The summer of 2022 was particularly sweaty in Bavaria – according to preliminary calculations by the German Weather Service (DWD), it is the second warmest after 2003 since measurements began. According to this, the average temperature this summer in Bavaria was 19.5 – 3.7 degrees above the value of the internationally valid reference period from 1961 to 1990.
With precipitation of almost 205 liters per square meter, the Free State was the comparatively wettest federal state, as the DWD announced on Tuesday in Offenbach. It rained the most in the summer with more than 500 liters per square meter directly in the Alps, but it remained very dry in Lower Franconia. In Bad Kissingen, for example, less than 30 liters per square meter fell in the past three months. Elsewhere it poured from buckets: Wertach-Bichel in the Allgäu, for example, came to around 114 liters per square meter on August 19th.
With around 840 hours of sunshine, this summer in Bavaria was also the second sunniest since records began. The DWD has been recording the hours of sunshine since 1951, temperatures and precipitation have been continuously recorded since 1881.