In Götaland and Svealand – central and southern Sweden, temperatures were roughly the same this summer as they were between 1991 and 2020. 

However, the average summer temperature was hotter further north. In northern Norrland, temperatures were “very warm, or even extreme,” the weather agency said in a statement.

Karesuando, Abisko and Katterjåkk/Riksgränsen weather stations, which have all carried out temperature measurements for over 110 years, all either broke or neared their previous temperature records, set in 1937.

Records were also broken at weather stations which started recording temperatures after 1937, like Nikkaluokta, Naimakka, Tarfala, all in Lappland, and Överkalix-Svartbyn in Norrbotten.

Kiruna saw the second hottest summer since 1937, and Pajala and Luleå, which both started recording temperatures in 1944, saw their hottest summers since 2002.

Despite this, the hottest temperature this summer was reported in Uppsala, where the mercury hit 32 degrees C on June 28th. Ljusnedal in Jämtland saw the coldest summer temperature: just -2.4C on June 7th.

That may sound low, but according to the agency it’s a “very high minimum temperature” for the summer season. The last time a similarly high temperature was measured during the summer was in 2022, when temperatures dropped to -2.2 degrees in Latnivaara in Lappland.

The only tropical days in the country – days where temperatures didn’t drop below 20C – were also recorded in Norrland, on June 24th and 25th.

In other areas of the country, like Norrköping and Gällivare, the summer months were wetter than usual, with the former breaking a record set in 2011. Gällivare saw the third rainiest summer since records began, just behind the summers of 1954 and 1961.

Gladhammar, in eastern Småland, saw the rainiest single summer day, with 88.8mm of rain falling on July 13th.