• Home
• Channel: Current Affairs
• Heat Record Beaten Again in Hungary

Heat Record Beaten Again in Hungary

• 22 Aug 2022 11:53 AM
• Hungary Matters

August 19 was the hottest day on record in Hungary, the second this summer, according to the National Meteorological Service (OMSZ).

The mercury hit 39.6°C in Baja, in southern Hungary. The Budapest record was also eclipsed with 38.2°C measured in Újpest, a northern district, OMSZ said on Facebook.

On Wednesday, record high daily temperatures of 37°C were measured in both Baja and Kübekháza, in southern Hungary.
 

• How does this content make you feel?
• I love it
• I like it
• I dislike it

• Heat Record

XpatLoop Media Partner

Hungary Matters

Launched in January 2014, this newsletter published on week days covers 'everything you need to know about what’s going on in Hungary and beyond', according to its publisher the state media agency MTI.

Explore More Reports

Record Budapest Heatwaves More Intense Than Ever, Expert Explains

• 14 Aug 2026 4:01 PM

Both of this year’s extreme heatwaves in Budapest were more intense than ever before, according to an analysis published on the specialist portal Masfelfok (One and a Half Degree) - Climate Change Explained.



Updated: Yet Another Heat Record Broken in Hungary

• 10 Aug 2026 8:50 AM

On Aug 3, the temperature in southern Budapest dropped to just 26.8 degrees Celsius at dawn, surpassing the previous national record of 25.1C, measured in 2017, weather service HungaroMet reported on Tuesday.



Heat & Drought Put This July Into Hungary's Record Books

• 5 Aug 2026 10:00 AM

July this year was the sixth driest and the tenth hottest since the beginning of the 20th century, the weather service HungaroMet said on its website on Tuesday.



New Heat Record in Hungary

• 1 Aug 2026 12:15 PM

The Budapest heat record was broken on Friday with 39.4 degrees Celsius measured at the Ujpest gauging station in the northern part of the capital, weather service HungaroMet said on Facebook.