Best time to visit Passau

Germany · Europe

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

The year in Passau

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Go in Apr–Aug — these months score within a whisker of each other; 19C max, 12 rainy days. Sep is the next best.

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Things to do in Passau

St. Stephen's Cathedral The cathedral is a baroque building, finished in 1688, but the earliest church on the site was already mentioned in 450.
Fortress Veste Oberhaus The fortress was built in 1219 by Passau's Prince-Bishops in order to control commerce across the rivers.
Glass Museum The museum focuses on the most important era of glass manufacturing from 1650-1950 with exhibits from Baroque, Rococo, Art Noveau, Art Deco, and Modernism.
St. Michael's Church This baroque church on the river banks gives Passau its typical looks of an Italian town.
Domplatz Public square in Passau, Germany

Tours and tickets in Passau

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Sights and their lines from Wikivoyage (Passau), 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

No fare history for this route yet, so this ranking is climate and crowds only — the price column will fill in as the scanner collects.

Month	Max °C	Rain days	Humidity	Sun h/day	Verdict	Why
Jan	4°	10d	83%	4.1h	avoid	bitter cold: 4C daily max
Feb	7°	9d	77%	6.0h	ok	7C max, 9 rainy days
Mar	11°	8d	70%	8.0h	ok	11C max, 8 rainy days
Apr	15°	8d	66%	9.8h	sweet spot	15C max, 8 rainy days
May	19°	12d	69%	10.4h	sweet spot	19C max, 12 rainy days
Jun	25°	9d	68%	12.3h	sweet spot	25C max, 9 rainy days
Jul	25°	10d	68%	12.1h	sweet spot busy	busier than usual
Aug	26°	9d	71%	10.8h	sweet spot busy	busier than usual
Sep	21°	9d	76%	9.1h	goodbusy	busier than usual
Oct	16°	9d	81%	6.9h	ok	16C max, 9 rainy days
Nov	9°	9d	86%	4.6h	avoid	9C max, 9 rainy days
Dec	5°	11d	86%	3.6h	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 old town: ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.

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 from July to September; quietest from January to March.

Then and now

Passau's June days now average 25.0°C, 4.6°C warmer than in 1981–1990. 10 of 12 months are clearly warmer.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
1981–90	1.9°	3.4°	8.6°	13.5°	18.5°	20.4°	23.1°	22.5°	18.8°	14.3°	6.7°	3.3°
2017–26	3.7°	7.1°	11.3°	15.5°	19.3°	25.0°	25.4°	25.6°	20.5°	15.8°	8.6°	5.2°
Change	+1.8°	+3.7°	+2.7°	+2.0°	+0.8°	+4.6°	+2.3°	+3.1°	+1.7°	+1.5°	+1.9°	+1.9°

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
Linz (LNZ)	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 Passau 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 Passau

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

Passau is a little spread out, but most places you will want to see are within walking distance, and buses run frequently (until 23:00) and are fairly cheap. More on Wikivoyage

From the Wikivoyage article on Passau, 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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Passau in pictures

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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

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Pudelek (Marcin Szala), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Pudelek (Marcin Szala), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Grünanlage, Neue Mitte Passau (4) — i

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What Passau is like

Passau is a city in Bavaria, Germany, close to the Austrian border. Nowadays, Passau is known for its historic buildings, its university, and its location at the three rivers, and for the last German train station before Austria. More on Wikivoyage

Worth seeing: Due to several changes over the centuries today's castle consists of Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque parts. Today the fortress houses a museum focussing on the history of Passau and its surroundings. More on Wikivoyage
Worth doing: Beer festival (Maidult und Herbstdult). A week in May & Sep. Passau has two beer festivals, one in May and one in September, that last one week each. More on Wikivoyage
Getting in: Linz International Airport (LNZ IATA), 80 km (50 mi) to the south-east of Passau in Austria, is the closest airport to the city, but also the smallest and least likely to host international flights… More on Wikivoyage

From the Wikivoyage article on Passau, 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 Passau

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

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