According to Lifeguin’s travel calendar, the best time to visit Germany is April to May and August to October. Plan 10–14 days.
Best months for Germany
- Best months
- April to May and August to October
- How long to stay
- 10–14 days
- Continent
- Europe
What Germany is best for
Historic cities like Munich, fairytale castles, scenic road routes, and marked hiking trails in the Alps.
- Prices
- €€€ · more expensive than in Slovakia
Weather in Germany by month
Monthly averages around Berlin; the mountains and other regions can differ a lot.
| Month | Average temperature | Rain |
|---|---|---|
| January | about −1 °C | some rain (54 mm) |
| February | about 0 °C | some rain (42 mm) |
| March | about 4 °C | some rain (39 mm) |
| April best | about 9 °C | little rain (27 mm) |
| May best | about 14 °C | some rain (51 mm) |
| June | about 18 °C | some rain (57 mm) |
| July | about 20 °C | some rain (78 mm) |
| August best | about 20 °C | some rain (57 mm) |
| September best | about 15 °C | some rain (48 mm) |
| October best | about 10 °C | some rain (48 mm) |
| November | about 5 °C | some rain (48 mm) |
| December | about 1 °C | some rain (48 mm) |
Sources: what a place is best for — our own travel guides and, for places we have not written about yet, research done with the help of AI (Google Gemini); weather — NASA POWER climate averages; prices — World Bank price levels (CC BY 4.0).
Good to know about Germany
- Capital
- Berlin
- Language
- German
- Currency
- Euro (EUR)
- Time
- UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
- Plugs
- Type C, F · 230 V
- Driving
- On the right
- Calling code
- +49
Sources: Wikidata, Unicode CLDR and the IANA time zone database.
Our posts about Germany
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