Kuwait City
It is 114.8°F at Kuwait Intl, 15:00 local on Monday. Kuwait City is the 8th hottest of 139 capitals by annual mean, and the 1st hottest capital right now.
15:00 local · Monday 28 September 2026
Source: METAR reports from the aerodrome
Normal for this date here is a high of 104.2°F.
Thursday, 30 July 2020
Source: GHCN-Daily
Tuesday, 15 January 2008
Source: GHCN-Daily
The record for 28 September here is 114.3°F, set in 2016. Today reached 114.8°F.
The whole record bookUlan Bator, at 32.0°F. The two ends of the capitals table right now.
See Ulan BatorWhere Kuwait City stands
- Among capitals, annual mean
- #8
- of 139
- Among capitals, right now
- #1
- of 213 reporting
- Hottest month
- July
- 114.4°F
- Widest annual swing
- #14
- of 139
Kuwait City by month
Normal high · record high · record low- Jan65.5°FHigh 87.1°F · 2 Jan 1994Low 11.7°F · 15 Jan 2008
- Feb69.8°FHigh 96.4°F · 28 Feb 1969Low 26.1°F · 4 Feb 2017
- Mar78.4°FHigh 106.5°F · 29 Mar 2018Low 31.8°F · 4 Mar 1985
- Apr89.8°FHigh 115.2°F · 25 Apr 2025Low 44.4°F · 3 Apr 1981
- May102.6°FHigh 120.7°F · 31 May 2024Low 57.9°F · 11 May 2008
- Jun111.6°FHigh 124.7°F · 29 Jun 2017Low 63.1°F · 12 Jun 2008
- Jul · warmest
Nearby, hottest and coldest
8 of 8 nearby stations reported today.
Capitals with a similar climate
The capitals immediately warmer and cooler than Kuwait City by annual mean.
How Kuwait City’s temperature has been recorded
When did temperature records begin in Kuwait City?
The archive held here for Kuwait City, Kuwait starts in 1958, which is 67 years of record, across 40,108 days with a stored reading.
Which station measures Kuwait City's temperature?
Kuwait Intl (OKKK), 55 m above sea level. Every figure on this page comes from that one station rather than from a city-wide average, so it is a measurement at a known place rather than an estimate for an area.
What is the highest temperature ever recorded in Kuwait City?
125.8°F, on 30 July 2020, in the record held for Kuwait Intl. That is the highest daily maximum in the archive for this station, not a national record and not an official figure: those are set by national meteorological services.
What is the lowest temperature ever recorded in Kuwait City?
11.7°F, on 15 January 2008, in the same archive. Like the high, it is the lowest daily minimum this station has recorded rather than an official national figure.
Sources and checks for this page
Live readings come from METAR reports from the aerodrome at Kuwait Intl. Monthly means and every record on this page are computed from NOAA GHCN-Daily observations stored per station, per year, per month, and the capital list is GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Nothing here is modelled, interpolated or estimated, and a month the archive never covered is left out rather than filled in. See how this is built.