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Best time to visit
Essen.

July leads for comfortable weather in Essen: typically 23.5°C by day, 14.3°C at night, with 86 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortJuly

Typical high23.5°C

Typical low14.3°C

Rain in July86 mm

Comfort

July

July · August · June

83climate match

Beach

July

July · August · June

48climate match

Outdoors

May

May · September · June

79climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against July’s 83 — days reach only 5.1°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

55.1° / 0.6°

Feb

56.1° / 0.8°

Mar

2110° / 3.1°

Apr

4414.5° / 5.9°

May

5918.2° / 9.2°

Jun

7221.1° / 12°

Jul

8323.5° / 14.3°

Aug

8023° / 14.2°

Sep

6419° / 11.3°

Oct

4114.2° / 7.9°

Nov

169.1° / 4.3°

Dec

55.7° / 1.6°

Monthly climate evidence for Essen — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	5.1°C	0.6°C	85 mm	13.9	8 h 19	5	Strong coverage
February	6.1°C	0.8°C	70 mm	11.8	9 h 53	5	Strong coverage
March	10°C	3.1°C	66 mm	11.3	11 h 41	21	Strong coverage
April	14.5°C	5.9°C	53 mm	9.4	13 h 46	44	Strong coverage
May	18.2°C	9.2°C	67 mm	10.7	15 h 34	59	Strong coverage
June	21.1°C	12°C	79 mm	10.6	16 h 36	72	Strong coverage
July	23.5°C	14.3°C	86 mm	11	16 h 11	83	Strong coverage
August	23°C	14.2°C	92 mm	11.2	14 h 36	80	Strong coverage
September	19°C	11.3°C	74 mm	10.7	12 h 34	64	Strong coverage
October	14.2°C	7.9°C	77 mm	11.8	10 h 34	41	Strong coverage
November	9.1°C	4.3°C	80 mm	13.1	8 h 47	16	Strong coverage
December	5.7°C	1.6°C	94 mm	14.7	7 h 52	5	Strong coverage

What has changed

Essen runs +1.9°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

+1.6

Feb

+1.9

Mar

+2.6

Apr

+2.4

May

+1.6

Jun

+2.2

Jul

+2.1

Aug

+2.1

Sep

+1.5

Oct

+1.1

Nov

+1.7

Dec

+2.3

July daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 23.8°C.

Records at ESSEN-BREDENEY, 1935–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	16.2°C1 Jan 2023	-24.0°C27 Jan 1942	38 mm20 Jan 2005	168 mm1938 · driest 4 mm in 1996	88
February	19.5°C27 Feb 2019	-18.2°C16 Feb 1956	35 mm6 Feb 1984	162 mm2002 · driest 5 mm in 1986	88
March	24.5°C31 Mar 2021	-11.1°C6 Mar 1971	36 mm9 Mar 1981	159 mm2023 · driest 12 mm in 2014	88
April	28.9°C21 Apr 1968	-4.6°C12 Apr 1986	68 mm17 Apr 1936	164 mm1936 · driest 0 mm in 2007	88
May	32.0°C30 May 1944	-1.8°C7 May 1957	59 mm29 May 1954	167 mm1984 · driest 13 mm in 1989	88
June	36.8°C26 Jun 2026	1.0°C2 Jun 1962	82 mm2 Jun 1961	190 mm1961 · driest 12 mm in 1973	88
July	40.0°C25 Jul 2019	4.4°C5 Jul 1964	55 mm8 Jul 1952	189 mm1980 · driest 15 mm in 1983	87
August	36.6°C8 Aug 2003	6.0°C30 Aug 1964	110 mm14 Aug 1954	235 mm1938 · driest 8 mm in 2022	87
September	32.7°C15 Sep 2020	0.7°C29 Sep 1936	49 mm14 Sep 1998	186 mm1957 · driest 6 mm in 1959	87
October	26.4°C1 Oct 2011	-4.7°C24 Oct 2003	39 mm9 Oct 2024	225 mm1998 · driest 16 mm in 1953	87
November	20.2°C4 Nov 1994	-7.8°C22 Nov 1993	72 mm3 Nov 1940	190 mm1940 · driest 6 mm in 2011	87
December	16.8°C31 Dec 2022	-16.7°C31 Dec 1978	36 mm8 Dec 1994	211 mm1966 · driest 16 mm in 1963	87

Typical days per month at ESSEN-BREDENEY, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	0	0	13	2
February	0	0	11	2
March	0	0	6	2
April	<1	0	1	1
May	3	<1	0	2
June	6	<1	0	2
July	11	3	0	3
August	9	3	0	3
September	3	<1	0	2
October	<1	0	<1	2
November	0	0	4	2
December	0	0	11	3

How often, not how much — every day in ESSEN-BREDENEY’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%	45%	7%	59%	1.3–7.3°C
February	0%	39%	5%	52%	2.5–8.9°C
March	<1%	37%	5%	50%	6.1–12.5°C
April	9%	36%	5%	47%	10.8–16.0°C
May	24%	36%	6%	46%	14.9–19.8°C
June	39%	37%	8%	47%	18.6–23.2°C
July	48%	38%	10%	50%	19.8–25.0°C
August	49%	35%	9%	47%	19.9–24.8°C
September	26%	36%	8%	46%	16.6–20.7°C
October	6%	37%	7%	50%	11.8–16.5°C
November	<1%	44%	7%	60%	6.9–11.1°C
December	0%	45%	8%	64%	2.3–7.5°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.

1935Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 87-year average. Warmest: 2022. Coolest: 1962.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 2928810
NOAA station: GME00121978 · ESSEN-BREDENEY
Station distance: 6.4 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 30 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 51.46°, 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 ESSEN-BREDENEY is what differs

Oberhausen→Mülheim→Bottrop→Velbert→Heiligenhaus→Überruhr-Holthausen→

Or put two places side by side: Essen vs Oberhausen

Best time to visitEssen.

July

July

May

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Essen runs +1.9°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Essen.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Essen runs +1.9°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.