• Heat Wave (comics), a fictional supervillain from the DC universe
• Heatwave (Transformers), a fictional character in the Transformers universe

• Heat Wave (1935 film), a British comedy
• The House Across the Lake, a 1954 film released as Heat Wave in the US
• Heatwave!, a 1974 film with Ben Murphy and Bonnie Bedelia
• Heatwave (film), a 1982 Australian film directed by Phillip Noyce
• Heat Wave (1990 film), an American television film
• Heat Wave (2009 American film), a television film featuring Jamie Luner
• Heat Wave (2009 Canadian film), featuring Marie-Thérèse Fortin
• Heat Wave (2011 film), a French drama film
• Heat Wave (2015 film), a French film

Groups edit

• Heatwave (band), an international funk/disco music band
• Heatwave (English band), a London-based band active between 1969 and 1972
• Heat Wave Drum and Bugle Corps, Tampa, Florida
• The Heatwave, a dancehall sound system and production crew from London

Albums edit

• Heat Wave (Ahmad Jamal album), 1966
• Heat Wave (Cal Tjader and Carmen McRae album), 1982
• Heat Wave (Martha and the Vandellas album), 1963
• Heat Wave (The Jazz Crusaders album), 1963
• Heatwave (album), a 1986 album by Univers Zero
• Heatwave, a 2021 EP by A.C.T

Songs edit

• "Heat Wave" (Alphabeat song), 2010
• "Heat Wave" (Irving Berlin song), 1933
• "Heat Wave" (Martha and the Vandellas song), a 1963 Holland–Dozier–Holland song recorded by Martha and the Vandellas, and later recorded by Linda Ronstadt and The Who
• "Heatwave" (Robin Schulz song), 2015, featuring Akon
• "Heatwave" (Wiley song), 2012
• "Heat Waves", a song by Glass Animals from the album Dreamland
• "Heat Wave", a song by Snail Mail from the album Lush
• "Heatwave", a song by the Blue Nile from the album A Walk Across the Rooftops

• Heat Wave (novel), a novel attributed to fictional character Richard Castle of the TV series Castle
• Heatwave (festival), a music festival held in 1980 at Mosport, Canada
• Heatwave (magazine), an anarchist magazine in the 1960s by Charles Radcliffe
• ECW Heat Wave, a pay-per-view event by the now-defunct Extreme Championship Wrestling

• Heat burst
• Heat haze, a type of mirage caused by refraction of light in hot air
• Wave of Heat, a 2010 album by Izzy Stradlin