This summer was the hottest on record in UK

If you felt like this summer was particularly hot, then you'd be right.

The Met Office, which is the UK's national weather service, has confirmed that summer 2025 is the hottest on record.

Provisional temperatures show the average temperature across June, July and August was 16.10C.

This beats the previous seasonal high of 15.76C set in 2018.

This follows the warmest and sunniest spring since data began.

Met Office temperature data for the UK began in 1884.

All five of the UK's warmest summers have now taken place since the year 2000: 2025 (16.10C), 2018 (15.76C), 2006 (15.75C), 2003 (15.74C) and 2022 (15.71C).

And while none of 2025's heatwaves have beaten the all-time high of 40.3C in 2022, there have been four separate heatwaves, meaning this summer's heat was longer and more widespread.

The long spells of dry and hot weather caused by a record spring and summer have had an effect on farming and water availability, with hosepipe bans, poor harvests and low water levels in reservoirs.

Experts say the record-breaking temperatures of the last few summers are due to climate change.

Met Office climate scientists have found that a summer as hot or hotter than 2025 is now 70 times more likely than it would have been in a "natural" climate, with no human-induced greenhouse gas emissions.