The hottest and coldest places on Earth right now
Hottest on Earth right now
Reading in from the stations
Coldest on Earth right now
Reading in from the stations
Reading in from the stations
Reading in from the stations
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Unanswered · pair 1 of 10 · live readings, same as everywhere else on this page
A lower reading of −71.5°F at Davis Lgb 46 Aws is in the table below, but nothing has confirmed it yet. How this is decided.
Air temperature from airport and national weather service stations, refreshed every 15 minutes.
Checking for new readings every minute
No qualifying satellite pass yet. Ground readings appear here once the VIIRS feed is connected.
No qualifying satellite pass yet. Ground readings appear here once the VIIRS feed is connected.
Measured by satellite rows show the temperature of the ground surface, seen from orbit at the last satellite pass. Sunlit desert ground runs far hotter than the air, and polar ice colder, so these rows are pinned on top and never ranked against weather station air readings.
Readings older than their network allows, and values that fail quality control, are excluded. How we rank.
Today · Friday, 6 November 2026 · UTC day
| Day | Hottest | Coldest | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-06 | 118.4°FGustavo Marambio Arpt | −71.7°FDavis Lgb 46 Aws | 190.1° |
| 2026-11-05 | 116.6°FKandi | −73.1°FCONCORDIA | 189.7° |
| 2026-11-04 | 115.9°FMandora | −71.7°FDavis Lgb 46 Aws | 187.6° |
| 2026-11-03 | 111.4°FKoolan Island | −72.2°FDavis Lgb 46 Aws | 183.6° |
| 2026-11-02 | 109.9°FBIRDSVILLE AIRPORT | −72.4°FDavis Lgb 46 Aws | 182.3° |
| 2026-11-01 | 120.2°FArauca/Perez Arpt | −74.0°FVostok | 194.2° |
| 2026-10-31 | 107.1°FKoolan Island | −75.1°FDavis Lgb 46 Aws | 182.2° |
Official World Meteorological Organization figures. Air temperature at a weather station unless noted. These are the only figures on this site not measured by our own pipeline.
Set in 1980 at Gao Arpt, Mali. The lowest is −74.6°F, at Vostok in 2005.
From the 7,362 stations whose daily archive we hold. It is the extreme of what we hold, not an official world record.
Nearest reporting station Columbus/Glenn Intl, 11 km away. Not you? Pick a place below.
From −56.9°F at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, Antarctica to 108.5°F at Tillabery, Niger. Here is where you are on it.
Fourteen steps, the same fourteen the map above uses. They are equal in width and uneven in degrees, so a marker’s place on the bar is a place and not a value. Every value is printed beside its marker.
Measured against the 9,492 weather stations reporting a valid reading right now.
Percentile computed in the database from the live distribution, not estimated here
10,156 stations reporting in the last 24 hours of 11,247 this pipeline can place, newest reading 15:00 UTC.
255 of them are drawn in this first picture, one per grid cell, until the full field loads. Every station held has a stored position.
Coastline: Natural Earth 1:110m, public domain. Islands smaller than about 61 km across are not drawn, so a station can sit in what looks like open water. The station position is measured; the coastline is reference geometry and is not a temperature.
Place names: Natural Earth 1:50m, public domain. These are reference labels for orientation. A landmark carries no temperature: only the station marks do.
Place names and populations from GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. GeoNames provides the data as is, with no representation of accuracy, timeliness or completeness.
32 more are marked on the map. Open any square for its reading.