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Last reading18.0°C19:00 local · 5 h agoNo reading has passed quality control here for 5 hours. This is the last one that did.Source: NOAA METARToday so far21.0°/11.0°High at 16:00 local · low at 08:00 localRange 10.0°C · from 13 observationsSource: NOAA METAR and SYNOPAll-time record high46.3°C4 July 2018. The highest daily maximum in the record for this station.Source: GHCN-Daily, 1984 to 2025All-time record low−9.1°C27 January 2005. The lowest daily minimum in the record for this station.Source: GHCN-Daily, 1984 to 2025
Over the last 17 hours, temperatures observed at Bou Saada Arpt ranged from 11.0°C to 21.0°C, a spread of 10.0°C, from 13 readings. Times shown in local time.
Temperature readings at Bou Saada Arpt over the charted period, in local time.
Time
Temperature
07:00
12.0°C
The record book, month by month
Highest and lowest ever recorded here · with the day it happened
Jan
24.5°
Fri 26 Jan 2024
−9.1°
Thu 27 Jan 2005
Feb
29.6°
Thu 15 Feb 1990
−6.5°
Sun 23 Feb 1992
Mar
35.5°
Sat 24 Mar 2001
−1.3°
Fri 27 Mar 1998
Apr
37.4°
Wed 26 Apr 2000
0.6°
Wed 13 Apr 1994
May
43.6°
On this day · Saturday 7 November
Record high
25.6°C
Thu 7 Nov 2013
Record low
5.0°C
Wed 7 Nov 2018
Average high
20.4°C
all years on record
1
Bou Saada Arpt has dropped below freezing on 217 nights since 1984. The desert remembers every one of them.
From our dataNights with a minimum below 0°C since 1984.
2
Today is colder than 68% of all days recorded here since 1984.
From our dataToday's high against every day recorded at this station since 1984. Shown only once the station has reported most of the day, because a day's high can still rise.
3
The coldest night Bou Saada Arpt has ever recorded, −9.1°C, would pass for a warm spell at Davis Lgb 46 Aws, which is −57.4°C right now.
From our dataThis station's record low against the current live reading at Davis Lgb 46 Aws.
Today’s high 21.0°C against 25.6°C in 2013. A reading that beats it is flagged here automatically, once a second cycle confirms it.
All-time record high
46.3°C
Date
Wednesday, 4 July 2018
Time of day
Not recorded. The daily archive stores the day, not the hour.
Location
Bou Saada Arpt, Algeria
Position
35.33°N 4.21°E · 461 m
The highest in available records since 1984. Source: GHCN-Daily, 1984 to 2025.
All-time record low
−9.1°C
Date
Thursday, 27 January 2005
Time of day
Not recorded. The daily archive stores the day, not the hour.
Location
Bou Saada Arpt, Algeria
Position
35.33°N 4.21°E · 461 m
The lowest in available records since 1984. Source: GHCN-Daily, 1984 to 2025.
Where this station is
This station lies about 3,900 km north of the equator.
Where Bou Saada Arpt is
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35.33°N 4.21°E
Bou Saada Arpt
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.
Its best placing so far is 101st hottest of the 9,581 stations reporting worldwide.
Highest and lowest we have recorded here
Highest
33.0°C
Tue 6 Oct 2026 at 16:00 local
Lowest
9.0°C
Fri 6 Nov 2026 at 08:00 local
These are not official records. They are the highest and lowest readings this site has stored for Bou Saada Arpt since September 2026, across 47 days we hold a reading for. Official climatological records are adjudicated by national meteorological services and by the WMO.
Bou Saada Arpt (DAAD) is a METAR weather station in Algeria, 461 m above sea level, about 14 km from Bou Saâda.
We have kept a daily record here since 22 September 2026, every one of the 47 days this site has existed. We have stored 575 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 Bou Saada Arpt, newest first, with the change from the reading before it and whether it was counted.
Time
Temp
Change
Status
18.0°C
−1.0°C
Counted
19.0°C
−1.0°C
Counted
20.0°C
−1.0°C
Counted
high
21.0°C
0.0°C
In summary
Over the last week we have readings for 7 days here, running from 9.0°C to 22.0°C, a spread of 13.0°C.
It reports about once an hour, and sent 13 readings in the last 24 hours.
Its best placing today was 1,238th hottest of the 5,237 stations reporting.
By month, from our own record
Monthly highest, lowest and mean temperature recorded at Bou Saada Arpt by this site.
Month
High
Low
Mean
Days
Readings
November 2026
22.0°C
9.0°C
17.4°C
7
90
October 2026
33.0°C
11.0°C
23.3°C
31
388
September 2026
33.0°C
17.0°C
27.9°C
8 of 9
97
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.
By year, from our own record
2026
Highest 33.0°C, lowest 9.0°C, mean 23.1°C. 47 days recorded from 575 readings.
Recent days
A reading on every one of the last 30 days. Typically 13 readings a day.
Daily highest and lowest air temperature at Bou Saada Arpt, most recent first.
The warmest month on record here is July, when the highest reading has reached 46.3°C (115.3°F) on Wednesday, 4 July 2018.
NOAA GHCN-Daily, highest reading recorded in each month
How cold does it get in Bou Saada Arpt?
The coldest month on record here is January, when the lowest reading has fallen to −9.1°C (15.6°F) on Thursday, 27 January 2005.
NOAA GHCN-Daily, lowest reading recorded in each month
What is the highest temperature ever recorded in Bou Saada Arpt?
46.3°C (115.3°F) on Wednesday, 4 July 2018. That is the highest in the daily record we hold for this station, which runs since 1984. 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 Bou Saada Arpt?
−9.1°C (15.6°F) on Thursday, 27 January 2005. That is the lowest in the daily record we hold, which runs since 1984.
NOAA GHCN-Daily
What is the temperature in Bou Saada Arpt right now?
18.0°C (64.4°F), measured at 19:00 local on Saturday 7 November.
Live reading from the station, after our quality checks
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), 1984 to 2025 at this site and its predecessors, and our own observations, 47 days
Measured, station
Nearby stations and distances
Computed from station positions in our own database
Calculated
Download these readings
Every reading we hold for Bou Saada Arpt 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.
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
A typical July afternoon in Douglas.
Douglas, Isle of Man, typically reaches 18.0°C in July, averaged over every July day its archive holds. Not a published climate normal: it is the mean of what we hold.
Warmer right now than 78 of the 196 capital cities we can read.
It is warmer here than in New Delhi (17.0°C), Kigali (17.0°C) and Valletta (16.0°C) at this moment. Those are the warmest capitals still cooler than here, so every other one on the list is further behind.
Live capital readings, same observations as this page
08:00
11.0°C
09:00
14.0°C
10:00
16.0°C
11:00
17.0°C
12:00
18.0°C
13:00
19.0°C
14:00
20.0°C
15:00
21.0°C
16:00
21.0°C
17:00
20.0°C
18:00
19.0°C
19:00
18.0°C
Every year on record
NOAA GHCN-Daily
1984 to 2025
Annual average · °C
Trend over 2 years with data: +0.00 °C per decade
Annual average for each year, °C.
Year
Annual average
1984
no data
1985
no data
1986
no data
1987
no data
1988
no data
1989
no data
1990
no data
1991
no data
1992
no data
1993
no data
1994
no data
1995
no data
1996
no data
1997
no data
1998
no data
1999
no data
2000
no data
2001
no data
2002
no data
2003
no data
2004
no data
2005
no data
2006
27.4°C
2007
no data
2008
no data
2009
no data
2010
no data
2011
no data
2012
no data
2013
no data
2014
no data
2015
no data
2016
no data
2017
no data
2018
no data
2019
no data
2020
no data
2021
no data
2022
no data
2023
27.4°C
2024
no data
2025
no data
Source: NOAA GHCN-Daily. Years the station did not cover are left as gaps, never joined across. The dashed line is a least squares trend through the years that have data.
Tue 31 May 1994
1.2°
Sun 12 May 1996
Jun
45.2°
Wed 28 Jun 2006
9.2°
Fri 2 Jun 2006
Jul
46.3°
Wed 4 Jul 2018
15.6°
Mon 15 Jul 2002
Aug
45.7°
Mon 8 Aug 2011
13.0°
Sun 30 Aug 1992
Sep
42.0°
Sun 4 Sep 2022
10.6°
Mon 30 Sep 2002
Oct
37.0°
Fri 4 Oct 2013
2.5°
Sat 23 Oct 2010
Nov
31.2°
Wed 1 Nov 2006
−3.1°
Thu 25 Nov 1999
Dec
25.8°
Mon 18 Dec 1989
−5.5°
Sat 9 Dec 1995
Source: NOAA GHCN-Daily. The upper figure is the highest ever recorded here in that month and the lower one is the lowest, each with the day it happened. The current month is outlined.
highest to lowest
Mean
17.4°C
of the readings stored
The last 7 days we recorded: 7 days recorded, 90 readings. From the daily highs and lows we recorded.
Temperature over the last 30 days we recorded
Highest
28.0°C
Tue 13 Oct 2026
Lowest
9.0°C
Fri 6 Nov 2026
Range
19.0°C
highest to lowest
Mean
21.1°C
of the readings stored
The last 30 days we recorded: 30 days recorded, 381 readings. From the daily highs and lows we recorded.
Temperature over the last 12 months
Highest
33.0°C
Tue 6 Oct 2026
Lowest
9.0°C
Fri 6 Nov 2026
Range
24.0°C
highest to lowest
Mean
23.1°C
of the readings stored
The last 12 months: 47 days recorded, 575 readings. From our monthly totals.
Highs and lows for Sat 7 Nov 2026, against this station's own. 1 of the 6 filed nothing for this day.
Readings stored, count not recorded
Fewer readings than usual
Slightly fewer readings than usual
A full day of readings
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.
Is Bou Saada Arpt the hottest place on Earth?
Not right now: it is 2,523rd of the 8,970 stations reporting to us. Its best position since we started watching is 101st of 9,581. We rank the stations that report to us, which is not the same as every place on Earth.
Our live rankings
Where does Bou Saada Arpt rank among the hottest places in Algeria?
Right now it is 55th hottest of the 98 stations we track in Algeria.
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.
06
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.
07
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.