11-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Overcast
6°
Feels like 6°
Wind↑ WSW 3 km/h
Humidity 89 %
Evening
Partly cloudy
6°
Feels like 6°
Wind↑ ESE 4 km/h
Humidity 90 %
💧 0.1 mm
12-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Clear sky
3°
Feels like 2°
Wind↑ SE 7 km/h
Humidity 90 %
Evening
Mainly clear
4°
Feels like 3°
Wind↑ ENE 6 km/h
Humidity 81 %
13-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Overcast
3°
Feels like 3°
Wind↑ NNW 5 km/h
Humidity 81 %
Evening
Partly cloudy
3°
Feels like 1°
Wind↑ WSW 10 km/h
Gusts26 km/h
Humidity 75 %
14-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Light rain
4°
Feels like -0°
Wind↑ WSW 21 km/h
Gusts40 km/h
Humidity 91 %
💧 1.2 mm
Dresden forecast in charts · next 7 days
The week ahead: highs and lows
≈ A week close to the usual temperatures
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
Hourly detail
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)
Dresden climate: what a normal year looks like
From 16 h 33 min of daylight in late June to 7 h 54 min in late December.
Nights typically freeze from December to February, the coldest averaging −3 °C in January.
The hottest stretch is August, when afternoons average 23 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average −3 °C. Between those two months the average temperature changes by 19 °C.
There is no real dry season: monthly rainfall stays between 53 mm and 97 mm on average.
Forecast highs for the coming week average 9 °C, 4 °C cooler than a normal October (13 °C).
30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month
Typical high
Typical low
Rainfall
Jan
2 °C
−3 °C
69 mm
Feb
4 °C
−1 °C
55 mm
Mar
7 °C
1 °C
68 mm
Apr
14 °C
5 °C
53 mm
May
17 °C
8 °C
77 mm
Jun
21 °C
12 °C
86 mm
Jul
23 °C
14 °C
97 mm
Aug
23 °C
14 °C
91 mm
Sep
18 °C
10 °C
70 mm
Oct
13 °C
7 °C
62 mm
Nov
7 °C
3 °C
64 mm
Dec
3 °C
−1 °C
68 mm
Whole year
13 °C
6 °C
860 mm
Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 51.05° N, 13.74° E, 1991–2020. ERA5 averages over a 0.25° grid (about 25 km): hills, a coastline or the heat of the city itself can shift local values by a degree or two.
Air you breathe in Dresden: pollution and pollen
2/6
Fair
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.514µg/m³
PM1021µg/m³
O₃26µg/m³
NO₂16µg/m³
SO₂2µg/m³
Pollen
AlderNone
BirchNone
GrassNone
MugwortNone
OliveNone
RagweedNone
Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.
Rain radar around Dresden
Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Dresden, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.
Rain radarLast two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline
Moon over Dresden
Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 04:07 Set 22:35
Fri30/1079%
Sat31/1069%
Sun1/1159%
Mon2/1149%Last quarter
Tue3/1138%
Wed4/1128%
Thu5/1119%
Fri6/1112%
Sat7/116%
Sun8/112%
Mon9/110%
Tue10/111%New moon
Moonrise and moonset in local time (Europe/Berlin); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.
Look up a past day in Dresden
Curious about the weather in Dresden on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.
Dresden weather at a glance
This page gathers everything about the weather in Dresden, Saxony: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “partly cloudy”, it is 9 °C (feels like 9 °C) and the wind blows at 2 km/h.
Expected range today: 4 °C to 12 °C and a dry sky. The forecast comes from the AtmoAtlas engine, which combines ECMWF-AIFS, NOAA GFS and DWD ICON, adjusts cloud cover with METAR reports and uses convective energy (CAPE) to flag storms.
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