Easter 2025 brings weather extreme: from early summer heat to storms to torrential rainy amounts – what is behind the weather chaos?
Kassel – The Easter weather 2025 is as difficult to predict as rarely before. While unusually warm air masses flock to Germany from Eastern Europe and ensure early summer temperatures of up to 28 degrees in the east, it remains significantly cooler in the west – with 15 to 20 degrees and sometimes changeable weather. Graduate meteorologist and weather expert Dominik Jung von wetter.net explains: “We currently have a very exciting weather conditions with a pronounced air mass border over Germany. The exact distribution of the air masses on Easter Sunday and Monday is still completely open.”
In fact, it is particularly difficult this year to make a resilient forecast. Depending on how the weather border is shifting, we could either experience an early summer Easter – or one with rain showers, thunderstorms and steamed temperatures.
A country, two seasons – the east grills, the west freezes
If the current weather tendency continues, there could be a clear weather forecast across Germany on Easter. In the east, the signs are on sunshine, drought and temperatures between 20 and 25 degrees. The West, on the other hand, has to adjust to changeable weather, with individual showers and even local thunderstorms. The temperatures there remain significantly behind the east at 15 to 20 degrees.
For family excursions, Easter fire and egg search, this means: While you may sit outside in the T-shirt in Leipzig or Dresden at Easter, you need the rain jacket in Cologne or Düsseldorf. And yet: everything can still change – the air mass border remains in motion and makes the Easter weather a real weather lottery in 2025.
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While Germany sweats and Bibbert – the southern Europe threatens the weather disaster
As the weather in Germany may become changeable – compared to what Italy, southern France, southern Switzerland and parts of the Balkans expect, it is almost harmless. There, there is a dangerous storm situation with massive rainfall between 100 and 300 liters per square meter – and in the middle of Holy Week. In these regions, one already speaks of a potential flood risk that could arise exactly for the Easter weekend, so young. So while Germany can still ask itself whether there are shower or sunshine, other parts of Europe are fighting with real weather extremes. It is to be hoped that the situation relaxes – and Germany can at least get away with a reasonably friendly Easter.
