Rainfall
Annual precipitation, area average, millimetres, 2025
The former West received 702 mm of rain and snow in 2025, the East 504 mm (1.4 times as much in the West). Saxony-Anhalt was the driest state (437 mm), Baden-Württemberg the wettest (865 mm). The East's drier, more continental climate also shows in its forest-fire figures.
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Inner-German border 1949–1990 ·16 states · 2025
Former West
702 mm
excl. Berlin
Former East
504 mm
excl. Berlin
Berlin
480 mm
Germany
642 mm
The East stands at 72% of the West's level (2025).
By state
- Baden-Württemberg865 mm
- Saarland818 mm
- Bayern729 mm
- Schleswig-Holstein728 mm
- Rheinland-Pfalz695 mm
- Nordrhein-Westfalen673 mm
- Hessen619 mm
- Hamburg589 mm
- Niedersachsen589 mm
- Bremen589 mm
- Sachsen562 mm
- Thüringen553 mm
- Mecklenburg-Vorpommern513 mm
- Brandenburg482 mm
- Berlin480 mm
- Sachsen-Anhalt437 mm
2025
Notes & caveats
- DWD's own area averages per state, computed from its 1 km precipitation grid. East and West are our area-weighted means of the state values.
- DWD does not report the city states separately: Berlin takes the value for Brandenburg/Berlin, Hamburg and Bremen the value for Niedersachsen/Hamburg/Bremen.
- A single year: 2025 was drier than average in much of Germany (national mean 642 mm).
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| State | Side | 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Saarland | west | 818 mm |
| Berlin | berlin | 480 mm |
| Brandenburg | east | 482 mm |
| Mecklenburg-Vorpommern | east | 513 mm |
| Sachsen | east | 562 mm |
| Sachsen-Anhalt | east | 437 mm |
| Thüringen | east | 553 mm |
| Schleswig-Holstein | west | 728 mm |
| Hamburg | west | 589 mm |
| Niedersachsen | west | 589 mm |
| Bremen | west | 589 mm |
| Nordrhein-Westfalen | west | 673 mm |
| Hessen | west | 619 mm |
| Rheinland-Pfalz | west | 695 mm |
| Baden-Württemberg | west | 865 mm |
| Bayern | west | 729 mm |