- Record watch5.0°C from a recordThe November record here is 36.0°C, set on Tuesday, 3 November 2026.The whole record book →
- RankHotter than 94% of themOf the 8,970 stations reporting to us right now, only 455 are hotter.Today’s full leaderboard →
- The opposite of here80.5°C colderAmundsen-Scott South Pole Station, Antarctica is at −49.5°C at this same moment.Go to Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station →
Other conditions at this reading
- Dew point
- 15.0°C
- Humidity
- 38%
- derived from the temperature and dew point
- Wind
- WSW 250°, 20 km/h
- Pressure
- 1019.0 hPa
- altimeter setting, QNH
- Visibility
- 9.7 km or more
Where Lusaka/Kuanda Intl stands
Its highest placing today was 447th of 5,130, reached at 06:00 UTC.
- Best global heat placing in 44 days recorded: 22nd of 9,581.
- Reached the world's hottest 100 on 13 of those 44 days.
- Was the hottest reporting station in Zambia on 43 of those 44 days.
Ranking as of 09:45 UTC.
☀️ How 31.0°C comparesA typical August afternoon in Funafuti.Funafuti, Tuvalu, typically reaches 31.0°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 163 of the 187 capital cities we can read.
The last 24 hours
Local timeThe record book, month by month
The highest and lowest here · with the day it happenedWe hold a record for 3 months here so far, September and October and November. The rest of the year fills in as this station reports through it.
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Right now Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station is 80.5°C colder than Lusaka/Kuanda Intl. Same planet. Same afternoon.
From our dataBoth readings are live and ranked on this site now. - 2
The coldest night Lusaka/Kuanda Intl has ever recorded, −0.8°C, would pass for a warm spell at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, which is −49.5°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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Highest we have recorded
38.0°C
- Date
- Thursday, 22 October 2026
- Time of day
- 16:00 local
- Location
- Lusaka/Kuanda Intl, Zambia
- Position
- 15.33°S 28.45°E · 1149 m
The highest this site has recorded here. Source: Our own observations, 47 days.
All-time record low
−0.8°C
- Date
- Tuesday, 15 June 1993
- Time of day
- Not recorded. The daily archive stores the day, not the hour.
- Location
- Lusaka/Kuanda Intl, Zambia
- Position
- 15.33°S 28.45°E · 1149 m
The lowest in available records since 1973. Source: GHCN-Daily, 1973 to 2025.
In summary
Over the last week we have readings for 7 days here, running from 17.0°C to 36.0°C, a spread of 19.0°C.
It reports about once an hour, and sent 23 readings in the last 24 hours.
Its best placing today was 447th hottest of the 5,130 stations reporting.
What stands out here
- Its best placing so far is 22nd hottest of the 9,581 stations reporting worldwide. It has reached the world's hottest 100 on 13 days.
- Its widest single day so far swung 18.0°C between low and high.
- It has passed 30°C on every one of the 7 days we have recorded here.
By month, from our own record
For the long record, see Lusaka/Kuanda Intl’s average and record temperature for every month.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Days | Readings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2026 | 36.0°C | 17.0°C | 27.6°C | 7 | 130 |
| October 2026 | 38.0°C | 12.0°C | 25.2°C | 31 | 479 |
| September 2026 | 34.0°C | 15.0°C | 23.1°C | 8 of 9 | 139 |
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.
Lusaka/Kuanda Intl (FLKK) is a METAR weather station in Zambia, 1,149 m above sea level, about 7 km from Ntandabale.
We have kept a daily record here since 22 September 2026, every one of the 47 days this site has existed. We have stored 748 observations across the 46 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| high | 31.0°C | +2.0°C | Counted |
| 29.0°C | +1.0°C | Counted | |
| 28.0°C | +2.0°C | Counted | |
| 26.0°C | +3.0°C |
Recent highlights
- and the 1 days before it
Reached 37.0°C, the highest we have recorded here, beating 35.0°C on Mon 19 Oct 2026.
Entered the hundred hottest reporting stations on Earth, reaching 29th of 7,085.
Its high of 35.0°C was the highest of the 6 stations we hold in Zambia.
Its low of 17.0°C was the lowest of the 6 stations we hold in Zambia.
Reached 34.0°C, its highest of October, beating 33.0°C on Wed 7 Oct 2026.
Highest and lowest we have recorded here
Highest
38.0°C
Thu 22 Oct 2026 at 16:00 local
Lowest
12.0°C
Sun 4 Oct 2026 at 06:00 local
These are not official records. They are the highest and lowest readings this site has stored for Lusaka/Kuanda 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 year, from our own record
2026
Highest 38.0°C, lowest 12.0°C, mean 25.2°C. 47 days recorded from 748 readings.
Recent days
A reading on every one of the last 30 days. Typically 16 readings a day.
| Day | High | At | Low | At |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-07 | 31.0°C | 09:00 UTC | 22.0°C | 03:00 UTC |
| 2026-11-06 | 35.0°C | 15:00 UTC | 20.0°C | 03:00 UTC |
| 2026-11-05 | 35.0°C | 13:00 UTC | 20.0°C | 02:00 UTC |
| 2026-11-04 | 36.0°C | 14:00 UTC |
Nearby, and the opposite
| Station | Away | Height | High | Low | vs here |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lusaka IntlZambia | 0 km | none | none | ||
| Lusaka InternationalairportZambia | 1.4 km | none | none | ||
| Mount MakuluZambia | 32.4 km |
What we have stored, day by day
We have readings for every one of the 47 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 stored29.0°C on our first day here
- First day as the coldest we hold in its country16.0°C
- 100 readings storedfired late: 1 earlier day(s) carry no reading count
- First time in the hundred hottest reporting stations99 of 5,272
- 30 days reporting without a gap
- First day as the hottest we hold in its country35.0°C
Where this station is
This station lies about 1,700 km south of the equator. It lies within the tropics.
Where Lusaka/Kuanda Intl is
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15.33°S 28.45°E
Lusaka/Kuanda 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.
View more on Google Maps15.3290°S, 28.4480°E
Lusaka/Kuanda Intl, answered from the data
What is the highest temperature ever recorded in Lusaka/Kuanda Intl?
38.0°C (100.4°F) on Thursday, 22 October 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 Lusaka/Kuanda Intl?
−0.8°C (30.6°F) on Tuesday, 15 June 1993. That is the lowest in the daily record we hold, which runs since 1973.
NOAA GHCN-Daily
What is the temperature in Lusaka/Kuanda Intl right now?
31.0°C (87.8°F), measured at 11:00 local on Saturday 7 November.
Live reading from the station, after our quality checks
Is Lusaka/Kuanda Intl the hottest place on Earth?
Not right now: it is 456th of the 8,970 stations reporting to us. Its best position since we started watching is 22nd of 9,581. We rank the stations that report to us, which is not the same as every place on Earth.
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.
| 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), 1973 to 2025 at this site and its predecessors, and our own observations, 47 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.
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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.
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Inside the range of measured temperature