Recently I visited Black Forest and the picture I uploaded is from south of the Germany. Usually, by now, we’re complaining about the endless rain or scraping ice off windshields every morning.
But the first half of December 2025 felt more like late March or April.
The vibe is just weird. People are happy about the lower heating bills, obviously, but there’s this underlying "climate anxiety" in every conversation, because we all know it shouldn’t be this nice.
We did get that sharp drop right around Christmas where it finally felt like winter for about 48 hour grey, freezing, and miserable but the rest of the month has been historically, disturbingly warm. Hope this is not new normal of German winters.
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Posted by RevolutionarySolid30
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Hottest December so far 😉
I can’t speak for the 80s or 90s where I’m sure it was colder in general. But winter has always been cyclical here for a while. In Bavaria, we hit -9 in November and then in December start, we had warm spells but by around Christmas time, it got colder and we had a white Christmas in what feels like ages. (White Christmas Eve but close enough). 2022 Christmas on the other hand was way warmer than usual. I will say that the amount of snowy days has been less than usual.
Not really
Source: made it up.
2010 Berlin -25C. My ⚽⚽ were freezing. We just got over solar maximum. Cooler winters are soon to come. Also, we’ve been in a warming period for the past 15k and most of what we consider civilization happened since then. Relax and enjoy a warmer climate. Ignore the fear mongering, enjoy life, have as many kids as possible and stick it to the man!
I live in the same area and it’s cold as in the years before.
We even had snow in November.
So yeah, I guess this is just your feeling.
Ever? In 6 billion years? Really?
In der Kreidezeit , also irgendwo vor 50-150 Mio Jahren war das Gebiet was heute Deutschland ist am wärmsten. Deutschland lag nah am Äquator, es gab keine Eiskappen an den Polen und die durchschnittliche Temperatur im Dezember lag bei rund 30°C.
And how hot was it , me in the south of Germany today I have only seen 1.5degrees outside .
it was like -7°C the past few days
Hottest since 2000 until Christmas and after that it is on the colder side
‘happy for saving on heating bills’ – swabians in their habitat.
What does “so far” mean?
I am living near Cologne in the countryside and we haven’t had snow for three years. Ten years ago we had snow every now and then. Not every year but almost.
Edit: It was three years, not two.
This is not correct, we haven not had a colder December since 2013.
I remember a Christmas when I dragged my suitcase through knee hight snow in the east and arrived 4 hours later to 10 degrees in Western Germany.
pretty sure it is not the hottest December – 2 years ago I was learning for an exam, and did it on the balkony (exam was on 2. January, learning was from the 27.12. to the exam). 4 years ago we were bbqing in DE garden of my sister for Christmas.
the last 5 years have been wild (and mild regarding the weather)
I see the climate change deniers are out in full force.
I grew up in the Black Forest. When I was a kid we had 60-100cm snow sometimes. Now nothing – maybe 10-20 cm for a few days every 2 years.
No climate anxiety though.
You sure you live in Germany?
They said today in the news that this was the coldest Christmas in 15 years, so not sure about it being the hottest December overall…
For me “climate anxiety” arrives if January and February aren’t freezing cold or March and April. Not recording it, but the seasons seems to move by 1-2 months compared to 3 decades ago. But yea I remembered when the kids build an igloo and proud snowmen in the front yard.
The earth is undergoing a warming phase right now. We had a little ice age in the last millennium and now we are now heading towards a normal warming phase. Expect warmer winters and wetter summers.
I literally sat in the snow yesterday
I don’t deny that winters are getting warmer on average, but this post is a bit misleading. I have scraped ice multiple times in the past weeks. I also remember Christmases where we had 10°+ instead of around 0, and a rise of temperatures around Chrismas time is actually common around here (nothern Black Forest). So no, it’s not disturbing so far. I find it much more worrysome when plants begin to get their leaves in February. These early warm days have killed garden plants several years in a row now.
Just posting some facts here since there are fights in the comments 🙂
December is not over yet, so there is no definitive answer yet on whether OP is correct or not.
However, it looks like OP is not correct. But he is also not far off! This December is definitely one of the warmer ones.
Mid-month, it looked like December could be the second-warmest December of all time in Germany. However, it got much colder now.
In general, 2025 is set to be the third-warmest year globally (while the first and second warmest years were 2023 and 2024). So there is a clear trend.
Actually, it is pretty drastic. Not just globally, but also in Germany. Looking at the data from Munich in December, we can see the following:
– Average last 30 years: -0.13 celsius
– Average last 10 years: 0.52 celsius
– Average last 5 years: 1.06 celsius
When looking at the average maximum temperatures in December in Munich, it is even more extreme:
– Average max last 30 years: 10.90
– Average max last 10 years: 12.42
– Average max last 5 years: 14.22
And now you know why there is almost no snow anymore. Especially compared to the past. And it will continue like this. If no other tipping point turns it around, it will become warmer and warmer and warmer.
Looking at Italy and Spain, which face increasingly severe droughts every year, water scarcity will most likely become a large-scale problem for Germany in the future as well.
There is no such thing as climate anxiety, and you just live 50 years in this planet and you want to judge the climate, which is a circle, periods of ice and heat. Stop the propaganda BS