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Best Time for The Bavarian Alps
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Sweet spot: April, May, June. Computed from NASA POWER climate normals across the route's overnight towns, balancing temperature, rainfall and daylight.
💡 Good to know
- The Zugspitze cog railway and Königssee boats run full timetables, alpine pastures ring with actual cowbells, and beer gardens do what beer gardens do.
- Christmas-card Bavaria — markets, snow-loaded onion domes and the Partnachklamm gorge hung with ice; the drive itself stays open, the passes above do not.
| Month | Low | High | Rain | Daylight | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | −7.4°C | 0.2°C | 84 mm | 8.6 h | ❄ |
| February | −6.7°C | 1.4°C | 66 mm | 9.9 h | ❄ |
| March | −3.2°C | 6.1°C | 81 mm | 11.6 h | ❄ |
| April | 1.0°C | 11.8°C | 79 mm | 13.4 h | ❄ |
| May | 5.5°C | 15.8°C | 141 mm | 14.9 h | |
| June | 9.7°C | 19.7°C | 165 mm | 15.8 h | |
| July | 11.3°C | 21.4°C | 165 mm | 15.4 h | |
| August | 11.0°C | 21.0°C | 171 mm | 14.1 h | |
| September | 6.7°C | 16.3°C | 116 mm | 12.3 h | |
| October | 2.6°C | 12.2°C | 91 mm | 10.6 h | |
| November | −1.7°C | 6.1°C | 69 mm | 9.0 h | ❄ |
| December | −5.7°C | 1.3°C | 74 mm | 8.2 h | ❄ |