Today
Has it rained enough in Dortmund?
Rain soaked properly in 3 days ago, and the ground is still holding some of it.
Dortmund has had 119.5mm of rain in the last 30 days. That is well above the 72mm a normal October brings here, and closer to the wettest on record (164.9mm).
Rain reaching the roots · 14 days
17 OctToday
Reached the roots
Rain that did not
6 days of 14
Thirty years
Rain in Dortmund through a normal year
Across a normal year Dortmund gets about 928mm of rain, most of it in July (92.9mm) and least in April (59.6mm).
A normal October in Dortmund has rain on 16 days. Only 11 of them bring enough to reach a root.
That makes Dortmund one of the wetter places this site covers in Germany in October — 3rd of 12, against Cologne at the wet end (77.8mm) and Berlin at the dry end (49.4mm).
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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.