September–October
Wk 39–41
The quietest stretch among this region's best weather weeks: crowd level around 40 out of 100, weather comfort near 61.
- Crowd level
- 36–48
- Comfort
- 54–67
Germany · Mecklenburgische Ostseeküste
Mecklenburg's Baltic coast: Hanseatic towns and four offshore islands
Wismar and Stralsund carry Hanseatic-era World Heritage in their old towns, and Kühlungsborn and Heiligendamm rank among the coast's long-established seaside resorts. Off the coast lie four separate islands: Rügen, Usedom, Poel and Hiddensee.
Busiest week
AugustCrowd level 100
Wk 31 · 1,280,041 overnight stays
Quietest weeks
JanuaryCrowd level 0
Wk 2–4 · measured against the region's own year, not against other regions
Sweet spot
September–OctoberCrowd level 36–48
Wk 39–41 · quietest while the weather still holds
Warmest month
20 °CComfort 78
August · around 60 mm of rain in the month
Mecklenburgische Ostseeküste in brief
Mecklenburg's Baltic coast divides from west to east into the sub-regions Klützer Winkel, Wismar Bay, Kühlung and Rostocker Heide; the Fischland-Darß-Zingst peninsula is treated as a travel region of its own. Along the coast lie the Hanseatic towns of Wismar, Rostock and Stralsund; the old towns of Wismar and Stralsund are World Heritage Sites, and the coast also has the seaside resorts of Kühlungsborn and Heiligendamm. Off the coast lie the islands of Rügen, Germany's largest island, Usedom with a German and a Polish part, plus Poel and the car-free Hiddensee.
When is Mecklenburgische Ostseeküste busy, when is it quiet?
Click a week. The panel on the right explains why it is busy or quiet.
Weather profile
Weather comfort is an absolute scale (0 = poor, 100 = ideal) and a second axis next to the season-relative crowd level.
JanuaryØ 1
FebruaryØ 6
MarchØ 14
AprilØ 28
MayØ 44
JuneØ 60
JulyØ 89
AugustØ 89
SeptemberØ 52
OctoberØ 38
NovemberØ 11
DecemberØ 9
Colour = season-relative crowd levelBar = weather comfort (Sun & warmth), absolute 0–100
Why this week?
September · Wk 39
Crowd level48/100 · moderate
quietbusy
Weather comfort26/100 · Sun & warmth
+24 % versus the region's annual average.
- Contributing months
- September (90 %) · October (10 %)
- Overnight stays/week
- 687,055
- Main source markets
- Germany (87 %) · Netherlands (3 %) · Switzerland (2 %) · 95% of guests modelled
- Region range
- 144,657–1,280,041 (avg 554,990)
- Base years
- 2022, 2023, 2024 (excluding 2020, 2021)
v1: Crowd-Score aus der Eurostat-Basisschicht (Übernachtungen), moduliert vom Schulferien-Druck der Quellmärkte, region-spezifisch gewichtet mit dem Quellland-Mix. Season-relativ zur Region. Event-Schichten folgen.
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The travel year in Mecklenburgische Ostseeküste, month by month
The year as a table to read and to cite: crowd level for every month, plus weather comfort and temperature from the climate normals.
| Month | Crowd level0–100, season-relative | Weather comfort0–100, profile “mild” | Avg temperature |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 1 | 13 | 2 °C |
| February | 6 | 16 | 3 °C |
| March | 14 | 26 | 6 °C |
| April | 28 | 44 | 10 °C |
| May | 44 | 67 | 15 °C |
| June | 60 | 77 | 19 °C |
| July | 89 | 76 | 20 °C |
| August | 89 | 78 | 20 °C |
| September | 52 | 74 | 17 °C |
| October | 38 | 51 | 12 °C |
| November | 11 | 28 | 6 °C |
| December | 9 | 16 | 3 °C |
The crowd level is season-relative: 100 is the annual peak of Mecklenburgische Ostseeküste itself, not the busiest destination in Europe. The figures say when it is quiet here — not where it is quieter than elsewhere.
Weather comfort 0–100 from the climate normals, profile “mild” – the same profile as the recommendation above, not the selection in the calendar. A “–” means the data for that month is missing.
Index 2.0 · As of 25/08/2026
The windows worth catching
Three windows from the model: first whether the weather suits the region, then how busy it gets.
May
Wk 18–20
A second option, also with usable weather: crowd level around 42, weather comfort near 63.
- Crowd level
- 39–44
- Comfort
- 58–68
July–August
Wk 30–32
The region's peak: crowd level around 98 out of 100. Only if the dates are fixed.
- Crowd level
- 96–100
- Comfort
- 76–78
Mecklenburgische Ostseeküste compared with Europe
How full the accommodation is here, measured against Europe – on the only measure on which two travel regions can be compared.
- Bed occupancy in Mecklenburgische Ostseeküste
- 25.6
- European median
- 23.1
per cent of bed places, annual mean
per cent of bed places, annual mean
Furthest from the median: January, at 0.6× the value. Closest to the median: April, at 1.0× the value.
Mean across 12 months, weighted by their weeks. This occupancy compares travel regions with one another. The crowding in the table above compares Mecklenburgische Ostseeküste with itself. The two measures are never combined.
Climate through the year
Average temperature with day/night range and precipitation across the twelve months.
- Avg temperature
- Day/night range
- Precipitation
| Month | Avg temperature (°C) | Day avg (°C) | Night avg (°C) | Precipitation (mm) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 2 | 2 | 1 | 65 |
| Feb | 2 | 3 | 2 | 53 |
| Mar | 4 | 6 | 3 | 47 |
| Apr | 8 | 10 | 6 | 48 |
| May | 13 | 15 | 11 | 53 |
| Jun | 18 | 19 | 16 | 77 |
| Jul | 18 | 20 | 17 | 86 |
| Aug | 19 | 20 | 17 | 60 |
| Sep | 15 | 17 | 14 | 52 |
| Oct | 11 | 12 | 10 | 65 |
| Nov | 6 | 6 | 5 | 47 |
| Dec | 3 | 3 | 3 | 57 |
The band shows mean daytime to nighttime temperature. Precipitation shown as monthly total (mm). Typical monthly value (climate normal), not a forecast.
How sunny?
How much sun a typical day delivers, month by month, expressed as hours of full midday sun.
Moderately sunny
≈ 3.0 h of full midday sun per day, annual average
Jun
Sunniest month
| Month | ≈ h of full midday sun per day |
|---|---|
| Jan | 0.6 |
| Feb | 1.4 |
| Mar | 2.6 |
| Apr | 4.4 |
| May | 5.5 |
| Jun | 5.9 |
| Jul | 5.1 |
| Aug | 4.5 |
| Sep | 3.2 |
| Oct | 1.6 |
| Nov | 0.8 |
| Dec | 0.4 |
Basis: mean daily solar irradiance in kWh/m²/day; 1 kWh/m² is roughly one hour of full midday sun (1,000 W/m²). Not the same as measured sunshine duration. Typical monthly value (climate normal), not a forecast.
Directly reachable from
Destination airports of Mecklenburgische Ostseeküste and every European departure airport with a direct connection to them.
Destination airports
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“Directly reachable” means a direct connection exists according to our sources. We do not show a live timetable. Availability and flight days can vary by season and airline.
Mecklenburgische Ostseeküste in detail
The shape of the coast
Mecklenburg's Baltic coast divides from west to east into the sub-regions Klützer Winkel, Wismar Bay, Kühlung and Rostocker Heide; the Fischland-Darß-Zingst peninsula is treated as a travel region of its own. The Klützer Winkel is the stretch of Baltic coast between Wismar and the mouth of the Trave, while Kühlung is a coastal terminal moraine ridge up to 130 metres high near Bad Doberan, Heiligendamm and Kühlungsborn. North-east of Rostock lies the Rostocker Heide, a woodland and heath area.
Three Hanseatic towns
Wismar is a Hanseatic town and a UNESCO World Heritage town with a stock of historic gabled houses and a harbour. Rostock is the largest city in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, lies on the river Warnow and has an overseas harbour; its district of Warnemünde has a wide sandy beach and a promenade, plus the Alter Strom with its cafés and fish restaurants. The old town of Stralsund is a World Heritage Site and shows Gothic architecture; the town is an important harbour. Wismar, Rostock and Stralsund grew into Hanseatic towns in the Middle Ages with a heyday in trade; Greifswald is home to the University of Greifswald.
Seaside resorts
Dassow, the westernmost settlement on the coast, forms the gateway to the Klützer Winkel. With its long promenade, Kühlungsborn is the largest Baltic seaside resort in Mecklenburg and carries the longest promenade in Germany. Heiligendamm is considered Germany's oldest seaside resort and was a gathering place for the German and international upper class in the nineteenth century. Bad Doberan carries a minster and is the starting point of the steam-driven narrow-gauge railway Molli, which runs via Heiligendamm to Kühlungsborn.
Four islands off the coast
Poel is Germany's seventh largest island and lies a few kilometres north of Wismar. Rügen is Germany's largest island; its chalk cliffs are protected as the Jasmund National Park. Usedom extends over both German and Polish territory. Hiddensee lies west of Rügen and is car-free.
History
In the seventh century, West Slavic tribes such as the Obotrites settled along the coast. During the Thirty Years' War the region was conquered by Sweden and remained part of the Swedish Empire until the Peace of Westphalia in 1648. With German reunification in 1990 the coast became part of the federal state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
Buildings, beaches and cuisine
The Bastorf lighthouse stands about 5 kilometres south-west of Kühlungsborn, and Bothmer Castle, a Baroque palace in Klütz, has a castle island and a landscape park. Dorf Mecklenburg carries a brick village church from the fourteenth century and a Dutch-style windmill from 1849; of the Slavic stronghold that gave the land of Mecklenburg its name, only an earth rampart remains. The Gothic Sonnenkamp monastery church in Neukloster carries stained glass from the first half of the thirteenth century and a carved altar from the early sixteenth century; Ribnitz-Damgarten is home to the German Amber Museum. The coast has designated nudist beaches, including a stretch about 5 kilometres long between the Westmole and the Wilhelmshöhe in Warnemünde and another near Thiessow at the south-eastern tip of Rügen; the cuisine of the coast rests on potatoes, cabbage, turnips and fresh-caught fish, above all herring, together with smoked eel, flounder, trout, halibut, mackerel, dogfish belly flap and hot-smoked salmon.
Frequently asked questions about the best time to visit Mecklenburgische Ostseeküste
Short answers on timing, weather and getting there, all from the data on this page.
When is the best time to visit Mecklenburgische Ostseeküste?
- The best time to visit Mecklenburgische Ostseeküste is September–October (Wk 39–41): it is the quietest stretch among the region's best weather weeks – crowd level around 40 out of 100, weather comfort about 61 out of 100.
When is Mecklenburgische Ostseeküste quietest?
- January (Wk 2–4) is the quietest time in Mecklenburgische Ostseeküste. Crowd levels there sit at 0 out of 100, the lowest across the year.
When is Mecklenburgische Ostseeküste busiest?
- Mecklenburgische Ostseeküste is busiest in August (Wk 31) with around 1,280,041 overnight stays in the peak week.
What is the weather like in Mecklenburgische Ostseeküste and when is it warmest?
- It is warmest in Mecklenburgische Ostseeküste in August with an average of 20 °C and around 60 mm of rain in the month.
How do you get to Mecklenburgische Ostseeküste?
- Mecklenburgische Ostseeküste is reachable via 2 destination airports with direct flights, including Heringsdorf Airport (HDF) and Laage Airport (RLG).
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Sources and data vintages
Every provenance note on this page, collected in one place.
- Crowding figures
- Index 2.0 · As of 25/08/2026. v1 approximation, calculated from Eurostat overnight stays. Day tourism and cruises (Venice, Dubrovnik …) are still missing, so we show these destinations as quieter than they are. The crowd score is a model-based forecast, not a measurement.
- Climate data
- Generated using Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2025.
- Reachability
Data sources: direct connections from Wikipedia (“Airlines and destinations”, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0, aggregated and modified by us), cross-checked with Eurostat, Destatis and the UK Civil Aviation Authority; airport data from OurAirports (Public Domain). The derived connection data is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Data as of: September 2026
- Region text
- Text by HolidayHub, written from Wikivoyage „Mecklenburgische Ostseeküste“ (1741608). Wikivoyage and Wikipedia are licensed CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikidata CC0.
- Data basis
- All figures are approximations derived from open data (crowd level from Eurostat overnight stays, climate from Copernicus/ERA5-Land), not measurements.