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About
Dortmund is a city in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is the third-largest city in the state, after Cologne and Düsseldorf, and the ninth-largest city in the country. With a population of 614,495 inhabitants, it is the largest city of the Ruhr as well as the largest city of Westphalia. It lies on the Emscher and Ruhr rivers in the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Region.
Wikipedia →Summary excerpted from the Wikipedia article Dortmund, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Text may be clipped or paraphrased to fit this page.
The next week in Dortmund
7-day forecast from Open-Meteo. UV badges flag days when sun protection matters (3 and above is moderate; 8 and above is risk territory for unprotected fair skin within 30 minutes).
Today
Overcast
15° / 6°
UV High
Sat
Drizzle
15° / 7°
1.6 mm
UV High
Sun
Rain
16° / 9°
8.5 mm
Mon
Drizzle
16° / 9°
2.0 mm
UV Moderate
Tue
Drizzle
18° / 8°
0.6 mm
UV Moderate
Wed
Drizzle
18° / 12°
3.3 mm
In May 16
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Air quality
No monitoring station within 25 km.
Weather
31° / -2°
Typical high / low
2 mm rainfall this month
Daylight
15.6h
05:39 – 21:13local
Year-round climate
Monthly highs, lows, and rainfall (long-term averages, NASA POWER).
Airports near Dortmund
6 commercial airports within 100 km. Closest is Dortmund Airport (DTM) at 10 km.
Getting around Dortmund
Public-transit operators within 8 km of the city center. Click through to each operator’s site for routes, fares, and tickets.
Local transit operators
Touristische Bahnen (diverse)Schweizerische Bundesbahnen SBBDonau-Iller-Nahverkehrs-GmbH (UL+BC)FlixBus-euAKN Eisenbahn AGOstdeutsche Eisenbahn GmbHErfurter Verkehrsbetriebe AGSNCBREGIOBAHNDB AGDB Regio AG NRWNational ExpressTRI Train Rental GmbHDB Regiobus OSTLandkreis MühldorfNeckar-DonauRegionalverkehr SpreewaldVerkehrsgemeinschaft WestmecklenburgStadtwerke Solingen GmbHKVG Salzland
Operators and modes aggregated by from individual transit-agency GTFS feeds. Route classifications (subway / tram / rail / bus / etc) come from each feed’s GTFS route_type codes.
Sister cities
Sources
This page blends public reference data, climate/elevation services, and personal notes. Travel requirements can change, so visa and entry details should be checked again before booking.
- Wikipedia →
Summary, canonical article, and some image fallbacks.
- Wikidata →
Population, area, image, coordinates, and linked identifiers where available.
- NASA POWER →
Monthly temperature and rainfall climatology.
- Open-Meteo historical weather →
1991-2020 temperature and precipitation cross-check for compact climate fields.
- Open-Elevation →
Coordinate-based elevation backfill.
- tz database →
Coordinate-based IANA timezone lookup.
- City flag source →
Public domain, Dortmund.
- Site credits →
Global source notes, map tiles, flags, licenses, and attribution policy.