How Hot? Heat Records Broken in Budapest & Hungary

  • 12 Aug 2025 11:11 AM
How Hot? Heat Records Broken in Budapest & Hungary
The national heat record and the Budapest early morning and daily heat records were broken on Sunday, the national weather service said.

HungaroMet said on its website on Monday that the temperature reached 39.9 degrees Celsius in Korosladany, southeast Hungary, on Sunday, nearly 1 degree up from the previous national record registered in 1948.

The early morning temperature was 25.5 C on János Hill in Budapest on Sunday, breaking the previous record of 24.2 C recorded in Lagymanyos in Budapest in 2017.

On Sunday afternoon in Budapest the temperature reached 38.7 C at the Ujpest monitoring station, breaking the previous record of 37.9 C recorded at the Orszagut station in 1948.


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