In Germany, mostly everyone who happens to live in a city where there is carnival is celebrating these days. That means dressing up in costumes and getting drunk for adults, or if you’re a kid, dressing up and catching candy thrown around outside. In general, it’s a week-long big party on the streets.
Those German cities who do have carnival are split into two groups: the ones who call it “Fasching”, and the ones who call it “Karneval.” And they have two different salutations, too: certain cities shout “Alaaf”, while others shout “Helau.” Using the Googleshare algorithm I could create the table which you can see below. It sorts German cities into the two distinct groups.
The Googleshare algorithm here is simple enough. Let’s take Hamburg as example. If the page-count for the Google result for Hamburg Helau is higher than for Hamburg Alaaf, it will assume “Helau” is indeed the way to salute during carnival in Hamburg. As most automated data mining with Google, this algorithm isn’t failsafe; in particular, it disregards the fact some of the cities do not have carnival in he first place.
Aachen | Alaaf | Karneval | ||
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Aalen | Helau | Karneval | ||
Albstadt-Sigmaringen | Fasching | |||
Amberg | Helau | Fasching | ||
Ansbach | Alaaf | Karneval | ||
Aschaffenburg | Helau | Fasching | ||
Augsburg | Helau | Karneval | ||
Bamberg | Helau | Karneval | ||
Bayreuth | Helau | Karneval | ||
Bergisch Gladbach | Alaaf | Karneval | ||
Berlin | Helau | Karneval | ||
Bernburg | Helau | Karneval | ||
Biberach | Alaaf | Fasching | ||
Bielefeld | Helau | Karneval | ||
Bingen | Helau | Karneval | ||
Bochum | Helau | Karneval | ||
Bonn | Alaaf | Karneval | ||
Brandenburg | Helau | Karneval | ||
Braunschweig | Helau | Karneval | ||
Bremen | Helau | Karneval | ||
Bremerhaven | Helau | Karneval | ||
Buxtehude | Alaaf | Karneval | ||
Chemnitz | Helau | Karneval | ||
Clausthal | Helau | Karneval | ||
Coburg | Helau | Karneval | ||
Cottbus | Helau | Karneval | ||
Darmstadt | Helau | Karneval | ||
Deggendorf | Alaaf | Fasching | ||
Dessau | Helau | Karneval | ||
Dortmund | Helau | Karneval | ||
Dresden | Helau | Karneval | ||
Duisburg | Helau | Karneval | ||
Düsseldorf | Helau | Karneval | ||
Eberswalde | Helau | Karneval | ||
Eichstätt | Helau | Fasching | ||
Emden | Alaaf | Fasching | ||
Erfurt | Helau | Karneval | ||
Erlangen-Nürnberg | Helau | Fasching | ||
Essen | Helau | Karneval | ||
Esslingen | Alaaf | Karneval | ||
Flensburg | Alaaf | Karneval | ||
Frankfurt | Helau | Karneval | ||
Freiberg | Helau | Karneval | ||
Freiburg | Alaaf | Karneval | ||
Freising | Helau | Fasching | ||
Friedberg | Helau | Fasching | ||
Fulda | Helau | Karneval | ||
Furtwangen | Alaaf | Karneval | ||
Gelsenkirchen | Helau | Karneval | ||
Gießen | Helau | Karneval | ||
Göppingen | Helau | Karneval | ||
Görlitz | Helau | Karneval | ||
Göttingen | Alaaf | Karneval | ||
Greifswald | Helau | Karneval | ||
Hagen | Helau | Karneval | ||
Halle-Wittenberg | Alaaf | Karneval | ||
Hamburg | Helau | Karneval | ||
Hannover | Helau | Karneval | ||
Heide | Helau | Karneval | ||
Heidelberg | Helau | Karneval | ||
Heilbronn | Helau | Karneval | ||
Hildesheim | Helau | Karneval | ||
Hof | Helau | Karneval | ||
Höhr-Grenzhausen | Alaaf | Karneval | ||
Holzminden | Helau | Karneval | ||
Homburg | Helau | Karneval | ||
Idar-Oberstein | Helau | Karneval | ||
Ilmenau | Helau | Karneval | ||
Ingolstadt | Alaaf | Fasching | ||
Iserlohn | Alaaf | Karneval | ||
Jena | Helau | Karneval | ||
Jülich | Alaaf | Karneval | ||
Kaiserslautern | Helau | Karneval | ||
Karlsruhe | Helau | Karneval | ||
Kassel | Helau | Karneval | ||
Kehl | Helau | Karneval | ||
Kempten | Alaaf | Karneval | ||
Kiel | Helau | Karneval | ||
Koblenz | Helau | Karneval | ||
Köln | Alaaf | Karneval | ||
Konstanz | Alaaf | Karneval | ||
Köthen | Alaaf | Fasching | ||
Krefeld | Helau | Karneval | ||
Künzelsau | Alaaf | Karneval | ||
Landau | Helau | Fasching | ||
Leipzig | Helau | Karneval | ||
Lemgo | Alaaf | Karneval | ||
Lingen | Helau | Karneval | ||
Lübeck | Helau | Karneval | ||
Ludwigsburg | Helau | Karneval | ||
Ludwigshafen | Helau | Karneval | ||
Lüneburg | Alaaf | Karneval | ||
Magdeburg | Helau | Karneval | ||
Mainz | Helau | Karneval | ||
Mannheim | Helau | Karneval | ||
Marburg | Helau | Karneval | ||
Merseburg | Alaaf | Karneval | ||
Minden | Helau | Karneval | ||
Mittweida | Alaaf | Karneval | ||
Mönchengladbach | Alaaf | Karneval | ||
München | Helau | Karneval | ||
Münster | Helau | Karneval | ||
Neubrandenburg | Helau | Karneval | ||
Neu-Ulm | Alaaf | Fasching | ||
Nienburg | Helau | Karneval | ||
Nordhausen | Alaaf | Karneval | ||
Nürnberg | Helau | Karneval | ||
Nürtingen | Alaaf | Karneval | ||
Offenbach | Helau | Karneval | ||
Offenburg | Helau | Karneval | ||
Oldenburg | Alaaf | Karneval | ||
Osnabrück | Helau | Karneval | ||
Ottersberg | Alaaf | Karneval | ||
Paderborn | Helau | Karneval | ||
Passau | Alaaf | |||
Pforzheim | Helau | Karneval | ||
Pirmasens | Helau | Fasching | ||
Potsdam | Helau | Karneval | ||
Ravensburg | Helau | Karneval | ||
Recklinghausen | Helau | Karneval | ||
Regensburg | Helau | Karneval | ||
Remagen | Alaaf | Karneval | ||
Reutlingen | Helau | Karneval | ||
Rheinbach | Alaaf | Karneval | ||
Rosenheim | Helau | Karneval | ||
Rostock | Helau | Karneval | ||
Rottenburg | Helau | Fasching | ||
Saarbrücken | Helau | Karneval | ||
Salzgitter | Helau | Karneval | ||
Schmalkalden | Helau | Karneval | ||
Schneeberg | Helau | Fasching | ||
Schwäbisch-Gmünd | Alaaf | Fasching | ||
Schwäbisch-Hall | Helau | Fasching | ||
Schwarzburg | Karneval | |||
Senftenberg | Helau | Karneval | ||
Siegen | Helau | Karneval | ||
Sigmaringen | Alaaf | Karneval | ||
Soest | Alaaf | Karneval | ||
St. Augustin | Alaaf | Karneval | ||
Stendal | Helau | Karneval | ||
Stralsund | Helau | Karneval | ||
Stuttgart | Helau | Karneval | ||
Suderburg | Karneval | |||
Trier | Helau | Karneval | ||
Triesdorf | Fasching | |||
Trossingen | Alaaf | Karneval | ||
Tübingen | Alaaf | Karneval | ||
Ulm | Helau | Karneval | ||
Vallendar | Alaaf | Karneval | ||
Vechta | Alaaf | Fasching | ||
Villingen-Schwenningen | Alaaf | Karneval | ||
Wedel | Alaaf | Fasching | ||
Weiden | Helau | Fasching | ||
Weimar | Helau | Karneval | ||
Weingarten | Alaaf | Karneval | ||
Wernigerode | Alaaf | Karneval | ||
Wiesbaden | Helau | Karneval | ||
Wildau | Helau | Fasching | ||
Wilhelmshaven | Helau | Karneval | ||
Wismar | Helau | Karneval | ||
Witten | Helau | Karneval | ||
Wolfenbüttel | Helau | Karneval | ||
Worms | Helau | Karneval | ||
Wuppertal | Alaaf | Karneval | ||
Würzburg | Helau | Karneval | ||
Zittau | Helau | Karneval | ||
Zweibrücken | Helau | Fasching | ||
Zwickau | Helau | Karneval |
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