From Copernicus press release issued yesterday (7 Aug 2025):

Global Temperatures 

• July 2025 was the third-warmest July globally, with an average ERA5 surface air temperature of 16.68°C, 0.45°C above the 1991-2020 average for July.
• July 2025 was 0.27°C cooler than the record of July 2023, and 0.23°C cooler than July 2024, which was the second warmest.
• July 2025 was 1.25°C above the estimated 1850-1900 average used to define the pre-industrial level. It was only the fourth month in the last 25 with a global temperature less than 1.5°C above the pre-industrial level.*
• The 12-month period of August 2024 – July 2025 was 0.65°C above the 1991-2020 average, and 1.53°C above the pre-industrial level.

And

Europe and other regions 

• The average temperature over European land for July 2025 was 21.12°C, 1.30°C above the 1991-2020 average for July, making the month the fourth-warmest July in the record.
• Fennoscandia experienced Europe’s most pronounced above-average air temperatures, with heatwave conditions especially affecting Sweden and Finland. Southeast Europe also faced heatwaves and wildfire activity, and a national record temperature of 50.5°C occurred in Türkiye.
• Central Europe, western Russia and isolated parts of Spain experienced cooler-than-average temperatures.
• Outside Europe, temperatures were most above average across the Himalayas, China and Japan.
• Temperatures were most below average over parts of Antarctica and were also below average over North America and South America, India, most of Australia, and pockets of Africa.

And

Sea surface temperature

• The average sea surface temperature (SST) for July 2025 over 60°S–60°N was 20.77°C, the third-highest value on record for the month, 0.12°C below the July 2023 record.
• The Norwegian Sea, parts of the North Sea, and an area of the North Atlantic to the west of France and the United Kingdom had record-high SSTs in July. A broad area of the western North Atlantic and western North Pacific also experienced record-high SSTs.