Commentary: Warm enough for the first serious debate about opening the pool.
Latest reading25.0°C08:00 local · 50 min agoReports about once an hour · 19 readings in the last 24 hours.Source: NOAA METARToday so far27.0°/21.0°High at 21:00 local · low at 01:00 localRange 6.0°C · from 7 observationsSource: NOAA METAR and SYNOPHighest we have recorded36.0°CWe recorded this on 23 September 2026. It is the highest reading this site has taken here.Source: Our own observations, 47 daysLowest we have recorded18.0°CWe recorded this on 28 September 2026. It is the lowest reading this site has taken here.Source: Our own observations, 47 days
The highest this site has recorded here. Source: Our own observations, 47 days.
Lowest we have recorded
18.0°C
Date
Monday, 28 September 2026
Time of day
01:00 local
Location
Chapada/Lencois Arpt, Brazil
Position
12.48°S 41.28°W · 495 m
The lowest this site has recorded here. Source: Our own observations, 47 days.
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 Chapada/Lencois Arpt, newest first, with the change from the reading before it and whether it was counted.
Time
Temp
Change
Status
25.0°C
+2.0°C
Counted
23.0°C
+2.0°C
Counted
low
21.0°C
−1.0°C
Counted
22.0°C
−2.0°C
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.
Stations near Chapada/Lencois Arpt, nearest first, with each one's high and low for the day against this station's own.
Station
Away
Height
High
Low
vs here
Chapada/Lencois Arpt (SBLE) is a METAR weather station in Brazil, 495 m above sea level, about 31 km from Vera Cruz.
We have kept a daily record here since 22 September 2026, every one of the 47 days this site has existed. We have stored 887 observations across the 46 of those days for which we also recorded a count.
In summary
Over the last week we have readings for 7 days here, running from 20.0°C to 36.0°C, a spread of 16.0°C.
It reports about once an hour, and sent 19 readings in the last 24 hours.
Its best placing today was 363rd hottest of the 5,267 stations reporting.
What stands out here
Its best placing so far is 14th hottest of the 9,174 stations reporting worldwide. It has reached the world's hottest 100 on 23 days.
Its widest single day so far swung 16.0°C between low and high.
It has passed 30°C on 6 of the 7 days we have recorded here.
Recent highlights
Entered the hundred hottest reporting stations on Earth, reaching 68th of 7,362.
Reached 36.0°C, its highest of October, beating 34.0°C on Fri 9 Oct 2026.
Highest and lowest we have recorded here
Highest
36.0°C
Fri 6 Nov 2026 at 15:00 local
Lowest
18.0°C
Mon 28 Sep 2026 at 01:00 local
These are not official records. They are the highest and lowest readings this site has stored for Chapada/Lencois 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.
By month, from our own record
Monthly highest, lowest and mean temperature recorded at Chapada/Lencois Arpt by this site.
Month
High
Low
Mean
Days
Readings
November 2026
36.0°C
20.0°C
27.0°C
7
137
October 2026
36.0°C
19.0°C
26.5°C
31
580
September 2026
36.0°C
18.0°C
25.3°C
8 of 9
170
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 36.0°C, lowest 18.0°C, mean 26.3°C. 47 days recorded from 887 readings.
Recent days
A reading on every one of the last 30 days. Typically 20 readings a day.
Daily highest and lowest air temperature at Chapada/Lencois Arpt, most recent first.
First time in the hundred hottest reporting stations71 of 8,909
30 days reporting without a gap
Where this station is
This station lies about 1,400 km south of the equator. It lies within the tropics.
Where Chapada/Lencois Arpt is
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12.48°S 41.28°W
Chapada/Lencois 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.
What is the highest temperature ever recorded in Chapada/Lencois Arpt?
36.0°C (96.8°F) on Wednesday, 23 September 2026. That is the highest this site has recorded at this station. 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 Chapada/Lencois Arpt?
18.0°C (64.4°F) on Monday, 28 September 2026. That is the lowest this site has recorded at this station.
Our own observations
What is the temperature in Chapada/Lencois Arpt right now?
25.0°C (77.0°F), measured at 08:00 local on Saturday 7 November.
Live reading from the station, after our quality checks
Is Chapada/Lencois Arpt the hottest place on Earth?
Not right now: it is 1,482nd of the 9,056 stations reporting to us. Its best position since we started watching is 14th of 9,174. We rank the stations that report to us, which is not the same as every place on Earth.
Our live rankings
Where does Chapada/Lencois Arpt rank among the hottest places in Brazil?
Right now it is 72nd hottest of the 103 stations we track in Brazil.
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
Nearby stations and distances
Computed from station positions in our own database
Calculated
Download these readings
Every reading we hold for Chapada/Lencois 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
☀️ How 25.0°C compares
A 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.
Warmer right now than 107 of the 205 capital cities we can read.
It is warmer here than in Port-au-Prince (24.0°C), Baghdad (24.0°C) and Phnom Penh (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.
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.