Overview
- Germany's 2025 mean temperature reached 10.1 °C, placing the year among the ten warmest since records began in 1881, according to DWD preliminary data.
- Sunshine duration ranked within the five highest since 1951, with values partly derived from satellite estimates since August 2024.
- DWD highlights a dry spring in the East, an early-July heatwave that peaked at 39.3 °C in Andernach on 2 July, and heavy western rains in September, while the year's coldest reading was −19.7 °C at Deutschneudorf-Brüderwiese on 18 February.
- Newly posted 2025 station summaries list Waghäusel-Kirrlach and Duisburg-Baerl among the warmest sites, Saxony-Anhalt locations among the driest, and Oschatz and Pforzheim-Ispringen among the sunniest.
- Bavaria also finished very warm, bright and dry at 9.4 °C, roughly 700 l/m² and about 1,950 sunshine hours, with separate Wetterkontor tallies to 29 December naming Landshut as driest and the Zugspitze as sunniest.