Our synoptic decoder reads air temperature only, so this station reports no dew point, wind or pressure here.
Where Elcho Island stands
Not in the current ranking: this station has not reported a qualifying reading since 05:45 UTC.
Its highest placing today was 2,299th of 7,204, reached at 00:15 UTC.
- Best global heat placing in 27 days recorded: 447th of 8,878.
☀️ How 19.0°C comparesA typical June afternoon in Bogotá.
The last 24 hours
Local timeInsufficient recent observations to produce a 24-hour temperature chart.
37 Novembers on record
Average high · NOAA GHCN-DailyThe record book, month by month
Highest and lowest ever recorded here · with the day it happenedJan
36.4°
Tue 9 Jan 1973
20.5°
Sun 19 Jan 1975
Feb
37.7°
Mon 2 Feb 1970
21.0°
Wed 11 Feb 1987
Mar
38.3°
Thu 24 Mar 1983
20.0°
Wed 30 Mar 1966
Apr
36.6°
Sat 28 Apr 1990
18.3°
Fri 30 Apr 1999
May
35.2°
Record high
36.5°C
Sat 6 Nov 1976
Record low
21.8°C
Sat 6 Nov 1982
Average high
33.0°C
all years on record
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Between its coldest night and its hottest day, this place has swung 26.3°C.
From our dataRecord high 38.3°C against record low 12.0°C. - 2
At 09:30 it was 19.0°C. By 09:30 it was 19.0°C. The night never stood a chance.
From our dataToday so far at this station, in local time.
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17.5°C short of the record for 6 November
Today’s high 19.0°C against 36.5°C in 1976. A reading that beats it is flagged here automatically, once a second cycle confirms it.
All-time record high
38.3°C
- Date
- Thursday, 24 March 1983
- Time of day
- Not recorded. The daily archive stores the day, not the hour.
- Location
- Elcho Island, Australia
- Position
- 12.02°S 135.55°E · 18 m
The highest in available records since 1966. Source: GHCN-Daily, 1966 to 2005.
All-time record low
12.0°C
- Date
- Thursday, 2 August 1990
- Time of day
- Not recorded. The daily archive stores the day, not the hour.
- Location
- Elcho Island, Australia
- Position
- 12.02°S 135.55°E · 18 m
The lowest in available records since 1966. Source: GHCN-Daily, 1966 to 2005.
By year, from our own record
2026
Highest 30.4°C, lowest 13.0°C, mean 19.6°C. 28 days recorded from 81 readings.
By month, from our own record
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Days | Readings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2026 | 24.4°C | 13.2°C | 18.6°C | 5 | 11 |
| October 2026 | 30.4°C | 13.0°C | 19.7°C | 22 | 69 |
| September 2026 | 20.2°C | 19.2°C | - | 1 | 1 |
Means are of the readings we stored, weighted by how often this station reported, so they are not daily averages and not climate normals.
Highest and lowest we have recorded here
Highest
30.4°C
Thu 22 Oct 2026 at 15:30 local
Lowest
13.0°C
Sun 11 Oct 2026 at 03:30 local
These are not official records. They are the highest and lowest readings this site has stored for Elcho Island since September 2026, across 28 days we hold a reading for. Official climatological records are adjudicated by national meteorological services and by the WMO.
Elcho Island (WMO 94146) is a SYNOP weather station in Australia, 18 m above sea level.
We have kept a daily record here for 28 of the 45 days since 23 September 2026, from 81 observations.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11.3°C | Not counted: neighbour | ||
| 15.5°C | Not counted: neighbour | ||
| 19.1°C | Not counted: neighbour | ||
| high | 19.0°C |
In summary
Over the last week we have readings for 6 days here, running from 13.2°C to 24.4°C, a spread of 11.2°C.
Its best placing today was 2,299th hottest of the 7,204 stations reporting.
Recent days
Readings on 28 of the last 30 days. Typically 3 readings a day.
| Day | High | At | Low | At |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-06 | 19.0°C | 00:00 UTC | 19.0°C | 00:00 UTC |
| 2026-11-05 | 19.2°C | 06:00 UTC | 19.2°C | 06:00 UTC |
| 2026-11-03 | 24.4°C | 06:00 UTC | 13.2°C | 18:00 UTC |
| 2026-11-02 | 22.9°C | 00:00 UTC |
Nearby, and the opposite
- Nearest stationNGAYAWILI31.5°C3.3 km away, today's high
- Warmest nearbyGove Arpt33.0°C141.1 km away
- Coldest nearbyGove Airport25.5°C140.6 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 28 of the 45 days since we started storing this station on 23 September 2026.
Tracking history
It is on a run of 2 days now. Its longest unbroken run is 11 days.
- First reading stored20.2°C on our first day here
Where this station is
This station lies about 1,300 km south of the equator. It lies within the tropics.
Where Elcho Island is
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12.02°S 135.55°E
Elcho Island
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 Maps12.0167°S, 135.5500°E
Elcho Island, answered from the data
How hot does it get in Elcho Island?
The warmest month on record here is March, when the highest reading has reached 38.3°C (100.9°F) on Thursday, 24 March 1983.
NOAA GHCN-Daily, highest reading recorded in each month
How cold does it get in Elcho Island?
The coldest month on record here is August, when the lowest reading has fallen to 12.0°C (53.6°F) on Thursday, 2 August 1990.
NOAA GHCN-Daily, lowest reading recorded in each month
What is the highest temperature ever recorded in Elcho Island?
38.3°C (100.9°F) on Thursday, 24 March 1983. That is the highest in the daily record we hold for this station, which runs since 1966. 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 Elcho Island?
12.0°C (53.6°F) on Thursday, 2 August 1990. That is the lowest in the daily record we hold, which runs since 1966.
NOAA GHCN-Daily
What is the temperature in Elcho Island right now?
19.0°C (66.2°F), measured at 09:30 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), 1966 to 2005 at this site and its predecessors, and our own observations, 28 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.
192 readings from this station have been refused in the last 14 days.
- Agrees with the stations around it: 192
- 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.