Noise pollution 2023
View on the mapCategorised overall noise pollution per planning area from the Berlin Environmental Atlas (Umweltatlas) 2023. Covers road, rail and aircraft noise. An indicator of lost residential quiet.
Source
- Provider
- gdi.berlin.de
- Licence
- dl-de/zero
- Data as of
- January 2024
- Objects
- 542
Values
- Scale
- low (good) to high (problematic)
Calculation
Total traffic noise from road, rail and air traffic (LDEN), population-weighted per LOR planning area, from the Berlin Environmental Atlas (Umweltatlas) 2023. Three categories by quartile: low, medium, high.
- Aggregation
- LOR planning area
- Maintenance
- Senate Department for Urban Mobility, Transport, Climate Action and the Environment, Berlin Environmental Atlas (Umweltatlas)
- Update frequency
- every 5 years (EU Environmental Noise Directive)
Gaps in coverage
- Model values, no city-wide network of monitoring stations.
- Indoor noise in flats is not taken into account.
Not included
- No breakdown by source (road, rail, air traffic) at this aggregate level.
- Night-time noise indicators are separate in the Environmental Atlas, this layer shows overall pollution only.
Related layers
Frequently asked questions
Night-time noise disturbs the sleep phases in which the cardiovascular system and nerves recover. The World Health Organization recommends a guideline value of 40 dB for night-time noise (LNIGHT). The Berlin noise mapping therefore reports LDEN and LNIGHT separately.
LDEN stands for “Level Day-Evening-Night” and is a noise average weighted over 24 hours. Evening and night levels count with penalties of 5 and 10 dB, because noise is more disturbing then. The value serves as a uniform comparison standard across the EU.
The strategic noise mapping shows road, rail, aircraft and industrial noise separately. The map shows total traffic noise from road, rail and air traffic (LDEN), combined per planning area.
The Senate Department for Urban Mobility, Transport, Climate Action and the Environment takes suggestions on strategic noise reduction into the action plan. Complaints about specific sources (construction sites, businesses) go to the responsible Bezirk office (Bezirksamt) or public order office (Ordnungsamt). On the methodology page we link to the official points of contact.
The open Berlin data provides one noise class per planning area (for example “medium” or “high”), not point values. We reproduce the value exactly as published, so as not to suggest a precision that the dataset does not contain.