- Record watch2.5°C from a recordThe November record here is 40.3°C, set on Thursday, 9 November 2023.The whole record book →
- RankHotter than 99% of themOf the 9,270 stations reporting to us right now, only 30 are hotter.Today’s full leaderboard →
- The opposite of here95.0°C colderDavis Lgb 46 Aws, Antarctica is at −57.2°C at this same moment.Go to Davis Lgb 46 Aws →
Our synoptic decoder reads air temperature only, so this station reports no dew point, wind or pressure here.
Where Omaruru stands
Its highest placing today was 7th of 7,107, reached at 12:15 UTC.
- Best global heat placing in 34 days recorded: 7th of 9,208.
- Reached the world's hottest 10 on 4 of those 34 days.
- Was the hottest reporting station in Namibia on 9 of those 34 days.
Ranking as of 13:45 UTC.
☀️ How 37.8°C compares
The last 24 hours
Local timeInsufficient recent observations to produce a 24-hour temperature chart.
Every year on record
NOAA GHCN-Daily2003 to 2026
Annual average · °C
Trend over 3 years with data: -20.00 °C per decade
| Year | Annual average |
|---|---|
| 2003 | no data |
| 2004 | no data |
| 2012 | no data |
| 2015 | no data |
| 2021 | no data |
| 2022 | no data |
| 2023 | 33.5°C |
| 2024 | 34.1°C |
| 2025 | 29.5°C |
| 2026 | 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.
The record book, month by month
Highest and lowest ever recorded here · with the day it happenedJan
39.1°
Mon 3 Jan 2022
10.5°
Mon 10 Jan 2022
Feb
40.0°
Mon 19 Feb 2024
11.4°
Sat 17 Feb 2024
Mar
40.4°
Fri 8 Mar 2024
8.1°
Fri 6 Mar 2026
Apr
36.6°
Thu 25 Apr 2024
6.7°
Mon 23 Apr 2012
May
35.0°
Record high
38.2°C
Wed 8 Nov 2023
Record low
11.3°C
Wed 8 Nov 2023
Average high
36.1°C
all years on record
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Right now the air here is 0.8°C hotter than the inside of your body. Your body is not thrilled.
From our dataLatest reading 37.8°C against a body temperature of 37.0°C. - 2
Today is already hotter than 92% of all days recorded here since 2003.
From our dataToday's high against every day recorded at this station since 2003. - 3
Between its coldest night and its hottest day, this place has swung 45.7°C.
From our dataRecord high 41.9°C against record low −3.8°C. - 4
At 02:00 it was 14.5°C. By 14:00 it was 37.8°C. The night never stood a chance.
From our dataToday so far at this station, in local time.
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0.4°C short of the record for 8 November
Today’s high 37.8°C against 38.2°C in 2023. A reading that beats it is flagged here automatically, once a second cycle confirms it.
All-time record high
41.9°C
- Date
- Sunday, 8 December 2024
- Time of day
- Not recorded. The daily archive stores the day, not the hour.
- Location
- Omaruru, Namibia
- Position
- 21.42°S 15.93°E · 1217 m
The highest in available records since 2003. Source: GHCN-Daily, 2003 to 2026.
All-time record low
−3.8°C
- Date
- Saturday, 25 July 2015
- Time of day
- Not recorded. The daily archive stores the day, not the hour.
- Location
- Omaruru, Namibia
- Position
- 21.42°S 15.93°E · 1217 m
The lowest in available records since 2003. Source: GHCN-Daily, 2003 to 2026.
By month, from our own record
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Days | Readings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2026 | 38.0°C | 14.5°C | 28.2°C | 6 | 11 |
| October 2026 | 40.2°C | 14.8°C | 26.4°C | 26 | 49 |
| September 2026 | 31.8°C | 11.7°C | - | 3 | 7 |
Means are of the readings we stored, weighted by how often this station reported, so they are not daily averages and not climate normals.
By year, from our own record
2026
Highest 40.2°C, lowest 11.7°C, mean 26.0°C. 35 days recorded from 67 readings.
Highest and lowest we have recorded here
Highest
40.2°C
Fri 23 Oct 2026 at 14:00 local
Lowest
11.7°C
Mon 28 Sep 2026 at 02:00 local
These are not official records. They are the highest and lowest readings this site has stored for Omaruru since September 2026, across 35 days we hold a reading for. Official climatological records are adjudicated by national meteorological services and by the WMO.
Omaruru (WMO 68114) is a SYNOP weather station in Namibia, 1,217 m above sea level.
We have kept a daily record here for 35 of the 46 days since 24 September 2026, from 67 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| high | 37.8°C | +23.3°C | Counted |
| low | 14.5°C | Counted |
Times are local time. 2 readings counted.
In summary
Over the last week we have readings for 5 days here, running from 14.5°C to 38.0°C, a spread of 23.5°C.
Its best placing today was 7th hottest of the 7,107 stations reporting.
What stands out here
- Its best placing so far is 7th hottest of the 9,208 stations reporting worldwide. It has reached the world's hottest 100 on 12 days.
- Its widest single day so far swung 23.3°C between low and high.
- It has passed 30°C on 3 of the 5 days we have recorded here.
Recent highlights
Reached 40.2°C, the highest we have recorded here, beating 36.7°C on Fri 9 Oct 2026.
Entered the ten hottest reporting stations on Earth, reaching 9th of 7,021.
Entered the hundred hottest reporting stations on Earth, reaching 75th of 9,139.
Its high of 34.7°C was the highest of the 19 stations we hold in Namibia.
Fell to 15.3°C, its lowest of October, beating 16.4°C on Sun 4 Oct 2026.
Recent days
A reading on every one of the last 30 days. Typically 2 readings a day.
| Day | High | At | Low | At |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-08 | 37.8°C | 12:00 UTC | 14.5°C | 00:00 UTC |
| 2026-11-06 | 36.1°C | 12:00 UTC | 23.0°C | 06:00 UTC |
| 2026-11-05 | 22.4°C | 06:00 UTC | 20.3°C | 00:00 UTC |
| 2026-11-03 | 29.7°C | 18:00 UTC |
Nearby, and the opposite
- Nearest stationOtjiwarongo37.6°C129.4 km away, today's high
- Warmest nearbyWindhoek34.1°C175.3 km away
- Coldest nearbyWindhoek/Kufako Intl15.0°C197.7 km away, today's low
- The opposite of hereDavis Lgb 46 Aws−57.2°CAntarctica
What we have stored, day by day
We have readings for 35 of the 46 days since we started storing this station on 24 September 2026.
Tracking history
It is on a run of 1 day now. Its longest unbroken run is 12 days.
- First reading stored20.2°C on our first day here
- First day as the hottest we hold in its country35.6°C
- First time in the hundred hottest reporting stations95 of 9,208
- First time in the ten hottest reporting stations7 of 7,246
Where this station is
This station lies about 2,400 km south of the equator. It lies within the tropics.
Where Omaruru is
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21.42°S 15.93°E
Omaruru
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 Maps21.4167°S, 15.9333°E
Omaruru, answered from the data
How hot does it get in Omaruru?
The warmest month on record here is December, when the highest reading has reached 41.9°C (107.4°F) on Sunday, 8 December 2024.
NOAA GHCN-Daily, highest reading recorded in each month
How cold does it get in Omaruru?
The coldest month on record here is July, when the lowest reading has fallen to −3.8°C (25.2°F) on Saturday, 25 July 2015.
NOAA GHCN-Daily, lowest reading recorded in each month
What is the highest temperature ever recorded in Omaruru?
41.9°C (107.4°F) on Sunday, 8 December 2024. That is the highest in the daily record we hold for this station, which runs since 2003. 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 Omaruru?
−3.8°C (25.2°F) on Saturday, 25 July 2015. That is the lowest in the daily record we hold, which runs since 2003.
NOAA GHCN-Daily
What is the temperature in Omaruru right now?
37.8°C (100.0°F), measured at 14:00 local on Sunday 8 November. That is the 31th hottest of the 9,270 stations reporting to us.
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), 2003 to 2026 at this site and its predecessors, and our own observations, 35 days | 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.
- 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