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About
Rostock, officially the Hanseatic and University City of Rostock, is the largest city in the German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and lies in the Mecklenburgian part of the state, close to the border with Pomerania. With around 210,000 inhabitants, it is the third-largest city on the German Baltic coast after Kiel and Lübeck, the eighth-largest city in the area of former East Germany, as well as the 39th-largest city of Germany. Rostock was the largest coastal and most important port city in East Germany.
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The next week in Rostock
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
Showers
14° / 4°
UV Moderate
Sat
Thunderstorm
13° / 5°
0.9 mm
UV Moderate
Sun
Overcast
16° / 4°
UV High
Mon
Overcast
18° / 8°
UV High
Tue
Overcast
17° / 9°
UV Moderate
Wed
Overcast
21° / 9°
UV Moderate
In May 16
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Air quality
No monitoring station within 25 km.
Weather
27° / 1°
Typical high / low
2 mm rainfall this month
Daylight
15.9h
05:09 – 21:05local
Year-round climate
Monthly highs, lows, and rainfall (long-term averages, NASA POWER).
Airports near Rostock
2 commercial airports within 100 km. Closest is Rostock-Laage Airport (RLG) at 21 km.
Getting around Rostock
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
Operators and modes aggregated by TransitLand 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
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- 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, Hansestadt Rostock.
- Site credits →
Global source notes, map tiles, flags, licenses, and attribution policy.