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This is a list of countries and sovereign states by temperature. Average yearly temperature is calculated by averaging the minimum and maximum daily temperatures in the country, averaged for the years 1991 – 2020, from World Bank Group , derived from raw gridded climatologies from the Climatic Research Unit .
While the highest temperature ever recorded in Switzerland was 41.5 °C (106.7 °F) in August 2003 in Grono, the lowest officially recorded was −41.8 °C (−43.2 °F) in January 1987 in La Brévine. Lower temperatures have also been registered, independently from the Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology, for instance at Glattalpsee.
Record low of average daily temperatures in October is −16 °C (3 °F) and record high of average daily temperatures in October is 20 °C (68 °F). [ 49 ] Zurich has an average of 1,544 hours of sunshine per year and shines on 38% of its potential time throughout the year.
This is a list of cities by average temperature (monthly and yearly). The temperatures listed are averages of the daily highs and lows. Thus, the actual daytime temperature in a given month may be considerably higher than the temperature listed here, depending on how large the difference between daily highs and lows is.
Highest dew point temperature: A dew point of 35 °C (95 °F) — while the temperature was 42 °C (108 °F) — was observed at Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, at 3:00 p.m. on 8 July 2003. [ 201 ] Highest heat index : In the observation above at Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, the heat index ("feels like" temperature) was 81.1 °C (178.0 °F).
The European Union's Copernicus and the World Meteorological Organization reported in April 2024 that Europe was Earth's most rapidly warming continent, with temperatures rising at a rate twice as high as the global average rate, and that Europe's 5-year average temperatures were 2.3 °C higher relative to pre-industrial temperatures compared to 1.3 °C for the rest of the world.
In July, the mean temperature of Geneva is 20 °C, alongside the southern edge of the Jura it is 18 – 20 °C, and in higher regions 16 – 18 °C. With regard to mean sunshine duration, the Lake Geneva region is again advantaged with more than 1900 hours, whereas in the rest of the Swiss Plateau, it is between 1600 (especially in the east ...
Switzerland: Zurich: 48 77 125 159 186 204 230 208 151 93 50 35 1,566 [78] Switzerland: Geneva: 61 96 161 187 212 246 269 242 184 116 65 48 1,887 [79] Switzerland: Sion: 93 131 188 210 229 254 271 250 208 160 96 68 2,158 [79] Switzerland: Lugano: 124 142 192 182 200 229 260 245 192 141 105 107 2,120 [79] Turkey: Istanbul: 71 88 133 180 251 300 ...