diff --git a/apps/benchmarks/UniformGridCPU/UniformGridCPU.cpp b/apps/benchmarks/UniformGridCPU/UniformGridCPU.cpp
index c8a92078c2a370a20686b700371e1ef85739ac62..e701167d1a4ce2dafb55e04e58748af3c7c48c64 100644
--- a/apps/benchmarks/UniformGridCPU/UniformGridCPU.cpp
+++ b/apps/benchmarks/UniformGridCPU/UniformGridCPU.cpp
@@ -239,7 +239,7 @@ int main(int argc, char** argv)
          // Prints timing statistics for every outer iteration
          // TODO: to much information, should be a verbose option only.
          // performance.logResultOnRoot(timesteps, timeToSolutionForCurrentOuterIteration);
-         if ( outerIteration % std::max( 1, std::ceil(outerIterations / 10) ) == 0)
+         if ( outerIteration % std::max( uint_t(1), walberla::numeric_cast<uint_t>(std::ceil(outerIterations / 10) )) == 0)
          {
             WALBERLA_LOG_RESULT_ON_ROOT("Outer step [" << outerIteration << "/" << outerIterations << "] took " << timeToSolutionForCurrentOuterIteration << " seconds.")
          }
diff --git a/apps/benchmarks/UniformGridGPU/UniformGridGPU.cpp b/apps/benchmarks/UniformGridGPU/UniformGridGPU.cpp
index 2e7454c5594e8e8a6d455ecbadd2c154eae17f9b..3d4a0de63f1cb3c4fa9f4a6e6bd893bd77d5aa4a 100644
--- a/apps/benchmarks/UniformGridGPU/UniformGridGPU.cpp
+++ b/apps/benchmarks/UniformGridGPU/UniformGridGPU.cpp
@@ -288,7 +288,7 @@ int main(int argc, char** argv)
          // Prints timing statistics for every outer iteration
          // TODO: to much information, should be a verbose option only.
          // performance.logResultOnRoot(timesteps, timeToSolutionForCurrentOuterIteration);
-         if ( outerIteration % std::max( 1, std::ceil(outerIterations / 10) ) == 0)
+         if ( outerIteration % std::max( uint_t(1), walberla::numeric_cast<uint_t>(std::ceil(outerIterations / 10) )) == 0)
          {
             WALBERLA_LOG_RESULT_ON_ROOT("Outer step [" << outerIteration << "/" << outerIterations << "] took " << timeToSolutionForCurrentOuterIteration << " seconds.")
          }