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About
Meissen is a town of approximately 30,000 inhabitants, situated about 25 km (16 mi) north-west of Dresden and 75 km (47 mi) west of Bautzen, on both banks of the River Elbe in the Free State of Saxony, in eastern Germany. Meissen is renowned as the home of Meissen porcelain, the Albrechtsburg castle, the Gothic Meissen Cathedral, and the Meissen Church of Our Lady.
Wikipedia →Summary excerpted from the Wikipedia article Meissen, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Text may be clipped or paraphrased to fit this page.
The next week in Meissen
7-day forecast from Open-Meteo. UV badges flag days when sun protection matters (3 and above is moderate; 8 and above is risk territory for unprotected fair skin within 30 minutes).
Today
Showers
15° / 5°
0.8 mm
UV Moderate
Sat
Overcast
15° / 6°
UV High
Sun
Overcast
17° / 4°
UV High
Mon
Overcast
19° / 9°
UV High
Tue
Overcast
20° / 10°
UV High
Wed
Overcast
22° / 10°
UV High
In May 16
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Air quality
No monitoring station within 25 km.
Weather
29° / -2°
Typical high / low
2 mm rainfall this month
Daylight
15.5h
05:16 – 20:47local
Year-round climate
Monthly highs, lows, and rainfall (long-term averages, NASA POWER).
Airports near Meissen
2 commercial airports within 100 km. Closest is Dresden Airport (DRS) at 21 km.
Getting around Meissen
Public-transit operators within 8 km of the city center. Click through to each operator’s site for routes, fares, and tickets.
Local transit operators
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Sister cities
Sources
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- Wikipedia →
Summary, canonical article, and some image fallbacks.
- Wikidata →
Population, area, image, coordinates, and linked identifiers where available.
- NASA POWER →
Monthly temperature and rainfall climatology.
- Open-Meteo historical weather →
1991-2020 temperature and precipitation cross-check for compact climate fields.
- Open-Elevation →
Coordinate-based elevation backfill.
- tz database →
Coordinate-based IANA timezone lookup.
- City flag source →
Public domain, (Converted into PNG format by User:Perhelion).
- Site credits →
Global source notes, map tiles, flags, licenses, and attribution policy.