Commentary: Comfortable if moving. Less convincing if standing still.
Latest reading11.0°C15:30 local · 33 min agoReports about every 30 minutes · 34 readings in the last 24 hours.Source: NOAA METARToday so far12.0°/2.0°High at 13:30 local · low at 07:00 localRange 10.0°C · from 19 observationsSource: NOAA METAR and SYNOPHighest we have recorded21.0°CWe recorded this on 1 October 2026. It is the highest reading this site has taken here.Source: Our own observations, 47 daysLowest we have recorded−2.0°CWe recorded this on 25 October 2026. It is the lowest reading this site has taken here.Source: Our own observations, 47 days
The highest this site has recorded here. Source: Our own observations, 47 days.
Lowest we have recorded
−2.0°C
Date
Sunday, 25 October 2026
Time of day
04:00 local
Location
Tamchy/Issyk-Kul Intl, Kyrgyzstan
Position
42.59°N 76.70°E · 1654 m
The lowest this site has recorded here. Source: Our own observations, 47 days.
Where this station is
This station lies about 4,700 km north of the equator.
Where Tamchy/Issyk-Kul Intl is
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42.59°N 76.70°E
Tamchy/Issyk-Kul 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.
These are not official records. They are the highest and lowest readings this site has stored for Tamchy/Issyk-Kul 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.
Tamchy/Issyk-Kul Intl (UCFL) is a METAR weather station in Kyrgyzstan, 1,654 m above sea level, about 45 km from Balykchy.
We have kept a daily record here since 22 September 2026, every one of the 47 days this site has existed. We have stored 1,635 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.
The most recent readings from Tamchy/Issyk-Kul Intl, newest first, with the change from the reading before it and whether it was counted.
Time
Temp
Change
Status
11.0°C
−1.0°C
Counted
12.0°C
+1.0°C
Counted
11.0°C
−1.0°C
Counted
12.0°C
0.0°C
Counted
In summary
Over the last week we have readings for 7 days here, running from 1.0°C to 12.0°C, a spread of 11.0°C.
It reports about every 30 minutes, and sent 34 readings in the last 24 hours.
Its best placing today was 2,231st hottest of the 5,130 stations reporting.
By month, from our own record
Monthly highest, lowest and mean temperature recorded at Tamchy/Issyk-Kul Intl by this site.
Month
High
Low
Mean
Days
Readings
November 2026
12.0°C
1.0°C
7.3°C
7
239
October 2026
21.0°C
−2.0°C
10.7°C
31
1,106
September 2026
20.0°C
7.0°C
14.4°C
8 of 9
290
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 21.0°C, lowest −2.0°C, mean 10.9°C. 47 days recorded from 1,635 readings.
Recent days
A reading on every one of the last 30 days. Typically 37 readings a day.
Daily highest and lowest air temperature at Tamchy/Issyk-Kul Intl, most recent first.
What is the highest temperature ever recorded in Tamchy/Issyk-Kul Intl?
21.0°C (69.8°F) on Thursday, 1 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 Tamchy/Issyk-Kul Intl?
−2.0°C (28.4°F) on Sunday, 25 October 2026. That is the lowest this site has recorded at this station.
Our own observations
What is the temperature in Tamchy/Issyk-Kul Intl right now?
11.0°C (51.8°F), measured at 15:30 local on Saturday 7 November.
Live reading from the station, after our quality checks
Is Tamchy/Issyk-Kul Intl the hottest place on Earth?
Not right now: it is 3,966th of the 8,970 stations reporting to us. Its best position since we started watching is 1,613th of 9,009. We rank the stations that report to us, which is not the same as every place on Earth.
Our live rankings
Where does Tamchy/Issyk-Kul Intl rank among the hottest places in Kyrgyzstan?
Right now it is 8th hottest of the 9 stations we track in Kyrgyzstan.
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.
Where each figure on this page comes from.
Figure
Source
Type
Latest reading, today so far
NOAA Aviation Weather Center (METAR) and NOAA NWS WMO bulletins (SYNOP)
Measured, station
Nearby stations and distances
Computed from station positions in our own database
Calculated
Download these readings
Every reading we hold for Tamchy/Issyk-Kul Intl that passed the checks above, as a file. The source networks are public domain and the file carries its own attribution.
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
☀️ How 11.0°C compares
A typical March afternoon in Bucharest.
Bucharest, Romania, typically reaches 11.0°C in March, averaged over every March day its archive holds. Not a published climate normal: it is the mean of what we hold.
Warmer right now than 50 of the 187 capital cities we can read.
It is warmer here than in Washington (10.6°C), Douglas (10.0°C) and Saint Helier (10.0°C) at this moment. Those are the warmest capitals still cooler than here, so every other one on the list is further behind.
Live capital readings, same observations as this page
Over the last 24 hours, temperatures observed at Tamchy/Issyk-Kul Intl ranged from 2.0°C to 12.0°C, a spread of 10.0°C, from 34 readings. Times shown in local time.
Temperature readings at Tamchy/Issyk-Kul Intl over the charted period, in local time.
Time
Temperature
16:30
11.0°C
17:00
10.0°C
17:30
9.0°C
18:00
8.0°C
18:30
6.0°C
19:00
6.0°C
20:00
5.0°C
22:00
5.0°C
23:00
5.0°C
00:00
4.0°C
01:00
3.0°C
02:00
4.0°C
03:00
4.0°C
04:00
3.0°C
05:00
3.0°C
06:00
2.0°C
06:30
3.0°C
07:00
2.0°C
07:30
3.0°C
08:00
3.0°C
08:30
6.0°C
09:00
9.0°C
09:30
10.0°C
10:00
11.0°C
11:00
11.0°C
11:30
11.0°C
12:00
11.0°C
12:30
11.0°C
13:00
11.0°C
13:30
12.0°C
14:00
12.0°C
14:30
11.0°C
15:00
12.0°C
15:30
11.0°C
highest to lowest
Mean
7.3°C
of the readings stored
The last 7 days we recorded: 7 days recorded, 239 readings. From the daily highs and lows we recorded.
Temperature over the last 30 days we recorded
Highest
18.0°C
Sat 10 Oct 2026
Lowest
−2.0°C
Sat 24 Oct 2026
Range
20.0°C
highest to lowest
Mean
9.0°C
of the readings stored
The last 30 days we recorded: 30 days recorded, 1,066 readings. From the daily highs and lows we recorded.
Temperature over the last 12 months
Highest
21.0°C
Thu 1 Oct 2026
Lowest
−2.0°C
Sat 24 Oct 2026
Range
23.0°C
highest to lowest
Mean
10.9°C
of the readings stored
The last 12 months: 47 days recorded, 1,635 readings. From our monthly totals.
Highs and lows for Sat 7 Nov 2026, against this station's own.
Readings stored, count not recorded
Fewer readings than usual
Slightly fewer readings than usual
A full day of readings
Observations stored by HottestAndColdest. A day we were not yet tracking is shown as an empty square, and says nothing about whether the station reported.
Anything above 56.8 °C or below -95 °C is refused. The ceiling sits just above the highest reading WMO accepts, so a genuine new world record would be refused here too: a record needs adjudicating, not a live tile on a home page. The floor is deliberately further from its record, because the Antarctic plateau is thinly instrumented and a real extreme there has far less around it to corroborate it.
06
Not a jump too large to be weather
A change of more than 15 °C from this station's previous reading within 60 minutes is treated as a failing sensor. The limit is set from measured data: real weather reaches about 12 °C in an hour at desert sunrise or under a thunderstorm outflow, and the faults found were 20 °C and more.
07
Agrees with the stations around it
A reading more than 12 °C from the median of other stations within 150 km is refused. It needs at least 3 neighbours to run at all, so it protects dense networks and can say nothing about an isolated station, which is why the other checks above have to stand on their own.