Overview
- Both Baden‑Württemberg and Bavaria told schools on Monday that there is no uniform, automatic temperature cutoff for Hitzefrei and that individual school principals must decide case by case.
- Baden‑Württemberg recommended using a measured outside temperature of at least 25°C in the shade at 11:00 as a guide and advised that Hitzefrei should not be granted before the fourth lesson.
- Bavaria said classroom temperature and available cooling define whether lessons end early and noted many schools have been upgraded with air conditioning, reducing the need for Hitzefrei.
- Ministries require schools to keep supervising younger pupils until safe travel home is possible, to provide rooms for students who rely on buses, and to ensure drinking water for students excluded from Hitzefrei such as vocational and upper‑level pupils.
- Teachers are covered by the workplace rules that consider up to 26°C acceptable, call for interventions above that level and make measures mandatory at 30°C, and ministries also urged adapted PE lessons, shade, hydration and limits on long endurance training.