Record Temperature Years: 2025, 2024, and 2023
2025, 2024, and 2023 were the three warmest years in NASA's 146-year record. This visualization highlights these three years in the context of the full GISTEMP temperature record.
Temperature anomalies are deviations from a long term global average. In this case the period 1850-1900 is used to define the baseline for the anomaly. Please note that this "pre-industrial" baseline is different than that used in most NASA temperature visualizations.
Temperatures are based on the GISS Surface Temperature Analysis (GISTEMP v4), an estimate of global surface temperature change. The data file used to create this visualization is publicaly accessible here. The Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York is a NASA laboratory managed by the Earth Sciences Division of the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The laboratory is affiliated with Columbia University’s Earth Institute and School of Engineering and Applied Science in New York.
2025, 2024, and 2023 Temperatures: English Version
A visualization of global temperature anomalies highlighting the record years of 2025, 2024, and 2023. The visualizations morphs between a data grid showing monthly temperatures and a bar chart of annual temperatures. This version is labeled in English and temperatures are in Celsius.
2025, 2024, and 2023 Temperatures: Spanish Version
A visualization of global temperature anomalies highlighting the record years of 2025, 2024, and 2023. The visualizations morphs between a data grid showing monthly temperatures and a bar chart of annual temperatures. This version is labeled in Spanish and temperatures are in Celsius.
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio
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Visualizer
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Mark SubbaRao
(NASA/GSFC)
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Mark SubbaRao
(NASA/GSFC)
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Technical support
- Laurence Schuler (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
- Ian Jones (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
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Web administrator
- Ella Kaplan (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
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Scientist
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Gavin A. Schmidt
(NASA/GSFC GISS)
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Gavin A. Schmidt
(NASA/GSFC GISS)
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Science support
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Peter H. Jacobs
(NASA/GSFC)
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Peter H. Jacobs
(NASA/GSFC)
Datasets used
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GISTEMP [GISS Surface Temperature Analysis (GISTEMP)]
ID: 585The GISS Surface Temperature Analysis version 4 (GISTEMP v4) is an estimate of global surface temperature change. Graphs and tables are updated around the middle of every month using current data files from NOAA GHCN v4 (meteorological stations) and ERSST v5 (ocean areas), combined as described in our publications Hansen et al. (2010), Lenssen et al. (2019), and Lenssen et al. (2024).
Credit: Lenssen, N., G.A. Schmidt, M. Hendrickson, P. Jacobs, M. Menne, and R. Ruedy, 2024: A GISTEMPv4 observational uncertainty ensemble. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 129, no. 17, e2023JD040179, doi:10.1029/2023JD040179.
This dataset can be found at: https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/
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MERRA-2 (MERRA-2)
ID: 1134
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Release date
This page was originally published on Wednesday, February 4, 2026.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, February 4, 2026 at 12:17 PM EST.