FIFA World Cup 26 · Jun 11 – Jul 19 · 104 matches · 16 cities
The Caliente Cup
Three host nations. One cup nobody wants to win. Every match is scored by temperature: how many degrees hotter the host city's gameday high ran than its own 1961–1990 normal. Scores are averaged per match, so hosting more games buys no advantage.
The table
avg anomaly per match · played matches onlyThe grounds
tap a city for its fixturesCity heat, not pitch conditions — several venues are roofed and climate-controlled. Solid dots are played matches; rings are forecasts.
Fixtures & results
forecasts firm up ~16 days outThe world table
all 48 nations, scored at home · capitals sampled on matchdaysSame metric, taken global: each competing nation's capital, measured on the days that nation plays. Three to eight days each, so any single rank is mostly weather — the climate tell is the count below. With no warming, about half of all capitals would sit under their 1961–1990 normal.
Newsfeed
curated at build · links open the original articleReporting and research on heat, climate and this World Cup. The list is baked into the file — regenerating the file refreshes it.
Pre-season form
illustrative — to be computed from ERA5The warming is already on the books before a ball is kicked: each nation's host cities now run this much hotter, on average, than they did in 1961–1990. The tournament only decides the weather on top.