Tokyo: Japan logged its hottest July for the third year in a row, with average temperatures 2.89 C above normal, the weather agency said Friday.

According to Emirates News Agency, the average temperature was the highest since comparable records started being kept in 1898, exceeding the previous record set in 2024 by 2.16 degrees. Temperatures are expected to stay above normal in August across Japan, except in Okinawa Prefecture and the Amami Islands in the southwest, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency.

On Wednesday, a temperature of 41.2 degrees was logged in Hyogo Prefecture's Tamba City, marking the highest ever observed in the country. Meanwhile, the nation experienced reduced rainfall in July, with precipitation at only 13 percent of the average amount on the Sea of Japan side of the Tohoku region and just 8 percent in the Hokuriku region and Niigata Prefecture.