page_title: Hiddensee
section_title: Climate
hierarchical_section_title: Hiddensee / Climate
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Klimadiagramm nach Walter und Lieth, metrisch, °Celsius und Millimeter, erstellt mit Geoklima 2.1 English: climate chart in the format by Walter and Lieth, metric, °Celsisus and millimeters, made with Geoklima 2.1
context_page_description: Hiddensee is a car-free island in the Baltic Sea, located west of Germany's largest island, Rügen, on the German coast.
  The island has about 1,000 inhabitants. It was a holiday destination for East German tourists during German Democratic Republic times, and continues to attract tourists today. It is the location of the University of Greifswald's ornithological station. Gerhart Hauptmann and Walter Felsenstein are buried there.
context_section_description: Hiddensee is dominated macro-climatically by the Baltic Sea coastal climate with frequent alternation between maritime and continental influences. Characteristically it has frequent, brisk and changeable winds and long periods of sunshine. This averages 1,850 hours per year. As a result, Hiddensee is one of the sunniest places in Germany. One special feature is so-called transperiod wind circulation, when there are weak, offshore wind conditions, and which is caused by the different temperatures over the sea and land. This produces a sea breeze in late morning that abates in the afternoon or evening.
  The longstanding annual average temperature on the island is 8 °C (46 °F). The average wind speed in Kloster is 7 metres per second (16 mph). In comparison to the nearby island of Rügen, the average annual precipitation on Hiddensee is markedly less at 540 millimetres.
  In 2008, Hiddensee-Dornbusch was the sunniest place in Germany, as reported by the weather service, Meteomedia, with 2,168 hours of sunshine. The data was gathered by Meteomedia's own weather station (54.60°N 13.12°E; 69 m above NN).
caption: Climatic diagram for Cape Arkona
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