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Philadelphia Stadium

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Located in Philadelphia

6 World Cup matches

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This stadium has no cooling system or significant shade structure.

Philadelphia 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.

Philadelphia Stadium

3 of 6 matches at Philadelphia 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 Philadelphia Stadium, climate change is increasing the odds of this heat by 11 to 17 percentage points.

Heat trends at Philadelphia Stadium

Extremely hot June-July days have steadily increased since the first North American World Cup in 1970. Climate change accounts for 72% of the hot days that Philadelphia Stadium experiences today.

Extremely hot daysDays added by climate change

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.

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World Cup 2026 & Climate Change

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Philadelphia Stadium

Located in Philadelphia

Open air
3 of 6 matches have above 50% odds of performance-impairing heat
  • “Performance-impairing heat” is heat above 28°C (82.4°F) — a threshold associated with elite players running slower, less far, and less often. Source: Climate Shift Index and ERA5 reanalysis.