August 2026 was the hottest month ever recorded, tied with July 2023, as well as the hottest August ever recorded. This was announced by Copernicus, the EU satellite observation service. The global average temperature in August 2026 was 16.96 °C, 1.65°C above the pre-industrial average 1850-1900. It was also the first month since November 2025 with a value exceeding 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels. The period from June to August 2026 was the hottest ever recorded globally, tied with 2024.
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Boreal Summer
About 1.3 billion people experienced the hottest boreal summer ever recorded between June and August, according to an AFP analysis based on data from the European program Copernicus. In 52 countries across all continents, the record for average temperature for the period was broken: among these Italy, Spain, France, and Switzerland, with the latter two countries more than 3 degrees above the 1991-2020 average. In eight European countries, at least 35,000 excess deaths or deaths directly related to heat were recorded between mid-June and the end of August.
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El Nino
Further driving temperatures is El Nino, already particularly intense: nine countries between Central America and northern South America recorded the hottest June-August period ever, while in Indonesia heat and drought affected nearly 100 million people, fueling fires and a toxic smoke cloud that reached Malaysia. In Africa, about 450 million people were affected by record temperatures, with 18 countries at historic highs. The situation is particularly critical in Sudan, where the low level of the Nile and delayed rains have worsened the agricultural and food crisis in a country already devastated by war.
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