Today
Has it rained enough in Hanover?
Rain soaked properly in 5 days ago, and the ground is still holding some of it.
Hanover has had 61.3mm of rain in the last 30 days. A normal October here brings 60.1mm, so the ground is roughly where it should be for the time of year.
Rain reaching the roots · 14 days
17 OctToday
Reached the roots
Rain that did not
one day of 14
Thirty years
Rain in Hanover through a normal year
Across a normal year Hanover gets about 714.2mm of rain, most of it in July (76.7mm) and least in April (45.8mm).
A normal October in Hanover has rain on 16 days. Only 10 of them bring enough to reach a root.
That makes Hanover one of the drier places this site covers in Germany in October — 8th 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.