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Düsseldorf weather by month

Düsseldorf runs from about 3°C in January to 20°C in August, with May the wettest month at 175 mm.

warmest month

August

20°C

coolest month

January

3°C

wettest month

May

175 mm

worst air month

March

17 µg/m³

The whole year, month by month.

Monthly climate normals for Düsseldorf
MonthAvg tempRainSunPM2.5
January3°C78 mm122 h15
February8°C111 mm95 h11
March9°C76 mm196 h17
April11°C98 mm225 h12
May16°C175 mm323 h9
June17°C104 mm318 h9
July19°C114 mm347 h8
August20°C108 mm349 h9
September16°C99 mm286 h8
October13°C102 mm184 h9
November7°C70 mm114 h12
December5°C83 mm77 h14

About 2,636 hours of sun a year. Roughly 122 rainy days a year.

These are long-run climate normals, not a forecast. A given year can sit well outside them. PM2.5 is a global model: near the coast it counts sea salt as fine particulate and reads high against ground stations, sometimes by a factor of two. Use the shape of the year, not the absolute number.

where these numbers come from

  • · Temperature, rainfall and sunshine: ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis climate normals via Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0), fetched once and stored.
  • · PM2.5: Copernicus CAMS reanalysis, monthly means. Modelled, not station readings; near coasts CAMS counts sea salt as PM2.5 and reads high.

Last reviewed 2026-05-23. Full method, licences and the list of sources we rejected are on the methodology page.