Monthly climate report
Climate report: February 2026
Global land temperature (NASA GISTEMP v4) and atmospheric CO₂: where things stand at the end of February 2026.
Global temperature in February 2026
- February 2026 (land)
- +2.38 °Cversus 1901–1930
- Rank of the month
- 4thof 147 Februarys on record
- 2026, January–February
- +2.07 °C5th of 147 years
- 12-month average
- +1.94 °C12 months ending February 2026
In February 2026, land areas worldwide were +2.38 °C warmer than the 1901–1930 average, according to NASA's GISTEMP v4 analysis, compared with +2.07 °C in February 2025. That makes it the 4th warmest February in 147 years of records. The record for this month remains February 2016 (+2.70 °C).
From January to February, 2026 averages +2.07 °C — the 5th warmest start to a year since 1880.
Over the 12 months ending in February 2026, the land average is +1.94 °C, against +2.16 °C over the previous 12 months. The highest 12-month average remains the one ending in August 2024 (+2.21 °C).
These figures cover land areas only. Land warms faster than the ocean, so the values are higher than the combined land-and-ocean averages usually quoted.
The last 13 months
| Month | Anomaly vs 1901–1930 |
|---|---|
| February 2026 | +2.38 °C |
| January 2026 | +1.76 °C |
| December 2025 | +1.93 °C |
| November 2025 | +2.01 °C |
| October 2025 | +1.85 °C |
| September 2025 | +2.05 °C |
| August 2025 | +1.78 °C |
| July 2025 | +1.44 °C |
| June 2025 | +1.69 °C |
| May 2025 | +1.70 °C |
| April 2025 | +2.23 °C |
| March 2025 | +2.53 °C |
| February 2025 | +2.07 °C |
The 10 warmest Februarys on record
Land areas, 1880–2026.
| # | Year | Anomaly vs 1901–1930 |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | February 2016 | +2.70 °C |
| 2 | February 2020 | +2.54 °C |
| 3 | February 2024 | +2.47 °C |
| 4 | February 2026this report | +2.38 °C |
| 5 | February 2017 | +2.17 °C |
| 6 | February 2002 | +2.08 °C |
| 7 | February 1998 | +2.07 °C |
| 8 | February 2025 | +2.07 °C |
| 9 | February 1995 | +1.94 °C |
| 10 | February 2015 | +1.94 °C |
Atmospheric CO₂
The annual mean rose from 424.60 ppm in 2024 to 427.35 ppm in 2025, +2.8 ppm in one year.
Sources and method
- Temperatures: NASA GISS, GISTEMP v4, monthly mean over land areas, rebased to 1901–1930 (file of November 14, 2026).
- Ranks use the months known at the date of the report. NASA slightly revises past values at each update, so figures can move by a few hundredths of a degree.
- CO₂: NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory, Mauna Loa Observatory.