VIENNA, Aug 4, 2026 (BSS/AFP) - Austria set a new temperature record on Tuesday with 40.8C measured in Vienna, the national weather agency said.

The reading was made in Stammersdorf in the east of the capital, GeoSphere Austria said in a statement, breaking the previous record of 40.5 degrees on August 8, 2013 at Bad Deutsch-Altenburg in eastern Austria.