The Climate Story for:
United States
Located in Kansas City
6 World Cup matches
This stadium has no cooling system or significant shade structure.
Kansas City Stadium will host 6 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.
6 of 6 matches at Kansas City Stadium have a high likelihood — over 50% odds — of performance-impairing heat, or heat that could impact player performance.
Across all 6 matches played at Kansas City Stadium, climate change is increasing the odds of this heat by 4 to 13 percentage points.
Extremely hot June-July days have steadily increased since the first North American World Cup in 1970. Climate change accounts for 86% of the hot days that Kansas City 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
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