°10°15°20°25°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan55-31
Feb66-31
Mar1010-13
Apr141425
May181879
Jun21211212
Jul23231414
Aug22221414
Sep19191111
Oct141458
Nov9915
Dec66-22

Average hourly temperature in Zevenaar

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 C.

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

Zevenaar 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 / 6512.71.48.10.2
Feb / 5510.91.89.60.5
Mar10° / 5611.30.811.52.1
Apr14° / 4710.3013.64.0
May18° / 5911.5015.45.5
Jun21° / 12°6511.8016.45.9
Jul23° / 14°7813.40166.2
Aug22° / 14°7612.6014.46.2
Sep19° / 11°6111012.45.7
Oct14° / 6311.4010.43.9
Nov / 6112.10.38.61.7
Dec / 7112.81.97.60.4

Chance of rain

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

Zevenaar gets about 756 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 1.9 months, from around Dec 4 to Jan 30, peaking in January at about 43% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Apr 16.

July is the wettest month by volume, with 78 mm over about 13 wet days; April is the driest, with 47 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJan 1 · 43%Apr 16 · 33%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan4113
Feb3911
Mar3711
Apr3410
May3712
Jun4012
Jul4213
Aug4113
Sep3711
Oct3811
Nov4012
Dec4113

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Zevenaar collects about 756 mm of rain across 142 wet days — roughly 63 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. July is the wettest month with 78 mm, while April is the driest at just 47 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 30% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075100JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec655556475965787661636171
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan65131
Feb55112
Mar56111
Apr47100
May59120
Jun65120
Jul78130
Aug76130
Sep61110
Oct63110
Nov61120
Dec71132

Snow in Zevenaar

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.

Zevenaar averages about 6 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Nov 20 to Mar 21 — about 4 months.

February is snowiest, with roughly 1.9 days of snow and an estimated 6 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 21 cm of snow.

01234JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonFeb 8
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan16
Feb26
Mar12
Apr00
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct00
Nov02
Dec26

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Zevenaar, 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 23 and lasts for 3.2 months, ending around September 28. The clearest month is July, 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 26 and lasts for 4.7 months, ending around March 16. The cloudiest month is December, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 76% 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 28 · 40%Dec 26 · 22%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan2476
Feb2575
Mar3070
Apr3466
May3268
Jun3070
Jul3763
Aug3664
Sep3466
Oct3070
Nov2575
Dec2476

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 17, brings about 16 h 30 min of light; the shortest, around December 16, 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)
Jan8.18:444:46
Feb9.68:035:38
Mar11.57:006:30
Apr13.65:487:24
May15.44:498:15
Jun16.44:238:49
Jul16.04:408:42
Aug14.45:267:53
Sep12.46:186:42
Oct10.47:105:31
Nov8.68:064:36
Dec7.68:454:18

Sunny days

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

Zevenaar gets about 5 sunny days a month gloomy — and it barely shifts through the year, holding between 3 and 6 days every month. Clear skies here are a flat line, not a season.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgloomymixedMar 286 daysJun 153 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan4Gloomy
Feb4Gloomy
Mar5Gloomy
Apr6Gloomy
May5Gloomy
Jun4Gloomy
Jul5Gloomy
Aug5Gloomy
Sep5Gloomy
Oct5Gloomy
Nov4Gloomy
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 Zevenaar, how humid it feels changes noticeably over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 3.6 months, from around May 30 to September 16. The muggiest month is July, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 18% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around September 17 to May 29, 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 22 · 100%Jul 29 · 77%humidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan100000
Feb100000
Mar100000
Apr100000
May91810
Jun702371
Jul4141162
Aug3942172
Sep702550
Oct91900
Nov99100
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 Zevenaar is typically light breeze, near 14 km/h, and varies moderately with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 5.6 months, from around Oct 11 to Mar 28. The windiest month is January, averaging about 16 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Mar 29 to Oct 10, with July the calmest month at about 12 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeJan 6 · 17 km/hJul 30 · 11 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan16light breeze
Feb16light breeze
Mar15light breeze
Apr13light breeze
May13light breeze
Jun12light breeze
Jul12calm
Aug12calm
Sep13light breeze
Oct14light breeze
Nov15light breeze
Dec16light breeze

Best time to visit Zevenaar

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid May, Zevenaar 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 Zevenaar for general outdoor tourist activities is from early May to late September, with a peak score in the last week of July.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 31 · 6.4

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
Jan0.2poor
Feb0.5poor
Mar2.1poor
Apr4.0fair
May5.5fair
Jun5.9good
Jul6.2good
Aug6.2good
Sep5.7good
Oct3.9fair
Nov1.7poor
Dec0.4poor

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 Zevenaar for hot-weather activities is from early July to late August, with a peak score in the last week of July.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 31 · 5.1

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 Zevenaar, 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 5°C), pack a warm layer, a heavy coat and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Zevenaar 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 Zevenaar 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 Zevenaar peaks around July 13 at about 6 (high) — sunscreen and a hat are worth it in the middle of the day. It bottoms out near December 21 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 13UV 6Dec 21UV 1
UV index (midday)Level
Jan1Low
Feb1Low
Mar3Moderate
Apr4Moderate
May5Moderate
Jun6High
Jul6High
Aug6High
Sep4Moderate
Oct2Moderate
Nov1Low
Dec1Low

Average hourly UV index in Zevenaar

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 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
Apr3.50
May60
Jun70
Jul7.51
Aug6.50
Sep40
Oct00
Nov00
Dec00
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayReliably frost-free (≥90%)

Zevenaar is mild enough that a frost-free day stays more likely than not even in midwinter. Nights are reliably above freezing from about April 6 to November 14 (223 days); outside that window a hard frost is an occasional risk.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecreliably frost-freeApr 690%Nov 1490%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan6131
Feb6128
Mar8031
Apr937
May990
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct980
Nov8817
Dec6831

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. Zevenaar banks about 987 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
Apr12
May107
Jun186
Jul256
Aug247
Sep145
Oct34
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.

Zevenaar receives about 2.9 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — moderate — with a clear seasonal swing between 0.6 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 0.6 kWh/m² — roughly 89% less than the June peak.

0123456JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightJun 265.2 kWhDec 220.6 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan0.7Dim
Feb1.4Dim
Mar2.6Moderate
Apr4.2Bright
May5.0Bright
Jun5.2Bright
Jul5.0Bright
Aug4.3Bright
Sep3.0Moderate
Oct1.8Dim
Nov0.9Dim
Dec0.6Dim

Where is Zevenaar?

Zevenaar sits at 51.9°N, 6.1°E, 12 m above sea level, in The Netherlands. The nearest listed city is Duiven, 4.0 km away.

DoetinchemElst

Topography around Zevenaar

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Zevenaar has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 20 m around an average of 11 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 114 m; within 80 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 189 m.

The land around Zevenaar is covered by grassland (42%) and cropland (22%) within 3 km, grassland (39%) and trees (26%) within 16 km, and grassland (35%), trees (28%) and cropland (23%) within 80 km.

3 km
20 m
16 km
114 m
80 km
189 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswaterwetland
Nearby: Duiven 4.0 km · Didam 4.0 km · Huissen 9.0 km · Velp 10 km · Arnhem 12 km · Doetinchem 15 km · Elst 16 km · Emmerich 16 km

The Netherlands travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 2
Exercise Increased Caution
Power plugs
Type C / F
230 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 84% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$73,684
2025
Happiness
7.2 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
100%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
0.7
per 100k, 2023
Road deaths
4
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
High
World Bank
English
Very high
EF EPI 624
Religion
none 54%Roman Catholic 20%Protestant 15%other 6%

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 Zevenaar (51.93°, 6.0708°, elevation 12 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).