Today
Has it rained enough in Berlin?
Rain soaked properly in 5 days ago, and the ground is still holding some of it.
Berlin has had 23.2mm of rain in the last 30 days. A normal October here brings 49.4mm, so that is about 47% of what the ground usually gets — and the driest October in 30 years was 7.9mm.
Rain reaching the roots · 14 days
17 OctToday
Reached the roots
Rain that did not
6 days of 14
Thirty years
Rain in Berlin through a normal year
Across a normal year Berlin gets about 612.1mm of rain, most of it in July (79.5mm) and least in April (36.1mm).
A normal October in Berlin has rain on 14 days. Only 8 of them bring enough to reach a root.
That makes Berlin the driest place this site covers in Germany in October — 49.4mm against Cologne's 77.8mm 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 basketsWorst hit, and first to suffer. Very little soil, fully exposed, and nothing to fall back on — in this weather they can empty in a day.
- Salad and leafy vegShallow-rooted and quick to bolt once they run dry. First priority of anything in the ground.
- Beds and bordersA long soak that reaches the roots is worth more than a daily sprinkle, which only wets the surface and is gone by lunchtime.
- Established shrubs and treesFine as they are. They draw from far deeper than a dry spell reaches.