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Leipzig weather

Saxony · 504,971 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 18:40

Overcast
10°
Overcast
Feels like 10°C
Wind
2 km/h
Gusts
5 km/h
Humidity
86 %
Pressure
1031 hPa
Clouds
99 %
Storm
No
Rise 06:58 Set 16:50 Day 9 h 51 min UV 2 · Low

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Evening
Overcast
Overcast
10°9°
Feels like 10°
Wind ↑ NW 3 km/h
Humidity 86 %
19:00
Overcast
10°
NW 2
22:00
Partly cloudy
9°
NNW 3

Leipzig 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)
1°4°8°11°14°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed8°3°Thu 29 Oct: max 12° · min 3° · normal 8.6°Fri 30 Oct: max 10° · min 6° · normal 8.5°Sat 31 Oct: max 11° · min 6° · normal 8.3°Sun 1 Nov: max 9° · min 5° · normal 8.3°Mon 2 Nov: max 7° · min 3° · normal 8.1°Tue 3 Nov: max 9° · min 5° · normal 8.0°Wed 4 Nov: max 8° · min 3° · normal 7.8°

Hourly detail

ThuFriSatSunMonTueWedThu-1°6°13°12°1°02
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Leipzig climate: what a normal year looks like

From 16 h 36 min of daylight in late June to 7 h 51 min in late December.

Nights typically freeze in January and February, the coldest averaging −2 °C in January.

The hottest stretch is August, when afternoons average 24 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average −2 °C. Between those two months the average temperature changes by 19 °C.

There is no real dry season: monthly rainfall stays between 42 mm and 79 mm on average.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 9 °C, 5 °C cooler than a normal October (14 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan3 °C−2 °C56 mm
Feb5 °C0 °C43 mm
Mar8 °C2 °C55 mm
Apr14 °C6 °C42 mm
May18 °C9 °C65 mm
Jun22 °C13 °C64 mm
Jul24 °C15 °C79 mm
Aug24 °C15 °C66 mm
Sep19 °C11 °C60 mm
Oct14 °C8 °C52 mm
Nov8 °C3 °C57 mm
Dec4 °C1 °C58 mm
Whole year14 °C7 °C700 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 51.34° N, 12.37° 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 Leipzig: pollution and pollen

2/6
Fair
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.513µg/m³
PM1021µg/m³
O₃17µg/m³
NO₂22µg/m³
SO₂3µg/m³

Pollen

AlderNone
BirchNone
GrassNone
MugwortNone
OliveNone
RagweedNone

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Leipzig

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Leipzig, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.

Rain radar Last two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline

Moon over Leipzig

Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 04:10 Set 22:42
Fri 30/10 79%
Sat 31/10 69%
Sun 1/11 59%
Mon 2/11 49% Last quarter
Tue 3/11 38%
Wed 4/11 28%
Thu 5/11 19%
Fri 6/11 12%
Sat 7/11 6%
Sun 8/11 2%
Mon 9/11 0%
Tue 10/11 1% New moon

Moonrise and moonset in local time (Europe/Berlin); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in Leipzig

Curious about the weather in Leipzig on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.

Leipzig weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Leipzig, Saxony: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “overcast”, it is 10 °C (feels like 10 °C) and the wind blows at 2 km/h.

Expected range today: 3 °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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