As of: March 1, 2024, 3:34 p.m
By: Peter Kiefer
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Lightning strikes during a storm.
(Symbolic photo) © Nicolas Maeterlinck/dpa
In 2023, around 316,000 lightning strikes in Germany.
Read here which city in Rhineland-Palatinate has the second highest lightning density nationwide.
A city in Rhineland-Palatinate is almost the lightning capital of Germany.
With 172 lightning strikes in 2023, the municipality known as “Shoe City” ranks second in a ranking by the Siemens Lightning Information Service (BLIDS) behind Memmingen (Bavaria) among all 402 German rural and urban districts.
SÜDWEST24 knows which city in Rhineland-Palatinate had the second most lightning strikes nationwide in 2023.
You can also read in the article which federal state and which state capitals will have the most lightning strikes in 2023.
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