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Calculate Heating Degree Days for various cities in the world – in just 3 clicks!
Why do we use Heating and Cooling Degree Days?
In colder winters, buildings require more heating, and in hotter summers, more air conditioning. Degree Days calculated by the Energy Data GmbH take the variability of the weather out of the equation and help you to track, manage, and optimize energy consumption in millions of buildings worldwide.
That is why Degree Days are an important indicator used by energy managers, factory managers, facility owners as well as home owners and energy enthusiasts to analyze energy usage patterns.
Our Degree Day Calculator is a quick, simple, and complete tool to help you analyze and optimize how your heating and cooling consumption. No more copy & pasting Excel data, no complicated formulas – just a single click for your specific location.
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This is how the free Degree Days Calculator works

Choose a weather station on the map or use the search bar for finding stations nearby your address or city.
The public version of our Degree Day Calculator is available for all stations marked with a pink marker. Stations with a turquoise marker are only available to registered members.
Copy selected weather station to the calculator form.
Select the energy indicator.
The free public version of our Degree Day Calculator gives you access to calculate Heating Degree Days and “Room Heating Degree Days”.
Registered members can also calculate Cooling Degree Days.
Copy the station ID from the map above or start typing and use the auto-complete function.
Set start and end date for your calculation.
The public free version allows you to get Degree Days for the last 12 months. Registered members can access the whole last year on top.
If you need more historical data, check out our subscriptions for the pro version, which gives you access to a minimum of 10 years of data.
Set the Heating or Cooling Limit (balance point) for your Degree Day Calculation.
Set the result break-down. You can choose between yearly, monthly, and weekly aggregation.
As a registered member, you are able to access daily values, too.
The free version only allows you to calculate Degree Days with the Integration Method, which is the most accurate one.
The pro version additionally offers two other methods: Min./Max. Temperature and Daily Mean Temperature.
Our public and free calculator offers the main functions for Degree Day Calculation. Just check the following steps.
Registered users can enjoy additional features like the ability to calculate Heating and Cooling Degree Days per day and access values for over 23,000 locations. Long-term average values are also available.
What are Degree Days?
Heating Degree Days are used to describe, assess and compare the heat consumption of buildings. The same approach can be used to assess the the energy consumption for cooling (Cooling Degree Days). These key figures reflect the climatic conditions of a location which influence the heating requirement.
Degree Days as Energy-Data-as-a-Service (EDaaS)
With our automated data service, you can import Heating and Cooling Degree Days directly into systems for your use cases such as Energy Management Software or via Excel data evaluation.
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Starter Package- Heating Degree Days (HDD)
- "Room Heating Degree Days" (DD)
- Cooling Degree Days (CDD)
- up to 10 locations
- min. 10 years of historical data
- up to 100 requests per hour
- access to Degree Day Tool PRO
- automated access via API
Professional
For high Data Demands- Heating Degree Days (HDD)
- "Room Heating Degree Days" (DD)
- Cooling Degree Days (CDD)
- up to 25 locations
- min. 10 years of historical data
- up to 1,000 requests per hour
- access to Degree Day Tool PRO
- automated access via API
Enterprise
All Features- Heating Degree Days (HDD)
- "Room Heating Degree Days" (DD)
- Cooling Degree Days (CDD)
- over 23,000 locations
- min. 10 years of historical data
- up to 4,000 requests per hour
- access to Degree Day Tool PRO
- automated access via API