Climate Europlatform 2020-2024

Climate and trends: average temperature, flight conditions, precipitation, wind speed and direction.

Calculated from historical METAR data of Europlatform (EHSA) between 2020 and 2024.

VFR conditions (%)

Month	Average	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	88.7	92	93	93	96	78
February	83.1	86	72	85	82	86
March	81.7	91	79	80	83	88
April	85.9		84	94	91	97
May	77.5		87	92	94	75
June	76.7		80	97	80	93
July	82.7		96	98	90	95
August	84.8		95	99	95	85
September	93.8		94	97	95	95
October	94.7		95	99	93	92
November	90.0		86	86	94	94
December	87.9		91	97	79	90
Average	86.1	89.9	87.7	93.5	89.5	89.1

1st best VFR conditions of Netherlands

VFR conditions during daylight period

Percentage of observations where the VFR minimums for ceiling and visibility are met: visibility of 8 km or more and a ceiling of 3,000 ft or more. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.

Marginal VFR conditions (%)

Month	Average	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	94.0	95	96	96	98	91
February	91.1	93	82	96	88	93
March	91.3	96	92	90	94	93
April	91.5		92	98	93	98
May	81.6		94	96	98	75
June	80.1		83	99	85	98
July	84.8		98	99	95	99
August	87.8		98	100	99	91
September	97.5		98	99	99	98
October	97.8		98	99	97	97
November	95.4		91	94	98	97
December	92.6		96	99	87	95
Average	90.6	94.5	93.1	97.0	94.3	93.4

Marginal VFR conditions or better during daylight period

Percentage of observations where the MVFR minimums for ceiling and visibility are met: visibility of 5 km or more and a ceiling of 1,000 ft or more. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.

Maximum temperatures (°C)

Month	Average	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	8.1	8	9	9	7	9
February	8.0	10	8	9	7	10
March	8.5	10	8	9	8	9
April	10.1		10	10	8	11
May	12.8		13	14	12	13
June	16.3		17	17	16	16
July	19.0		19	20	18	18
August	19.6		19	21	18	21
September	18.3		21	18	18	18
October	15.7		17	17	16	15
November	11.8		12	13	12	13
December	9.3		10	7	10	9
Average	12.9	9.1	13.5	13.8	12.4	13.4

17th highest temperature of Netherlands

Average highest temperature per day

The maximum temperature is typically observed some hours after noon.

Minimum temperatures (°C)

Month	Average	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	5.6	5	7	6	4	7
February	5.1	8	6	6	4	4
March	5.7	7	6	6	6	7
April	7.5		7	8	6	8
May	10.4		11	11	9	11
June	12.0		15	15	13	14
July	15.8		16	16	16	16
August	17.3		17	19	16	18
September	15.8		18	16	16	16
October	13.0		14	15	13	12
November	9.2		9	10	10	10
December	6.7		8	4	7	7
Average	10.1	6.6	11.1	11.2	10.0	10.8

26th lowest temperature of Netherlands

Average lowest temperature per day

The minimum temperature is typically observed just before sunrise.

Precipitation (%)

Month	Average	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	7.9	9	9	3	9	8
February	10.4	12	7	7	14	14
March	9.6	10	23	3	8	3
April	5.2		8	2	7	3
May	3.6		5	4	5	0
June	4.4		4	4	8	4
July	3.1		7	1	2	6
August	3.2		6	2	3	5
September	4.9		5	10	2	5
October	8.0		11	4	9	18
November	12.0		25	20	10	5
December	13.4		13	9	13	21
Average	6.5	10.3	9.2	5.0	6.7	6.6

Precipitation during daylight period

Percentage of observations with observed rain, drizzle, snow or hail. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.

Wind speed (knots)

Month	Average	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	20.0	21	22	17	19	21
February	20.3	19	17	25	18	28
March	17.1	16	20	13	16	21
April	15.1		15	16	16	14
May	13.9		15	12	15	15
June	13.8		15	13	12	14
July	12.9		18	13	14	7
August	14.3		15	12	16	15
September	15.6		13	15	14	17
October	19.5		20	17	20	22
November	19.4		23	20	18	19
December	20.3		23	16	18	20
Average	16.6	18.2	17.3	15.0	15.9	16.6

17th highest wind speed of Netherlands

Average wind speed

Excluding wind gusts. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.

Prevailing wind direction

Month	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	240°	229°	249°	245°	211°
February	199°	254°	220°	135°	217°
March	175°	212°	076°	239°	175°
April		013°	343°	346°	035°
May		007°	234°	229°	352°
June		023°	257°	357°	246°
July		221°	259°	247°	236°
August		243°	012°	267°	225°
September		184°	292°	214°	257°
October		205°	201°	205°	199°
November		220°	187°	272°	199°
December		219°	092°	210°	187°

Prevailing wind direction

Average wind direction, weighed by wind speed. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.