Cooling and heating degree days - Cities and FUAs in Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf: Cooling and heating degree days - Cities and FUAs was 1,711 Degree days in 2025. ▼ Falling
Cooling and heating degree days - Cities and FUAs in Düsseldorf, 1950–2025
Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Measured in Degree days.
Analysis
In 2025, cooling and heating degree days - cities and fuas in Düsseldorf stood at 1,711 Degree days.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 4.1% on the previous year and down 9.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, cooling and heating degree days - cities and fuas in Düsseldorf peaked at 2,780 Degree days in 1963 and was at its lowest, 1,639 Degree days, in 2014.
That places Düsseldorf 557th out of 1323 regions with data for 2025, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 76 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 2,341 Degree days | 2,043 Degree days | 2,732 Degree days | 10 |
| 1960s | 2,368 Degree days | 2,022 Degree days | 2,780 Degree days | 10 |
| 1970s | 2,314 Degree days | 2,084 Degree days | 2,593 Degree days | 10 |
| 1980s | 2,293 Degree days | 1,911 Degree days | 2,653 Degree days | 10 |
| 1990s | 2,141 Degree days | 1,860 Degree days | 2,632 Degree days | 10 |
| 2000s | 2,011 Degree days | 1,809 Degree days | 2,142 Degree days | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,999 Degree days | 1,639 Degree days | 2,582 Degree days | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,803 Degree days | 1,668 Degree days | 2,082 Degree days | 6 |
More reference data data for Düsseldorf
- Cooling and heating degree days - Cities and FUAs — Change in heating -443.45 Degree days (2025)
- Cooling and heating degree days - Cities and FUAs — Change in cooling -8.82 Degree days (2025)
- Cooling and heating degree days - Cities and FUAs — Cooling degree 41.05 Degree days (2025)
- Precipitation - Cities and FUAs — Change in extreme precipitation 2.22 Days per year (2024)
- Precipitation - Cities and FUAs — Extreme precipitation days 5 Days per year (2024)
- Cooling and heating degree days by NUTS 2 regions - annual data 2,372 (2025)
- Cooling and heating degree days by NUTS 2 regions - monthly data 379.32 (2025)
- Dependency ratio - Cities and FUAs 28 Percentage of population aged 15-64 years (2025)
- Wind threats - Cities and FUAs — Exposure to wind threats 0 Percentage of area (2023)
- Coastal flooding - Cities and FUAs — Built-up area exposure to 0 Percentage of built-up area (2022)
Frequently asked questions
- What is cooling and heating degree days - cities and fuas in Düsseldorf?
- Cooling and heating degree days - cities and fuas in Düsseldorf was 1,711 Degree days in 2025, according to Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
- What is the highest cooling and heating degree days - cities and fuas recorded in Düsseldorf?
- The highest recorded value was 2,780 Degree days in 1963.
- What is the lowest cooling and heating degree days - cities and fuas recorded in Düsseldorf?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,639 Degree days in 2014.
- How does Düsseldorf rank for cooling and heating degree days - cities and fuas?
- Düsseldorf ranks 557th out of 1323 regions with data for 2025.
- Is cooling and heating degree days - cities and fuas rising or falling in Düsseldorf?
- Over the last ten years it is down 9.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Düsseldorf data come from?
- The figures come from Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, published as part of Cooling and heating degree days - Cities and FUAs. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
<p align="justify">This dataset provides indicators of Cooling and Heating Degree Days (CDDs and HDDs) for FUAs and cities. CDDs and HDDs are measurements used to estimate energy usage based on outdoor temperature. CDD measures the demand for cooling, while HDD measures the demand for heating, both calculated relative to a baseline temperature.</p> <h3>Data sources and methodology</h3> <p align="justify"> The indicators use 0.1-degree resolution grids from the <a href=https://developers.google.com/earth-engine/datasets/catalog/ECMWF_ERA5_LAND_DAILY_AGGR>ERA5-Land dataset</a>. ERA5-Land is used as it provides harmonised, globally consistent coverage at fine spatial resolution (0.1 degree), enabling the production of comparable subnational indicators also where national meteorological data are not available at the required scale. Annual CDDs are the sum over a year of the differences between the daily mean outdoor air temperature and the threshold temperature when the outdoor temperature is above the threshold temperature. HDDs are the sum over a year of the differences between the threshold temperature and the daily mean outdoor air temperature when the outdoor temperature is below the threshold temperature. Threshold temperatures are set to 22°C for CDDs and 15°C for HDDs.</p> <p align="justify"> These estimates may differ from official subnational climate statistics due to differences in methodological approaches, such as the use of reanalysis based top down modelling versus in situ observations, along with variations in input data sources, spatial resolution, and the models and algorithms used to generate temperature estimates. </p> <h3>Defining FUAs and cities</h3> <p align="justify">The OECD, in cooperation with the EU, has developed a harmonised <a href="https://www.oecd.org/en/data/datasets/oecd-definition-of-cities-and-functional-urban-areas.html">definition of functional urban areas</a> (FUAs) to capture the economic and functional reach of cities based on daily commuting patterns <a href=https://doi.org/10.1787/9789264174108-en>(OECD, 2012)</a>. FUAs consist of: <ol> <li><b>A city</b> – defined by urban centres in the degree of urbanisation, adapted to the closest local administrative units to define a city.</li> <li><b>A commuting zone</b> – including all local areas where at least 15% of employed residents work in the city.</li> </ol> The delineation process includes: <ul> <li>Assigning municipalities surrounded by a single FUA to that FUA.</li> <li>Excluding non-contiguous municipalities.</li> </ul> <p> The correspondence table between SAUs and FUAs/cities is available in <a href=https://webfs-cfe.oecd.org/files/.Stat/cities_local_areas/fua_cities_sau_mapping.parquet>parquet </a> and <a href=https://webfs-cfe.oecd.org/files/.Stat/cities_local_areas/fua_cities_sau_mapping.csv>csv</a> format. </p> The definition identifies 1 272 FUAs and 1 269 cities in all OECD member countries except Costa Rica and three accession countries.</p> <h3>Cite this dataset</h3> <p>OECD Regions, cities and local areas database (<a href="http://data-explorer.oecd.org/s/1dj">Cooling and heating degree days - Cities and FUAs</a>), <a href=http://oe.cd/geostats>http://oe.cd/geostats</a></p> <h3>Further information</h3> <ul> <li> <a href=https://localdataportal.oecd.org/>OECD Local Data Portal </a> </li> <li> <a href=https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/oecd-regions-and-cities-at-a-glance-2024_f42db3bf-en.html/>OECD Regions and Cities at a Glance </a> </li> </ul> <p align="justify">For questions and/or comments, please email <a href="mailto:CitiesStat@oecd.org">CitiesStat@oecd.org</a>