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Which Dutch city centers suffer the most from heat islands on hot summer days? This series tries to find an answer to this question with the help of the ECOSTRESS data<\/a> provided by NASA, where ground temperature data in areas measuring 70 by 70 meters can be sought. Recently, these super-local measurements are also available for the Netherlands. A new episode is published every Tuesday and Friday, with three new city maps every time. Read the other episodes of this series here<\/a>.<\/p><\/div><\/details>\n\n\n\n

Where are the heat islands in Dutch inner cities? With this question and a whole heap of cartographic fireworks, the editor on duty first set to work on this column late last August. Two months later, 26 Dutch inner cities have been put under the microscope and this series has come to an end for this calendar year. Of course, a summer column like this does not match up very well with the chilly weather ahead of us this November. But either way, that the city of Maastricht had the least inner city heat stress of all of the Netherlands is pretty clear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this final episode, we look back through some of the rankings and classifications. We will begin with the two city centers that were the best of all in terms of withstanding the heat, according to the ECOSTRESS satellite data. Then comes the coolest residential areas and the hottest environments that we came across. And finally, the fence-sitters of the Dutch heat stress test. All analyses used the very sunny and hot weekend of Aug. 12 and 13 as the benchmark. This is what the KNMI weather maps looked like at that time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Why specifically this particular weekend? Because NASA’s antennae were pointed in just the right direction on this sun-drenched afternoon and it was tropically hot throughout the Netherlands, even as far as the coast. Ideal conditions for these kinds of measurement, also for cross comparisons and rankings. At the end of this coloumn, we have listed all 26 cities in the final ranking. But first, the outliers, starting with the two inner cities that withstood the sweltering summer heat the best.<\/p>\n\n\n\n