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Live air temperatures from airport and national weather service stations (METAR and SYNOP), quality controlled. Every figure shows its source and the time it was observed.
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Home / Capital citiesEvery national capital, ranked by the latest air temperature at its nearest weather station. Updated every 15 minutes.
Air temperature at each capital’s nearest weather station , usually its airport, within the last 2 hours. Capitals come from the GeoNames list of national capitals (feature code PPLC), matched to the nearest reporting station within 30 km. Capitals with no station report in that window are left out rather than guessed.
Hottest capitals Station · local time · °C 1 Baghdad, Iraq Baghdad Intl · 17.7 km away 14:00 local 43.0° 2 Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Riyadh/King Khaled Intl · 28.6 km away 14:00 local 42.0° 3 Manama, Bahrain Bahrain Intl · 6.8 km away 14:30 local 38.0° 4 Nouakchott, Mauritania Nouakchott/Oumtounsy Arpt · 24.8 km away 11:30 local 37.0° 5 Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi/Bateen Arpt · 6.7 km away 15:30 local 37.0° 6 New Delhi, India New Delhi/Safdarjung · 4.3 km away 16:30 local 36.0° 7 Tehran, Iran Tehran/Mehrabad Intl · 10.7 km away 15:00 local 36.0° 8 Muscat, Oman Muscat/Seeb Intl · 11.3 km away 14:50 local 36.0° 9 Doha, Qatar Doha Intl · 4.4 km away 14:30 local 36.0° 10 Ashgabat, Turkmenistan Ashgabat Intl · 3 km away 16:00 local 35.0° Spread right now between Baghdad and Nuuk
Capitals reporting The rest have no station within 30 km that reported recently.
Sources: NOAA Aviation Weather Center METAR reports and NOAA WMO SYNOP bulletins (air temperature). Capital list: GeoNames, CC BY 4.0.
Longyearbyen/Svalbard Arpt · 4.8 km away
13:50 local
6.0°