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Best Time for Saxony: Dresden to Görlitz
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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 Bastei bridge floats over morning mist in Saxon Switzerland, and Görlitz's film-set streets are golden by late afternoon — photographers' season.
- Dresden's Striezelmarkt is Germany's oldest Christmas market, stollen was invented for it, and the Frauenkirche dome rings above the stalls.
| Month | Low | High | Rain | Daylight | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | −4.8°C | 0.7°C | 62 mm | 8.1 h | ❄ |
| February | −4.2°C | 2.5°C | 42 mm | 9.7 h | ❄ |
| March | −1.3°C | 7.1°C | 50 mm | 11.5 h | ❄ |
| April | 3.2°C | 13.6°C | 38 mm | 13.6 h | |
| May | 8.0°C | 18.2°C | 66 mm | 15.3 h | |
| June | 12.0°C | 22.4°C | 74 mm | 16.3 h | |
| July | 14.1°C | 24.7°C | 89 mm | 15.9 h | |
| August | 13.6°C | 24.4°C | 82 mm | 14.4 h | |
| September | 9.0°C | 19.3°C | 59 mm | 12.4 h | |
| October | 4.4°C | 13.1°C | 55 mm | 10.4 h | |
| November | 0.7°C | 6.6°C | 56 mm | 8.6 h | ❄ |
| December | −2.9°C | 2.0°C | 56 mm | 7.7 h | ❄ |