Salzburg climate

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Salzburg is warmest in July, with average highs of 24 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average -5.3 °C. July is the wettest month (210 mm) and February the driest (103 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Salzburg averages 1,776 mm of rain, 37 days above 25 °C and 113 days below freezing.

Austria · 424 m elevation · population 157,245 · 1991–2020 normals

Temperature below 0 °C to above 30 °C Rain band height is that month’s share of the wettest month

Warmest month July 24 °C
Coldest month January -5.3 °C
Driest month February 103 mm
Wettest month July 210 mm
Least cloud August 60 % cloud
Hottest on record June 35 °C
Coldest on record January -23 °C

What to expectSalzburg through the year

Salzburg has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 3.3 °C in January to 24 °C in July, a swing of 20 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 37 days a year reach 25 °C, 5 of them reach 30 °C, 113 nights drop below freezing. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 35 °C, in June.

Rain is strongly seasonal. July averages 210 mm against 103 mm in February — 2.0 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	3.3 °C	113 mm	66 %
February	5.2 °C	103 mm	67 %
March	9.2 °C	136 mm	67 %
April	14.4 °C	120 mm	63 %
May	18.7 °C	191 mm	66 %
June	21.8 °C	208 mm	65 %
July	23.5 °C	210 mm	61 %
August	23.4 °C	191 mm	60 %
September	19.0 °C	163 mm	65 %
October	14.8 °C	117 mm	66 %
November	8.7 °C	108 mm	69 %
December	4.0 °C	116 mm	67 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C	Days below 0 °C
January	3.3 °C	-5.3 °C	-1.3 °C	14.1 °C	-22.7 °C	0	0	27
February	5.2 °C	-4.4 °C	0.2 °C	19.8 °C	-22.3 °C	0	0	23
March	9.2 °C	-0.7 °C	4.2 °C	22.5 °C	-18.3 °C	0	0	17
April	14.4 °C	2.9 °C	8.9 °C	29.1 °C	-8.5 °C	0	0	5
May	18.7 °C	7.8 °C	13.6 °C	30.7 °C	-1.0 °C	3	0	0
June	21.8 °C	11.7 °C	17.1 °C	34.5 °C	3.6 °C	8	1	0
July	23.5 °C	13.5 °C	18.8 °C	34.5 °C	6.7 °C	11	2	0
August	23.4 °C	13.5 °C	18.6 °C	34.1 °C	6.2 °C	12	2	0
September	19.0 °C	9.6 °C	14.3 °C	31.8 °C	0.5 °C	2	0	0
October	14.8 °C	5.3 °C	9.7 °C	26.1 °C	-10.7 °C	0	0	2
November	8.7 °C	0.2 °C	4.1 °C	21.0 °C	-18.0 °C	0	0	13
December	4.0 °C	-3.8 °C	-0.3 °C	16.3 °C	-22.6 °C	0	0	25

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	113 mm	14	8.8 h/day	66 %	83 %	9.5 km/h
February	103 mm	14	10 h/day	67 %	81 %	9.6 km/h
March	136 mm	16	12 h/day	67 %	79 %	10 km/h
April	120 mm	15	14 h/day	63 %	77 %	9.8 km/h
May	191 mm	19	15 h/day	66 %	80 %	9.6 km/h
June	208 mm	20	16 h/day	65 %	81 %	9.0 km/h
July	210 mm	20	16 h/day	61 %	81 %	9.0 km/h
August	191 mm	18	14 h/day	60 %	83 %	8.4 km/h
September	163 mm	15	13 h/day	65 %	85 %	8.6 km/h
October	117 mm	14	11 h/day	66 %	86 %	8.9 km/h
November	108 mm	13	9.3 h/day	69 %	87 %	9.1 km/h
December	116 mm	15	8.4 h/day	67 %	85 %	9.4 km/h

How Salzburg compares

The same four figures for nearby destinations, so the numbers above have something to be read against. Summer high is the warmest month's average high; winter low is the coldest month's average low.

Destination	Summer high	Winter low	Rain per year	Days above 25 °C
Salzburg	24 °C	-5.3 °C	1,776 mm	37
Linz · Austria	24 °C	-3.2 °C	835 mm	44
Munich · Germany	23 °C	-3.6 °C	959 mm	28
Regensburg · Germany	24 °C	-3.2 °C	784 mm	39
Graz · Austria	24 °C	-5.3 °C	774 mm	38

Planning a trip? See the best time to visit Salzburg.

QuestionsCommon questions about Salzburg’s climate

When is the best time to visit Salzburg?

That depends on what you want, so the honest answer is a comparison rather than a single month. June, July, August sit closest to 20 °C on average, July is the warmest month and February the driest. The month-by-month table above has the full picture.

How hot does Salzburg get?

In July, the warmest month, daily highs average 24 °C. About 5 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 35 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average -5.3 °C in January, the coldest month. A normal year has 113 nights below freezing.

Which month is wettest in Salzburg?

July, averaging 210 mm over 20 days with rain. The driest month is February with 103 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,776 mm.

Are these figures a forecast?

No. They are 1991–2020 climate normals: the average of thirty years, which describes what a month is usually like in Salzburg rather than what any particular week will bring. Individual years can differ substantially from the normal.

Data sources and method

ERA5 / ERA5-Land reanalysis — Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), ECMWF. Copernicus Licence
Open-Meteo — Open-Meteo.com. CC BY 4.0
NOAA OISST v2.1 — NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Public domain
GeoNames — GeoNames.org. CC BY 4.0

Normal period: 1991–2020
Data point: 47.799°, 13.044° , 424 m above sea level (the coordinates the reanalysis values are taken for)
Dataset version: era5-1991-2020-scores1.1
Last processed: 1 August 2026

Measured values come from ERA5 reanalysis and are reproduced unchanged. Calculated by us: monthly rankings, daylight hours, beach and comfort scores. Full formulas are on the methodology page.

Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.