Heat wave

Quality:

Heat wave - prolonged period of excessively hot weather. Article “Heat wave” in English Wikipedia has 100 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 164 references and 31 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article “Heat wave” was edited by 6 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 20 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Heat wave”, its content was written by 576 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1624 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1668 times in English Wikipedia and cited 7328 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): #8392 in June 2024
• Global: #4556 in June 2019

There are 39 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, 2025 (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		100
2	French (fr) Canicule		69.642
3	German (de) Hitzewelle		66.5206
4	Croatian (hr) Toplinski val		64.9844
5	Basque (eu) Bero-bolada		59.252
6	Chinese (zh) 热浪		43.8944
7	Estonian (et) Kuumalaine		40.1061
8	Malay (ms) Gelombang haba		38.8868
9	Norwegian (no) Hetebølge		33.9304
10	Spanish (es) Ola de calor		33.9287

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Heat wave		3 971 427
2	French (fr) Canicule		1 818 325
3	Spanish (es) Ola de calor		763 427
4	Dutch (nl) Hittegolf		353 972
5	Japanese (ja) 熱波		234 351
6	Chinese (zh) 热浪		217 515
7	Polish (pl) Upał		209 724
8	Korean (ko) 폭염		195 759
9	Russian (ru) Жара		171 965
10	German (de) Hitzewelle		163 647

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		44 050
2	English (en) Heat wave		37 494
3	Dutch (nl) Hittegolf		6 302
4	Spanish (es) Ola de calor		3 597
5	German (de) Hitzewelle		2 803
6	Russian (ru) Жара		2 680
7	Chinese (zh) 热浪		1 285
8	Arabic (ar) موجة حر		1 185
9	Italian (it) Ondata di caldo		1 165
10	Korean (ko) 폭염		905

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		576
2	French (fr) Canicule		238
3	Dutch (nl) Hittegolf		125
4	Spanish (es) Ola de calor		87
5	German (de) Hitzewelle		59
6	Italian (it) Ondata di caldo		50
7	Polish (pl) Upał		40
8	Norwegian (no) Hetebølge		39
9	Chinese (zh) 热浪		38
10	Japanese (ja) 熱波		36

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	English (en) Heat wave		6
2	German (de) Hitzewelle		3
3	Dutch (nl) Hittegolf		3
4	Italian (it) Ondata di caldo		2
5	Greek (el) Καύσωνας		1
6	Spanish (es) Ola de calor		1
7	Japanese (ja) 熱波		1
8	Korean (ko) 폭염		1
9	Romanian (ro) Caniculă		1
10	Simple English (simple) Heat wave		1

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

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