The latest data confirms that Europe is warming much faster than the global average.

June 2026 was the warmest on record in Western Europe and the second warmest on a continental and global scale, Copernicus, the EU’s climate observatory, reported today, as the continent begins to be tested by a new heat wave.

The average temperature in western Europe reached 20.74° Celsius in June, in other words, it was 3° Celsius above normal values ​​during the period 1991-2020, breaking the previous record, which had only been recorded in the corresponding month of 2025.