Commentary: Warm enough to make the cold drink genuinely satisfying.
Latest reading25.0°C22:00 local · 54 min agoReports about once an hour · 24 readings in the last 24 hours.Source: NOAA METARToday so far29.0°/25.0°High at 13:00 local · low at 21:00 localRange 4.0°C · from 10 observationsSource: NOAA METAR and SYNOPAll-time record high39.0°C4 January 2017. The highest daily maximum in the record for this station.Source: GHCN-Daily, 1997 to 2026All-time record low15.0°C10 March 2021. The lowest daily minimum in the record for this station.Source: GHCN-Daily, 1997 to 2026
☀️ How 25.0°C comparesA typical August afternoon in Luanda.Luanda, Angola, typically reaches 25.0°C in August, averaged over every August day its archive holds. Not a published climate normal: it is the mean of what we hold.
The last 24 hours
Local time
Over the last 24 hours, temperatures observed at Apia/Faleolo Intl ranged from 24.0°C to 29.0°C, a spread of 5.0°C, from 24 readings.
The record book, month by month
Highest and lowest ever recorded here · with the day it happened
We hold a record for 3 months here so far, September and October and November. The rest of the year fills in as this station reports through it.
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Between its coldest night and its hottest day, this place has swung 24.0°C.
From our dataRecord high 39.0°C against record low 15.0°C.
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At 13:00 it was 29.0°C. By 21:00 it was 25.0°C. The heat did not hold.
From our dataToday so far at this station, in local time.
Not recorded. The daily archive stores the day, not the hour.
Location
Apia/Faleolo Intl, Samoa
Position
13.83°S 171.99°W · 6 m
The highest in available records since 1997. Source: GHCN-Daily, 1997 to 2026.
All-time record low
15.0°C
Date
Wednesday, 10 March 2021
Time of day
Not recorded. The daily archive stores the day, not the hour.
Location
Apia/Faleolo Intl, Samoa
Position
13.83°S 171.99°W · 6 m
The lowest in available records since 1997. Source: GHCN-Daily, 1997 to 2026.
Where this station is
This station lies about 1,500 km south of the equator. It lies within the tropics.
Where Apia/Faleolo Intl is
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13.83°S 171.99°W
Apia/Faleolo Intl
Ground · satellite
Land surface temperature for 2026-11-06, from NASA GIBS. This is the temperature of the ground seen from orbit, not the air, and it is never ranked against air readings. Cloud hides the ground, so gaps are unread rather than guessed.
Monthly highest, lowest and mean temperature recorded at Apia/Faleolo Intl by this site.
Month
High
Low
Mean
Days
Readings
November 2026
32.0°C
22.0°C
26.5°C
7
153
October 2026
31.0°C
21.0°C
26.4°C
31
704
September 2026
32.0°C
23.0°C
26.7°C
8 of 9
190
Means are of the readings we stored, weighted by how often this station reported, so they are not daily averages and not climate normals. Some days were recorded before we began counting observations and contribute their high and low but not the mean.
Stations near Apia/Faleolo Intl, nearest first, with each one's high and low for the day against this station's own.
Apia/Faleolo Intl (NSFA) is a METAR weather station in Samoa, 6 m above sea level, about 25 km from Apia.
We have kept a daily record here since 22 September 2026, every one of the 47 days this site has existed. We have stored 1,047 observations across the 46 of those days for which we also recorded a count.
Recent temperature history
The same record at three widths, picking up where the last 24 hours above leaves off. Each period is summarised from the grain that suits it, so nothing here is one reading repeated thousands of times into the page.
Recent readings
Each reading as it arrived, newest first, with what our quality checks did with it. A reading we did not count is shown struck through with the reason.
The most recent readings from Apia/Faleolo Intl, newest first, with the change from the reading before it and whether it was counted.
Time
Temp
Change
Status
25.0°C
0.0°C
Counted
low
25.0°C
0.0°C
Counted
25.0°C
−2.0°C
Counted
27.0°C
0.0°C
In summary
Over the last week we have readings for 7 days here, running from 22.0°C to 32.0°C, a spread of 10.0°C.
It reports about once an hour, and sent 24 readings in the last 24 hours.
Its best placing today was 147th hottest of the 5,267 stations reporting.
What stands out here
Its best placing so far is 42nd hottest of the 9,128 stations reporting worldwide. It has reached the world's hottest 100 on 8 days.
It has passed 30°C on 4 of the 7 days we have recorded here.
Recent highlights
Fell to 21.0°C, the lowest we have recorded here, beating 22.0°C on Wed 7 Oct 2026.
Entered the hundred hottest reporting stations on Earth, reaching 62nd of 5,241.
Highest and lowest we have recorded here
Highest
32.0°C
Tue 3 Nov 2026 at 10:00 local
Lowest
21.0°C
Fri 9 Oct 2026 at 05:00 local
These are not official records. They are the highest and lowest readings this site has stored for Apia/Faleolo Intl since September 2026, across 47 days we hold a reading for. Official climatological records are adjudicated by national meteorological services and by the WMO.
By year, from our own record
2026
Highest 32.0°C, lowest 21.0°C, mean 26.4°C. 47 days recorded from 1,047 readings.
Recent days
A reading on every one of the last 30 days. Typically 24 readings a day.
Daily highest and lowest air temperature at Apia/Faleolo Intl, most recent first.
First time in the hundred hottest reporting stations74 of 5,185
30 days reporting without a gap
Apia/Faleolo Intl, answered from the data
What is the highest temperature ever recorded in Apia/Faleolo Intl?
39.0°C (102.2°F) on Wednesday, 4 January 2017. That is the highest in the daily record we hold for this station, which runs since 1997. It is not an officially certified record unless a meteorological authority has recognised it.
NOAA GHCN-Daily
What is the lowest temperature ever recorded in Apia/Faleolo Intl?
15.0°C (59.0°F) on Wednesday, 10 March 2021. That is the lowest in the daily record we hold, which runs since 1997.
NOAA GHCN-Daily
What is the temperature in Apia/Faleolo Intl right now?
25.0°C (77.0°F), measured at 22:00 local on Saturday 7 November.
Live reading from the station, after our quality checks
Is Apia/Faleolo Intl the hottest place on Earth?
Not right now: it is 1,423rd of the 8,970 stations reporting to us. Its best position since we started watching is 42nd of 9,128. We rank the stations that report to us, which is not the same as every place on Earth.
Our live rankings
Data sources for this page
Readings here arrive through NOAA METAR. METAR is the routine aerodrome weather report, issued for aviation, typically every 30 or 60 minutes and more often when conditions change. It updates far more frequently than a synoptic report, which is why these pages have a usable chart.
Where each figure on this page comes from.
Figure
Source
Type
Latest reading, today so far
NOAA Aviation Weather Center (METAR) and NOAA NWS WMO bulletins (SYNOP)
Measured, station
All-time, monthly and on-this-day records
NOAA NCEI Global Historical Climatology Network daily (GHCN-Daily), 1997 to 2026 at this site and its predecessors, and our own observations, 47 days, which hold the record shown above
Measured, station
Nearby stations and distances
Computed from station positions in our own database
Calculated
Download these readings
Every reading we hold for Apia/Faleolo Intl that passed the checks above, as a file. The source networks are public domain and the file carries its own attribution.
Every reading on this page has passed the checks below. A reading that fails any of them is stored as refused and can never be ranked, shown as a record, or counted in a daily high or low.
No reading from this station has been refused in the last 14 days.
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Has a real position
A reading with no usable latitude and longitude is discarded. It cannot be ranked, mapped, or compared with its neighbours, and a temperature with no place is not an answer to which place is hottest.
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Position is not a placeholder
Some feeds fill an unknown position with a stand-in value such as 99.99 degrees or an elevation of 9999 m. Those are not coordinates. They are caught separately from a missing position because a station placed at a fake point has no neighbours, so the neighbour check below can never see anything wrong with it.
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The bulletin itself is current
SYNOP arrives as files that are only re-read when they change. A file that has stopped being updated is set aside whole, before any reading inside it is considered.
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The reading is recent enough for its network
Different networks get different windows, because they report at different rates: 2 hours for METAR, which transmits continuously, and 9 hours for SYNOP, which reports at 00, 06, 12 and 18 UTC. A single rule would have discarded the entire synoptic network, including every station in Antarctica.
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Inside the range of measured temperature
Warmer right now than 109 of the 195 capital cities we can read.
It is warmer here than in Santo Domingo (24.0°C), Fort-de-France (24.0°C) and Kuala Lumpur (24.0°C) at this moment. Those are the warmest capitals still cooler than here, so every other one on the list is further behind.
Observations stored by HottestAndColdest. A day we were not yet tracking is shown as an empty square, and says nothing about whether the station reported.
Anything above 56.8 °C or below -95 °C is refused. The ceiling sits just above the highest reading WMO accepts, so a genuine new world record would be refused here too: a record needs adjudicating, not a live tile on a home page. The floor is deliberately further from its record, because the Antarctic plateau is thinly instrumented and a real extreme there has far less around it to corroborate it.
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Not a jump too large to be weather
A change of more than 15 °C from this station's previous reading within 60 minutes is treated as a failing sensor. The limit is set from measured data: real weather reaches about 12 °C in an hour at desert sunrise or under a thunderstorm outflow, and the faults found were 20 °C and more.
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Agrees with the stations around it
A reading more than 12 °C from the median of other stations within 150 km is refused. It needs at least 3 neighbours to run at all, so it protects dense networks and can say nothing about an isolated station, which is why the other checks above have to stand on their own.