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Weather extremes
How extreme does Kaiserslautern's weather get?
The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest days Kaiserslautern has recorded — the outer limits of what its weather can do, and how far they sit beyond a normal day.
The four kinds of extreme
The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest single days Kaiserslautern has recorded — each shown against what a normal day that time of year looks like.
That is about 24°F hotter than a normal August afternoon in Kaiserslautern (typical high near 74°F).
The three most extreme on record
About 30°F colder than a normal February night in Kaiserslautern (typical low near 31°F).
The three most extreme on record
About 96% of a typical May's rain in a single day (Kaiserslautern averages roughly 2.9 in across the month).
The three most extreme on record
How hot and cold it gets, month by month
The shaded band is the normal range of daily temperatures for each month. The dots show the most extreme it has ever been — so you can see how far beyond a normal day the records really sit.
Kaiserslautern's record heat sits well above even a hot day for the season — August's 98°F is about 24°F beyond a normal hot afternoon. Its record cold is just as far below a normal winter night — the dots mark how rare each extreme really is.
In plain terms
Methodology & sources
Temperature & precipitation — 1991–2020 normals computed from 30 years of daily observations at Weinbiet, a weather station, about 26 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.