Every match of the last five World Cups on one feels-like thermometer. The 104 games of 2026 (in colour) fall against 256 games of history (muted) — from 2010's near-freezing South-African winter to 2014's Amazon heat.
Each World Cup carries a climate signature. 2010 played through the Southern-Hemisphere winter and sits coldest; 2014 Brazil and 2026 run warm — but 2026 also spreads the widest, 16 venues from sea-level Miami to Mexico City at 2,240 m. Hover any dot for the match.
Every one of the 104 matches, rewound through Tomorrow.io's weather archive at its own kickoff window. The tournament ran through the North-American summer — but the raw heat and the heat players actually felt are two different stories, and the difference is mostly overhead.
Read the ambient numbers and the tournament looks brutal — — of 104 matches hit a feels-like of 32 °C / 90 °F or higher. But — of those were at Atlanta, Dallas or Houston — roof-capable venues that close and cool the bowl for a hot kickoff, so players walked into a controlled ~22–24 °C room. The remaining — were played with the pitch under open sky — seven fully open-air, seven under Miami's seat-canopy, which shades the stands but leaves the field under the weather. That's the honest figure: matches genuinely contested in ≥90 °F heat, led by Paraguay–France in Philadelphia. A roof-capable venue's colour on this page is its outdoor reading — marked with a hatch — never a claim about what the pitch felt like inside.
The three roofed southern venues (⌂) top the chart on outdoor air — which is exactly why their roofs exist. Among the open-air venues, Philadelphia, Monterrey and Kansas City carried the real heat; Mexico City's altitude and the Pacific-Northwest venues stayed coolest.
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