Commentary: The temperature has reached 'maybe we need a fan'.
Latest reading32.0°C09:30 local · 25 min agoReports about every 30 minutes · 48 readings in the last 24 hours.Source: NOAA METARToday so far32.0°/25.0°High at 09:30 local · low at 07:00 localRange 7.0°C · from 20 observationsSource: NOAA METAR and SYNOPHighest we have recorded40.0°CWe recorded this on 6 November 2026. It is the highest reading this site has taken here.Source: Our own observations, 47 daysLowest we have recorded22.0°CWe recorded this on 4 October 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
22.0°C
Date
Sunday, 4 October 2026
Time of day
23:00 local
Location
Dakar/Diagne Intl, Senegal
Position
14.67°N 17.07°W · 90 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 Dakar/Diagne Intl, newest first, with the change from the reading before it and whether it was counted.
Time
Temp
Change
Status
high
32.0°C
+1.0°C
Counted
31.0°C
+4.0°C
Counted
27.0°C
+1.0°C
Counted
26.0°C
0.0°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 Dakar/Diagne Intl, nearest first, with each one's high and low for the day against this station's own.
Dakar/Diagne Intl (GOBD) is a METAR weather station in Senegal, 90 m above sea level, about 11 km from Pout.
We have kept a daily record here since 22 September 2026, every one of the 47 days this site has existed. We have stored 2,119 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 25.0°C to 40.0°C, a spread of 15.0°C.
It reports about every 30 minutes, and sent 48 readings in the last 24 hours.
Its best placing today was 304th hottest of the 8,970 stations reporting.
What stands out here
Its best placing so far is 10th hottest of the 9,713 stations reporting worldwide. It has reached the world's hottest 100 on 16 days.
Its widest single day so far swung 15.0°C between low and high.
At 90 m, this is the 3rd highest of the 26 stations we track in Senegal.
It has passed 30°C on every one of the 7 days we have recorded here.
Recent highlights
Reached 38.0°C, the highest we have recorded here, beating 36.0°C on Sat 24 Oct 2026.
Entered the hundred hottest reporting stations on Earth, reaching 84th of 5,047.
Its low of 22.0°C was the lowest of the 26 stations we hold in Senegal.
Highest and lowest we have recorded here
Highest
40.0°C
Fri 6 Nov 2026 at 15:30 local
Lowest
22.0°C
Wed 7 Oct 2026 at 23:30 local
These are not official records. They are the highest and lowest readings this site has stored for Dakar/Diagne 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 month, from our own record
Monthly highest, lowest and mean temperature recorded at Dakar/Diagne Intl by this site.
Month
High
Low
Mean
Days
Readings
November 2026
40.0°C
25.0°C
28.9°C
7
301
October 2026
38.0°C
22.0°C
28.4°C
31
1,437
September 2026
34.0°C
23.0°C
27.5°C
8 of 9
381
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 40.0°C, lowest 22.0°C, mean 28.3°C. 47 days recorded from 2,119 readings.
Recent days
A reading on every one of the last 30 days. Typically 48 readings a day.
Daily highest and lowest air temperature at Dakar/Diagne Intl, most recent first.
This station lies about 1,600 km north of the equator. It lies within the tropics.
Where Dakar/Diagne Intl is
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14.67°N 17.07°W
Dakar/Diagne 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.
What is the highest temperature ever recorded in Dakar/Diagne Intl?
40.0°C (104.0°F) on Friday, 6 November 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 Dakar/Diagne Intl?
22.0°C (71.6°F) on Sunday, 4 October 2026. That is the lowest this site has recorded at this station.
Our own observations
What is the temperature in Dakar/Diagne Intl right now?
32.0°C (89.6°F), measured at 09:30 local on Saturday 7 November.
Live reading from the station, after our quality checks
Is Dakar/Diagne Intl the hottest place on Earth?
Not right now: it is 304th of the 8,970 stations reporting to us. Its best position since we started watching is 10th of 9,713, and it has spent 1 day inside the top ten. We rank the stations that report to us, which is not the same as every place on Earth.
Our live rankings
Where does Dakar/Diagne Intl rank among the hottest places in Senegal?
Right now it is the hottest of the 25 stations we track in Senegal.
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 Dakar/Diagne 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.
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
Marigot, Saint Martin, typically reaches 32.0°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 184 of the 195 capital cities we can read.
It is warmer here than in Moroni (31.0°C), Vientiane (31.0°C) and Bamako (31.0°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
Over the last 24 hours, temperatures observed at Dakar/Diagne Intl ranged from 25.0°C to 40.0°C, a spread of 15.0°C, from 48 readings. Times shown in local time.
Temperature readings at Dakar/Diagne Intl over the charted period, in local time.
Time
Temperature
10:00
33.0°C
10:30
34.0°C
11:00
35.0°C
11:30
37.0°C
12:00
38.0°C
12:30
38.0°C
13:00
39.0°C
13:30
39.0°C
14:00
40.0°C
14:30
40.0°C
15:00
40.0°C
15:30
40.0°C
16:00
37.0°C
16:30
35.0°C
17:00
34.0°C
17:30
33.0°C
18:00
33.0°C
18:30
31.0°C
19:00
30.0°C
19:30
30.0°C
20:00
30.0°C
20:30
29.0°C
21:00
29.0°C
21:30
29.0°C
22:00
28.0°C
22:30
28.0°C
23:00
28.0°C
23:30
27.0°C
00:00
27.0°C
00:30
27.0°C
01:00
27.0°C
01:30
27.0°C
02:00
27.0°C
02:30
29.0°C
03:00
27.0°C
03:30
26.0°C
04:00
26.0°C
04:30
26.0°C
05:00
26.0°C
05:30
26.0°C
06:00
26.0°C
06:30
25.0°C
07:00
25.0°C
07:30
26.0°C
08:00
26.0°C
08:30
27.0°C
09:00
31.0°C
09:30
32.0°C
Counted
26.0°C
+1.0°C
Counted
low
25.0°C
0.0°C
Counted
25.0°C
−1.0°C
Counted
26.0°C
0.0°C
Counted
26.0°C
0.0°C
Counted
26.0°C
0.0°C
Counted
26.0°C
0.0°C
Counted
26.0°C
0.0°C
Counted
26.0°C
−1.0°C
Counted
27.0°C
−2.0°C
Counted
29.0°C
+2.0°C
Counted
27.0°C
0.0°C
Counted
27.0°C
0.0°C
Counted
27.0°C
0.0°C
Counted
27.0°C
0.0°C
Counted
27.0°C
0.0°C
Counted
27.0°C
−1.0°C
Counted
28.0°C
0.0°C
Counted
28.0°C
0.0°C
Counted
28.0°C
−1.0°C
Counted
29.0°C
Counted
Times are local time. 25 readings counted.
highest to lowest
Mean
28.9°C
of the readings stored
The last 7 days we recorded: 7 days recorded, 301 readings. From the daily highs and lows we recorded.
Temperature over the last 30 days we recorded
Highest
40.0°C
Fri 6 Nov 2026
Lowest
22.0°C
Thu 29 Oct 2026
Range
18.0°C
highest to lowest
Mean
28.8°C
of the readings stored
The last 30 days we recorded: 30 days recorded, 1,375 readings. From the daily highs and lows we recorded.
Temperature over the last 12 months
Highest
40.0°C
Fri 6 Nov 2026
Lowest
22.0°C
Wed 7 Oct 2026
Range
18.0°C
highest to lowest
Mean
28.3°C
of the readings stored
The last 12 months: 47 days recorded, 2,119 readings. From our monthly totals.
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.