Climate change in Germany: How warm was 2022 in your region?
The year 2024 and the first half of 2025 were noticeably warmer in Germany than previous years. On average, the measuring stations recorded a temperature increase of 2.6 degrees Celsius compared to the long-term average.
Enter a postal code or location in the search and see the differences in your region.
The temperature deviation ranges from 0.9 to 3.2 degrees Celsius. The best way to explore regional differences is to drag the slider above the Germany map slightly to the right, which will display only the locations with the largest deviation.
The geographical distribution of the measuring stations with large temperature increases is striking: With a few exceptions, all are located in southeastern Germany. At some stations in Bavaria and near the Bavarian border, the temperature anomaly was more than three degrees.
If you pull the slider to the left, for example to 1.5 degrees (this is the value to which global warming should be limited according to the Paris Climate Agreement), almost all German measuring stations are already above this.
Even high altitude doesn't help you escape climate change. Among the warmest measuring stations with increases of more than 3 degrees is Birx in Thuringia, on the border with Hesse and Bavaria, at an elevation of 747 meters in the Rhön Mountains.
Warming is currently least noticeable near the coast, as the oceans are heating up more slowly than the land masses. However, residents there are exposed to the threat of rising sea levels, among other things.
Since almost all German measuring stations are located on land, it's not surprising that Germany is warming faster than the global average. The global benchmark of just over 1.5 degrees Celsius also takes into account temperature measurements over the oceans. But even compared to other countries, Germany is above average.
No matter where you measure, the rate of temperature rise has increased significantly over the past 50 years. Since the 1970s, every decade in Germany has been warmer than the previous one.
The German Weather Service (DND) has published the daily air temperature of all German measuring stations since 1821. The RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland (RND) has used this data to determine the average temperature for each day of the year and each station for the period from 1961 to 1990. This period is considered a suitable reference value in climate science for determining long-term warming. For stations that began operating after 1961, the first available year up to 1990 was used as the reference period. Measuring stations that began operating after 1982 were excluded to ensure the reference period was sufficiently long. The long-term average was compared with the average daily temperature since the beginning of 2024 (as of June 30, 2025). For searches based on postcode, the geographical center of the postcode areas was determined, and the measuring station with the shortest distance was assigned.
This evaluation was first published in 2022 and has been updated at irregular intervals since then.
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