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Has the climate in Berlin changed?

Berlin has warmed about 4.3°F since 1971.

About 0.8°F per decade, measured from Berlin's official daily weather records, 1971–2025. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Berlin's warming is broadly in line with other cities in Germany — neither unusually fast nor unusually slow.

What has actually changed

Each card compares the 1970s (the first ten years of the record) with recent years (the last ten) — the same span the headline and the chart use.

Freezing nights
20 fewer nights
1970s
82 / yr
Recent
62 / yr
Milder winters — fewer frosts
Average temperature
+3.0°F
1970s
48.7°F
Recent
51.7°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
6 more days
1970s
2 / yr
Recent
8 / yr
More days of serious heat
Rainy days
13 fewer days
1970s
161 / yr
Recent
148 / yr
Drier on average

Berlin's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1971 to 2025.

45°47°49°51°53°55°1971: 49.5°F1972: 48.0°F1973: 48.7°F1974: 49.8°F1975: 50.3°F1976: 48.5°F1977: 49.2°F1978: 48.1°F1979: 47.5°F1980: 46.8°F1981: 48.8°F1982: 50.4°F1983: 50.6°F1984: 48.2°F1985: 47.5°F1986: 48.2°F1987: 46.6°F1988: 50.2°F1989: 51.5°F1990: 51.3°F1991: 49.0°F1992: 50.7°F1993: 49.0°F1994: 51.0°F1995: 49.6°F1996: 46.4°F1997: 49.8°F1998: 50.1°F1999: 51.4°F2000: 51.9°F2001: 49.6°F2002: 50.5°F2003: 50.4°F2004: 49.6°F2005: 50.1°F2006: 51.3°F2007: 51.7°F2008: 51.3°F2009: 50.5°F2010: 47.8°F2011: 51.6°F2012: 50.4°F2013: 49.7°F2014: 52.8°F2015: 52.3°F2016: 51.4°F2017: 51.3°F2018: 53.2°F2019: 53.2°F2020: 53.0°F2021: 50.9°F2022: 52.7°F2023: 52.6°F2024: 53.9°F2025: 51.9°Flong-term trend1971198019902000201020202025
a warmer-than-average year a cooler-than-average year

Each bar is one year. Most recent years sit above the older ones. Some recent years still came in cool — warming is a slope, not a straight climb.

In day-to-day terms, that long-term shift shows up as about 5 fewer freezing nights a year and about 3 more days above 90°F compared with the 1970s.

When in the year the change shows up

How much warmer each month is now than in the 1970s. Useful if you garden or care about a particular season — otherwise the headline above already has the answer.

0.0°+0.5°+1.0°+1.5°+2.0°+2.5°+3.0°January: +1.0°F+1.0JFebruary: +1.4°F+1.4FMarch: +0.6°F+0.6MApril: +2.6°F+2.6AMay: +0.9°F+0.9MJune: +1.8°F+1.8JJuly: +2.0°F+2.0JAugust: +1.7°F+1.7ASeptember: +1.2°F+1.2SOctober: +0.8°F+0.8ONovember: +1.2°F+1.2NDecember: +0.6°F+0.6D

April has warmed the most — about 2.6°F. The warming runs across the whole year, not just one season.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — 1991–2020 normals computed from 30 years of daily observations at Berlin-tempelhof, a weather station, about 6 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

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