US EditionRegional temperature records broken across the world in 2025
Central Asia, Sahel, and northern Europe broke 120 monthly temperature records in over 70 countries as 2025 ranks among the warmest years globally, Copernicus data shows.
- The last 12 months saw AFP analysis find 120 monthly temperature records broken in more than 70 countries, with provisional data showing the period as the third hottest on record.
- Across Central Asia and the Sahel, Central Asia, the Sahel region and northern Europe recorded their hottest year on record, with Tajikistan seeing more than 3C above seasonal averages and only 41 percent having safe drinking water.
- Monthly data show temperature records were broken every month since May, with November the exception, as Nigeria registered its hottest 12 months, AFP analysis finds.
- Countries in the Sahel, already facing conflict, food insecurity and poverty, saw temperatures 0.7C to 1.5C above seasonal averages, intensifying water and food stress, while the UK faced its driest spring in over a century causing water shortages.
- Scientists at World Weather Attribution wrote on Monday that extreme heat events have become almost 10 times more likely since 2015, and Copernicus will confirm annual figures in early January.
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On a global scale, the year that ends should be the third hottest year ever recorded. Several countries have seen their thermometer jump in an unprecedented way.
The year 2025 will remain in the annals as one of the warmest. From the burning peaks of Tajikistan to the Sahel savannahs, to an unusual summer in Europe, more than 70 countries have broken 120 records.
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kt-kuriren.seHeat 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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The year 2025 could be the third warmest ever recorded globally, after 2024 and 2023, according to an AFP analysis that is expected to be confirmed during the Copernicus annual review in early January 2026. AFP independently analyzed billions of data points from satellites, climate models, and weather stations covering the entire globe since 1970. The result: 120 monthly temperature records were broken in 2025 in more than 70 countries. (…) Read…
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