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Best Time for Alsace Wine Route
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Sweet spot: March, April, June. Computed from NASA POWER climate normals across the route's overnight towns, balancing temperature, rainfall and daylight.
💡 Good to know
- Harvest: presses running, new-wine festivals village after village — the route at its ripest.
- Strasbourg and Colmar host France's grandest Christmas markets — magical, mobbed, and cold; book beds early.
| Month | Low | High | Rain | Daylight | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | −3.0°C | 3.8°C | 59 mm | 8.6 h | ❄ |
| February | −2.8°C | 5.5°C | 47 mm | 9.9 h | ❄ |
| March | 0.1°C | 10.5°C | 54 mm | 11.6 h | ❄ |
| April | 4.1°C | 15.7°C | 54 mm | 13.4 h | |
| May | 8.5°C | 19.5°C | 91 mm | 15.0 h | |
| June | 12.6°C | 23.8°C | 79 mm | 15.8 h | |
| July | 14.4°C | 25.7°C | 81 mm | 15.5 h | |
| August | 13.7°C | 25.1°C | 82 mm | 14.1 h | |
| September | 9.3°C | 20.8°C | 61 mm | 12.3 h | |
| October | 5.5°C | 15.4°C | 74 mm | 10.5 h | |
| November | 1.1°C | 8.8°C | 62 mm | 9.0 h | ❄ |
| December | −2.0°C | 4.3°C | 68 mm | 8.2 h | ❄ |