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Very warm, too dry and particularly sunny: that’s how it was Weather 2025. This is shown by the balance sheet published by the German Weather Service (DWD) after a preliminary evaluation of its approximately 2,000 measuring stations. As a result, the year 2025 will be among the ten warmest since 1881 and the five driest since 1951.
A “historic spring drought in the east” was particularly noticeable, wrote the DWD. At the beginning of July it was extreme across Germany heat given, while September was very rainy, especially in West Germany. According to the DWD, it remained unusually cloudy in October, but the sun came out more often in winter.
Lots of sun
At 10.1 degrees, the average temperature was 1.9 degrees higher than the internationally valid reference period 1961-1990 and 0.8 degrees above the comparison period 1991-2020. “This makes 2025 one of the ten warmest years since records began in 1881.”
The Global warming This year it was also noticeable in Germany: the lowest temperature was measured at minus 19.7 degrees on February 18th in Deutschneudorf-Brüderwiese in the Erzgebirge. “Spring and June were then significantly too mild to warm,” the report says. This culminated in the maximum temperature of 39.3 degrees measured in Andernach near Koblenz on July 2nd.
The over 1,945 hours of sunshine also made 2025 one of the sunniest years since 1951. It could well have been the sunniest year ever – but the rather cloudy months of July and October corrected the balance downwards. Nevertheless, 2025 was one of the five sunniest years ever.
Little rain
At the same time, less rain fell. The amount of precipitation, expected to be 655 liters per square meter, was 17 percent below the average for both reference periods 1961-1990 and 1991-2020. A dry phase from February to May was primarily responsible for this, whereas July was generally too wet. Overall, the year was “significantly too dry,” according to the DWD.
The highest daily amount of rain was recorded on September 8th in the hamlet of Hohenholz (Bedburg) in North Rhine-Westphalia. 134 liters per square meter fell there that day. The highest annual totals of over 1,500 liters per square meter occurred in the reservoirs of the Alps and the Black Forest.
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