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Annual Weather Averages Near Vienna

Averages are for Vienna Schwechat-Flughafen Airport, which is 18 kilometers from Vienna.

Based on weather reports collected during 1985–2015.

All Year Climate & Weather Averages in Vienna

High Temp: 26 °C

Low Temp: -3 °C

Mean Temp: 11 °C

Precipitation: 10.7 mm

Humidity: 73%

Dew Point: 5 °C

Wind: 15 km/h

Pressure: 1017 mbar

Visibility: 12 km

January Climate & Weather Averages in Vienna

Precipitation: 6.5 mm

Humidity: 82%

Dew Point: -3 °C

Wind: 16 km/h

Pressure: 1021 mbar

Visibility: 9 km

February Climate & Weather Averages in Vienna

Precipitation: 6.9 mm

Humidity: 77%

Dew Point: -2 °C

Wind: 17 km/h

Pressure: 1019 mbar

Visibility: 10 km

March Climate & Weather Averages in Vienna

Precipitation: 8.5 mm

Humidity: 70%

Dew Point: 0 °C

Wind: 17 km/h

Pressure: 1018 mbar

Visibility: 11 km

April Climate & Weather Averages in Vienna

Precipitation: 7.2 mm

Humidity: 65%

Dew Point: 4 °C

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Wind: 16 km/h

Pressure: 1014 mbar

Visibility: 13 km

May Climate & Weather Averages in Vienna

High Temp: 21 °C

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Low Temp: 10 °C

Mean Temp: 15 °C

Precipitation: 16.0 mm

Humidity: 68%

Dew Point: 9 °C

Wind: 15 km/h

Pressure: 1016 mbar

Visibility: 14 km

June Climate & Weather Averages in Vienna

High Temp: 24 °C

Low Temp: 13 °C

Mean Temp: 19 °C

Precipitation: 16.1 mm

Humidity: 68%

Dew Point: 12 °C

Wind: 14 km/h

Pressure: 1015 mbar

Visibility: 14 km

July Climate & Weather Averages in Vienna

High Temp: 26 °C

Low Temp: 16 °C

Mean Temp: 21 °C

Precipitation: 18.4 mm

Humidity: 65%

Dew Point: 14 °C

Wind: 14 km/h

Pressure: 1015 mbar

Visibility: 15 km

August Climate & Weather Averages in Vienna

High Temp: 26 °C

Low Temp: 15 °C

Mean Temp: 21 °C

Precipitation: 15.8 mm

Humidity: 67%

Dew Point: 14 °C

Wind: 13 km/h

Pressure: 1016 mbar

Visibility: 14 km

September Climate & Weather Averages in Vienna

High Temp: 21 °C

Low Temp: 11 °C

Mean Temp: 16 °C

Precipitation: 12.8 mm

Humidity: 73%

Dew Point: 10 °C

Wind: 14 km/h

Pressure: 1017 mbar

Visibility: 13 km

October Climate & Weather Averages in Vienna

Precipitation: 7.6 mm

Humidity: 79%

Dew Point: 7 °C

Wind: 14 km/h

Pressure: 1019 mbar

Visibility: 10 km

November Climate & Weather Averages in Vienna

Precipitation: 5.8 mm

Humidity: 83%

Dew Point: 2 °C

Wind: 16 km/h

Pressure: 1018 mbar

Visibility: 9 km

December Climate & Weather Averages in Vienna

Precipitation: 6.7 mm

Humidity: 84%

Dew Point: -2 °C

Wind: 16 km/h

Pressure: 1021 mbar

Visibility: 9 km

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Vienna, German Wien, Czech Videň, Hungarian Bécs, city and Bundesland (federal state), the capital of Austria. Of the country’s nine states, Vienna is the smallest in area but the largest in population.

Modern Vienna has undergone several historical incarnations. From 1558 to 1918 it was an imperial city—until 1806 the seat of the Holy Roman Empire and then the capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In 1918 it became the capital of the truncated, landlocked central European country that emerged from World War I as a republic. From 1938 to 1945 Austria was a part of Adolf Hitler’s “Greater” Germany, and Vienna became “Greater” Vienna, reflecting the Nazi revision of the city limits. In the decade following World War II, Austria was occupied by British, French, American, and Soviet forces, and Vienna was divided into five zones, including an international zone, covering the Innere Stadt (“Inner City”). In 1955 the State Treaty, by which the country regained independence, was signed with the four occupying powers, and Vienna became once again the capital of a sovereign Austria.

Vienna is among the least spoiled of the great old western European capitals. Its central core, the Innere Stadt, is easily manageable by foot and public transportation. In a city renowned for its architecture, many of Vienna’s urban prospects remain basically those devised over several centuries by imperial gardeners and architects. The skyline is still dominated by the spire of St. Stephen’s Cathedral and by the giant Ferris wheel in the city’s chief park, the Prater. The city suffered heavy damage in the last months of World War II, and much rebuilding was done after the war. Nevertheless, the character of Vienna as a whole remains much the same as in the years before 1914.

Viennese Lebenskunst (“art of living”) has survived changing rulers and times. It is still possible to live in Vienna at almost the same pace and in much the same style as it was a century ago. The same music is played in the same rebuilt concert halls, and a theatrical or operatic success still stimulates lively conversation. One can drink the same sourish local wines in the taverns on the outskirts of town, consume the same mountains of whipped cream at Sacher’s and Demel’s, and sample the same infinite varieties of coffee in countless cafés. Thick woolen suits and overcoats in shades of green, gray, or brown loden cloth and colourful dirndl dresses may still be seen. It is even possible for tourists, and for others on festive occasions, to ride in a traditional fiacre, the two-horse carriage driven by a bowler-hatted coachman.

Austria’s capital has avoided many of the problems—financial crises, social unrest, urban decay—that afflict other European cities. Its people enjoy an enlightened health and welfare system, which originated in the reforms of Empress Maria Theresa and Emperor Joseph II in the 18th century. A city of green parks with ponds, cafés, and playing bands; opulent stores and elegant shopping streets; banks, bookshops, and crowded theatres; and boulevards for leisurely sauntering—Vienna is an invigorating distillation of human energy and imagination. Area city, 160 square miles (415 square km); metropolitan area, 1,491 square miles (3,862 square km). Pop. (2011) city, 1,714,227; (2017 est.) city, 1,867,582; urban agglom., 2,157,434.

Physical and human geography

The landscape

Site

Vienna lies in the northeastern corner of Austria, between the foothills of the Alps and the Carpathians, where the Danube (German: Donau), Europe’s second longest river, has cut its course through the mountains. The city is situated alongside the river, most of it on the right bank. The Vienna basin was a nodal point of ancient trade and military routes. It linked north and south along the “amber route” that ran southward from the Baltic and linked east and west along the Danube. Strategically, Vienna commands the surrounding regions, which include sections of Austria’s border with Slovakia, the Czech Republic, and Hungary.

Climate

Lying east of the Alps, Vienna is protected from their climatic influences by a range of hills, the Vienna Woods (Wiener Wald). The city’s weather comes both from the north, the winds bringing cool summers and warm winters, and from the southeast, bringing heat in summer and cold in winter. The result, despite some summer fog and heat and winter snow and ice, is a generally temperate and agreeable climate. Throughout the year the temperature averages above 50 °F (10 °C). The characteristic Lüfterl (“Vienna air”), a light breeze blowing from the northwest and west, provides relief on hot summer evenings. Rainfall is fairly low, averaging 26 inches (66 cm) per year, the greater part of it coming in summer downpours.