Heat Leipzig · Leipzig-Holzhausen · the 2026 summer, complete

15 hot days in Leipzig's 2026 summer, 4th of 142.

Its hottest single day, 40.0 °C, is the hottest this station has recorded. A count and a peak are different claims and neither borrows the other's rank.

In a typical
summer of 1991-2020
6.2
In its 2026
summer
15

Leipzig is compared against 1991-2020, not 1961-1990. This thermometer starts in 1864, so the earlier window every other city uses would cover only its warmer final years here, and a figure against that would look like every other city's while meaning something weaker. 1991-2020 is complete for this station, so it is the one shown. The count and the rank are measured on the full record and stand.

Every summer on this thermometer
Hot daysabove 31.7 °C 18901864197620002026
Hot nightsnever below 20 °C 10501864197620002026
Hottest day29 to 40 °C 402940.0 °C38.4 °C
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Hot here means 31.7 °C or above, a level about one summer day in twenty used to reach at this station between 1971 and 2000. The bar has not moved; the number of days clearing it has. Every year counted over the whole window; this season is complete, so no year is cut short. That threshold is Leipzig's own. It is not a national standard and it is not comparable with another city's: every figure on this page is measured against this station and nothing else.

3 nights that never dropped below 20 °C. No multiple is quoted here. Leipzig averages about 0.4 a year, and dividing by a base that thin produces a large number and no evidence. 28 of the 54 cities are gated this way.

The hottest day of Leipzig's summer, with 2026 marked. The previous best was 38.4 °C in 2019, the dot on the drop line below it, and a typical summer here peaks at 33.0 °C.

How these figures are built Heat methodology DWD Climate Data Center, Leipzig-Holzhausen, daily minimum and maximum May to August, complete Station history not yet checked. station history Suburban site class Hot days, this station's own 95th percentile of July-August maxima, 1971 to 2000 31.7 °C Hot nights, ETCCDI index TR, daily minimum never below 20.0 °C not chosen by us Updated weekly, each Monday whole May to August window, 123 days

54 cities are measured this way, each against its own record. See them on the map