Leipzig
Leipzig, Germany: the weather, the air, the distance to the coast and what a month costs, each with its source. This page assesses no one.
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A year here
5 of 12 months have a mean temperature inside 10–26 °C, a band we chose and apply to every city alike. Thirty-year normals from NASA POWER, measured at this city’s own coordinates.
- Jan3-1-3
- Feb51-3
- Mar94-0
- Apr1594
- May19148
- Jun231812
- Jul252014
- Aug252014
- Sept211510
- Oct15106
- Nov852
- Dec41-2
Each cell: average daily high, monthly mean, average daily low, in °C. These are averages of daily values over 2001–2020, not records — the hottest day is higher and is not shown.
How near the sea is
291.2 km
Straight-line distance from this city’s coordinates to the nearest coastline, computed from Natural Earth 1:10m Physical Vectors — Coastline (ne_10m_coastline) v5.1.2 at 1:10,000,000. Natural Earth is public domain, and anyone can download the same file and get the same number.
It is a distance and not an access. A city 8 km from the coast across a mountain ridge is not 8 km from the sea in any sense you would use, and the figure says nothing about what is on that coast — a container terminal and a bay give the same number. The coastline is the outline of the dataset’s land, so a river wide enough to separate land counts as coast.
Air through the year
Leipzig, 2025: PM2.5 averaged over 3 reference monitor(s) within 25 km. The World Health Organization’s guideline is 5 µg/m³ and its first interim target is 35.
- Jan13
- Feb21
- Mar8
- Apr7
- May8
- Jun6
- Jul7
- Aug6
- Sept6
- Oct6
- Nov8
- Dec16
How this city rates
- Safety
- 98 / 100measured
- Healthcare
- 83 / 100measured
- Air quality
- 86 / 100measured
A month here, for a reference household
Reference household: two adults aged 38 and 37, a one-bedroom home, no children.
Residence fees and health cover are those of EU/EEA free movement (no registration required). The low, middle and high figures are the 25th, 50th and 75th percentiles where a publisher states them; each line says who published it.
illustrative Money figures on this page are illustrative unless the figure names its publisher. The illustrative ones are arranged so the shape is right — a larger flat costs more than a smaller one, and the expensive cities are the expensive ones — and they are accurate in nothing. Do not plan on them.
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| Line | P25The lower quartile of the estimate range: a quarter of observations fall below it. Read it as the cheaper end of what is realistic, not as a bargain you can count on. | P50The middle of the estimate range: half the observations fall below it and half above. It is the figure to read first — not a promise, but the most representative single number we have. | P75The upper quartile of the estimate range: a quarter of observations fall above it. Budget against this one if you want room to be wrong. | Basis |
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| Rent* | not published | €421 | not published | Average of published figuresPublished by Statistisches Landesamt des Freistaates Sachsen More about this figureLeipzig, observed 2 October 2026Measured in 2022.Covers every rented home in the city, including tenants who signed years ago.This figure covers rented homes of every size in the city, so it does not change with the number of bedrooms a household needs.Rents in existing contracts — a newcomer is usually asked more.Shown here and kept out of the ranking: the period it measures ended more than three years ago. |
| Electricity, gas and fuel* | not published | €191 | not published | Average of published figuresPublished by Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis) More about this figurePer householdMeasured in 2023.An average of what surveyed households actually spent — not a price anyone is charged, and it carries whatever mix of tariffs, dwellings and consumption those households had.Whose spending this is: The average private household in the Free State of Saxony, per household per month, Einkommens- und Verbrauchsstichprobe 2023. It is Saxony and not Leipzig: the smallest area this survey is published for is the Land. Destatis publishes no average household size per Land in this report. It is every private household, renting or owning. |
| Water, sewerage and waste | €26 | €33 | €39 | Illustrative — nothing measured this More about this figurePer household |
| Internet and phone* | not published | €62 | not published | Average of published figuresPublished by Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis) More about this figurePer householdMeasured in 2023.An average of what surveyed households actually spent — not a price anyone is charged, and it carries whatever mix of tariffs, dwellings and consumption those households had.Whose spending this is: The average private household in the Free State of Saxony, per household per month, Einkommens- und Verbrauchsstichprobe 2023. It is Saxony and not Leipzig: the smallest area this survey is published for is the Land. Destatis publishes no average household size per Land in this report. It is every private household, renting or owning. |
| Groceries* | not published | €388 | not published | Average of published figuresPublished by Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis) More about this figureAdults: 2 · children: 0Measured in 2023.An average of what surveyed households actually spent — not a price anyone is charged, and it carries whatever mix of tariffs, dwellings and consumption those households had.Whose spending this is: Per person, per month, averaged over every private household in Germany in 2023 — Einkommens- und Verbrauchsstichprobe 2023. It is the national figure and not Berlin's or Saxony's, and the reason is worth knowing: Destatis publishes the food bill per household for each Land (Berlin EUR 355, Sachsen EUR 351) but states the persons per household only for Germany as a whole. A regional bill divided by a national count would mix two populations, which DESIGN CHANGE 39 (b) forbids, so the whole division is done nationally and the result is a labelled national proxy. It is the average person in the survey and not the average adult: a child is charged the same, because Destatis publishes one figure per person and no split by age.This is the survey’s average person. Food has strong economies of scale, and the publisher states one figure per person and no split by household size — so a larger household is charged here as though each member shopped alone.388 EUR a month per household ÷ 2 people per household, both published by Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis) |
| Transport* | €126 | €126 | €126 | Published figurePublished by Presse- und Informationsamt der Bundesregierung More about this figureAdults: 2Measured in 2026.A price the publisher states is in force, not a statistic about a market.What this price is for: The Deutschlandticket: one person's personal, non-transferable subscription ticket, valid on all local and regional public transport in Germany, cancellable monthly: «Digital, bundesweit gültig und monatlich kündbar».This is the price the publisher charges, so there is no range: the low and high figures are the price itself. |
| Health cover | €122 | €174 | €226 | Illustrative — nothing measured this More about this figurePer member, by age band |
| Schooling (state schooling) | €0 | €0 | €0 | Illustrative — nothing measured this More about this figureChildren: 0 |
| Building or service charge | not held | not held | not held | Held by nobody More about this figurePer household |
| Statutory levies and licences* | €18 | €18 | €18 | Published figurePublished by ARD ZDF Deutschlandradio Beitragsservice More about this figurePer householdMeasured in 2026.A price the publisher states is in force, not a statistic about a market.What this price is for: The Rundfunkbeitrag, per month, for one dwelling: "Grundsätzlich sind je Wohnung monatlich 18,36 Euro Rundfunkbeitrag zu zahlen. Wie viele Menschen in der Wohnung leben, spielt keine Rolle." It is owed for the dwelling and not for a television, so it needs no fact about what the household owns. Where several households share one flat they pay one between them — "Sowohl Singles als auch andere Lebens- und Wohngemeinschaften zahlen nur einen Rundfunkbeitrag" — so a reader who shares is overcharged here by up to this whole line. Exemptions for named benefit recipients are not applied, because the intake holds no such fact.This is the price the publisher charges, so there is no range: the low and high figures are the price itself. |
| Residence permit renewals | not held | not held | not held | Held by nobody More about this figurePer household |
| Domestic help | not held | not held | not held | Held by nobody More about this figurePer household |
| Household and leisure baseline | not held | not held | not held | Held by nobody More about this figurePeople: 2 |
| Total | not published | €1,413 | not published | This total does not include Building or service charge, Residence permit renewals, Domestic help and Household and leisure baseline, which nobody publishes for this city. It is the sum of what we hold, not of what the household will pay.No low or high total, because the spread of these lines was never published: Rent, Electricity, gas and fuel, Internet and phone and Groceries. Everything else here is either a measured range or an exact price. |
– = not published by the source
Routes we hold for Germany
- EU/EEA free movement (no registration required) — Checked against the law
- Residence permit for employment (Blue Card and skilled-worker routes) — Draft — not checked by us yet
Every requirement, as its rule states it, is on the page for Germany
Provenance
Rule set 1.58.0-2026-10-11 · read on 26 October 2026. Every figure on this page was computed by the engine from versioned rule files. No language model produced any number here, and translation happens only after the calculation.
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