Europe Is Cooking

Press kit

The numbers, the sources, the cards. Use them.

Europe Is Cooking is a live, public-data count of the people heat kills across Europe, and the cheap fix it keeps refusing. Everything here is free to quote and reproduce with attribution.

AC is not a crime.

Facts you can cite

Every figure links to its primary public source.

62,775
Europeans died of heat in summer 2024.

ISGlobal, Nature Medicine 2025

~19% vs ~90%
Homes with air conditioning in Europe versus the United States.

IEA, via WRI

30°C
The EU legal upper limit for transporting cattle. There is no equivalent right for a person on a train, in a classroom, or on a ward.

EU Reg 1/2005

35°C
Above this the UK government says an electric fan no longer helps an older body.

GOV.UK

€50-80B
Lost to heatwave productivity every year, 0.3 to 0.5% of GDP.

Allianz Trade

48.8°C
Europe's all-time temperature record, Sicily, August 2021.

WMO

1.6B to 5.6B
Air conditioners worldwide by 2050. Europe is choosing to sit it out.

IEA, The Future of Cooling

181,446
Europeans dead of heat across three summers, 2022 to 2024.

ISGlobal

"a bad solution"
How a French minister described air conditioning at 40°C, July 2025.

The Local France

Download the data

Open dataset, 8 countries, heat deaths 2024 to 2026, AC adoption, economic loss and more. Free to reuse with attribution (CC BY 4.0).
Dataset (CSV) · Dataset (JSON) · Full methodology and every source.

Ready-made cards and tools

Share cards render at 1200×630. The two tools below generate fresh, country-specific images you can screenshot or download.
The Europe AC Index · Heat Scorecard, grade any city · The Cope Generator · Hotter than the cattle limit · The 2026 ranking.

Embed the live counter

Drop the live Europe heat-death counter on any page. Add ?c=ES (any country code: ES, IT, DE, FR, GR, PT, GB, NL) for a country-specific count. Free, and it carries a credit link back.

Cite us

Suggested citation:

Europe Is Cooking (2026), europeiscooking.com. Built on public data: ISGlobal, Eurostat, IEA, Allianz Trade, Open-Meteo.

Independent. We take no money from anyone who sells an air conditioner: no ads, no sponsorship, no affiliate links. Press and corrections: [email protected].

The live count → About Methodology