During the year 2025, Norway experienced the warmest period on record with record summer temperatures and a mild winter, which confirms the rapid impacts of climate change on the region.
Norway recorded its warmest year on record in 2025, following a hot summer and an unusually mild winter. This was reported by the Norwegian Meteorological Institute on Wednesday, writes TASR based on a report by the AFP agency.
- Norway recorded the warmest year on record in 2025.
- Average temperatures exceeded pre-industrial era values by 2.8°C.
- The Norwegian Meteorological Institute confirmed the record hot summer months.
As further evidence of climate change, on December 22 meteorologists measured four degrees Celsius in Longyearbyen, the capital of the Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic – warmer than that day in Seville, Spain (three degrees Celsius) and Ankara, Turkey (one degree Celsius).
Record summer and autumn
“It really is a record year. Many areas in Norway experienced a record hot summer with a significant heat wave in July. This of course affected the overall balance of the year, while we also had an unusually warm late autumn and early winter before Christmas,” said climatologist from the Norwegian Meteorological Institute Hans Olav Hygen.
Average temperatures in Norway last year were 1.5 degrees Celsius above normal compared to the period 1991-2020 and 2.8 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial average (1871-1900), the institute said. “We expect that the temperatures we recorded in 2025 will appear more often in the future,” warned Amalie Skalevagová, another researcher at the institute.
