Finland logs second warmest year on record in 2025

HELSINKI, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) -- Finland recorded its second warmest year on record in 2025, with temperatures across most of the country only slightly below the record set in 2020, the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) said in its annual climate report released on Wednesday.

The nationwide annual mean temperature was 4.5 degrees Celsius, 1.6 degrees Celsius above the 1991-2020 long-term average, the report said, noting that the warmest year on record was 2020, when the nationwide annual mean temperature was 4.8 degrees Celsius.