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Best time to visit Garmisch-Partenkirchen

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All twelve months scored on daily temperature, rainfall, humidity and holiday crowding.

The year in Garmisch-Partenkirchen

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  1. Garmisch-Partenkirchen in January: avoid
  2. Garmisch-Partenkirchen in February: ok
  3. Garmisch-Partenkirchen in March: ok
  4. Garmisch-Partenkirchen in April: sweet spot
  5. Garmisch-Partenkirchen in May: avoid
  6. Garmisch-Partenkirchen in June: sweet spot
  7. Garmisch-Partenkirchen in July: avoid
  8. Garmisch-Partenkirchen in August: ok, busy
  9. Garmisch-Partenkirchen in September: sweet spot
  10. Garmisch-Partenkirchen in October: sweet spot
  11. Garmisch-Partenkirchen in November: ok
  12. Garmisch-Partenkirchen in December: avoid
  • Sweet spot
  • Good
  • OK
  • Avoid
  • Busy
Good for
Go in Apr, Jun, Sep or Oct — these months score within a whisker of each other; 23C max, 14 rainy days. Aug is the next best.

Things to do in Garmisch-Partenkirchen

  • Zugspitze Highest peak of the Wetterstein Mountains (Eastern Alps)
  • Linderhof Palace Palace in Bavaria, Germany
  • Wank Mountain in Bavaria, Germany
  • Wieskirche Roman Catholic church in the municipality of Steingaden, Bavaria, Germany
  • King's House on Schachen Alpine chalet of Ludwig II of Bavaria, Germany
  • Hochvogel Mountain of the Allgäu Alps at the border of Tyrol, Austria, and Bavaria, Germany
  • Aggenstein Mountain of the Allgäu Alps at the border of Bavaria, Germany and Tyrol, Austria

Tours and tickets in Garmisch-Partenkirchen

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Sights and their lines from Wikivoyage, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0, and Wikidata; in order of how often each one's Wikipedia article was read on phones in the last 12 months.

Month by month

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MonthMax °CRain days HumiditySun h/day VerdictWhy
Jan 4° 12d 79% 5.4h avoid bitter cold: 4C daily max
Feb 7° 10d 78% 6.4h ok 7C max, 10 rainy days
Mar 10° 13d 77% 7.8h ok 10C max, 13 rainy days
Apr 14° 12d 76% 9.3h sweet spot 14C max, 12 rainy days
May 17° 20d 80% 9.6h avoid monsoon: 20 rainy days, 207mm
Jun 23° 14d* 79% 11.5h sweet spot 23C max, 14 rainy days
Jul 23° 17d 80% 11.4h avoid monsoon: 17 rainy days, 233mm
Aug 23° 14d* 82% 10.2h okbusy busier than usual
Sep 19° 15d 84% 8.8h sweet spot 19C max, 15 rainy days
Oct 16° 12d 83% 7.2h sweet spot 16C max, 12 rainy days
Nov 10° 10d 83% 5.6h ok 10C max, 10 rainy days
Dec 5° 13d 81% 4.5h avoid bitter cold: 5C daily max

Rain days are the days with at least 1 mm of rain, as a weather station counts them.

Weather read at the centre: ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.* Rainy days in June and August are as the weather station at Garmisch-Partenkirchen (3 km away) counts them, where it and the model disagree on a wet month (WMO 10963, 2017–2026).

A busy month is a crowded one, not a bad one — usually it is crowded because the weather is good. It is flagged rather than scored down, and crowds alone never make a month “avoid”: that is reserved for weather worth skipping.

How busy it gets

Busiest in July and August; quietest in March, April, May and November.

Then and now

Garmisch-Partenkirchen's June days now average 22.6°C, 4.4°C warmer than in 1981–1990. 8 of 12 months are clearly warmer.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
1981–902.1°3.5°6.8°10.0°15.3°18.2°21.2°20.6°18.4°15.1°7.5°3.5°
2017–264.2°6.9°9.8°13.6°16.9°22.6°23.1°23.3°19.3°16.2°9.7°5.4°
Change+2.1°+3.5°+2.9°+3.5°+1.6°+4.4°+1.9°+2.7°+1.0°+1.1°+2.2°+2.0°

The average daily high, month by month, for the nearest ERA5 grid cell. Bold is a clear change; grey is within the ordinary spread between years. Every destination, ranked.

Getting there

Fly into Munich (MUC), then drive. The flights under Where to book are to Munich.

Munich (MUC) the drive is not measured yet
Innsbruck (INN) the drive is not measured yet

The drive from each airport is the road's, from openrouteservice.org by HeiGIT: typical, not a schedule.

How far Garmisch-Partenkirchen is, and what it costs, depends on where you set off from — the months above do not.

Before you go

Type C and F plugs at 230 V. Drives on the right. The currency is the Euro. No UK Foreign Office advice against travel. Everything for Germany: cost of living, languages, emergency numbers and health.

Being there

On arrival

  • Paying — Cash is still common: small cafés, independent shops and market stalls may not take cards, and foreign credit cards are less widely accepted. Supermarkets and chains take cards, often contactless.
  • UPI, for visitors from India — Not accepted for paying here; bring a card that works abroad.
  • Tipping — Round up or add up to 10% in restaurants by telling the server the total as you pay. Give taxi drivers 5 to 10%.

Getting around Garmisch-Partenkirchen

  • Apps — Rides: Bolt, FreeNow, Uber. Maps: Google Maps, Apple Maps. Messages: WhatsApp.

Public buses in the Garmisch-Partenkirchen area very efficient. More on Wikivoyage

From the Wikivoyage article on Garmisch-Partenkirchen, written by travellers and licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Help

  • Emergency — police 110 · ambulance and fire 112.
    TravelCharika is not an emergency service: we cannot call for help or send anyone. Numbers can change; if one fails, ask someone local or your hotel.

Put together by hand from the sources listed, checked 7 October 2026. Apps, cards and rules change, so check before you rely on one.

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Garmisch-Partenkirchen in pictures

Garmisch-Partenkirchen
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Flocci Nivis, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Flocci Nivis, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Linderhof Palace 01
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Llez, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

What Garmisch-Partenkirchen is like

Garmisch-Partenkirchen is in Upper Bavaria. Garmisch-Partenkirchen lies at the foot of the Zugspitze in the Werdenfelser Land in Upper Bavaria and is Germany's most important winter sports metropolis, Olympic venue and important international winter sports center in the entire Alpine region. More on Wikivoyage

Worth seeing
Schachentor. A viewpoint, part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site The Palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria: Neuschwanstein, Linderhof, Schachen and Herrenchiemsee. The Partnach river flows through this gorge. More on Wikivoyage
Worth doing
Rent a bicycle, from a few cycle rentals in town, and ride to neighbouring towns (Farchant 10-20 min, Grainau 15-25 min, Eschenlohe 30-50 min), with absolutely stunning and mezmorizing views of the alps… More on Wikivoyage
Getting in
Garmisch is less than an hour by car from Munich, and the ride is a beautiful stretch of Autobahn, unfortunately not the whole way. Expect to drive up to three hours on weekends and public holidays. More on Wikivoyage

From the Wikivoyage article on Garmisch-Partenkirchen, written by travellers and licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the full article has far more. The numbers above are measured; this is experience.

Around Garmisch-Partenkirchen

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Kind of place

Garmisch-Partenkirchen is in Germany, Europe. Distances are great-circle, so a short one can still be a long way round.

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