Weather in Amsterdam - 7-day forecast, rain, wind

Weather in Amsterdam today and 7-day forecast

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Climate in Amsterdam

Amsterdam has a temperate oceanic climate, similar to Londons but with slightly cooler nights. Summers are mild (average highs of 22 degrees Celsius) and winters mild (average lows of 1 degree).

Annual rainfall is around 830 mm over more than 130 rainy days. Atlantic depressions are frequent and west/south-westerly winds persistent. Winters are damp with grey skies.

Sea level and the canal network are critical: North Sea storm surges require a sophisticated dam system such as the Maeslantkering. Hard frosts are occasional and allow canal skating only in very cold years.

Best time to visit is April to June (when Keukenhof blooms) and September. Use the hourly forecast, rain probability and wind before planning the Rijksmuseum, the Anne Frank House or a canal cruise.

The climate of Amsterdam, with thirty years of data

Amsterdam lives under the rule of Atlantic depressions and the North Sea, which is right there and does not let the thermometer move far in either direction: no hard winters and no hot summers. What there is instead is wind, almost always from the southwest, and rain spread over many days in small amounts. Much of the city’s area lies below sea level, so storms that push water towards the coast are followed closely.

The year at a glance

The warmest month is August, with a mean maximum of 21.1 °C, and the coldest January, with minima averaging 2.0 °C. About 887 mm fall a year, spread over 164 days of appreciable rain, peaking in August and at its lowest in April. There are 31 days of frost a year and 1 with the maximum above 30 °C.

Month by month

Monthly means over 30 years at Amsterdam. ERA5-Land reanalysis, 1995 to 2024.
Monthly mean	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Maximum (°C)	5.8	6.8	9.2	12.8	16.3	19.0	20.8	21.1	18.3	14.4	9.7	6.4
Minimum (°C)	2.0	2.2	3.4	5.9	9.5	12.5	14.7	15.0	12.7	9.6	5.8	2.8
Rain (mm)	73	64	59	55	71	73	89	90	77	84	74	76
Rain days	13.8	12.9	12.4	12.0	12.9	12.7	15.4	14.4	13.1	14.4	15.3	14.4

The extremes of the series

Across these 30 years the highest temperature was 35.3 °C, on 25 July 2019, and the lowest -13.8 °C, on 4 March 2005. These are reanalysis values, not those of an observatory: they are useful for placing the magnitude, not as an official record.

Where these numbers come from

From ERA5-Land, the reanalysis produced by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, downloaded from the Copernicus Climate Data Store under a CC-BY licence: hourly temperature and precipitation between 1995-01-01 and 2024-12-06, 30 complete years, in the 52.40°, 4.90° cell. It is a grid of about 9 km covering land only.

The Spanish cities on this site use AEMET’s official normals; there is no single equivalent for ten different countries, so the same global series is used for all of them. That has an advantage: the figures are comparable with one another, computed by the same method over the same period. And a limitation: a reanalysis cannot see the urban heat island, so in the centre of a large city the real minima are usually somewhat higher than those in the table.