Leipzig has a continental climate with summer temperatures sometimes over 30 Celsius (on 10 days of 2010) and very frequently below 0 in winter (on 62 days of 2010). As in much of Germany, snow will regularly stay on the ground for a number of weeks, or even months, in the winter.
The hottest day on record was the 9 August 1992 with a high of 38.8 �C, the coldest was the 14 January 1987 with ?24.1 �C
