Is Bad Schwartau safe? Germany travel risk
Is Bad Schwartau safe right now? Checked 16 October 2026
Bad Schwartau scores 29/100 on our travel risk index (Moderate). The US State Department rates Germany Level 2 (Exercise Increased Caution, updated 13 May 2025); the UK has no advice against travel; Canada says: exercise a high degree of caution. No GDACS or USGS hazard events within 100 km in the last 14 days. No change in government advice in the last 7 days.
Bad Schwartau scores 29/100 (Moderate). The score combines security, crime and scams, health and medical access, natural hazards and current alerts measured for this location and Germany (how it is calculated). The sections below are specific to Bad Schwartau: nearest emergency and transport facilities, local climate normals, 5-year natural hazard history within 100 km.
Driven by: security (35/100) and natural hazards (41/100).
A score of 29 is higher than the scores of 26% of the 241 countries we cover.
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Location & Spatial Data
Charted at coordinates 53.9194° N, 10.6975° E in Schleswig-Holstein, Bad Schwartau maintains a regional distance of 238.1 km SE to Berlin.
Schleswig-Holstein
53.9194° N, 10.6975° E
11 m
Europe/Berlin
20,169
Transit Links & Medical Facilities
Proximate Regional Communities (Germany)
Climate by Month
Hottest: August (22 °C avg high); Wettest: July (74 mm).
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High °C | 3° | 4° | 8° | 12° | 17° | 20° | 21° | 22° | 19° | 14° | 7° | 4° |
| Low °C | -1° | -1° | 1° | 4° | 8° | 12° | 14° | 14° | 12° | 8° | 3° | 0° |
| Rain mm | 59 | 47 | 52 | 53 | 63 | 73 | 74 | 65 | 55 | 55 | 50 | 52 |
Normals: Lübeck (5.6 km away).
Natural Hazard Calendar & History
5-Year Hazard Calendar (100 km Radius)
| Hazard | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Floods | 1 | 1 | — | — | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | — | 1 | — | — |
Most flood events within 100 km of Bad Schwartau happened in January, February, May, June, August and October (6 of 6 in five years).
Source: GDACS, USGS; five years to October 2026.
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