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Utrecht weather by month

Utrecht runs from about 4°C in January to 19°C in August, with May the wettest month at 147 mm.

warmest month

August

19°C

coolest month

January

4°C

wettest month

May

147 mm

worst air month

March

16 µg/m³

The whole year, month by month.

Monthly climate normals for Utrecht
MonthAvg tempRainSunPM2.5
January4°C73 mm113 h15
February8°C126 mm91 h11
March9°C56 mm190 h16
April10°C93 mm267 h10
May15°C147 mm325 h9
June16°C63 mm333 h8
July18°C86 mm328 h7
August19°C83 mm339 h9
September16°C99 mm277 h8
October12°C49 mm179 h8
November7°C89 mm110 h10
December6°C82 mm65 h11

About 2,617 hours of sun a year. Roughly 105 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.