The Netherlands · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Leeuwarden.

July leads for comfortable weather in Leeuwarden: typically 21.5°C by day, 12.9°C at night, with 78 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortJuly

Typical high21.5°C

Typical low12.9°C

Rain in July78 mm

Comfort

July

July · August · June

75climate match

Beach

July

July · August · June

39climate match

Outdoors

June

June · September · May

82climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against July’s 75 — 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° / 0.5°

Feb

55.9° / 0.3°

Mar

199.1° / 1.9°

Apr

3913.2° / 4.1°

May

5416.5° / 7.6°

Jun

6419.1° / 10.5°

Jul

7521.5° / 12.9°

Aug

7221.6° / 12.9°

Sep

5918.5° / 10.5°

Oct

3714° / 7.2°

Nov

159.2° / 3.9°

Dec

56.1° / 1.2°

Monthly climate evidence for Leeuwarden — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 23 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	5.3°C	0.5°C	69 mm	13.2	5.7°C	8 h 03	5	Strong coverage
February	5.9°C	0.3°C	56 mm	11	4.9°C	9 h 44	5	Strong coverage
March	9.1°C	1.9°C	49 mm	9.9	5.6°C	11 h 40	19	Strong coverage
April	13.2°C	4.1°C	39 mm	8.4	8.2°C	13 h 53	39	Strong coverage
May	16.5°C	7.6°C	54 mm	8.9	11.3°C	15 h 49	54	Strong coverage
June	19.1°C	10.5°C	70 mm	10.3	14.5°C	16 h 56	64	Strong coverage
July	21.5°C	12.9°C	78 mm	11	17.1°C	16 h 29	75	Strong coverage
August	21.6°C	12.9°C	94 mm	11.4	18.4°C	14 h 46	72	Strong coverage
September	18.5°C	10.5°C	82 mm	11.7	16.9°C	12 h 36	59	Strong coverage
October	14°C	7.2°C	80 mm	13.1	14.0°C	10 h 28	37	Strong coverage
November	9.2°C	3.9°C	77 mm	14.4	10.7°C	8 h 33	15	Strong coverage
December	6.1°C	1.2°C	81 mm	14.2	7.8°C	7 h 33	5	Strong coverage

What has changed

Leeuwarden runs +1.7°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Each bar compares the 2011–2025 daytime average for that month against the same month in 1961–1990, measured at the same station. Months where the older record is too thin to compare are left blank.

Jan

+1.9

Feb

+2.0

Mar

+2.0

Apr

+2.2

May

+1.3

Jun

+1.5

Jul

+1.8

Aug

+1.7

Sep

+1.6

Oct

+1.0

Nov

+1.2

Dec

+2.2

July daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 22.8°C.

Records at LEEUWARDEN, 1951–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	13.8°C1 Jan 2023	-19.9°C4 Jan 1979	31 mm21 Jan 2008	140 mm2007 · driest 6 mm in 1997	76
February	17.0°C21 Feb 2025	-20.9°C15 Feb 1956	32 mm16 Feb 2020	155 mm2020 · driest 0 mm in 1986	76
March	23.7°C29 Mar 1968	-16.3°C6 Mar 1971	34 mm23 Mar 2025	112 mm2008 · driest 6 mm in 1993	76
April	27.6°C19 Apr 2018	-6.6°C1 Apr 2013	23 mm26 Apr 2002	91 mm1998 · driest 1 mm in 2007	76
May	29.6°C27 May 2017	-3.0°C1 May 2013	45 mm25 May 1995	125 mm2014 · driest 10 mm in 2008	76
June	35.2°C26 Jun 2026	1.3°C2 Jun 1975	70 mm29 Jun 1997	144 mm1997 · driest 9 mm in 2023	76
July	34.8°C26 Jul 2018	5.5°C5 Jul 1964	49 mm28 Jul 2019	174 mm2007 · driest 10 mm in 1983	75
August	33.5°C7 Aug 2003	5.4°C4 Aug 1996	60 mm13 Aug 2004	239 mm2004 · driest 6 mm in 1984	75
September	30.2°C13 Sep 2016	1.7°C30 Sep 1960	49 mm15 Sep 1994	183 mm2001 · driest 13 mm in 2006	75
October	25.5°C13 Oct 2018	-6.5°C28 Oct 1997	39 mm5 Oct 2008	166 mm2025 · driest 29 mm in 1976	75
November	18.2°C2 Nov 2020	-14.2°C30 Nov 1973	35 mm14 Nov 2025	176 mm2023 · driest 8 mm in 2011	75
December	14.2°C31 Dec 2022	-19.2°C16 Dec 1981	29 mm20 Dec 1989	185 mm1999 · driest 18 mm in 1995	75

Typical days per month at LEEUWARDEN, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	0	0	12	2
February	0	0	12	1
March	0	0	8	1
April	<1	0	4	<1
May	1	0	<1	1
June	2	<1	0	2
July	6	1	0	2
August	5	1	0	3
September	1	0	0	3
October	0	0	1	2
November	0	0	4	2
December	0	0	11	2

How often, not how much — every day in LEEUWARDEN’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%	43%	5%	57%	1.6–7.4°C
February	0%	34%	4%	46%	2.3–8.5°C
March	<1%	33%	4%	41%	5.5–11.0°C
April	5%	28%	2%	36%	9.8–14.7°C
May	17%	29%	4%	38%	13.6–18.0°C
June	28%	34%	7%	44%	17.0–21.0°C
July	40%	34%	7%	45%	18.4–22.7°C
August	46%	35%	8%	47%	19.0–22.8°C
September	20%	39%	9%	52%	16.5–19.9°C
October	3%	42%	8%	57%	12.0–16.0°C
November	0%	48%	7%	65%	7.6–10.5°C
December	0%	46%	7%	64%	2.6–7.9°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.

1951Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 75-year average. Warmest: 2024. Coolest: 1963.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 2751792
NOAA station: NLE00152495 · LEEUWARDEN
Station distance: 4.5 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 29 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 53.20°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 23 km from the place centre. A sheltered bay can run warmer than the open sea it is measured from.
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 LEEUWARDEN is what differs

Drachten→Sneek→Harlingen→Joure→Franeker→Camminghaburen→

Or put two places side by side: Leeuwarden vs Drachten

Best time to visitLeeuwarden.

July

July

June

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Leeuwarden runs +1.7°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Leeuwarden.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Leeuwarden runs +1.7°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.