Watering gardens in Salzburg

No need today

Not until Sunday.

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Today

Has it rained enough in Salzburg?

Rain soaked properly in 4 days ago, and the ground is still holding some of it.

Salzburg has had 73mm of rain in the last 30 days. A normal September here brings 166.3mm, so that is about 44% of what the ground usually gets — and the driest September in 30 years was 35.5mm.

Rain reaching the roots · 14 days
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Reached the roots Rain that did not one day of 14
Thirty years

Rain in Salzburg through a normal year

Across a normal year Salzburg gets about 1736.7mm of rain, most of it in July (197.9mm) and least in February (106.1mm).

A normal September in Salzburg has rain on 18 days. Only 14 of them bring enough to reach a root.

That makes Salzburg the wettest place this site covers in Europe in September — 166.3mm against Athens's 19.4mm at the other end.

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Average rainfall by month, 1995–2024
What it means

What that means for what you grow

  • Pots and hanging basketsWorth checking by hand even so — a pot in the sun can dry out in a wet week, because there is so little soil to hold anything.
  • Beds and bordersNothing needed. Watering soil that is already wet does more harm than good.
  • New plantingsAnything planted within the last month is the exception; its roots have not spread far enough to find water on their own.