Mapping English-Speaking Vets Across Germany

For Germany's millions of internationals, a language barrier at the vet can turn a stressful moment into a frightening one. We have been mapping the practices our community confirms as English-speaking. Here is where that map stands today, and where we are still filling it in.

What the map shows

• Coverage tracks the biggest expat communities. Berlin alone accounts for roughly 25% of everything we have mapped, with Frankfurt and Hamburg close behind, which mirrors where we have focused our research first.
• 24 cities currently have a single listed practice. These are usually places a community member flagged one vet, with more almost certainly out there to add.
• Several large cities are still on our list to map (see below). A blank there is a to-do for us, not a verdict on the city.
• This is a living map. Every confirmation and submission makes it more complete, especially outside the classic expat hubs.

Cities we have mapped

Practices per city, where we currently list two or more:

Plus 24 more cities with a single listed practice so far: Ahlen, Augsburg, Bad Homburg, Bielefeld, Duisburg, Essen, Gießen, Heidelberg, Herford, Hofheim am Taunus, Ismaning, Kelkheim, Königstein, Langenhagen, Leinburg, Lüneburg, Neustadt (near Hamburg), Oberursel, Potsdam, Regensburg, Rostock, Wiesbaden, Wiesloch, Überlingen.

How far we have reached

Our coverage across Germany's twelve largest cities. The thin and blank rows are simply where our mapping has not reached yet, our priority list for expansion:

Methodology & limits

Figures come from the EnglishSpeakingVets directory, a community-sourced list of veterinary practices in Germany identified as English-speaking. Practices are added through expat recommendations and research, then checked for English-language signals such as an English website, English-language reviews, or international staff. Importantly, our research has so far concentrated on the cities with the largest international communities, so the map is densest there by design. A low or zero count for any city reflects how much we have mapped it, not how much English-speaking care exists there. These numbers therefore undercount true availability, particularly in cities we have not yet focused on.

Free to cite with attribution to EnglishSpeakingVets (englishspeakinggermany.online), provided figures are described as our directory's current coverage rather than a national total. Last updated June 2026.