🇩🇪 Alemania
Essen
Essen is the central and, after Dortmund, second-largest city of the Ruhr, the largest urban area in Germany. Its population of 573,618 makes it the fourth-largest city of North Rhine-Westphalia after Cologne, Düsseldorf and Dortmund, as well as the tenth-largest city of Germany. Essen lies in the larger Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region, second largest by GDP in the EU, and is part of the cultural area of Rhineland. Due to its central location in the Ruhr, Essen is often regarded as the Ruhr's "secret capital".
- Country
- 🇩🇪 Alemania
- Elevation
- 86 m
- Population
- 593,085
- Time zone
- Europe/Berlin
- Coordinates
- 51.46, 7.01
Weather in Essen month by month
The best months to go: Jun · Jul · Aug
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| high | 6° | 8° | 11° | 12° | 18° | 24° | 23° | 23° | 21° | 16° | 10° | 7° |
| low | 2° | 2° | 3° | 4° | 9° | 14° | 15° | 15° | 13° | 10° | 5° | 3° |
| rain | 108 mm | 83 mm | 76 mm | 82 mm | 80 mm | 91 mm | 108 mm | 92 mm | 86 mm | 87 mm | 95 mm | 103 mm |
2019–2023 average (ERA5, Open-Meteo). Monthly rainfall total.
How far Essen is from other cities in Alemania
- Bochum14 km✈ 46 min · 🚗 14 min
- Duisburg17 km✈ 46 min · 🚗 17 min
- Wuppertal24 km✈ 47 min · 🚗 24 min
- Düsseldorf31 km✈ 47 min · 🚗 31 min
- Dortmund32 km✈ 47 min · 🚗 32 min
- Colonia58 km✈ 49 min · 🚗 58 min
- Münster70 km✈ 50 min · 🚗 1 h 10 min
- Bonn81 km✈ 51 min · 🚗 1 h 21 min
Photo from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) · Data from GeoNames, Open-Meteo.