Kitale Arpt
Weather station · 1.0°N 35.0°E · 1829 m above sea level
Aerodrome station, aviation reportActiveICAO HKKTWMO 63661Records at this site since 1960
Other conditions at this reading
- Dew point
- 14.0°C
- Humidity
- 50%
- derived from the temperature and dew point
- Wind
- E 100°, 7 km/h
- Pressure
- 1025.1 hPa
- altimeter setting, QNH
- Visibility
- 9.7 km or more
Where this station stands
Currently the 1,627th hottest of the 8,723 stations reporting worldwide. 12th hottest of the 31 reporting in Kenya.
Ranking as of 08:01 UTC.
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Record high
28.5°C
Fri 26 Sep 1997
Record low
8.4°C
Mon 26 Sep 1994
Average high
25.9°C
all years on record
3.5°C short of the record for 26 September
Today’s high 25.0°C against 28.5°C in 1997. A reading that beats it is flagged here automatically, once a second cycle confirms it.
All-time record high
37.8°C
- Date
- Friday, 16 March 1984
- Time of day
- Not recorded. The daily archive stores the day, not the hour.
- Location
- Kitale Arpt, Kenya
- Position
- 0.97°N 34.96°E · 1829 m
Highest highest in available records since 1960. Source: NOAA GHCN-Daily.
All-time record low
5.0°C
- Date
- Saturday, 6 November 1976
- Time of day
- Not recorded. The daily archive stores the day, not the hour.
- Location
- Kitale Arpt, Kenya
- Position
- 0.97°N 34.96°E · 1829 m
Highest and lowest lowest in available records since 1960. Source: NOAA GHCN-Daily.
- 1
Today is colder than 70% of all days recorded here since 1960.
From our dataToday's high against every day recorded at this station since 1960. Shown only once the station has reported most of the day, because a day's high can still rise. - 2
Right now Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station is 95.9°C colder than Kitale Arpt. Same planet. Same afternoon.
From our dataBoth readings are live and ranked on this site now. - 3
The coldest night Kitale Arpt has ever recorded, 5.0°C, would pass for a warm spell at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, which is −70.9°C right now.
From our dataThis station's record low against the current live reading at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station.
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Every year on record
1960 to 2025
Annual average · °C
Trend over 4 years with data: +0.26 °C per decade
| Year | Annual average |
|---|---|
| 1960 | no data |
| 1973 | no data |
| 1974 | no data |
| 1975 | no data |
| 1976 | no data |
| 1977 | no data |
| 1978 | no data |
| 1979 | 26.1°C |
| 1980 | no data |
| 1981 | no data |
| 1982 | no data |
| 1983 | no data |
| 1984 | no data |
| 1985 | no data |
| 1986 | no data |
| 1987 | no data |
| 1988 | no data |
| 1989 | 25.3°C |
| 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 | no data |
| 2007 | no data |
| 2008 | no data |
| 2009 | no data |
| 2010 | no data |
| 2011 | 26.5°C |
| 2012 | 26.7°C |
| 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 | no data |
| 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.
Records by month
Jan
36.0°
6.0°
Mon 25 Jan 2010
Feb
35.2°
6.0°
Sat 22 Feb 2003
Mar
37.8°
7.0°
Fri 16 Mar 1984
Apr
33.0°
7.4°
Wed 2 Apr 1980
May
33.3°
7.3°
Sat 26 May 1990
Jun
29.2°
7.0°
Sat 2 Jun 1984
Jul
29.7°
8.0°
Sun 3 Jul 2005
Kitale Arpt (HKKT) is a METAR weather station in Kenya, 1,829 m above sea level.
We have kept a daily record here since 23 September 2026, 2 days, from 3 observations.
The last 24 hours
Insufficient recent observations to produce a 24-hour temperature chart.
Recent temperature history
The same record at four widths. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| high | 25.0°C | +3.0°C | Counted |
| low | 22.0°C | Counted |
Times are local time. 2 readings counted.
In summary
Across the 2 days we hold, readings here have run from 15.0°C to 25.0°C, a spread of 10.0°C.
Its best placing today was 1,627th hottest of the 8,723 stations reporting.
Highest and lowest we have recorded here
Highest
25.0°C
Sat 26 Sep 2026 at 10:00 local
Lowest
15.0°C
Wed 23 Sep 2026 at 07:00 local
These are not official records. They are the highest and lowest readings this site has stored for Kitale Arpt since September 2026, across 2 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
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Days | Readings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2026 | 25.0°C | 15.0°C | - | 2 | 3 |
By year, from our own record
2026
Highest 25.0°C, lowest 15.0°C. 2 days recorded from 3 readings.
Recent days
Readings on 2 of the 5 days since this site began keeping a daily record. Typically 1 reading a day.
| Day | High | At | Low | At |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-26 | 25.0°C | 07:00 UTC | 22.0°C | 06:00 UTC |
| 2026-09-23 | 15.0°C | 04:00 UTC | 15.0°C | 04:00 UTC |
Nearby stations
| Station | Away | Height | High | Low | vs here |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KitaleKenya | 6.6 km | 22.3°C | 22.3°C | −2.7°C | |
| EldoretKenya | 60.6 km | 17.0°C | 17.0°C | −8.0°C | |
| ELDORET INTERNATIONAL AIRPORTKenya | 69.5 km | 14.8°C | 14.8°C | −10.2°C |
Where this station is
Where Kitale Arpt is
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0.97°N 34.96°E
Kitale Arpt
Ground · satellite
Land surface temperature for 2026-09-25, 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 MapsData 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.
| 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), 1960 to 2025 at this site and its predecessors | 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 today, which is when readings began being logged against individual stations.
- 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