Ideal weather days in Zürich
The best time to visit Zürich for warm, dry weather is June, August and September, with 19 to 20 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Zürich's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in June, August and September.
This station doesn't record cloud cover, so the sky setting is left out here.
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Your ideal days in Zürich, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too cold207
- Too wet124
- Too windy5
- Too hot4
A day can fail more than one test.
Warm and dry, beach and mild days
With the Warm & dry preset (a high of 18–33 °C, no more than 1 mm of rain, wind under 20 km/h), Zürich averaged 112 days a year in 2023–2025. Every number here is counted from real measured days in Switzerland, not from climate averages.
Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in June and August (up to 15 a month, 50 a year). Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are most common in May and October (up to 14 a month, 77 a year).
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are too cold (a high under 18 °C): 207 a year, mostly in October to April. Another 124 are wet (more than 1 mm of rain), mostly in March to January. A day can fail more than one test.
Zürich weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Clear days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 6 °C 42 °F | 12 | 1 | 2 | 0 of 31 |
| February | 10 °C 49 °F | 7 | 1 | 4 | 0 of 28 |
| March | 13 °C 55 °F | 12 | 1 | 7 | 3 of 31 |
| April | 16 °C 60 °F | 11 | 1 | 9 | 9 of 30 |
| May | 20 °C 67 °F | 13 | 0 | 7 | 16 of 31 |
| June | 26 °C 79 °F | 10 | 0 | 13 | 20 of 30 |
| July | 26 °C 78 °F | 15 | 0 | 7 | 16 of 31 |
| August | 28 °C 82 °F | 10 | 0 | 14 | 20 of 31 |
| September | 23 °C 73 °F | 11 | 0 | 11 | 19 of 30 |
| October | 16 °C 61 °F | 10 | 0 | 6 | 10 of 31 |
| November | 9 °C 48 °F | 13 | 1 | 1 | 0 of 30 |
| December | 6 °C 43 °F | 14 | 2 | 3 | 0 of 31 |
| Year | 138 | 5 | 83 | 112 of 365 |
Typical high is the median daily maximum. A rain day has 1 mm or more; a windy day a mean wind above 20 km/h; a clear day a daytime cloud cover of 2/8 or less on average (9:00–17:00). Days are averaged over 2023–2025 and scaled to the length of each month.
Year by year
- 2023 112 warm, dry days
- 2024 104 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Zürich for good weather?
The best time to visit Zürich for warm, dry weather is June, August and September, with 19 to 20 such days a month. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in June and August (up to 15 a month, 50 a year). Counted from measured days at Zurich station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Zürich?
On average 138 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was July (15 rain days), the driest February (7).
How many sunny days does Zürich get a year?
About 83 days a year had mostly clear skies (daytime cloud cover of 2/8 or less on average, 9:00–17:00), most of them in August (14).
How warm does Zürich get?
The median daily high ranged from 6 °C (42 °F) in January to 28 °C (82 °F) in August.
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Source: Zurich weather station (06670099999), 9 km from the centre of Zürich, 432 m above sea level. Daily records from NOAA's Global Surface Summary of the Day, 2023–2025; 87% of days have a complete record. A single station may not represent every part of a city, and three years is a short record.