From where you are
Where to find sun, from a city
Each page is one starting point: what a few hours by car really reaches, what a short flight adds, and when the weather at home is already the better plan. The climate is a long-term pattern. The weekend check is live.
- Sun from MunichGermanyMunich sits on the north side of the Alps.
- Sun from BerlinGermanyBerlin is flat and inland.
- Sun from HamburgGermanyHamburg's weather comes off the North Sea: mild for its latitude, windy, and slow to heat up.
- Sun from FrankfurtGermanyThe Rhine valley around Frankfurt is one of the milder pockets of Germany.
- Sun from CologneGermanyCologne has an oceanic climate, closer to the Low Countries than to Bavaria.
- Sun from StuttgartGermanyStuttgart sits in a basin that traps summer heat and winter murk.
- Sun from DüsseldorfGermanyDüsseldorf shares the Rhine-Ruhr's oceanic weather with the Dutch cities an hour away.
- Sun from NurembergGermanyNuremberg is Franconian and inland: colder in winter than the Rhine, warm in summer, and under the same air mass as the rest of northern Bavaria..
- Sun from ViennaAustriaVienna is continental: cold winters, hot summers, and a short spring.
- Sun from ZurichSwitzerlandZurich has a mild lakeside climate squeezed against colder Alps.
- Sun from SalzburgAustriaSalzburg is an Alpine-edge city: sharp winters, pleasant summers, and rain that comes off the mountains.
- Sun from InnsbruckAustriaInnsbruck is a valley city with Alpine winters and a summer that stops at the valley walls.
- Sun from AmsterdamNetherlandsAmsterdam is North Sea weather: cool summers, soft winters, and wind that makes the same temperature feel colder.
- Sun from BrusselsBelgiumBrussels is oceanic and just inland of the coast, so summers resemble Amsterdam and winters are grey rather than cold.
- Sun from CopenhagenDenmarkCopenhagen is mild for Scandinavia and cool for a beach.
- Sun from StockholmSwedenStockholm's season is light as much as temperature.
- Sun from OsloNorwayOslo is milder than its latitude because of the fjord, and it is still a Scandinavian winter: short days, cold nights, and a summer that is pleasant rather than hot..
- Sun from HelsinkiFinlandHelsinki has a real winter and a bright, mild summer.
- Sun from WarsawPolandWarsaw is continental: cold, fairly dry winters and warm summers with real heat in July.
- Sun from PragueCzech RepublicPrague sits in a basin that holds winter fog and summer heat.
- Sun from LondonUnited KingdomLondon is mild, cloudy and rarely extreme.
- Sun from ManchesterUnited KingdomManchester is the wet side of Britain.
- Sun from DublinIrelandDublin is mild and wet, with a small gap between winter and summer and almost no gap across the island.
- Sun from ParisFranceParis has oceanic winters and summers that actually get hot.
- Sun from MilanItalyMilan's winter is fog on the plain, not Alpine snow, and the daytime high is still only around 6°.
- Sun from TallinnEstoniaTallinn has a long, dark, cold winter and a short mild summer.
- Sun from RigaLatviaRiga is Baltic: frozen or grey in winter, mild and light in summer.
- Sun from VilniusLithuaniaVilnius is further from the sea than Riga or Tallinn, so winters are colder and summers a little warmer.
- Sun from GdanskPolandGdansk is a Baltic beach city with a short summer season and a long grey one.
- Sun from GothenburgSwedenGothenburg is the wet west coast of Sweden: milder in winter than Stockholm, cloudier, and a modest summer.