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Regional temperature records broken across the world in 2025
Central Asia, the Sahel, and northern Europe each broke annual temperature records in 2025, with 120 monthly records set in over 70 countries, the European Copernicus programme reported.
- In 2025, widespread regional temperature records were broken, with 120 monthly records shattered in more than 70 countries and every Central Asia nation hitting annual highs.
- Using Copernicus datasets and satellite measurements, AFP completed the global picture by analysing climate models, about 20 satellites and ground weather stations to fill data gaps.
- Across Switzerland and the Balkans, summer temperatures rose 2C to 3C above averages, with neighbouring Kazakhstan, Iran and Uzbekistan also seeing 2C to 3C spikes, while Tajikistan experienced more than 3C above seasonal norms and limited safe water access.
- Humanitarian and water systems were affected as Sahel countries, already facing conflict and food insecurity, are among the most vulnerable to rising temperatures, while Nigeria experienced its hottest 120 months and the UK faced a water shortage.
- Provisional rankings indicate the last 12 months rank among the warmest, with Copernicus set to confirm figures in January, and World Weather Attribution wrote Monday that extreme heat events `have become almost 10 times more likely since 2015`.
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Heat records have been broken in several places in 2025, which looks set to be the third warmest year after 2024 and 2023.
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