Climate EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg Airport 2020-2024

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

Calculated from historical METAR data of EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg Airport (LFSB) between 2020 and 2024.

VFR conditions (%)

Month	Average	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	64.4	64	63	65	59	75
February	77.6	78	75	92	83	87
March	84.5	80	86	90	88	86
April	89.2		80	87	95	100
May	87.8		83	93	90	84
June	95.1		97	97	93	93
July	95.8		97	99	88	99
August	93.9		91	92	92	96
September	93.3		96	89	92	94
October	81.0		93	80	80	83
November	69.6		76	80	48	77
December	63.7		77	28	61	77
Average	84.1	74.6	86.1	86.9	83.4	89.0

25th best VFR conditions of France

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	86.6	80	91	85	81	94
February	92.0	97	93	99	94	99
March	94.8	94	98	96	97	97
April	96.8		94	94	98	100
May	95.0		94	97	95	91
June	98.6		98	99	98	98
July	98.9		100	100	97	100
August	97.8		97	98	97	100
September	97.0		98	94	96	98
October	90.8		98	90	89	92
November	88.2		95	92	74	94
December	87.0		92	53	90	96
Average	94.1	90.5	95.8	93.9	93.2	96.6

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	5.9	6	7	6	5	8
February	9.9	12	10	10	10	13
March	13.1	14	13	15	12	13
April	16.8		14	16	15	21
May	20.4		21	23	17	21
June	26.2		28	27	26	24
July	27.6		27	29	25	28
August	27.0		27	29	23	28
September	23.0		27	21	23	24
October	18.0		21	20	17	15
November	10.1		11	12	7	12
December	6.9		9	2	7	7
Average	16.3	10.6	17.8	18.1	15.5	17.6

64th highest temperature of France

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	-1.7	0	2	-1	-1	0
February	1.2	5	0	2	0	3
March	2.2	5	3	0	1	2
April	4.4		5	5	2	5
May	9.1		10	11	8	8
June	13.8		13	14	15	13
July	14.5		15	14	15	13
August	14.7		16	14	14	16
September	10.7		13	11	11	11
October	7.6		8	11	5	7
November	3.2		4	5	2	3
December	1.3		3	-2	1	2
Average	6.4	3.1	7.7	7.3	6.0	6.8

16th lowest temperature of France

Average lowest temperature per day

The minimum temperature is typically observed just before sunrise.

Precipitation (%)

Month	Average	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	17.7	25	23	5	29	7
February	13.4	15	6	12	15	23
March	15.5	24	22	4	10	14
April	14.3		28	19	8	6
May	15.3		17	9	28	14
June	8.6		5	9	11	15
July	6.9		7	3	13	5
August	10.5		18	6	14	12
September	8.8		5	21	7	6
October	14.8		20	17	8	17
November	19.1		43	19	15	5
December	22.8		29	24	20	21
Average	14.0	21.4	17.3	11.2	14.5	11.6

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	6.4	7	7	6	6	6
February	6.8	6	6	8	6	9
March	6.9	7	7	6	7	7
April	6.3		7	7	6	5
May	6.0		6	6	8	6
June	5.4		5	6	5	6
July	5.6		6	5	5	6
August	5.1		6	5	4	5
September	5.2		5	6	4	5
October	5.4		6	5	5	6
November	5.7		8	6	5	5
December	6.5		8	5	6	6
Average	6.0	6.7	6.3	5.8	5.6	6.0

64th highest wind speed of France

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	248°	264°	258°	251°	205°
February	242°	303°	243°	168°	247°
March	252°	256°	024°	275°	284°
April		292°	306°	328°	317°
May		347°	306°	255°	347°
June		350°	306°	317°	291°
July		271°	321°	294°	294°
August		275°	355°	296°	225°
September		089°	241°	334°	297°
October		222°	153°	203°	226°
November		230°	200°	282°	134°
December		228°	336°	204°	179°

Prevailing wind direction

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