Number of heating degree days

QoG code: eu_eng_hdd

Number of heating degree days (HDD). Heating degree day (HDD) index is a weather-based technical index designed to describe the need for the heating energy requirements of buildings. HDD is derived from meteorological observations of air temperature, interpolated to regular grids at 25 km resolution for Europe. Calculated gridded HDD is aggregated and subsequently presented on NUTS-2 level, for 2017 and 2018 also on NUTS-3 level.

Dataset
Eurostat datasets
Type of variable
Continuous
Last updated by source
2025-11-26

Categories

Environment

Find this variable in

EU Regional - 2020 Original dataset

Country coverage

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  • Austria
  • Belgium
  • Bulgaria
  • Croatia
  • Cyprus (1975-)
  • Czech Republic
  • Denmark
  • Estonia
  • Finland
  • France (1963-)
  • Germany
  • Greece
  • Hungary
  • Ireland
  • Italy
  • Latvia
  • Lithuania
  • Luxembourg
  • Malta
  • Netherlands
  • Poland
  • Portugal
  • Romania
  • Slovakia
  • Slovenia
  • Spain
  • Sweden
  • United Kingdom

Year coverage

This variable has information from 1975 to 2018.