A year of road trips
Where it's about 20 °C, month by month
The average daytime high across Europe through a typical year. The bright band is 18–24 °C — warm enough to sit outside, cool enough to sleep in a van — and it travels some 2,300 km north from March to July and back by November. In midwinter it leaves Europe altogether.
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About 20 °C in November
Your town, through the year
The year in 20 seconds
How it is made
Average daily maximum temperature, 1981–2010 climate normals at about 1 km, from CHELSA V2.1 (Karger et al.), public domain (CC0). Each town reads the 4 km square it sits in, so a city-centre weather station is often a degree or two warmer.
A normal is the long-run average, not a forecast: any given week can be colder or hotter. The map is for choosing when and where to go.
CHELSA: Karger, D.N. et al. (2017) Climatologies at high resolution for the earth's land surface areas. Scientific Data 4, 170122 · borders: Natural Earth.