PolymarketOtherDevelopingUpdated 5m ago

Will 2026 be the fifth-hottest year on record?

As of Oct 12, 2026, 3:08 PM ET, Polymarket priced this market at 0.1% (little changed over 24 hours). It had $33.4K traded in the past 24 hours, $48.6K of order-book liquidity and a bid-ask spread of 0.1 pts. probcast.co rates the support behind this price as moderate.

Market probability
0.1%
Little changed over 24 hours

Thin market where small orders can move the price, traded by a small group of accounts.

Price historyPolymarket

Source: Polymarket price history

How credible was the move?

Methodology →

Move validity

Moderate

Consensus stability

Stable

Contract clarity

High

Can you trust this price?

Two different questions: how hard the price is to move, and whose trading set it.

Market capacity

How hard is it to move this price?

ThinTight spread

Order-book liquidity

$48.6K

Bid-ask spread

0.1 pts

24h volume

$33.4K

Total volume

$902.2K

It would take roughly $174 of buying to move the price up by ~5 pts.

Little money on the book — a modest order can move this price, so treat swings with care.

Who's trading

Whose opinion is this price?

A few accounts
38%of the traded money came from the single largest account

Accounts

61

Trades

200

over 41 days

Largest order

$33

$86.3 traded across these 200 trades (last 41 days).

A small group of accounts did most of the trading — neither one whale nor a broad crowd.

Recent trade activity$86.3 traded

From the latest trade tape (most recent 200 prints) — a live activity sample, not a lifetime total.

What this market actually measures

This market will resolve according to the numerical rank of how hot 2026 is when compared against all other years for which the Global Land-Ocean Temperature Index has data. Years will be ranked in descending order, starting with the hottest as number 1, the second hottest as number 2, etc.

This summary shows the opening of the venue's official rules. ProbCast has not yet generated an independent plain-English interpretation for this contract — review the full rules before relying on it.

View full official resolution rules

This market will resolve according to the numerical rank of how hot 2026 is when compared against all other years for which the Global Land-Ocean Temperature Index has data. Years will be ranked in descending order, starting with the hottest as number 1, the second hottest as number 2, etc. If 2026 ties with any other year, it will resolve according to the place the year it ties with occupies. This market will resolve immediately once the specified data becomes available, regardless of whether the figure for the relevant years is later revised. The primary resolution source for this market will be the figure found in the table titled "Land-Ocean Temperature Index (C)" under the column "No_Smoothing" in the row "2026" (https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/graph_data/Global_Mean_Estimates_based_on_Land_and_Ocean_Data/graph.txt). If NASA's "Global Temperature Index" is rendered permanently unavailable, other information from NASA may be used. If no information for 2026 is provided by NASA by March 1, 2027, 11:59 PM ET, this market will resolve based on a consensus of credible reporting.

Resolution source: data.giss.nasa.gov

What could move this market next?

  • The market's deadline arrivesMarch 1, 2027 at 11:59 PM ET

    The contract must resolve based on what has happened by this date.

  • Confirmation at the resolution source (data.giss.nasa.gov)

    The rules name this source as the basis for settlement.

Derived from the contract's own mechanics as of Oct 12, 3:13 PM ET. ProbCast does not list scheduled meetings, announcements, or data releases it cannot verify.

Advanced analysis (experimental)

Research signals — these models are still accumulating the history needed for full validation, and they can disagree with the headline read. Model confidence: low · expected error ±14 pts.

Quote-drivenLegacy movement classifier: watch

What's happening

medium classifier confidence
Quote-driven

A tight, deep, quote-driven book with little executed flow. The price is stable but reflects resting quotes more than active trading.

  • Tight spread on a liquid, calm market

The latest price is a usable but caveated read — weigh it with the market state.

More details — reliability score, dynamics, durability
Reliability score
51Medium
Where the price path tends to go next464 observed
  • Choppy / mean-reverting93%
  • Stable consensus3%
  • Illiquid / quiet2%

Short-term motion of the price line (~1h), distinct from the environment above — not a prediction of the final outcome.

DurabilityHigh· half-life ~3d
PredictabilityStable

Secondary read: leaning toward Thin market.

A read-only classification of the market environment — how much weight the current price deserves as a read of consensus. It describes conditions, never a trade.

Market data

24h volume

$33.4K

Liquidity

$48.6K

Total volume

$902.2K

Category
Other
Venue
Polymarket
Open interest
—
Spread
0.1 pts
Best bid
0.1%
Best ask
0.2%
7-day range
0.1% – 0.1%
Resolves
Mar 1, 2027
Change (pts)1H0.06H+0.124H+0.17D+0.1

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