- Record watch2.7°C from a recordThe November record here is 43.4°C, set on Friday, 6 November 1981.The whole record book →
- The opposite of here98.2°C colderDavis Lgb 46 Aws, Antarctica is at −57.5°C at this same moment.Go to Davis Lgb 46 Aws →
Our synoptic decoder reads air temperature only, so this station reports no dew point, wind or pressure here.
The last 24 hours
Local timeInsufficient recent observations to produce a 24-hour temperature chart.
39 Novembers on record
Average high · NOAA GHCN-DailyThe record book, month by month
The highest and lowest here · with the day it happenedJan
43.4°
Mon 12 Jan 1970
13.6°
Fri 8 Jan 1960
Feb
42.3°
Fri 26 Feb 1965
14.1°
Tue 16 Feb 1960
Mar
42.2°
Sun 6 Mar 1983
11.9°
Mon 25 Mar 1963
Apr
40.2°
Sat 4 Apr 1987
7.1°
Tue 27 Apr 1965
May
38.6°
Record high
38.6°C
Tue 7 Nov 1967
Record low
14.8°C
Mon 7 Nov 1955
Average high
32.4°C
all years on record
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Today is already hotter than 98% of all days recorded here since 1951.
From our dataToday's high against every day recorded at this station since 1951. - 2
Between its coldest night and its hottest day, this place has swung 43.3°C.
From our dataRecord high 43.4°C against record low 0.1°C. - 3
At 08:00 it was 30.6°C. By 14:00 it was 40.7°C. The night never stood a chance.
From our dataToday so far at this station, in local time.
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Today's high beats the record for 7 November
Today’s high 40.7°C against 38.6°C in 1967. A reading that beats it is flagged here automatically, once a second cycle confirms it.
Highest we have recorded
43.6°C
- Date
- Thursday, 22 October 2026
- Time of day
- 14:00 local
- Location
- Beitbridge, Zimbabwe
- Position
- 22.22°S 30.00°E · 456 m
The highest this site has recorded here. Source: Our own observations, 46 days.
All-time record low
0.1°C
- Date
- Monday, 8 August 1955
- Time of day
- Not recorded. The daily archive stores the day, not the hour.
- Location
- Beitbridge, Zimbabwe
- Position
- 22.22°S 30.00°E · 456 m
The lowest in available records since 1951. Source: GHCN-Daily, 1951 to 1990.
By year, from our own record
2026
Highest 43.6°C, lowest 14.0°C, mean 27.3°C. 46 days recorded from 118 readings.
By month, from our own record
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Days | Readings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2026 | 40.7°C | 23.6°C | 32.5°C | 6 | 15 |
| October 2026 | 43.6°C | 14.6°C | 27.1°C | 31 | 85 |
| September 2026 | 39.0°C | 14.0°C | 24.1°C | 8 of 9 | 18 |
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.
Highest and lowest we have recorded here
Highest
43.6°C
Thu 22 Oct 2026 at 14:00 local
Lowest
14.0°C
Wed 30 Sep 2026 at 20:00 local
These are not official records. They are the highest and lowest readings this site has stored for Beitbridge since September 2026, across 46 days we hold a reading for. Official climatological records are adjudicated by national meteorological services and by the WMO.
Beitbridge (FVBB) is a SYNOP weather station in Zimbabwe, 456 m above sea level.
We have kept a daily record here for 46 of the 47 days since 22 September 2026. We have stored 118 observations across the 45 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.
| Time | Temp | Change | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| high | 40.7°C | +10.1°C | Counted |
| low | 30.6°C | Counted |
Times are local time. 2 readings counted.
In summary
Over the last week we have readings for 6 days here, running from 23.6°C to 40.7°C, a spread of 17.1°C.
What stands out here
- Its best placing so far is 1st hottest of the 9,699 stations reporting worldwide. It has reached the world's hottest 100 on 20 days.
- Its widest single day so far swung 15.4°C between low and high.
- It has passed 30°C on every one of the 6 days we have recorded here.
Recent highlights
Entered the ten hottest reporting stations on Earth, reaching 5th of 8,372.
Entered the hundred hottest reporting stations on Earth, reaching 20th of 8,813.
Its high of 39.0°C was the highest of the 24 stations we hold in Zimbabwe.
Reached 38.2°C, its highest of October, beating 38.1°C on Fri 16 Oct 2026.
Recent days
A reading on every one of the last 30 days. Typically 3 readings a day.
| Day | High | At | Low | At |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-06 | 40.7°C | 12:00 UTC | 30.6°C | 06:00 UTC |
| 2026-11-05 | 39.0°C | 12:00 UTC | 29.0°C | 06:00 UTC |
| 2026-11-04 | 38.2°C | 12:00 UTC | 25.6°C | 06:00 UTC |
| 2026-11-03 | 38.0°C | 12:00 UTC |
Nearby, and the opposite
| Station | Away | Height | High | Low | vs here |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ThohoyandouSouth Africa | 97.7 km | none | none | ||
| LevubuSouth Africa | 100.3 km | none | none | ||
| THOHOYANDOUSouth Africa | 103.4 km |
What we have stored, day by day
We have readings for 46 of the 47 days since we started storing this station on 22 September 2026.
Tracking history
It is on a run of 46 days now.
- First reading stored29.9°C on our first day here
- First day as the hottest we hold in its country39.0°C
- First time in the hundred hottest reporting stations39 of 8,987
- 30 days reporting without a gap
- First time in the ten hottest reporting stations3 of 8,642
- 100 readings storedfired late: 1 earlier day(s) carry no reading count
Where this station is
This station lies about 2,500 km south of the equator. It lies within the tropics.
Where Beitbridge is
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22.22°S 30.00°E
Beitbridge
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.
View more on Google Maps22.2167°S, 30.0000°E
Beitbridge, answered from the data
How hot does it get in Beitbridge?
The warmest month on record here is October, when the highest reading has reached 43.6°C (110.5°F) on Thursday, 22 October 2026.
NOAA GHCN-Daily, highest reading recorded in each month
How cold does it get in Beitbridge?
The coldest month on record here is June, when the lowest reading has fallen to 0.1°C (32.2°F) on Thursday, 25 June 1964.
NOAA GHCN-Daily, lowest reading recorded in each month
What is the highest temperature ever recorded in Beitbridge?
43.6°C (110.5°F) on Thursday, 22 October 2026. That is the highest this site has recorded at this station, and it is higher than anything in the daily archive we hold, which runs since 1951. It is not an officially certified record unless a meteorological authority has recognised it.
Our own observations
What is the lowest temperature ever recorded in Beitbridge?
0.1°C (32.2°F) on Monday, 8 August 1955. That is the lowest in the daily record we hold, which runs since 1951.
NOAA GHCN-Daily
What is the temperature in Beitbridge right now?
40.7°C (105.3°F), measured at 14:00 local on Friday 6 November.
Live reading from the station, after our quality checks
Data sources for this page
Readings here arrive through NOAA WMO SYNOP bulletins. SYNOP is the surface synoptic report that national weather services file to the WMO, typically at the main hours of 00, 06, 12 and 18 UTC and often three hourly between them. It covers places with no airport, which is why the coldest readings on Earth arrive this way.
| 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), 1951 to 1990 at this site and its predecessors, and our own observations, 46 days, which hold the record shown above | Measured, station |
| Nearby stations and distances | Computed from station positions in our own database | Calculated |
How these readings are checked
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.
- 01
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.
- 02
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.
- 03
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.
- 04
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.
- 05
Inside the range of measured temperature