Srinagar among two Indian cities to break heat records in summer of 2025

October 21, 2025 by News Desk

Srinagar witnessed unprecedented temperature surges this summer, with maximum temperatures rising up to five degrees Celsius above seasonal averages on July 20, 2025.

Minimum temperatures also climbed around three degrees above normal, making nights particularly unrelenting.

Srinagar broke early records in the season, hitting 34.4 degrees Celsius on May 22, which marked the third-hottest May day in 133 years. This surpassed the 34.3 degrees recorded in 1971 and approached the all-time May high of 36.4 degrees set in 1968. In June, the mercury soared further, with June 19 recording 35.2 degrees Celsius, the hottest June day in two decades.

The following day, June 20, saw the season’s fiercest reading of 35.5 degrees Celsius, the highest for the month since 2005. By June 30, both maximum and minimum temperatures registered anomalies of up to five degrees, highlighting the persistence of extreme heat.

IMD data indicates a consistent deviation of two to five degrees Celsius from June through September, confirming that these spikes were not isolated events but part of a sustained heatwave.

In 2024, six weather stations across Jammu Kashmir had already smashed their monthly highest 24-hour maximum temperatures in 123 years. This record-breaking heat persisted for five months, the longest among states and Union Territories in India.