Countries by Hottest Recorded Temperature

The source shows extreme high and low temperatures for multiple locations in most countries. My hometown is listed (correctly, according to the national meteorological agency) as having an extreme low of -47.8C and an extreme high of 42.2C. I'll guess that it's the largest city that has reached plus- and minus-40 degrees, but I can't be bothered to go down that whole list.

Couldn't help it - checked Russia and Kazakhstan. "Omnsk" (Omsk?): -49.0/40.4. And Astana: -51.6/41.6. Both bigger than Winnipeg.

Norway. Karasjok - 50+ and 38 celsius

Oymyakon, Russia. Lowest: -67.7 Highest: +34.6

same

I'm surprised that the Danakil Depression doesn't put Ethiopia onto the list. I also expected Djibouti and Uzbekistan. Maybe Yemen and Somalia too.

exactly my thoughts, too!

I wonder if they exclude the Danakil because it's influenced by volcanic activity. If you include places influenced by volcanic activity, where do you draw the line to exclude temperatures inside an actual volcano or hot spring? And if you don't exclude those, even Iceland would beat all of these temperatures.

almost looks like Turkmenistan only gets put in by people who retake it?

Yup, tried Uzbekistan and figured i should drop it (the other stans). Evidently i was wrong.

I got Turkmenistan and forgot about the US and Mexico

same!

Standard humo(u)rless knee-jerk reaction. Again.

Venus

Me

Almost all the Midddle East except for Syria and Lebanon. Curious.

Israel = also coastal, eh?

"Visit Syria or look up pictures and you'll see most of it is green." False. The coastal regions of Syria are separated from the rest of the country by a mountain range (just like Lebanon), and those areas are quite green. The rest of the country is semi-arid or arid, though the Euphrates and a few smaller rivers have allowed for some corridors of irrigation in the deserts. It gets very hot in Syria, with temperatures often surpassing 110F in many regions. It just happens to be that the max recorded temperature is about 120, which isn't quite as hot as the max temps recorded in the lower altitude and lower latitude deserts of many of the other countries on the list.

Death Valley, USA has a highest recorded temperature of 131F.

Oh, I take that back. It's 134F, even hotter than I thought. That's 5F more than your answer so you need to update that.

The US is 134 degrees!

Must be the heat index. Recently in the Arabian desert, it was 53C but felt like 72C.

I'm surprised there is no Afghanistan.

India record temperature 50,6 °C. Shouldn't this be on the list as well ?

Really surprised not to see Niger/Chad/Sudan etc on here.

Those are closer to the equator and wetter. The hottest temperatures are at the horse latitudes (around 30 degrees latitude), which are characterized by high pressure and calm air heats up as it drops. Most deserts are at the horse latitudes. If you take a look at a map, you'll see that virtually all the countries on this list are right around 30 degrees.

Yo. I was IN KUWAIT on the day that pinged the highest recorded temp ever in the Eastern Hemisphere. Just trying to out-process and re-deploy back home in mid-July.

wow I got them all except the US, I feel stupid...

56.7 °C (134.1 °F) * Furnace Creek Ranch (formerly Greenland Ranch), Death Valley, California

Greenland Ranch is such an ironic name.

This summer, 54.0 was recorded in Ahvaz, Iran.

A lot of people are are saying they remember the record for hottest temperature being Death Valley or Al Azizia, Libya. Both of these placed did have what was considered the world record temperatures at some point, but on investigation of the data both records have been overturned. If you're really interested you can read an in depth account of the investigations into both of these readings below. https://www.wunderground.com/blog/weatherhistorian/world-heat-record-overturneda-personal-account.html https://www.wunderground.com/blog/weatherhistorian/an-investigation-of-death-valleys-134f-world-temperature-record.html

Only one I missed was Tunisia

How do I miss only the U.S.? lol

I got all except Kuwait...

I'm British and to me 20 is hot..!

It has reached about 40 when I've been in Rome before - still a long way to go before it makes the list but that was plenty hot enough

@kalbahamut Anything over 30 degrees might seem hotter to many people in Europe largely due to humidity. I currently live in Britain not too far from the sea and 20 degrees is hot here - not because 20 degrees in and of itself is hot but because the high levels of humidity make the heat almost unbearable. Whereas in a country such as Egypt, which regularly reaches temperatures over 35 degrees but where the air is relatively dry, the heat is far easier to bear.

Whereabouts in Britan are you Kristy?

I live in Felixstowe and this last week has been insanely hot, but only registering as ~mid-20's

Got 100 percent the first time. Everything on the list was in my mind reasonable answers. Though as continental as Turkmenistan is, it did take me a while. I assume since Iraq, Iran and Pakistan all made the list, I was going to knock out all the "Stans"