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The highest temperature recorded earlier was 15.7 C in Drávaszabolcs, in southwest Hungary, in 2022, the service said.
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August 2026 was Hungary's hottest month since 1901, with a national average temperature of 24.9 C, 3.7 C above the 1991-2020 average of 21.2 C, HungaroMet said. This makes it the hottest August and the hottest month overall in Hungary since the early 20th century.
Budapest remains one of the world’s more liveable cities, but the Hungarian capital has lost ground in the latest Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) Global Liveability Index.
A Hungarian Air Force Gripen fighter jet crashed near Szolnok on Monday morning, with the pilot successfully ejecting from the aircraft.
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.
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