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Bielefeld

10.8 hot days a year, average 2016–2025. In 1951–1960 it was 3.3.

Grid and weather station typically differ by about 0.9 days. If the value is shifted by that much, the city lies on one of the places 56 to 70. How it was checked.

Bielefeld has no historical counterpart: no major German city was as hot in 1951–1960 as Bielefeld is today.

10.8Hot days today
3.3Hot days 1951–1960
19.3hottest year: 2018
62 → 63Rank then and now
19.62026, provisional

2026: 19.6 hot days up to the cut-off date – 1.8 times the decade average. This puts Bielefeld above its previous record year 2018 (19.3 days). The count covers the first 292 days of the year, up to 19 October. The year is therefore not yet complete, and the figure comes from the daily grid rather than the annual grid, which the DWD only publishes after the end of the year. Over the three most recent years available in both, the two agree on average (+0.18 days); for a single city they typically differ by 1.5 days, in individual cases by up to 6.8. This figure is not included in any decade average or any rank on this page.

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1951–2025, axis 0 to 46 days. Grey: the national median. The same axis as on every other city page – the lines can be compared with one another.

Decade by decade

PeriodHot daysRank
1951–19603.362
1961–19703.266
1971–19804.561
1981–19904.859
1991–20007.263
2001–20108.065
2006–20156.969
2016–202510.863

Context

This figure describes the location of Bielefeld. No city administration decides on location. On shade over streets, schoolyards and playgrounds, it does.

What can be changed

Location is fixed, the residential surroundings are not

44.8 %of the residential surroundings is tree cover
Rank 18of 80 for green where people live

This measures the share of residential surroundings covered by trees – from the satellite, weighted by the population of the same 100 m cells as the heat figure above. Both figures therefore apply to the same places and can stand side by side. Parks, cemeteries and gardens count. The city’s stock of street trees requires the tree register.

Examples in the same location

Cities with a similar number of hot days and a similar size to Bielefeld that have clearly more green where people live:

  1. Bielefeld10.8 days44.8 %
  2. Bochum11.6 days49.9 %

Hot days per year, average 2016–2025, and green where people live. Compared are cities no more than 1.5 hot days apart, at most three times as large or as small, with at least 5.0 percentage points more green. Green also depends on urban form and topography; the comparison shows what occurs in the same location and is not a grade for any administration.

Heat action plan

Bielefeld has a published heat action plan: „Hitzeaktionsplanung Stadt Bielefeld“ (2024).

Research as of 24 October 2026. Corrections and tips to kontakt@julianzuber.de.

The map for this city

For Bielefeld this has been analysed across the city area: trees, land, heat stress. deutschland-hitzesicher.de/bielefeld-hitzesicher (in German)

Each city has its own access to its map. Enquiries to kontakt@julianzuber.de.

Neighbours in the ranking

  1. 61Paderborn10.9
  2. 62Gütersloh10.9
  3. 63Bielefeld10.8
  4. 64Chemnitz10.7
  5. 65Essen10.7

Hot days per year, average 2016–2025. All 80 at a glance