2024 was the hottest year in Czechia in 250 years of monitoring

Last year in Czechia was the hottest in 250 years, since monitoring at Prague's Klementinum  began in 1775, the Czech Hydrometeorological Institure reported. The average temperature in 2024 was 13.3 degrees Celsius, which is half a degree warmer than the previous record years of 2018 and 2023. What is noteworthy, according to meteorologists, is that the 15 warmest years recorded since 1775, were all after 1990 and 13 of them were in this century.

Klementinum, which is in the historic centre of Prague, has been monitoring the weather continuously since the start of 1775. The average annual temperature over the whole period was 9.8 degrees.