Heat Belfast · Belfast Aldergrove · the 2026 summer, complete

11 hot days in Belfast's 2026 summer, 8th of 96.

In a typical
summer of 1961-1990
3.1
In its 2026
summer
11
Every summer on this thermometer
Hot daysabove 24.2 °C 221101931197620002026
Hot nightsnever below 20 °C 101931197620002026
Hottest day21 to 31 °C 312128.8 °C30.8 °C
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Hot here means 24.2 °C or above, a level about one summer day in twenty used to reach at this station between 1971 and 2000. The bar has not moved; the number of days clearing it has. Every year counted over the whole window; this season is complete, so no year is cut short. That threshold is Belfast's own. It is not a national standard and it is not comparable with another city's: every figure on this page is measured against this station and nothing else.

The 20 °C night is a Mediterranean measure and Belfast is outside its range. None this year, and no nights in the whole of 1961-1990. No multiple is quoted, because dividing by a base that thin is arithmetic rather than evidence. 28 of the 54 cities are gated this way.

Belfast's hottest day this year, 28.8 °C, is 8th on this record. The previous best is 30.8 °C in 2022, the dot on the drop line. A typical summer here peaks at 25.0 °C. Its hot-day count is 8th of 96: a count and a peak are different claims, and neither borrows the other's rank.

How these figures are built Heat methodology Met Office, Belfast Aldergrove, daily minimum and maximum May to August, complete Station history not yet checked. station history This station is at an airport. Its surroundings have changed over the record in ways we have not measured, so part of its long-term warming may be local to the site rather than regional. The rank is true of this thermometer. site class Hot days, this station's own 95th percentile of July-August maxima, 1971 to 2000 24.2 °C Hot nights, ETCCDI index TR, daily minimum never below 20.0 °C not chosen by us Updated weekly, each Monday whole May to August window, 123 days

54 cities are measured this way, each against its own record. See them on the map