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Last reading29.0°C17:50 local · 2 h agoNo reading has passed quality control here for 2 hours. This is the last one that did.Source: NOAA METARToday so far31.0°/29.0°High at 12:55 local · low at 16:55 localRange 2.0°C · from 8 observationsSource: NOAA METAR and SYNOPHighest we have recorded32.0°CWe recorded this on 23 September 2026. It is the highest reading this site has taken here.Source: Our own observations, 47 daysLowest we have recorded26.0°CWe recorded this on 1 October 2026. It is the lowest reading this site has taken here.Source: Our own observations, 47 days
☀️ How 29.0°C comparesA typical March afternoon in Majuro.Majuro, Marshall Islands, typically reaches in March, averaged over every March day its archive holds. Not a published climate normal: it is the mean of what we hold.
The last 24 hours
Local time
Over the last 13 hours, temperatures observed at Tinian/San Jose Arpt ranged from 28.0°C to 31.0°C, a spread of 3.0°C, from 11 readings. Times shown in local time.
Temperature readings at Tinian/San Jose Arpt over the charted period, in local time.
Time
Temperature
07:55
28.0°C
08:55
28.0°C
The record book, month by month
The highest and lowest here · with the day it happened
We 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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At 12:55 it was 31.0°C. By 16:55 it was 29.0°C. The heat did not hold.
From our dataToday so far at this station, in local time.
The highest this site has recorded here. Source: Our own observations, 47 days.
Lowest we have recorded
26.0°C
Date
Thursday, 1 October 2026
Time of day
07:55 local
Location
Tinian/San Jose Arpt, Northern Mariana Islands
Position
15.00°N 145.62°E · 84 m
The lowest this site has recorded here. Source: Our own observations, 47 days.
Where this station is
This station lies about 1,700 km north of the equator. It lies within the tropics.
Where Tinian/San Jose Arpt is
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15.00°N 145.62°E
Tinian/San Jose Arpt
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.
Monthly highest, lowest and mean temperature recorded at Tinian/San Jose Arpt by this site.
Month
High
Low
Mean
Days
Readings
November 2026
31.0°C
27.0°C
29.1°C
7
73
October 2026
32.0°C
26.0°C
29.0°C
31
298
September 2026
32.0°C
26.0°C
30.1°C
8 of 9
88
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.
Stations near Tinian/San Jose Arpt, nearest first, with each one's high and low for the day against this station's own.
Tinian/San Jose Arpt (PGWT) is a METAR weather station in Northern Mariana Islands, 84 m above sea level, about 28 km from Saipan.
We have kept a daily record here since 22 September 2026, every one of the 47 days this site has existed. We have stored 459 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 Tinian/San Jose Arpt, newest first, with the change from the reading before it and whether it was counted.
Time
Temp
Change
Status
29.0°C
0.0°C
Counted
low
29.0°C
0.0°C
Counted
29.0°C
−1.0°C
Counted
30.0°C
−1.0°C
In summary
Over the last week we have readings for 7 days here, running from 27.0°C to 31.0°C, a spread of 4.0°C.
It reports about once an hour, and sent 11 readings in the last 24 hours.
Its best placing today was 81st hottest of the 5,267 stations reporting.
What stands out here
Its best placing so far is 55th hottest of the 8,980 stations reporting worldwide. It has reached the world's hottest 100 on 7 days.
It has passed 30°C on 6 of the 7 days we have recorded here.
Recent highlights
Entered the hundred hottest reporting stations on Earth, reaching 91st of 6,955.
Reached 32.0°C, its highest of October, beating 31.0°C on Fri 9 Oct 2026.
Highest and lowest we have recorded here
Highest
32.0°C
Tue 13 Oct 2026 at 16:55 local
Lowest
26.0°C
Wed 7 Oct 2026 at 16:56 local
These are not official records. They are the highest and lowest readings this site has stored for Tinian/San Jose Arpt 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 32.0°C, lowest 26.0°C, mean 29.2°C. 47 days recorded from 459 readings.
Recent days
A reading on every one of the last 30 days. Typically 11 readings a day.
Daily highest and lowest air temperature at Tinian/San Jose Arpt, most recent first.
What is the highest temperature ever recorded in Tinian/San Jose Arpt?
32.0°C (89.6°F) on Wednesday, 23 September 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 Tinian/San Jose Arpt?
26.0°C (78.8°F) on Thursday, 1 October 2026. That is the lowest this site has recorded at this station.
Our own observations
What is the temperature in Tinian/San Jose Arpt right now?
29.0°C (84.2°F), measured at 17:50 local on Saturday 7 November.
Live reading from the station, after our quality checks
Is Tinian/San Jose Arpt the hottest place on Earth?
Not right now: it is 803rd of the 8,994 stations reporting to us. Its best position since we started watching is 55th of 8,980. 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.
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
All-time, monthly and on-this-day records
NOAA NCEI Global Historical Climatology Network daily (GHCN-Daily), 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
Download these readings
Every reading we hold for Tinian/San Jose Arpt 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.
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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.
05
Inside the range of measured temperature
29.0°C
Warmer right now than 148 of the 196 capital cities we can read.
It is warmer here than in Palikir (28.8°C), Majuro (28.3°C) and Charlotte Amalie (28.3°C) at this moment. Those are the warmest capitals still cooler than here, so every other one on the list is further behind.
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.
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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.