Stuttgart Christmas Market: how cold and wet are the evenings?

Stuttgart Christmas Market (from the last Wednesday of November to 23 December): over 35 seasons from 1991 to 2025, 26% of market evenings (17:00–21:00) had frost, 24% were wet (≥ 0.5 mm) and 8% had snowfall; at least one snowy evening came in 24 of 35 seasons. Source: ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus).

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Data updated: 2 November 2026 · Sources, licences and data

Calculated 3 November 2026 · weather: ERA5 1991–2025 · edition dates checked 2 November 2026

26%evenings with frost

24%wet evenings (≥ 0.5 mm)

8%evenings with snowfall

24 / 35seasons with a snowy evening

3.2 °Caverage evening temperature

Evenings by week of the season

Week	Frost	Wet	Mean
1	25%	17%	3.5 °C
2	27%	24%	3.3 °C
3	28%	23%	2.5 °C
4	26%	33%	3.6 °C
5	27%	13%	3.2 °C

Stuttgart Christmas Market sits in the middle of the list: frosty and wet evenings happen here roughly equally often. There is one surprise in the calendar: the wettest week falls not at the end of the season but in the fourth week.

Frost, rain and snow by week

Frost occurs on 26% of evenings, between Frankfurt (19%) and Munich (38%); wet evenings make up 24%, snowfall 8%, and the average is 3.2 °C. Week by week, frost stays steady at 25–28%. Wet evenings reach 33% in the fourth week, then drop to 13% in the fifth. Snow fell at least once in 24 of the 35 seasons, but 11 seasons, including 2024 and 2025, passed without any. In 2010 there was snowfall on 11 of 30 evenings with an average of −0.5 °C; in 2023, 12 of 25 evenings turned out wet.

2026: dates and opening hours

The market runs from 25 November to 23 December 2026, opening at 17:00 on the first day. Hours: Sun–Thu 11:00–21:00, Fri–Sat 11:00–22:00. This is the climate of 35 seasons from ERA5 reanalysis, not a forecast (methodology); all Christmas markets are listed in the section.

Seasons

evenings with frost (Seasons) · seasons with a snowy evening

Year	Dates	Frost	Wet	Snowfall	Mean
2025	26 November – 23 December	3 / 28	3 / 28	0 / 28	4.5 °C
2024	27 November – 23 December	4 / 27	7 / 27	0 / 27	4.2 °C
2023	29 November – 23 December	3 / 25	12 / 25	2 / 25	4.4 °C
2022	30 November – 23 December	10 / 24	4 / 24	3 / 24	1.5 °C
2021	24 November – 23 December	6 / 30	8 / 30	4 / 30	2.5 °C
2020	25 November – 23 December	5 / 29	8 / 29	3 / 29	3.6 °C
2019	27 November – 23 December	5 / 27	8 / 27	1 / 27	5.2 °C
2018	28 November – 23 December	2 / 26	11 / 26	1 / 26	5.7 °C
2017	29 November – 23 December	5 / 25	7 / 25	4 / 25	2.8 °C
2016	30 November – 23 December	10 / 24	0 / 24	0 / 24	1.3 °C
2015	25 November – 23 December	2 / 29	3 / 29	0 / 29	6.4 °C
2014	26 November – 23 December	0 / 28	7 / 28	0 / 28	5.3 °C
2013	27 November – 23 December	6 / 27	2 / 27	1 / 27	3.0 °C
2012	28 November – 23 December	8 / 26	8 / 26	8 / 26	2.0 °C
2011	30 November – 23 December	1 / 24	9 / 24	3 / 24	5.4 °C
2010	24 November – 23 December	16 / 30	13 / 30	11 / 30	−0.5 °C
2009	25 November – 23 December	8 / 29	9 / 29	3 / 29	3.1 °C
2008	26 November – 23 December	9 / 28	7 / 28	3 / 28	2.3 °C
2007	28 November – 23 December	11 / 26	5 / 26	0 / 26	2.4 °C
2006	29 November – 23 December	1 / 25	4 / 25	0 / 25	5.6 °C
2005	30 November – 23 December	6 / 24	6 / 24	4 / 24	2.0 °C
2004	24 November – 23 December	16 / 30	3 / 30	1 / 30	1.5 °C
2003	26 November – 23 December	7 / 28	3 / 28	2 / 28	3.2 °C
2002	27 November – 23 December	8 / 27	4 / 27	0 / 27	3.3 °C
2001	28 November – 23 December	13 / 26	5 / 26	1 / 26	1.4 °C
2000	29 November – 23 December	3 / 25	8 / 25	0 / 25	5.9 °C
1999	24 November – 23 December	8 / 30	7 / 30	4 / 30	2.7 °C
1998	25 November – 23 December	15 / 29	7 / 29	6 / 29	1.1 °C
1997	26 November – 23 December	6 / 28	10 / 28	4 / 28	2.9 °C
1996	27 November – 23 December	13 / 27	6 / 27	4 / 27	1.6 °C
1995	29 November – 23 December	14 / 25	6 / 25	2 / 25	1.8 °C
1994	30 November – 23 December	2 / 24	3 / 24	0 / 24	5.4 °C
1993	24 November – 23 December	9 / 30	10 / 30	1 / 30	3.9 °C
1992	25 November – 23 December	2 / 29	6 / 29	0 / 29	5.1 °C
1991	27 November – 23 December	14 / 27	4 / 27	2 / 27	0.6 °C

How to read these numbers

Season window: from the last Wednesday of November to 23 December, as described in Wikipedia (de): Stuttgarter Weihnachtsmarkt; we applied this rule to every season 1991–2025 as a climate window — past opening dates were not checked year by year.
ERA5 is a reanalysis on a 0.25° grid (about 25 km): it counts slightly more light-rain days than nearby weather stations (by about 5–7 percentage points) and gives daytime highs about 1–2.5 °C below station readings, so real hot days were hotter than shown here.

„vom letzten Mittwoch im November bis zum 23“ — Wikipedia (de): Stuttgarter Weihnachtsmarkt

Dates and sources

Coordinates: 48.775, 9.178; ERA5 cell centred at 48.75, 9.25 (average ground height of the cell 372 m).

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