- Population
- 41,519
- 41.5K
- Elevation
- 411 m
- above sea level
- Local time
- UTC+01:00
- Europe/Berlin · UTC+01:00
- Places inside
- 14
- listed under Freiberg
- Airports
- DRS Dresden Airport39 km
- KLV Karlovy Vary Airport84 km
About Freiberg
Freiberg is a village. Location: Landkreis Mittelsachsen, Saxony. Population: 41,519. Elevation: 411 m.
Freiberg (German pronunciation: [ˈfʁaɪbɛʁk] ) is a university and former mining town in Saxony, Germany, with around 41,000 inhabitants. The city lies in the foreland of the Ore Mountains, in the Saxon urbanization axis, which runs along the northern edge of the Elster and Ore Mountains, stretching from Plauen in the southwest via Zwickau, Chemnitz and Freiberg to Dresden in the northeast. It sits on the Freiberger Mulde, a tributary of the Mulde River.
Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0
Twin towns and sister cities of Freiberg
- Delft Municipality· The Netherlands
Source: Wikidata. Only places with a page on this site are shown.
Population of Freiberg over time
| 2013 | 40,268 | |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 41,641 | |
| 2016 | 41,642 | |
| 2017 | 41,496 | |
| 2019 | 40,885 | |
| 2021 | 39,721 | |
| 2022 | 40,485 | |
| 2023 | 41,045 | |
| 2024 | 41,519 | |
| 2025 | 41,205 |
Censuses and official estimates; source: Wikidata.
Climate of Freiberg
Best months for sightseeingBest months for sightseeing: June–September.
This month · November
A cold month
Day 6° · Night 1° · Rain 60 mm
- Hottest month
- July (day 22°)
- Coldest month
- January (night -4°)
- Wettest month
- July (101 mm)
- Driest month
- February (50 mm)
Bars: average monthly low and high temperature. Below: precipitation. Monthly averages for 1970–2000 at about 18 km resolution, adjusted for elevation. Highlighted months are mild and relatively dry. Source: WorldClim 2.1 (CC BY 4.0).
Show values as a table
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average high (°C) | 1° | 2° | 7° | 12° | 18° | 20° | 22° | 22° | 18° | 12° | 6° | 3° |
| Average low (°C) | -4° | -4° | -1° | 3° | 7° | 10° | 12° | 12° | 9° | 5° | 1° | -2° |
| Precipitation (mm) | 58 | 50 | 65 | 51 | 69 | 83 | 101 | 85 | 58 | 57 | 60 | 67 |
Other places to visit in this season: June July August September
How to get to Freiberg
The nearest airport is Dresden Airport (DRS), 39 km to the northeast as the crow flies. The nearest large city is Chemnitz, 30 km to the west.
Airports
- Dresden Airport (DRS) Dresden 39 kmnortheast
- Karlovy Vary Airport (KLV) Karlovy Vary 84 kmsouth
- Leipzig/Halle Airport (LEJ) Schkeuditz 96 kmnorthwest
Nearby large cities
- Chemnitz Population: 247.2K 30 kmwest
- Dresden Population: 564.9K 32 kmnortheast
- Leipzig Population: 505K 83 kmnorthwest
- Gera Population: 104.7K 89 kmwest
- Halle Population: 237.9K 114 kmnorthwest
Straight-line distances; road distances are longer. Airport data: OurAirports.
Places in Freiberg
14 placesBar: population relative to the most populous place in this list.
Cities & villages9
- Freibergsdorf · Village
- Halsbach · Village
- Kleinwaltersdorf · Village
- Langenrinne · Village
- Lossnitz · Village
- Lößnitz · Village
- Muldenhütten · Village
- Neuhilbersdorf · Village
- Zug · Village
Mountains & nature1
- Freiberg TP · Mountain
Heritage & sights3
- Freiberg Concentration Camp · Historic site
- Kamin 1 der Muldenhütte · Landmark
- Kamin 2 der Muldenhütte · Landmark
Nearby attractions & nature
Everything nearby-
Freiberg, Latrinenfund Historic site, Halsbrücke0.7 km N
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Goldberg Mountain, Weißenborn/Erzgeb.3.6 km SE
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Freiberger Stadtwald Natural site, Saxony3 km SW
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Hospitalwald Natural site, Saxony3.2 km SW
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Schmohlhöhe Mountain, Bobritzsch-Hilbersdorf5.2 km E
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Steinberg Mountain, Oberschöna4.6 km SW
Sources & licences
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