August continues high summer warmth but often brings the first brief cool spells from Atlantic disturbances. Rainfall remains unevenly distributed, with heavy downpours replacing stratiform rain. Berlin's drainage system was designed for historical precipitation levels and increasingly struggles during extreme rainfall events. Rewetting of Brandenburg peatlands around Berlin also serves as a climate buffer for the capital region.
August 2018 was the driest August in Berlin since 1961 with just 12 mm of precipitation, only 18 % of the long-term average of 65 mm.
This page compares the daily measured values of the current year against the average of the last ten years, the so-called 10-year mean. The deviation values in the KPI cards show directly whether the current month is warmer, sunnier, wetter, or windier than usual. The reference data comes from Open-Meteo's ERA5 weather archive and includes daily measured maximum and minimum temperatures, sunshine hours, precipitation totals, and wind speeds.
A ten-year average is short enough to reflect current climate trends, yet long enough to statistically balance out individual extreme years. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) recommends 30-year normals as the official climate reference, our 10-year mean is deliberately more present-focused and therefore shows the climate change of the most recent decade more clearly.
The daily data for the current year comes directly from Open-Meteo in real time. The reference mean is calculated from actual measured values of the last 10 years, no statistical model, but real historical archive data. The basis is ECMWF's ERA5 reanalysis dataset.
The deviation shows the difference between the current monthly average and the 10-year reference value for the same month. A value of +2.3 °C means: the current month is on average 2.3 degrees warmer than the average of the last 10 years.
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