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Heat in Ward 4, Prince Albert

Summer 2025/26: the ground in Ward 4, Prince Albert reached about 49 °C on clear mornings. That is the ground (roofs, roads, soil), not the air. The 7th hottest of 13 summers since 2014. In summer the ground here reads +2.6 °C against its municipality’s average (since 2014).

Land surface temperature is how hot the ground itself is: roofs, roads, bare soil and leaves, as a satellite sees them from above. Landsat passes at about 10 in the morning and sees only through clear skies. It is not the air temperature a weather station gives: on a sunny day the ground is often 10 to 20 degrees hotter than the air, and hard, dark, dry surfaces heat up most while trees, grass and water stay cooler.

What it is not: not the afternoon peak, not the night, not the air you feel in the shade, and not a reading at any one house. A month with clouds rests on few clear looks.

Summer 2025/26

Every summer since 1987

Summer 1986 to 87: 48.2 °CSummer 1988 to 89: 37.8 °CSummer 1990 to 91: 46.6 °CSummer 1991 to 92: 43.9 °CSummer 1992 to 93: 43.0 °CSummer 1993 to 94: 45.7 °CSummer 1994 to 95: 43.1 °CSummer 1998 to 99: 45.7 °CSummer 2000 to 01: 51.0 °CSummer 2001 to 02: 45.3 °CSummer 2002 to 03: 45.2 °CSummer 2006 to 07: 44.4 °CSummer 2011 to 12: 44.7 °CSummer 2012 to 13: 43.9 °CSummer 2013 to 14: 48.5 °CSummer 2014 to 15: 52.6 °CSummer 2015 to 16: 49.2 °CSummer 2016 to 17: 49.0 °CSummer 2017 to 18: 47.6 °CSummer 2018 to 19: 47.0 °CSummer 2019 to 20: 47.1 °CSummer 2020 to 21: 49.2 °CSummer 2021 to 22: 45.6 °CSummer 2022 to 23: 47.3 °CSummer 2023 to 24: 48.9 °CSummer 2024 to 25: 51.6 °CSummer 2025 to 26: 48.9 °C199019952000200520102015202020252026
Each summer (December to February, named by the year it ends) on clear mornings. Bars start at 35 °C, not zero. Darker: Landsat 8 and 9 (from 2014); lighter: Landsat 5 and 7. A gap is a summer seen too little.
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Land surface temperature each summer, 1987 to 2026: every figure
When or whatFigure
Summer 1986 to 8748.2 °C
Summer 1988 to 8937.8 °C
Summer 1990 to 9146.6 °C
Summer 1991 to 9243.9 °C
Summer 1992 to 9343.0 °C
Summer 1993 to 9445.7 °C
Summer 1994 to 9543.1 °C
Summer 1998 to 9945.7 °C
Summer 2000 to 0151.0 °C
Summer 2001 to 0245.3 °C
Summer 2002 to 0345.2 °C
Summer 2006 to 0744.4 °C
Summer 2011 to 1244.7 °C
Summer 2012 to 1343.9 °C
Summer 2013 to 1448.5 °C
Summer 2014 to 1552.6 °C
Summer 2015 to 1649.2 °C
Summer 2016 to 1749.0 °C
Summer 2017 to 1847.6 °C
Summer 2018 to 1947.0 °C
Summer 2019 to 2047.1 °C
Summer 2020 to 2149.2 °C
Summer 2021 to 2245.6 °C
Summer 2022 to 2347.3 °C
Summer 2023 to 2448.9 °C
Summer 2024 to 2551.6 °C
Summer 2025 to 2648.9 °C

The shape of a year

January: 49.6 °CFebruary: 46.5 °CMarch: 39.5 °CApril: 31.2 °CMay: 23.8 °CJune: 18.6 °CJuly: 18.3 °CAugust: 23.6 °CSeptember: 31.1 °COctober: 40.6 °CNovember: 48.4 °CDecember: 49.8 °CJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Each month’s average since 2014, clear mornings. Bars start at 16 °C.
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Land surface temperature by calendar month, since 2014: every figure
When or whatFigure
January49.6 °C
February46.5 °C
March39.5 °C
April31.2 °C
May23.8 °C
June18.6 °C
July18.3 °C
August23.6 °C
September31.1 °C
October40.6 °C
November48.4 °C
December49.8 °C

Month by month

MonthLand surface temperatureClear looks
October 202640.4 °C2.5
September 202627.9 °C1.0
August 202623.0 °C2.9
July 202616.6 °C1.7
June 202613.4 °C1.1
May 202619.5 °C1.6
April 202624.9 °C1.1
March 202640.9 °C3.7
February 202644.4 °C2.4
January 202652.6 °C4.5
December 202549.7 °C3.7
November 202549.2 °C3.6
October 202539.1 °C3.3
September 202533.6 °C1.1
August 202526.6 °C2.6
July 202516.4 °C1.7
June 202517.5 °C2.7
May 202523.4 °C1.6
April 202532.7 °C2.2
March 202540.5 °C1.6
February 202548.8 °C3.3
January 202553.3 °C3.7
December 202452.6 °C3.9
November 202452.2 °C2.4

“Clear looks” is how many times the average 240 m patch of the place was seen through clear sky that month. Under one, part of the place was not seen at all, so the figure leans on the part that was.

Prince Albert and its wards · Every municipality, ranked

Source

Measured from space by the American Landsat satellites: the ground, not the air.

How we worked this out

Landsat 5 to 2011, Landsat 7 to bridge the gaps, Landsat 8 and 9 from 2013: different satellites pass at slightly different times, so compare summers within the same years first.

What we changed: we kept only the clear land cells (no cloud, cloud shadow, snow or water, with a margin round each cloud), read them at 480 m, and averaged them over each 2026 ward each month; larger places are the sums of their wards.

Landsat imagery courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey (Landsat Collection 2 surface temperature, through Digital Earth Africa’s copy).

Dataset: land surface temperature by ward, release of 13 November 2026.

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