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Saarbrücken

19.5 hot days a year, average 2016–2025. In 1951–1960 it was 5.1.

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 14 to 19. How it was checked.

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

19.5Hot days today
5.1Hot days 1951–1960
34.3hottest year: 2022
29 → 15Rank then and now
52.22026, provisional

2026: 52.2 hot days up to the cut-off date – 2.7 times the decade average. This puts Saarbrücken above its previous record year 2022 (34.3 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
1951–19605.129
1961–19705.333
1971–19806.732
1981–19908.018
1991–20009.926
2001–201012.324
2006–201511.331
2016–202519.515

0.3 % of the population lives outside the grid. That area is left out.

Context

This figure describes the location of Saarbrücken. 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

39.1 %of the residential surroundings is tree cover
Rank 31of 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

Saarbrücken has a published heat action plan: „Hitzeaktionsplan für Saarbrücken – Auf dem Weg zur kühleren Stadt“ (2026).

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

The map for this city

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

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

Neighbours in the ranking

  1. 13Würzburg20.7
  2. 14Freiburg im Breisgau20.3
  3. 15Saarbrücken19.5
  4. 16Trier19.5
  5. 17Mainz19.3

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