The ten most sustainable vacation spots in Germany – there is no Bavarian city among them

Created: 12/17/2022, 11:00 am

Sustainability is becoming more and more important to many people - also when planning their holidays.

A ranking shows which cities are a role model here.

Traveling was hardly possible during the corona pandemic - and nature had the opportunity to recover a little.

Now, however, most of the measures in the Federal Republic have been lifted and the Germans' desire to travel is greater than it has been for a long time.

If you don't want to miss out on vacation, but still want to pay attention to your ecological footprint, you can focus on cities that attach great importance to sustainability.

Sustainability is lived here: the greenest cities in Germany

Whether a city is sustainable or not depends not only on the number of green spaces and variety of plants.

The luxury travel provider

included a wide range of aspects for an analysis, including air quality, water distribution, the number of cycle paths at city level and the number of vegetarian and vegan restaurants available.

The result: Freiburg im Breisgau is the most sustainable city in Germany.

Freiburg consists of 82 percent green spaces.

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The top 10 most sustainable cities in Germany at a glance

Freiburg is a true eco-metropolis: 82 percent of the city is made up of green space - which means that it is literally the greenest city in the evaluation together with Aachen.

Travelers can look forward to more than 2,000 cycle paths in Freiburg, which ensure sustainable traffic.

The city also has almost 1,700 waste disposal facilities.

The Saxon state capital, Dresden, took second place in the evaluation: it may not score with as much green space (69 percent) as Freiburg, but it does have over 6,000 cycle paths.

Chemnitz follows in third place with a green area of ​​79 percent and comparatively sustainable water consumption (97 liters per inhabitant per day).

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Sustainable vacation spots in Germany: Baden-Württemberg, Hesse and Saxony do well

The top 10 of the analysis have contributed to sustainable urban development with various sustainability projects, as reported by

.

They would support a philosophy that cares for more environmental protection and leads to a greener future.

With Freiburg, Karlsruhe and Stuttgart, three cities from Baden-Württemberg have made it into the list of the most sustainable cities in Germany.

The same applies to Hesse with Frankfurt, Wiesbaden and Kassel.

With Dresden and Chemnitz, Saxony is represented twice in the top three.

Federal states such as Bavaria, Rhineland-Palatinate, North Rhine-Westphalia or Schleswig-Holstein did not make it into the ten best cities in

's sustainability ranking.