FAOSTAT releases today new temperature change statistics for the period 1961–2025 for 197 countries and 31 territories.

The FAOSTAT Temperature change on land dataset allows to monitor the observed warming trends on land at the country, regional and global level, with annual, seasonal and monthly means, to help gauge expected risks to food and agriculture.

The 2026 update released today provides country-level information on observed temperature change trends on land, as a basis to help identify risk and design the responses necessary to safeguard the agriculture, forestry and fisheries sectors.

Data are produced in collaboration with the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (NASA–GISS).

The next data release is planned for March 2027.

Main findings:

• The 2025 global mean annual temperature change on land was 1.9 °C compared with the 1951–1980 baseline, making it the second warmest year on record after 2024 (2.1 °C). The years 2023, 2024 and 2025 were the three warmest consecutive years ever recorded.
• January 2025 was the warmest month ever recorded. Each month of 2025 exceeded 1.3 °C above the 1951–1980 climatology.
• In 2025, Europe (2.7 °C), the Americas (1.9 °C) and Asia (1.8 °C) exceeded the Paris Agreement threshold of 1.5 °C, while Oceania (1.4 °C) and Africa (1.3 °C) remained below it.
• At the subregional level, warming was strongest in Central Asia (3.1 °C), Eastern Europe (2.8 °C), and Northern America and Northern Europe (2.5 °C). The lowest values were observed in Melanesia, Polynesia and Southern Africa (0.9 °C), followed by Middle Africa (1.1 °C).
• Nearly half of all countries and territories (109 out of 223) experienced mean annual warming greater than 1.5 °C in 2025, and 55 exceeded 2.0 °C. The Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands (Norway) recorded the highest anomaly worldwide for the fifth year in a row, at 3.9 °C.
• In 2025, areas exposed to warming greater than 1.5 °C represented around half of the world population (4.1 billion people) and half of the agricultural land area (2.6 billion hectares).