The Netherlands · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Urk.

August leads for comfortable weather in Urk: typically 22.4°C by day, 12.6°C at night, with 86 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortAugust

Typical high22.4°C

Typical low12.6°C

Rain in August86 mm

Comfort

August

August · July · June

76climate match

Beach

July

July · August · June

39climate match

Outdoors

June

June · September · May

82climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against August’s 76 — days reach only 5.3°C, 19° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal.

Month by month

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

The bars show the comfort score. Day and night temperatures come from daily observed highs and lows; rain is the historical monthly estimate.

Jan

55.3° / 0.7°

Feb

66.1° / 0.7°

Mar

219.6° / 2.4°

Apr

4414.3° / 4.6°

May

5817.9° / 8.2°

Jun

6720.2° / 10.7°

Jul

7522.4° / 12.7°

Aug

7622.4° / 12.6°

Sep

6218.9° / 10.1°

Oct

4014.2° / 6.9°

Nov

199.2° / 3.9°

Dec

56° / 1.5°

Monthly climate evidence for Urk — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	5.3°C	0.7°C	67 mm	12.2	8 h 08	5	Strong coverage
February	6.1°C	0.7°C	55 mm	10.5	9 h 47	6	Strong coverage
March	9.6°C	2.4°C	51 mm	9.9	11 h 40	21	Strong coverage
April	14.3°C	4.6°C	40 mm	7.7	13 h 51	44	Strong coverage
May	17.9°C	8.2°C	57 mm	9.5	15 h 44	58	Strong coverage
June	20.2°C	10.7°C	77 mm	10.2	16 h 50	67	Strong coverage
July	22.4°C	12.7°C	87 mm	11.7	16 h 23	75	Strong coverage
August	22.4°C	12.6°C	86 mm	11.1	14 h 43	76	Strong coverage
September	18.9°C	10.1°C	75 mm	10.3	12 h 35	62	Strong coverage
October	14.2°C	6.9°C	73 mm	11.6	10 h 30	40	Strong coverage
November	9.2°C	3.9°C	66 mm	12.2	8 h 37	19	Strong coverage
December	6°C	1.5°C	72 mm	13	7 h 39	5	Strong coverage

Records at MARKNESSE, 1989–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	14.5°C25 Jan 2016	-16.7°C2 Jan 1997	29 mm18 Jan 2007	130 mm2004 · driest 6 mm in 1997	38
February	18.4°C21 Feb 2025	-22.8°C4 Feb 2012	31 mm20 Feb 2022	139 mm2002 · driest 17 mm in 1998	38
March	23.4°C31 Mar 2017	-15.1°C6 Mar 2005	26 mm1 Mar 1999	105 mm2008 · driest 6 mm in 2011	38
April	28.5°C19 Apr 2018	-6.0°C1 Apr 1996	27 mm4 Apr 1994	94 mm1998 · driest 1 mm in 2007	38
May	31.3°C27 May 2017	-0.5°C3 May 2011	32 mm15 May 2009	150 mm2014 · driest 9 mm in 2020	38
June	35.9°C26 Jun 2026	1.7°C2 Jun 1991	116 mm2 Jun 2003	183 mm1991 · driest 13 mm in 2023	38
July	38.1°C25 Jul 2019	5.0°C12 Jul 1993	43 mm30 Jul 2005	168 mm1993 · driest 4 mm in 2018	37
August	34.7°C20 Aug 2009	5.4°C30 Aug 1991	46 mm17 Aug 2015	203 mm2010 · driest 9 mm in 1991	37
September	31.2°C13 Sep 2016	2.3°C20 Sep 1997	46 mm15 Sep 1994	175 mm2001 · driest 5 mm in 2006	37
October	25.5°C13 Oct 2018	-5.3°C29 Oct 1997	46 mm28 Oct 1998	265 mm1998 · driest 11 mm in 1995	37
November	19.1°C2 Nov 2020	-8.4°C23 Nov 1993	27 mm10 Nov 2000	147 mm2023 · driest 1 mm in 1989	37
December	14.7°C31 Dec 2022	-13.0°C31 Dec 1996	29 mm19 Dec 1996	145 mm1993 · driest 19 mm in 2016	37

Typical days per month at MARKNESSE, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	0	0	12	2
February	0	0	11	1
March	0	0	7	1
April	<1	0	3	<1
May	3	<1	<1	2
June	4	<1	0	2
July	8	2	0	3
August	7	1	0	3
September	1	<1	0	3
October	<1	0	1	2
November	0	0	4	1
December	0	0	11	2

How often, not how much — every day in MARKNESSE’s record sorted by what it was actually like, rather than averaged
Month	Warm & dry days	Wet days	Washouts	Week with 3+ wet days	Daytime mean has ranged
January	0%	40%	6%	53%	3.2–7.3°C
February	0%	37%	5%	50%	3.4–9.1°C
March	<1%	31%	3%	37%	7.7–12.2°C
April	11%	27%	3%	34%	11.8–16.8°C
May	27%	31%	5%	41%	15.7–20.0°C
June	39%	33%	8%	44%	18.8–22.4°C
July	50%	38%	9%	49%	19.8–24.8°C
August	57%	34%	8%	45%	20.7–24.6°C
September	29%	35%	9%	48%	17.2–21.2°C
October	4%	38%	7%	50%	12.3–16.6°C
November	0%	42%	5%	57%	8.0–11.3°C
December	0%	41%	5%	56%	3.6–8.1°C

A warm and dry day reaches 20°C with under 1 mm of rain; a wet day gets 1 mm or more; a washout gets 10 mm or more. The week column is the share of seven-day stretches in that month, across the station’s whole daily record, that contained three or more wet days — the odds a week-long trip is rained on repeatedly, counted rather than modelled. The last column is the 10th to 90th percentile of that month’s daytime average across individual years: a narrow band means the average is what you will get, a wide one means the average is a midpoint between years that felt quite different.

1989Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 37-year average. Warmest: 2024. Coolest: 1996.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 2745932
NOAA station: NLE00152473 · MARKNESSE
Station distance: 19.8 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 29 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 52.66°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Important limit: Historical climate is not a forecast. Nearby stations can miss mountains, coasts, and local microclimates.

These places read the same station, so their numbers are identical — distance from MARKNESSE is what differs

Kampen→Emmeloord→Heerenveen→Meppel→Steenwijk→Staphorst→

Or put two places side by side: Urk vs Kampen

Best time to visitUrk.