Press Release: Berkeley Earth: 2025 Was the Third Warmest Year on Record, Extending an Unprecedented Run of Global Heat

Berkeley, CA – Berkeley Earth, an independent, California-based non-profit climate monitoring organization, today released its 2025 Annual Temperature Report, concluding that 2025 was the third warmest year on Earth since 1850, exceeded only by 2024 and 2023. In Berkeley Earth’s analysis, the global annual average temperature in 2025 is estimated at 1.44 ± 0.09°C (2.60 […]

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February 2026 Temperature Update

February 2026 was the 2nd warmest February on record behind 2024. La Niña is fading and El Niño is expected to return in coming months. There is a 16% chance that 2026 become a record warm year.

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Berkeley Earth and Othersphere Partner to Strengthen Predictive Climate Intelligence for Infrastructure Planning

Berkeley Earth, a leading provider of open-access, high-resolution climate data, is pleased to announce a strategic partnership with Othersphere, a spatial economics platform focused on sustainable infrastructure siting, investment, and design. This collaboration integrates the newly released Berkeley Earth High-Resolution Surface Temperature  Dataset (BEST-HR) into Othersphere’s predictive modeling tools, enabling more accurate modeling of project […]

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Coming Soon: A Preview of Berkeley Earth’s Climate Model Synthesis

Berkeley Earth is dedicated to advancing the field of climate science by providing open-source, high-resolution datasets that enhance the understanding of local climate dynamics and risks. In keeping with this ethos, today we introduce our forthcoming Climate Model Synthesis project, which aims to address critical gaps in existing climate models by applying bias correction and […]

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