{"id":44556,"date":"2026-06-27T19:43:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T19:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/44556\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T19:43:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T19:43:05","slug":"germany-breaks-national-regional-records-as-berlin-hits-39-8-degrees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/44556\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany breaks national, regional records as Berlin hits 39.8 degrees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The city-state of Berlin shattered its all-time temperature record on Saturday as a severe heatwave pushed thermometers above 40 degrees across Germany.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The German Weather Service (DWD) said temperatures in the Berlin district of Buch reached 39.8 degrees Celsius, surpassing the capital&#8217;s previous record of 38.9 degrees set in August 2015.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Elsewhere, Bavaria equalled the state record of 40.8 degrees, measured for a second consecutive day in Kitzingen in the Lower Franconia region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The western state of Saarland also registered a new high, with temperatures reaching 41.4 degrees in Saarbr\u00fccken, edging past the previous record of 41.3 degrees set just a day earlier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg, a fresh state record was established in Wagh\u00e4usel-Kirrlach near Karlsruhe, where temperatures climbed to 41.4 degrees, exceeding Friday&#8217;s mark of 40.6 degrees at the same weather station.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In the north-east, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern recorded a new state high of 39.6 degrees in Anklam.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The DWD said Germany as a whole had set a new national heat record for the second consecutive day, with a preliminary 41.5 degrees recorded in the eastern community of M\u00f6ckern-Drewitz, surpassing Friday&#8217;s nationwide high of 41.3 degrees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">All figures are preliminary and subject to revision by the DWD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The city-state of Berlin shattered its all-time temperature record on Saturday as a severe heatwave pushed thermometers above&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[18,37846,37847,5,38092],"class_list":["post-44556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-berlin","tag-berlin","tag-degrees-celsius","tag-german-weather-service","tag-germany","tag-temperature-record"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}