Summer 2022 in Italy was the second hottest. Further east, it was the hottest summer in the time series in Serbia. In both countries, the hottest summers are concentrated from 2003 to today. The hottest summers before 2003 were the summers of 1950 and 1994 in Italy and the summers of 1950 and 1998 in Serbia but today they are no longer present in the top 7 hottest, as they have been surpassed by much more recent summers.