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Ways to use this data somewhere else. Everything here reads the same ranked table the site shows, so an embed can never disagree with the page it links to.

Embed the live extremes

A small card showing the hottest and coldest places on Earth right now, updated as the readings are. One iframe, no script, nothing to maintain.

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WhatAddress
A single day, permanent once finished/day/2026-09-22
A station, with its records and history/station/vostok-antarctica-89606
One country/country/canada
Capital cities, ranked now/capitals
World records/records
The share image for a day/api/og/day/2026-09-22

Using the figures

Credit the source, not us

The readings belong to the national weather services that made them. If you reuse a figure, cite the observing network, which is named beside every number on this site. A link back here is welcome but is not what the data needs.

Air, not ground

Everything ranked here is air temperature at a weather station. Satellite ground readings are a different measurement and are kept in their own clearly marked rows. Do not compare the two.

Days are UTC

A daily leaderboard covers a UTC day, so it is not a local calendar day everywhere. Times shown next to a reading are the station’s own local time.

Records here are not official

Unless a figure is marked as verified by an authority, it is the extreme of the data we hold, over the period we name. That is a different claim from a national or world record. How we verify.