Overview
- Bavaria faces an official warning for the first Christmas holiday with widespread frost, a high risk of icy surfaces and gusts up to 70 km/h in the eastern Mittelgebirge and the Rhön.
- Schwaben and Upper Bavaria remain under persistent high fog, while much of the rest of the state expects sunshine despite subzero morning starts and slippery roads.
- Baden‑Württemberg is forecast to be cold but often sunny, with highs from about −2°C on the Swabian Jura to +4°C in the northern Upper Rhine Graben and strong to stormy summit gusts in the Black Forest.
- Daytime temperatures in Bavaria range from roughly −3°C in the Frankenwald to +4°C along the lower Danube, with nighttime lows down to −7°C and locally −10°C in Alpine valleys.
- Thuringia stays in prolonged frost with highs near −1°C in lowlands and down to −5°C in higher terrain, while nights fall to −7°C to −11°C and ridge areas see occasional stormy gusts.