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Frankfurt am Main

22.2 hot days a year, average 2016–2025. In 1951–1960 it was 8.6.

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

22.2Hot days today
8.6Hot days 1951–1960
38.6hottest year: 2018
5 → 9Rank then and now
49.02026, provisional
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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
1951–19608.65
1961–19708.111
1971–19808.016
1981–19909.211
1991–200013.611
2001–201015.99
2006–201514.512
2016–202522.29

Context

This figure describes the location of Frankfurt am Main. 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

33.1 %of the residential surroundings is tree cover
Rank 48of 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.

Heat action plan

We did not find a heat action plan of its own for Frankfurt am Main; heat protection is part of „Klimawandelaktionsplan (KWAP) inklusive Hitzeaktionsplan“.

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

The map for this city

For Frankfurt am Main this has been analysed across the city area: trees, land, planting search areas. deutschland-hitzesicher.de/frankfurt-hitzesicher (in German)

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

Neighbours in the ranking

  1. 7Heilbronn22.2
  2. 8Offenbach am Main22.2
  3. 9Frankfurt am Main22.2
  4. 10Erlangen21.2
  5. 11Kaiserslautern21.2