Today
Has it rained enough in Cologne?
Rain soaked properly in 3 days ago, and the ground is still holding some of it.
Cologne has had 118.4mm of rain in the last 30 days. That is well above the 77.8mm a normal October brings here, and closer to the wettest on record (207.5mm).
Rain reaching the roots · 14 days
17 OctToday
Reached the roots
Rain that did not
3 days of 14
Thirty years
Rain in Cologne through a normal year
Across a normal year Cologne gets about 928.5mm of rain, most of it in December (92.2mm) and least in April (55.8mm).
A normal October in Cologne has rain on 17 days. Only 11 of them bring enough to reach a root.
That makes Cologne the wettest place this site covers in Germany in October — 77.8mm against Berlin's 49.4mm 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.