Our synoptic decoder reads air temperature only, so this station reports no dew point, wind or pressure here.
Where Cape Don Light House stands
Its highest placing today was 143rd of 7,189, reached at 06:15 UTC.
- Best global heat placing in 43 days recorded: 3rd of 9,028.
- Reached the world's hottest 10 on 2 of those 43 days.
Ranking as of 21:45 UTC.
☀️ How 25.6°C comparesA typical August afternoon in Alofi.
The last 24 hours
Local time| Time | Temperature |
|---|---|
| 09:30 | 24.4°C |
| 15:30 | 33.2°C |
| 21:30 | 27.7°C |
| 03:30 | 25.6°C |
31 Novembers on record
The record book, month by month
The highest and lowest here · with the day it happenedJan
36.1°
Fri 9 Jan 1987
15.0°
Tue 9 Jan 1962
Feb
35.2°
Fri 18 Feb 1983
16.7°
Wed 28 Feb 1968
Mar
36.4°
Wed 12 Mar 1986
16.1°
Thu 2 Mar 1961
Apr
34.7°
Wed 20 Apr 1988
19.8°
Sat 11 Apr 1987
May
34.5°
Record high
35.0°C
Fri 6 Nov 1981
Record low
22.7°C
Wed 6 Nov 1985
Average high
32.6°C
all years on record
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Today is already hotter than 94% of all days recorded here since 1957.
From our dataToday's high against every day recorded at this station since 1957. - 2
Between its coldest night and its hottest day, this place has swung 22.8°C.
From our dataRecord high 37.8°C against record low 15.0°C. - 3
At 09:30 it was 24.4°C. By 15:30 it was 33.2°C. The night never stood a chance.
From our dataToday so far at this station, in local time.
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1.8°C short of the record for 6 November
Today’s high 33.2°C against 35.0°C in 1981. A reading that beats it is flagged here automatically, once a second cycle confirms it.
Highest we have recorded
38.9°C
- Date
- Friday, 9 October 2026
- Time of day
- 15:30 local
- Location
- Cape Don Light House, Australia
- Position
- 11.32°S 131.77°E · 20 m
The highest this site has recorded here. Source: Our own observations, 46 days.
All-time record low
15.0°C
- Date
- Tuesday, 18 July 1961
- Time of day
- Not recorded. The daily archive stores the day, not the hour.
- Location
- Cape Don Light House, Australia
- Position
- 11.32°S 131.77°E · 20 m
The lowest in available records since 1957. Source: GHCN-Daily, 1957 to 1990.
By year, from our own record
2026
Highest 38.9°C, lowest 21.0°C, mean 29.3°C. 46 days recorded from 174 readings.
By month, from our own record
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Days | Readings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2026 | 37.5°C | 23.7°C | 29.2°C | 6 | 24 |
| October 2026 | 38.9°C | 23.1°C | 29.6°C | 31 | 120 |
| September 2026 | 35.8°C | 21.0°C | 28.4°C | 8 of 9 | 30 |
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
38.9°C
Fri 9 Oct 2026 at 15:30 local
Lowest
21.0°C
Wed 23 Sep 2026 at 03:30 local
These are not official records. They are the highest and lowest readings this site has stored for Cape Don Light House since September 2026, across 46 days we hold a reading for. Official climatological records are adjudicated by national meteorological services and by the WMO.
Cape Don Light House (WMO 94128) is a SYNOP weather station in Australia, 20 m above sea level.
We have kept a daily record here since 22 September 2026, every one of the 46 days this site has existed. We have stored 174 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25.6°C | −2.1°C | Counted | |
| 27.7°C | −5.5°C | Counted | |
| high | 33.2°C | +8.8°C | Counted |
| low | 24.4°C |
In summary
Over the last week we have readings for 7 days here, running from 23.7°C to 37.5°C, a spread of 13.8°C.
It reports about every six hours, and sent 4 readings in the last 24 hours.
Its best placing today was 143rd hottest of the 7,189 stations reporting.
What stands out here
- Its best placing so far is 3rd hottest of the 9,028 stations reporting worldwide. It has reached the world's hottest 100 on 37 days.
- It has passed 30°C on every one of the 7 days we have recorded here.
Recent highlights
Reached 38.9°C, the highest we have recorded here, beating 37.5°C on Wed 7 Oct 2026.
- and the 1 days before it
Entered the ten hottest reporting stations on Earth, reaching 3rd of 7,333, on each of 2 days running.
Entered the hundred hottest reporting stations on Earth, reaching 45th of 9,028.
Fell to 23.1°C, its lowest of October, beating 23.3°C on Thu 8 Oct 2026.
Recent days
A reading on every one of the last 30 days. Typically 4 readings a day.
| Day | High | At | Low | At |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-06 | 33.2°C | 06:00 UTC | 24.4°C | 00:00 UTC |
| 2026-11-05 | 37.0°C | 06:00 UTC | 24.5°C | 18:00 UTC |
| 2026-11-04 | 37.3°C | 06:00 UTC | 27.0°C | 18:00 UTC |
| 2026-11-03 | 32.1°C | 06:00 UTC |
Nearby, and the opposite
- Nearest stationCROKER ISLAND AIRPORT32.8°C79.9 km away, today's high
- Warmest nearbyMIDDLE POINT AWS37.5°C151.4 km away
- Coldest nearbyMURGANELLA AIRSTRIP24.4°C129.2 km away, today's low
- The opposite of hereDavis Lgb 46 Aws−57.6°CAntarctica
What we have stored, day by day
We have readings for every one of the 46 days since we started storing this station on 22 September 2026.
Tracking history
It has reported on every day since Tue 22 Sep 2026.
- First reading stored26.3°C on our first day here
- First time in the hundred hottest reporting stations79 of 8,768
- First time in the ten hottest reporting stations3 of 7,333
- 100 readings storedfired late: 1 earlier day(s) carry no reading count
- 30 days reporting without a gap
Where this station is
This station lies about 1,300 km south of the equator. It lies within the tropics.
Where Cape Don Light House is
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11.32°S 131.77°E
Cape Don Light House
Ground · satellite
Land surface temperature for 2026-11-05, 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 Maps11.3167°S, 131.7667°E
Cape Don Light House, answered from the data
How hot does it get in Cape Don Light House?
The warmest month on record here is October, when the highest reading has reached 38.9°C (102.0°F) on Friday, 9 October 2026.
NOAA GHCN-Daily, highest reading recorded in each month
How cold does it get in Cape Don Light House?
The coldest month on record here is January, when the lowest reading has fallen to 15.0°C (59.0°F) on Tuesday, 9 January 1962.
NOAA GHCN-Daily, lowest reading recorded in each month
What is the highest temperature ever recorded in Cape Don Light House?
38.9°C (102.0°F) on Friday, 9 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 1957. 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 Cape Don Light House?
15.0°C (59.0°F) on Tuesday, 18 July 1961. That is the lowest in the daily record we hold, which runs since 1957.
NOAA GHCN-Daily
What is the temperature in Cape Don Light House right now?
25.6°C (78.1°F), measured at 03:30 local on Saturday 7 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), 1957 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.
2 readings in the last 7 days were counted and flagged as unusual. The latest, 37.0 °C: 37.0 C is above anything this station has recorded in 33 Novembers, whose highest is 36.7 C; kept, because a station beating its own record is what this site exists to notice. A flag is not a refusal: the reading stands, with a note on why it stood out.
- 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.