According to Copernicus’s most recent European State of the Climate assessment, very few regions in Europe would avoid rising temperatures in 2025, with at least 95% of the continent experiencing above-average conditions.
Continuing its trend as the world’s fastest-warming continent, Europe faced new extremes in 2025, including 30°C heat in the Arctic Circle and 50 more ‘hot stress’ days in southern and eastern Spain, when temperatures felt like 32°C or higher.
Türkiye recorded a blistering 50°C for the first time, while 85 percent of Greece had temperatures at or above 40°C, peaking at 44°C. Sub-Arctic Fennoscandia, which includes northern Norway, Sweden, and Finland, saw its longest and most severe heatwave on record in July, with temperatures peaking at 34.9°C.
All that heat is pushing out the cold: the area of Europe that experiences winter days with freezing temperatures is shrinking, and it will be below average in 2025, according to a report released by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) of the World Meteorological Organization.
Glaciers are melting at an alarming rate, extending a decades-long trend of ice loss throughout Europe. Iceland, in particular, experienced its second biggest ice loss on record. At the end of March, snow cover was 1.32 million square kilometers below average. To put things into perspective, that is nearly the combined size of Austria, France, Germany, Italy, and Switzerland.
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