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The chart is composed of eight individual graphs for the cities selected. The illustration shows the mean daily maximum of heatwaves from 1950 to 2022 and the highest mean daily maximum in a heatwave. The latter occurred in Hamburg at 31.8 degrees Celsius and in Berlin at 33.5 degrees in 1994; in Frankfurt am Main at 35.8 degrees Celsius, in Mannheim at 36.5 degrees, in Nuremberg at 34.2 degrees and in Munich at 33.1 degrees in 2003. In Dresden the heat record of 1994, measured at 32.7 degrees, was repeated in 2018. Cologne reached its own record temperature in 2018 with 33.6 degrees. From the 1990s onwards, heat waves have occurred more frequently across all time series. The mean daily maximum of the heatwaves in 2022 amounted to 30.2 degrees in Cologne, to 31.6 degrees in Frankfurt am Main und Mannheim, to 30.9 degrees in Nuremberg and to 30.1 degrees in Munich respectively.
