Climate · Sylt

Sylt in August

Mild and wet, as the days shorten.

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years

August in Sylt is mild, around 64°F through the day and night. Rain falls on about four days a week, more often as the month goes on, and the days shorten by 1 hour 59 minutes from the first week to the last.August in Sylt is mild, around 18°C through the day and night. Rain falls on about four days a week, more often as the month goes on, and the days shorten by 1 hour 59 minutes from the first week to the last.

Typical
64°F18°Caverage
Wet days
4a week · 50% of days
Daylight
14h 51mon average

Is August a good time to visit Sylt?


Yes. August is one of Sylt's best months (July to August).

How we judge it: every month is scored on how close its typical high comes to the range from 70°F to 80°F, how mild its nights are, and how rarely it rains. The best months are the run of months that scores best.How we judge it: every month is scored on how close its typical high comes to the range from 21°C to 27°C, how mild its nights are, and how rarely it rains. The best months are the run of months that scores best.

How August sits in the year

week by week

Temperature

Around 64°F in August, against 37°F to 64°F through the year.Around 18°C in August, against 3°C to 18°C through the year.

Chance of a wet day

50% of days in August, against 32% to 60% through the year.

Cloud cover

51% cover in August, against 49% to 71% through the year.

Daylight

14h 51m in August, against 7h 17m to 17h 15m through the year.

Week by week, lightly smoothed, with August shaded. The olive line marks the best months. Hover or tap a week for its figures.

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  1. July62°17°3 wet days a weekRain on about three days a week.
  2. August64°18°4 wet days a weekRain on about four days a week.
  3. September60°16°4 wet days a weekRain on about four days a week.

Where Sylt sits, in August

Europe/Berlin

this place
typical high in August 40°F4°C95°F35°C
Sunrise, mid-August
6:00 AMsets 9:03 PM
Above the sea
10 mlow-lying
Latitude
54.9°Nnorthern hemisphere
Nearest of ours
Hamburg187 km south-east

The land around Sylt, shaded by its typical high in August, the planning map's own layer. Hover the map for the figure at that spot; tap it on a phone. Clock times are local, for the 15th.

Elsewhere in Germany in August

typical · wet days

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years (1995–2024). Sylt sits on a grid square that is mostly sea, where the data hold only a daily average, so the page shows one typical temperature, not a high and a low. Daylight is calculated from latitude. Charts are lightly smoothed week to week; the figures in the table are not. Source: Copernicus ERA5-Land reanalysis; cloud cover from NASA's MERRA-2 reanalysis, on a coarser grid of about 50 km. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026; neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use of it. These are averages, not a forecast.

Daylight is calculated from latitude. Charts are lightly smoothed week to week; the figures in the table are not.

Source: Copernicus ERA5-Land reanalysis; cloud cover from NASA's MERRA-2 reanalysis, on a coarser grid of about 50 km. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026; neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use of it. These are averages, not a forecast.