Landscape of catastrophe

German regions that could be hit by an especially large number of climatic extremes* between 2031 and 2060

Less affected

Maximally affected

Areas with coast-specific risks

Hamburg

Bremen

Berlin

Hannover

Dortmund

Essen

Leipzig

Dresden

Düsseldorf

Cologne

Frankfurt

am Main

Areas with hydrological risks from rivers

Mainz

Nuremberg

Mannheim

Stuttgart

Munich

* High annual mean temperature, number of hot days and tropical nights, low annual precipitation, number of dry days and days with heavy rain; data basis: 85th percentile of the prepared refence ensemble v. 2018 of the German Meteorological Service for the RCP9.5 scenario (pessimistic case) from the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Source: Federal Environment Agency

Landscape of catastrophe

German regions that could be hit by an especially large number of climatic extremes* between 2031 and 2060

Less affected

Maximally affected

Areas with coast-specific risks

Hamburg

Bremen

Berlin

Hannover

Essen

Leipzig

Dortmund

Dresden

Düsseldorf

Cologne

Frankfurt

am Main

Areas with hydrological risks from rivers

Mainz

Nuremberg

Mannheim

Stuttgart

Munich

* High annual mean temperature, number of hot days and tropical nights, low annual precipitation, number of dry days and days with heavy rain; data basis: 85th percentile of the prepared refence ensemble v. 2018 of the German Meteorological Service for the RCP9.5 scenario (pessimistic case) from the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Source: Federal Environment Agency

Landscape of catastrophe

German regions that could be hit by an especially large number of climatic extremes* between 2031 and 2060

Less affected

Maximally affected

Areas with coast-specific risks

Areas with hydrological risks from rivers

* High annual mean temperature, number of hot days and tropical nights, low annual precipitation, number of dry days and days with heavy rain; data basis: 85th percentile of the prepared refence ensemble v. 2018 of the German Meteorological Service for the RCP9.5 scenario (pessimistic case) from the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Source: Federal Environment Agency