Western Europe records its hottest June: EU monitor
A woman uses an umbrella to protect from the sun during a heatwave while visiting La Sagrada Familia in Barcelona on July 7, 2026. (AFP)
Western Europe this year experienced its hottest June on record as a searing heatwave swept across a continent facing increasingly frequent and intense heat extremes, the EU's climate monitor said on July 9.
The report comes as a new heatwave is battering Europe this week, following a record-breaking one in June and an unusually early spring hot spell in May.
The average temperature in western Europe reached 20.74 degrees Celcius in June, more than 3 degrees Celsius above the 1991-2020 norm, according to the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service.
