Hamburg

When to go: Hamburg is warmest in August (18.5 °C), sunniest in June (12.6 h a day), driest in May; coldest in January (3.4 °C). Month by month

Getting there

The year in Hamburg

When to go

Hamburg is warmest in August at 18.5 °C but brightest in June, averaging 12.6 hours of sun a day — the two do not always coincide, which is worth knowing before booking. Its coldest is January at 3.4 °C.

Three months worth booking

The same year of measurements, decided rather than tabulated. Each opens the map below on dates in that month.

Staying there

A hotel room in Germany emits about 13.2 kg CO₂e per night under UK Government 2026 factors — a country average per occupied room, not this or any particular hotel. 7 nights in one room adds roughly 92 kg — about 12.3× the carbon of one person getting there by rail from Berlin. Two sharing the room halve that share each; the journey does not halve.

How busy it gets

Hamburg records 8.6 overnight stays per resident a year (16,068,105 nights in 2024). A well-visited region, busy in season but not overwhelmed.

Eurostat, nights spent at tourist accommodation by NUTS 3 region, against resident population. Shown for context only — it plays no part in which destinations appear or in what order. Eurostat does not cover the United Kingdom after 2016, nor North Africa or the Levant at all, so this figure is absent for roughly a third of the destinations here.

Distances are great-circle. Rail assumes international rail at 0.01135 kg CO₂e per passenger-km with a 1.3× track detour allowance; flights use 0.12576 kg per passenger-km including radiative forcing. Journey times are modelled, not timetabled. Full method.