The average global temperature anomaly for the period from January to November 2024 was 0.72 degrees Celsius above the 1991–2020 baseline, confirming 2024 as the hottest year ever recorded.
This data was published by the European satellite monitoring system, Copernicus.
November 2024 ranked as the second warmest November on record. The average global surface air temperature reached 14.10 degrees Celsius, which is 0.73 degrees above the 1991–2020 November average. Overall, 2024 was 0.14 degrees warmer than the corresponding period in 2023.
Europe: In northern and northeastern Russia, as well as in northeastern and southwestern Europe, temperatures were above average. Conversely, southeastern Europe experienced below-average temperatures.
Other regions of the world: Above-average temperatures were observed in eastern Canada, the central and eastern United States, most of Mexico, Morocco, northwestern Africa, China, Pakistan, significant parts of Siberia, and Australia.
Samantha Burgess, Deputy Director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service, emphasized that 2024 was not only the hottest year on record but also the first year when the global temperature increase surpassed 1.5 degrees Celsius.
