When the sun is shin­ing in the city, it’s good to know where to find cool places and water in Karl­sruhe for hot days.
If you are out and about in the city, the Karl­sruhe city map for hot days shows you where you can get free drink­ing water, go to the toi­let or relax on a bench in the shade, at a water play­ground or a cool indoor space.

City map for hot days ☀

📍Inter­ac­tive map
🗺  Sto­rymap

If you pre­fer to use a print­ed city map, you can get one at the tourist infor­ma­tion office on the mar­ket square, in the town halls, at the city library and at many oth­er pub­lic places in the city.

“Cool church­es”

• the City Church (am Mark­t­platz),
• St Stephen’s, Erbprinzen­straße 14, city cen­tre, Mon–Sat, 8.00 am to 5.30 pm
• Our Lady, Augarten­straße 50, Süd­stadt, dai­ly from 9.00 am to 5.00 pm
• St Mark’s Parish, Wein­bren­ner­straße 23, Weststadt
• St Luke’s Parish, Hagen­straße 7, Weststadt
• Church of the Res­ur­rec­tion, Lange Str. 28, Rüppurr
• Christ the King, Tulpen­straße 1, Rüppurr
• St Lawrence’s Church, Schäfer­straße 11–15, Hagsfeld
• Paul Ger­hardt Com­mu­ni­ty Cen­tre with the “Ste­phie” beer gar­den, Bre­ite Straße 49A, Beiertheim-Bulach
• Holy Spir­it, Turn­er­straße 6, Dax­lan­den, dai­ly from 9.00 am to 6.00 pm
• St Peter and Paul, Pal­maien­straße 15, Durlach, dai­ly from 09.00 to 18.00
• Knielin­gen Church and Church Gar­den, Kirch­bühlstr. 2, Knielingen

Karl­sruhe in sum­mer: healthy through the hot days

The city of Karl­sruhe is locat­ed in the Upper Rhine Graben in the warmest region of Ger­many. In sum­mer, tem­per­a­tures reg­u­lar­ly exceed 35 degrees Cel­sius over sev­er­al days. Even though we usu­al­ly enjoy the warm rays of sun­shine after a long win­ter, exces­sive heat can also be dan­ger­ous. Elder­ly or sick peo­ple in par­tic­u­lar, as well as preg­nant women and small chil­dren, need to take extra care.

Tips
Drink enough — if you want to spice up your water, you can add herbs such as pep­per­mint, sage, basil and lemon balm or lemon juice.
Even for a healthy body, the heat is exhaust­ing because your body is con­stant­ly try­ing to cool down. There­fore, avoid heavy phys­i­cal work or sport when it is hot so as not to put addi­tion­al strain on your body.
Shift your out­door activ­i­ties to the cool­er morn­ing or evening hours and stay indoors or in the shade dur­ing the day if possible.

💡 TIPS for cor­rect behav­ior in the heat

And above all, take good care of your­self and oth­ers around you.

First aid in case of heat

If you notice one or more symp­toms in your­self or oth­ers, call 112 for help immediately.
Also offer the per­son water and take them to as cool a place as possible.

The fol­low­ing symp­toms are indi­ca­tions of a heat-relat­ed emergency:

• severe headache
• dry, hot skin
• sud­den con­fu­sion or cloud­ing of consciousness
• a body tem­per­a­ture above 40° Celsius
• bright red hot head
• vom­it­ing
• cir­cu­la­to­ry collapse
• uncon­scious­ness