Heat wave

Quality:

Heat wave - prolonged period of excessively hot weather. Article “Heat wave” in English Wikipedia has 95 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 174 references and 30 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 5 points.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. However, the most popular language version of this article is French.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

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The 3366^th most editable in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4866^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 653^rd most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Heat wave” was edited by 13 authors in English Wikipedia (3366^th place) and written by 78 authors in all languages (653^rd place).

Since the creation of article “Heat wave”, its content was written by 605 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1702 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1742 times in English Wikipedia and cited 7706 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #354 in August 2003
• Global: #362 in August 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #8387 in June 2024
• Global: #4570 in June 2019

There are 40 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Heat wave		95
2	Korean (ko) 폭염		90.8248
3	French (fr) Canicule		83.0534
4	Serbian (sr) Топлотни талас		73.2082
5	German (de) Hitzewelle		68.4811
6	Croatian (hr) Toplinski val		64.949
7	Basque (eu) Bero-bolada		58.9785
8	Spanish (es) Ola de calor		52.7093
9	Romanian (ro) Caniculă		45.8862
10	Chinese (zh) 热浪		44.4972

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Heat wave		4 152 962
2	French (fr) Canicule		2 002 100
3	Spanish (es) Ola de calor		785 592
4	Dutch (nl) Hittegolf		380 093
5	Japanese (ja) 熱波		244 729
6	Chinese (zh) 热浪		228 978
7	Polish (pl) Upał		219 235
8	Korean (ko) 폭염		201 201
9	Russian (ru) Жара		187 130
10	German (de) Hitzewelle		185 080

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	French (fr) Canicule		76 413
2	English (en) Heat wave		42 225
3	Dutch (nl) Hittegolf		10 853
4	German (de) Hitzewelle		7 458
5	Spanish (es) Ola de calor		3 109
6	Polish (pl) Upał		2 935
7	Chinese (zh) 热浪		2 844
8	Italian (it) Ondata di caldo		2 649
9	Russian (ru) Жара		1 965
10	Japanese (ja) 熱波		1 954

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Heat wave		605
2	French (fr) Canicule		254
3	Dutch (nl) Hittegolf		136
4	Spanish (es) Ola de calor		88
5	German (de) Hitzewelle		65
6	Italian (it) Ondata di caldo		51
7	Polish (pl) Upał		46
8	Chinese (zh) 热浪		39
9	Japanese (ja) 熱波		38
10	Korean (ko) 폭염		32

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Dutch (nl) Hittegolf		19
2	French (fr) Canicule		17
3	English (en) Heat wave		13
4	Czech (cs) Vlna veder		4
5	German (de) Hitzewelle		4
6	Polish (pl) Upał		4
7	Russian (ru) Жара		3
8	Basque (eu) Bero-bolada		2
9	Italian (it) Ondata di caldo		2
10	Portuguese (pt) Onda de calor		2

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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