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Frankfurt weather by month

Frankfurt runs from about 2°C in January to 22°C in August, with May the wettest month at 126 mm.

warmest month

August

22°C

coolest month

January

2°C

wettest month

May

126 mm

worst air month

January

17 µg/m³

The whole year, month by month.

Monthly climate normals for Frankfurt
MonthAvg tempRainSunPM2.5
January2°C73 mm133 h17
February7°C83 mm136 h13
March8°C52 mm219 h16
April11°C67 mm285 h9
May16°C126 mm307 h7
June18°C75 mm345 h7
July20°C84 mm367 h6
August22°C34 mm360 h7
September17°C90 mm258 h7
October12°C79 mm196 h9
November6°C48 mm124 h16
December3°C40 mm68 h17

About 2,798 hours of sun a year. Roughly 85 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.