The Climate Story for:
United States
Located in Atlanta
8 World Cup matches
This stadium is fully enclosed and climate-controlled.
Atlanta Stadium will host 8 World Cup matches. See the likelihood of those matches reaching heat levels that could impact player performance, and how climate change is raising those odds.
8 of 8 matches at Atlanta Stadium have a high likelihood — over 50% odds — of performance-impairing heat, or heat that could impact player performance.
Across all 8 matches played at Atlanta Stadium, climate change is increasing the odds of this heat by 12 to 15 percentage points.
While Atlanta Stadium is a climate-controlled venue, heat may still affect fans and workers coming to and from the match and gathering beforehand.
Extremely hot June-July days have steadily increased since the first North American World Cup in 1970. Climate change accounts for 83% of the hot days that Atlanta Stadium experiences today.
Extremely hot June-July days are at least as hot as the hottest 10% of days at each stadium location during the 1991-2020 period. These are locally defined extreme heat thresholds.
Pink shows the modeled number of hot days that would have occurred without climate change. Red shows the days added by climate change.
Source: Climate Shift Index and ERA5 reanalysis.
World Cup 2026 & Climate Change
Located in Atlanta
Climate-controlled
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