Europe · Western Europe
Germany
- Capital
- Berlin
- Currency
- EUR
- Euro
- Local time
- Central European Summer TimeUTC+02:00
- Calling code
- +49
- Driving
- On the right
- Plugs
- Type C and F
Facts
Germany in figures
- Capital
- Berlin
- Currency
- Euro EURToday's indicative rate: EUR 1 ≈ USD 1.12Indicative, from the day's reference rates; a bank or card will charge its own.
- Languages
- Official: GermanOfficial in part of the country: Northern FrisianSpoken: German
- Time zones
- Central European Summer TimeUTC+02:00
- Calling code
- +49
- Driving
- On the right
- Plugs
- Type C and F230 V · 50 HzAs recorded in Wikidata.
- Emergency numbers
- 110police112general emergencyAs recorded in Wikidata. Check them locally on arrival; they are not the only safety information you need.
- Population
- 83,491,249 (2025, World Bank)
- Area
- 357,021 km²
- Internet domain
- .de
When to go
Climate across Germany
- Mild to warm and dry
- Mild to warm, humid or showery
- Hot
- Cool
- Wet
- Cold
| City | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sept | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin | 2° | 4° | 8° | 15° | 20° | 24° | 26° | 26° | 21° | 14° | 7° | 3° |
| Munich | 2° | 3° | 8° | 14° | 18° | 22° | 23° | 23° | 18° | 14° | 7° | 3° |
| Hamburg | 3° | 4° | 8° | 14° | 18° | 21° | 23° | 22° | 19° | 13° | 8° | 4° |
| Frankfurt am Main | 3° | 5° | 10° | 16° | 20° | 24° | 27° | 26° | 21° | 15° | 8° | 4° |
| Cologne | 4° | 6° | 10° | 15° | 19° | 23° | 25° | 24° | 20° | 15° | 9° | 5° |
| Dresden | 1° | 3° | 7° | 14° | 18° | 23° | 25° | 25° | 19° | 13° | 7° | 2° |
| Stuttgart | 3° | 4° | 9° | 15° | 19° | 23° | 26° | 25° | 21° | 15° | 8° | 4° |
| Düsseldorf | 4° | 6° | 10° | 15° | 19° | 23° | 25° | 24° | 20° | 15° | 9° | 5° |
| Leipzig | 2° | 4° | 9° | 15° | 19° | 23° | 26° | 25° | 20° | 14° | 8° | 4° |
| Bremen | 3° | 5° | 9° | 14° | 18° | 21° | 23° | 23° | 19° | 14° | 8° | 4° |
| Cities good for going, of 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 26 | 26 | 26 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mean daily highs, modelled for an area about 50 km across: NASA POWER climatology, 2001–2020. A cell's swatch says what the month is like (key above).
On the map
Where Germany is
The dashed box is the extent of the country's main landmass, from Natural Earth; outlying islands fall outside it. The dots are the cities with pages of their own.
Land borders
Cities
Cities in Germany
- BerlinCapitalState of Berlin3,426,354
- HamburgFree and Hanseatic City of Hamburg1,973,896
- MunichBavaria1,505,005
- CologneNorth Rhine-Westphalia1,024,621
- Frankfurt am MainHesse650,000
- DüsseldorfNorth Rhine-Westphalia618,685
- StuttgartBaden-Wurttemberg612,663
- EssenNorth Rhine-Westphalia593,085
- DortmundNorth Rhine-Westphalia588,462
- DresdenSaxony564,904
- BremenFree Hanseatic City of Bremen546,501
- NurembergBavaria515,543
- HanoverLower Saxony515,140
- LeipzigSaxony504,971
- DuisburgNorth Rhine-Westphalia504,358
- BochumNorth Rhine-Westphalia385,729
- WuppertalNorth Rhine-Westphalia360,797
- BielefeldNorth Rhine-Westphalia331,906
- BonnNorth Rhine-Westphalia330,579
- MünsterNorth Rhine-Westphalia308,258
- MannheimBaden-Wurttemberg307,960
- AugsburgBavaria301,105
- ErfurtThuringia218,793
- LübeckSchleswig-Holstein212,207
- SaarbrückenSaarland182,971
- FriedrichshafenBaden-Wurttemberg58,403
- MemmingenBavaria44,192
Smaller places with an airport · 9
Airports
Airports in Germany
Large airports
- BERBerlin Brandenburg AirportBerlin
- HAMHamburg Helmut Schmidt AirportHamburg
- MUCMunich AirportMunich
- CGNCologne Bonn AirportCologne
- FRAFrankfurt Main AirportFrankfurt am Main
- DUSDüsseldorf AirportDüsseldorf
- STRStuttgart AirportStuttgart
- DTMDortmund AirportDortmund
- DRSDresden AirportDresden
- BREBremen AirportBremen
- NUENuremberg AirportNuremberg
- HAJHannover AirportHanover
- NRNWeeze (Niederrhein) AirportDuisburg
- ERFErfurt-Weimar AirportErfurt
- FDHBodensee Airport FriedrichshafenFriedrichshafen
- FMMMemmingen Allgau AirportMemmingen
- FMOMünster Osnabrück AirportGreven
- HHNFrankfurt-Hahn AirportIdar-Oberstein
- FKBKarlsruhe Baden-Baden AirportBühl
- PADPaderborn Lippstadt AirportBüren
- LEJLeipzig/Halle AirportSchkeuditz
- KSFKassel AirportHofgeismar
Photographs
Germany in pictures
BerlinPhoto: Thomas Wolf · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
MunichPhoto: Thomas Wolf · CC BY-SA 3.0 de · Wikimedia Commons
HamburgPhoto: kallerna · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Frankfurt am MainPhoto: Thomas Wolf · CC BY-SA 3.0 de · Wikimedia Commons
ColognePhoto: Thomas Wolf · CC BY-SA 3.0 de · Wikimedia Commons
DresdenPhoto: Jiuguang Wang · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
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