- Record watch4.0°C from a recordThe November record here is 30.0°C, set on Wednesday, 4 November 2026.The whole record book →
- The opposite of here83.2°C colderDavis Lgb 46 Aws, Antarctica is at −57.2°C at this same moment.Go to Davis Lgb 46 Aws →
Other conditions at this reading
- Dew point
- 4.0°C
- Humidity
- 24%
- derived from the temperature and dew point
- Wind
- W 270°, 30 km/h
- Pressure
- 1020.0 hPa
- altimeter setting, QNH
- Visibility
- 9.7 km or more
The record book, month by month
Highest and lowest ever recorded 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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Between its coldest night and its hottest day, this place has swung 41.0°C.
From our dataRecord high 36.0°C against record low −5.0°C. - 2
At 08:00 it was 17.0°C. By 14:00 it was 26.0°C. The night never stood a chance.
From our dataToday so far at this station, in local time.
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All-time record high
36.0°C
- Date
- Wednesday, 6 January 2016
- Time of day
- Not recorded. The daily archive stores the day, not the hour.
- Location
- Maseru/Moshoeshoe Intl, Lesotho
- Position
- 29.46°S 27.55°E · 1623 m
The highest in available records since 1987. Source: GHCN-Daily, 1987 to 2025.
All-time record low
−5.0°C
- Date
- Friday, 20 June 2014
- Time of day
- Not recorded. The daily archive stores the day, not the hour.
- Location
- Maseru/Moshoeshoe Intl, Lesotho
- Position
- 29.46°S 27.55°E · 1623 m
The lowest in available records since 1987. Source: GHCN-Daily, 1987 to 2025.
Where this station is
This station lies about 3,300 km south of the equator.
Where Maseru/Moshoeshoe Intl is
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29.46°S 27.55°E
Maseru/Moshoeshoe Intl
Ground · satellite
Land surface temperature for 2026-11-07, 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 Maps29.4620°S, 27.5520°E
What stands out here
- Its best placing so far is 286th hottest of the 9,581 stations reporting worldwide.
- It has passed 30°C on 1 of the 4 days we have recorded here.
Highest and lowest we have recorded here
Highest
30.0°C
Wed 4 Nov 2026 at 16:00 local
Lowest
11.0°C
Sat 26 Sep 2026 at 16:00 local
These are not official records. They are the highest and lowest readings this site has stored for Maseru/Moshoeshoe Intl since September 2026, across 37 days we hold a reading for. Official climatological records are adjudicated by national meteorological services and by the WMO.
Maseru/Moshoeshoe Intl (FXMM) is a METAR weather station in Lesotho, 1,623 m above sea level, about 17 km from Maseru.
We have kept a daily record here for 37 of the 48 days since 22 September 2026. We have stored 219 observations across the 36 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.
In summary
Over the last week we have readings for 4 days here, running from 17.0°C to 30.0°C, a spread of 13.0°C.
Recent highlights
Reached 28.0°C, the highest we have recorded here, beating 27.0°C on Thu 8 Oct 2026.
Fell to 12.0°C, its lowest of October, beating 14.0°C on Thu 1 Oct 2026.
By month, from our own record
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Days | Readings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2026 | 30.0°C | 16.0°C | 23.3°C | 5 | 29 |
| October 2026 | 30.0°C | 12.0°C | 21.7°C | 24 | 142 |
| September 2026 | 26.0°C | 11.0°C | 19.4°C | 7 of 8 | 48 |
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 30.0°C, lowest 11.0°C, mean 21.4°C. 37 days recorded from 219 readings.
Recent days
A reading on every one of the last 30 days. Typically 7 readings a day.
| Day | High | At | Low | At |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-07 | 26.0°C | 12:00 UTC | 17.0°C | 06:00 UTC |
| 2026-11-04 | 30.0°C | 14:00 UTC | 24.0°C | 08:00 UTC |
| 2026-11-03 | 28.0°C | 12:00 UTC | 24.0°C | 10:00 UTC |
| 2026-11-02 | 25.0°C | 13:00 UTC |
Nearby, and the opposite
- Nearest stationWEPENER17.3°C84.8 km away, today's high
- Warmest nearbyBloemfontein Intl26.0°C128.2 km away
- The opposite of hereDavis Lgb 46 Aws−57.2°CAntarctica
| Station | Away | Height | High | Low | vs here |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
What we have stored, day by day
We have readings for 37 of the 48 days since we started storing this station on 22 September 2026.
Tracking history
It is on a run of 1 day now. Its longest unbroken run is 13 days.
- First reading stored21.0°C on our first day here
- 100 readings storedfired late: 1 earlier day(s) carry no reading count
Maseru/Moshoeshoe Intl, answered from the data
What is the highest temperature ever recorded in Maseru/Moshoeshoe Intl?
36.0°C (96.8°F) on Wednesday, 6 January 2016. That is the highest in the daily record we hold for this station, which runs since 1987. 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 Maseru/Moshoeshoe Intl?
−5.0°C (23.0°F) on Friday, 20 June 2014. That is the lowest in the daily record we hold, which runs since 1987.
NOAA GHCN-Daily
What is the temperature in Maseru/Moshoeshoe Intl right now?
26.0°C (78.8°F), measured at 14:00 local on Saturday 7 November.
Live reading from the station, after our quality checks
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), 1987 to 2025 at this site and its predecessors, and our own observations, 37 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.
4 readings from this station have been refused in the last 14 days.
- Not a jump too large to be weather: 3
- Agrees with the stations around it: 1
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.