Highest temperature in Paris on August 3?

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Market context

Paris is still trading as a hot-weather event rather than an extreme-heat outlier, with the market heavily clustered around 35–36°C and only a 1% price on 39°C, despite the broader summer setup being warm enough to keep the upper tail alive.[1] That profile reflects a city where August highs usually sit much lower than the current implied range, but where recent French heatwaves have shown that Paris can still push well into the high 30s when the air mass locks in.[2][12] The market therefore looks calibrated to a strong daytime maximum, not a freak record, and the current crowd view leaves little room for a genuine cool-down scenario.[1][14]

For traders, the key catalysts are the near-term forecast updates from Météo-France and ECMWF ensembles, plus any changes in the persistence of the warm air mass over northern France.[1] Polymarket’s own notes indicate the distribution has been shaped by guidance pointing to 34–36°C, and the exchange will keep accepting revisions until the first datapoint for 4 August is published.[1] That means the main risk is not a late move in the calendar but a late shift in cloud cover, wind direction or thunderstorm timing that trims the day’s high by a degree or two, which is exactly the sort of change that can move the settlement band in this type of market.[1][20]

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Methodology

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Resolution & payout

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FAQ

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