When is the best time to visit Germany?

Most guides agree on Feb, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Dec. Berlin: May to September. Munich: May to September, plus December for the Christmas markets. Hamburg: May to September — it is grey and wet for most of the rest. Cologne: May to September, and February for Carnival — book that one a year ahead.

When is the rainy season in Germany?

No guide in Germany has a month above 250 mm; the wet months are wet, not under water.

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Best time to visit Germany

Every guide's best months, checked against its own thirty-year rainfall: a filled month is recommended, a hatched one has over 250 mm of rain. Most of Germany agrees on Feb, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Dec.

Place	J	F	M	A	M	J	J	A	S	O	N	D	In words
BerlinMay to September													May to September
MunichMay to September, plus December for the Christmas markets													May to September, plus December for the Christmas markets
HamburgMay to September — it is grey and wet for most of the rest													May to September — it is grey and wet for most of the rest
CologneMay to September, and February for Carnival — book that one a year ahead													May to September, and February for Carnival — book that one a year ahead
Black ForestMay to October for walking, and December to February for snow in the high valleys													May to October for walking, and December to February for snow in the high valleys
Garmisch-PartenkirchenDecember to March for the snow, and June to September for the walking — the Zugspitze glacier holds snow longer than the town below it													December to March for the snow, and June to September for the walking — the Zugspitze glacier holds snow longer than the town below it

best month · over 250 mm · the letters are the months, January to December.

The guides in Germany

city buildings near body of water during daytime

BerlinGermanyHistory, nightlife, and space to breathe

The gothic tower of the Neues Rathaus on Marienplatz in Munich

MunichGermanyBeer halls, baroque and the Alps an hour down the motorway

a U-Bahn train on the elevated line above the Landungsbrücken, the harbour behind it

HamburgGermanyMore bridges than Venice and Amsterdam together, a harbour that runs the city, and the loudest night in Germany

CologneGermanyA cathedral that took six hundred years, beer served in small glasses until you say stop, and the Rhine going past

green grass field and green mountains under white clouds and blue sky during daytime

Black ForestGermanyDark firs, cuckoo clocks made where they were invented, and spa towns the Romans already knew about

Garmisch-PartenkirchenGermanyTwo towns the 1936 Olympics forced into one, under Germany’s highest mountain, with a gorge, a ski jump and a glacier all within half an hour