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World Cup 2022 is the warmest championship in the XXI century, according to Meteum
The World Cup in Qatar is the warmest championship of the 21st century – the average temperature at the games has been +25°C, considering the forecast for the final and the match for third place. However, the hottest of the studied matches took place in Russia in 2018: on June 28 in Volgograd, during the game between Japan and Poland , the temperature exceeded +34°.
Among the championships of the 21st century, the World Cup 2010 in South Africa turned out to be the coldest. The average temperature was about +14°C. At the same tournament in Johannesburg , the coldest match occurred on June 15 . Football players from Brazil and the DPRK had to play at + 3 °.
The lowest temperature in the history of the finals (+12 °) was recorded on
July 4, 1954 , in Bern, Switzerland . On that day, the German team beat the Hungarian team with a score of 3:2. The highest temperature (+30°) was in
Madrid, Spain , on July 11, 1982 , when the German team lost to the Italian team 3:1.
The most cloudless World Cup (89% of all matches) also happened in South Africa . And the most precipitation tournament was in Japan and South Korea ; almost a third of all games were raining.
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