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Yes. Tap water in Germany is low risk across 150 listed water systems. The safety figure is national, not a town-by-town test.

BavariaLower SaxonyNorth Rhine-WestphaliaBaden-WürttembergBrandenburgMecklenburg-VorpommernSaxony-AnhaltHesseRhineland-PalatinateSaxonySchleswig-HolsteinThuringiaSaarlandBerlinHamburgBremen
Open an area for its towns. Green means every listed water system there is low risk. Orange or red means every listed system is high or critical risk. Any other area has mixed ratings. The colour uses the national safety figure, not a separate test of each area.
Baden-Württemberg19 water systems · 19 low riskBavaria15 water systems · 15 low riskBerlin1 water systems · 1 low riskBrandenburg3 water systems · 3 low riskBremen2 water systems · 2 low riskHamburg1 water systems · 1 low riskHesse10 water systems · 10 low riskLower Saxony13 water systems · 13 low riskMecklenburg-Vorpommern3 water systems · 3 low riskNorth Rhine-Westphalia58 water systems · 58 low riskRhineland-Palatinate7 water systems · 7 low riskSaarland1 water systems · 1 low riskSaxony5 water systems · 5 low riskSaxony-Anhalt3 water systems · 3 low riskSchleswig-Holstein5 water systems · 5 low riskThuringia4 water systems · 4 low risk

Source

German Federal Ministry of Health and Umweltbundesamt, drinking water report 2020–2022; hardness from supplier analyses compiled by wasser-haerte.de.

Period covered: 2020 to 2022.

Germany does not publish drinking-water results town by town. Safety figures are national: in 2020–2022 nearly every tested parameter was met in more than 99% of checks across 2,507 large supply zones. Hardness is the local supplier figure and varies by district. These pages cover the 150 largest cities.

Common questions

Can I drink the tap water in Germany?

Yes. Tap water in Germany is low risk across 150 listed water systems. The safety figure is national, not a town-by-town test.

Where do these ratings come from?

German Federal Ministry of Health and Umweltbundesamt, drinking water report 2020–2022; hardness from supplier analyses compiled by wasser-haerte.de. Period covered: 2020 to 2022.