UV Index 🇩🇪Germany

Germany stretches from about 47°N at Haldenwanger Eck in the Bavarian Alps to 55°N on the island of Sylt — almost eight degrees of latitude, or roughly 889 km from south to north. The whole country sits in the temperate mid-latitudes with a much lower sun angle than the Mediterranean. Skies are mostly overcast from November to February, and Berlin's monthly average UV index runs from about 1 in midwinter to 8 in July, so nearly the entire annual UV dose is delivered between late spring and early autumn.

Germany's terrain spans an unusually wide vertical range for Central Europe: from Neuendorf-Sachsenbande at 3.54 m below sea level in the Wilstermarsch up to the Zugspitze at 2,962 m in the Bavarian Alps, with Feldberg in the Black Forest the highest settlement at 1,277 m. Because UV intensity rises with altitude as the atmospheric column thins, the southern Alpine summits and Bavarian foothills receive markedly stronger UV than the flat North Sea and Baltic coasts — and they sit about eight degrees of latitude closer to the equator on top of that.

Germany sits at #173 of 191 in the WHO's global ambient-UV ranking with about 1,812 J/m² of average daily UV, around the 9th percentile worldwide.