DWD station 05078 · local records since 1940
How warm, how sunny, how stormy is Travemünde really? This page answers with official records from the DWD station right in town (since 1940): the warmest month is July at 17.0 °C daily mean; January has the most days with gusts of 8 Beaufort or more.
Travemünde sits on the Bay of Lübeck and has a typical Baltic-coast climate: mild, breezy, without extremes. In the local DWD record (temperature 1940–2001), July is the warmest month at 17.0 °C daily mean, January the coldest at 0.3 °C. The heat record is 34.8 °C (August 1992), the cold record -27.7 °C (February 1940). May and June bring the most sunshine (about 8.0 hours a day); rain days are spread remarkably evenly. Winter is stormiest: January averages 6.6 days with gusts of 8 Beaufort or more – measured up to today, as the station's wind record continues. For context: the temperature series ends in 2001; today's values run noticeably higher due to climate warming.
| Month | Mean temp. (1940–2001) | Record max | Sun/day | Rain days | Frost days | Gust days ≥ 8 Bft (1971–today) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 0.3 °C | 14.4 °C (1999) | 1.4 h | 10.2 | 17.7 | 6.6 |
| February | 0.6 °C | 16.5 °C (1990) | 2.3 h | 9.0 | 16.1 | 4.8 |
| March | 3.2 °C | 22.6 °C (1968) | 3.8 h | 9.4 | 12.6 | 5.1 |
| April | 7.0 °C | 29.0 °C (1968) | 5.9 h | 8.7 | 3.2 | 3.0 |
| May | 11.5 °C | 29.2 °C (1985) | 8.0 h | 8.6 | 0.1 | 2.3 |
| June | 15.2 °C | 33.0 °C (2000) | 8.0 h | 9.2 | 0.0 | 1.8 |
| July | 17.0 °C | 34.2 °C (1959) | 7.7 h | 10.1 | 0.0 | 2.1 |
| August | 16.8 °C | 34.8 °C (1992) | 7.2 h | 10.4 | 0.0 | 1.9 |
| September | 13.7 °C | 30.2 °C (1947) | 5.2 h | 9.7 | 0.0 | 2.3 |
| October | 9.6 °C | 23.6 °C (1969) | 3.5 h | 9.3 | 0.6 | 3.8 |
| November | 5.0 °C | 19.1 °C (1968) | 1.6 h | 10.7 | 5.9 | 4.1 |
| December | 2.0 °C | 15.1 °C (1977) | 1.1 h | 11.2 | 13.7 | 5.5 |
DWD station Travemünde (ID 05078) has measured right in town since 1940. Since October 2001 it records wind only – temperature, sunshine and precipitation therefore come from the historical series 1940–2001, while gusts continue to today (daily peak gusts since 1971) and are updated here monthly. The count is days with gusts of 8 Beaufort or more. True storm days by the DWD definition – a 10-minute mean of 8 Beaufort or more – are rare in town: 20 in the 18 years 2008–2025. Present-day temperatures run about one degree above the old series due to climate warming. Current water temperatures are live on the water-temperature page. To water temperature →
Not quite.
October averages 3.8 days with gusts of 8 Beaufort or more – January leads with 6.6, followed by December (5.5) and March (5.1). Midwinter is the true storm season on the Bay of Lübeck (wind record 1971–today).
No – remarkably even.
Between 8.6 rain days in May and 11.2 in December there is less spread than many think. Spring is the driest season – and even the wettest month is rain-free two days out of three (series 1940–2001).
Almost true.
Even the series’ heat record – 34.8 °C in August 1992 – stayed below inland peaks; genuine summer days above 25 °C occurred only about 3.7 times a month in July and August. The Baltic tempers the heat – which is exactly why it is so bearable here.
In the local DWD record (1940–2001) July is the warmest month at 17.0 °C daily mean; midsummer daytime highs are mostly around 20–22 °C. Due to climate warming, present-day summers run about one degree above these means.
In May and June – with about 8.0 sunshine hours per day on average. The sunniest single month of the record was July 1994 with 372 hours.
Gale-force gusts are most frequent in midwinter: January averages 6.6 days with gusts of 8 Beaufort or more, June only 1.8 (wind record 1971–today). True storm days by the DWD definition, when even the 10-minute mean reaches 8 Beaufort, are rare: 20 in the 18 years 2008–2025, about 1.1 a year.
34.8 °C in August 1992. The cold record: -27.7 °C in February 1940, in the legendary hard winter of 1939/40.
The DWD station Travemünde has recorded wind only since October 2001. Temperature, sunshine and precipitation therefore come from the historical 1940–2001 series; peak gusts continue to be updated. Current water temperatures are live on the water-temperature page.
