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Europe is breaking temperature records. In France, a thousand heat-related deaths have been recorded over three days

Europe is breaking temperature records. In France, a thousand heat-related deaths have been recorded over three days

29 June 2026, 12:00

Europe is breaking temperature records. In France, a thousand heat-related deaths have been recorded over three days — The heatwave in Europe

The French health service has reported that between 24 and 26 June, at the height of a record-breaking heatwave in the country, around a thousand additional deaths were recorded. Over the weekend of 27–28 June, new temperature records were set in several countries.

The Associated Press reports this.

Germany set temperature records for three days running. In the town of Niesmünde, near the border with Poland, a temperature of +41.7 °C was recorded. In the Czech Republic, a temperature of +41.9 °C was recorded on 28 June, the hottest day in history. The previous record was set the day before — on 27 June, when a temperature of +40.9 °C was recorded.

A new study by the World Weather Attribution scientific community states that the record-breaking heat and humidity in Europe would have been impossible without climate change. Such heat was impossible 50 years ago, and is now 200 times more likely than it was 20 years ago.

The Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said that Europe is the part of the world warming the fastest — twice as fast as the global average.

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