DWD: October in Germany 1.6 degrees too warm and with 36 percent more rain
According to the German Weather Service's provisional review, the mean temperature was 10.6 degrees. It was the first month since February with more rain than usual – but very unevenly distributed.
Symbolic image · Photo: diba / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 de (cropped and resized)
October 2026 was markedly warmer and wetter in Germany than the long-term average. That is the result of the provisional analysis by the German Weather Service (DWD) in Offenbach, based on around 2,000 measuring stations and published on October 30. The mean temperature was 10.6 degrees Celsius – 1.6 degrees above the average of the international reference period 1961 to 1990.
At around 76 liters per square meter, precipitation was 36 percent above average. That made October the first month since February with more rain than usual. It was, however, very unevenly distributed: "In the north and west, in places three times as much rain fell as in the east," the DWD said. The highest temperature, 27.5 degrees, was measured on October 1 in Mehringen (Saxony-Anhalt), the lowest, minus 3.1 degrees, on October 20 in Dippoldiswalde-Reinberg (Saxony). With around 122 hours of sunshine, October was the eighth month in a row that was sunnier than average.
These are measured, still provisional data. A single month describes the weather, not the climate trend; the DWD places it in context by comparing it with the long-term reference period. What is clear, however, is that the dry preceding months were not offset everywhere – especially in the east, considerably less rain fell than in the north and west.