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Hottest Capital Cities

Name the 30 capital cities with the the highest average high temperatures.
According to Wikipedia with weather.com and holiday-weather.com as backup sources
Quiz by kalbahamut
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Last updated: November 14, 2018
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First submittedDecember 10, 2013
Times taken27,062
Average score40.0%
Rating4.42
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Answer
37.0
98.6
Khartoum
36.2
97.2
Niamey
35.8
96.4
N'Djamena
35.0
95.0
Bamako
34.9
94.8
Ouagadougou
34.5
94.1
Juba
34.5
94.0
Abu Dhabi
34.3
93.7
Kuwait City
33.9
93.0
Djibouti
33.8
92.8
Panama City
°C
°F
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33.3
92.0
Muscat
33.3
91.9
Riyadh
33.3
91.9
Bangkok
33.0
91.5
Abuja
32.9
91.2
Phnom Penh
32.8
91.2
Port-au-Prince
32.7
90.9
Doha
32.5
90.5
Naypyidaw
32.4
90.4
Nouakchott
32.4
90.3
Kuala Lumpur
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°F
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32.0
89.6
Banjul
31.9
89.4
Conakry
31.8
89.2
Bandar Seri Begawan
31.8
89.2
Managua
31.6
89.0
Bangui
31.5
88.7
Bissau
31.4
88.6
South Tarawa
31.4
88.5
New Delhi
31.4
88.5
Kingston
31.3
88.3
Port Moresby
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Level 82
Dec 10, 2013
I realize that Rangoon and Naypyidaw are different places... was just trying to cut you guys some slack.

To make this quiz I tried finding a comprehensive list of capital cities ordered by average temperature or average highs, but could find none. So I had to actually look it up for every individual city. It's quite possible I missed something or made a mistake so feel free to point it out if you find any.

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Level 74
Nov 12, 2014
Niamey might be a good addition?
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Level 82
Nov 12, 2014
Niamey's on the quiz already. It's #2!! Look.
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Level 40
Dec 12, 2013
So far the only problem is me trying to figure out how hot the sub-saharan countries are. Great quiz!
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Level 82
Dec 13, 2013
I think I looked up all of them. At one point this was a top-50 or top-70 cities quiz.. I was trying to keep on at least one of the three capitals of South Africa, but I kept finding new cities that were hotter including most of the tiny Pacific island nation capitals that nobody knows, which tend to hover around 30 degrees Celsius.. so I just reduced it to top 30 which required deleting most of the SubSaharan ones. Thanks for double-checking. ;-)
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Level 30
Dec 15, 2013
Could you accept more spellings/variations on cities? I kept typing abu dabhi... :)
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Level 82
Dec 15, 2013
Yes, I could. Any others you had difficulty with?
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Level 57
May 31, 2021
Burkina Faso, I can't spell that for the life of me

Like Ouagadou or something

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Level 68
Oct 16, 2021
It should accept "Ouaga" because it's like Jetpunk standard I think
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Level 50
Mar 8, 2014
Great quiz! I have to work on the African capitals more.. I really am mad for missing Laos. I tried every other neighbouring country.
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Level 82
Mar 14, 2014
Some other quizzes for you JetPunk junkies to enjoy:

The Saudi Arabia Quiz

Words After Cities

Movies by Questionable Premise

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Level 82
Mar 28, 2014
This one is new and I think it's fun, especially if you like Capital city geography.

Adjacent Capital Pair Superlatives

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Level 86
Apr 10, 2014
No South America ? This is incredible.
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Level 82
Apr 11, 2014
The South American capitals that are close to the tropics (Quito, La Paz) tend to be up in the mountains. The high elevations mitigates the high temperatures from surrounding areas. Others like Buenos Aires are too far south. Paramaribo comes very close with an average annual high of 31 degrees Celsius (88 Fahrenheit), just a tenth of a degree Celsius off of Vientiane.
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Level 86
Oct 16, 2014
I took it a second time and was one again a bit owned, though my 19/30 still beats 94% of takers... hard, deceitful and thus nice quiz ;). That's right, many south american capitals, as well as some african ones are set in altitude (which is finally logical since it's easier to live up there where it's cool...). And what about Baghdad and some other middle east capitals? I thought they would be hot too.
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Level 82
Oct 16, 2014
Baghdad is excruciatingly hot in the summer... but being in the middle of the desert means large rapid temperature fluctuations. The winters can be quite cold, and this lowers the year-round average.
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Level 82
Oct 16, 2014
If I had used a different standard for "hottest"... for example... the highest temperature each city sees in an entire year (on average), rather than the average high over the whole year, then some cities like Baghdad and Manama would have no doubt made it on while some other humid cities near the tropics with more steady temperatures would have fallen off.
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Level 59
May 21, 2014
surely 'Delhi' should be acceptable for 'New Delhi'
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Level 82
May 22, 2014
And surely it is. I always accept Delhi for New Delhi on my quizzes. I've been there. It's the same place.
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Level 77
Jun 10, 2014
I failed to get the right placement of Hs and Os vs Us in Kharthoum :)
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Level 75
Jul 7, 2014
I was surprised that Port-au-prince was here but Santo Domingo was not. As they say in real estate, "Location, location, location."
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Level 82
Jul 7, 2014
Santo Domingo's year round average high is 30.4 degrees. According to Wikipedia, heat and humidity are both mitigated by tropical trade winds, which I guess Port-au-Prince is more shielded from given the geography of Hispaniola.
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Level 52
Jul 13, 2014
Great quiz! Got only 18.
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Level 35
Jul 15, 2014
Cool! I got 11; I'm still learning the African capitals.
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Level 18
Jul 16, 2014
Brasilia capital of Brazil temperature is 31.2 degrees Celsius.
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Level 82
Jul 16, 2014
Where are you getting that from? The climate of Brasilia is much more mild than that. 31.2 is close to an all-time record high for them, and at any rate certainly much higher than the average annual daily high of 26.6 the is recorded on Wikipedia.
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Level 37
Aug 1, 2014
Another great quiz sir. You're teaching us to see the same old world in a brand new light, and I really dig that.
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Level 82
Aug 1, 2014
Thank you. I'm happy you seem to be enjoying all of my quizzes so much.
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Level 41
Nov 1, 2014
wow, Kuwait City, Doha, Riyadh and Abu Dhabi but not Manama. That's interesting. Personally I felt like Manama was way hotter than all of these but statistics probably don't lie.
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Level 82
Nov 2, 2014
The temperature in manama is more stable and somewhat mitigated by being surrounded by sea on all sides. In the winter it often is hotter than Riyadh. In the summer it's definitely not... but sometimes can feel that way due to extreme humidity.
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Level 29
Jan 18, 2016
Too HARD!
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Level 18
Jun 8, 2016
Great quiz. This might be some stupid questions but I'm just a kid, is Juba the capital of South Sudan? Phnom Penh not on it and Vientiane is, is Phnom Penh not far off from Vientiane?
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Level 82
Jun 8, 2016
It might seem small on a globe but it is a whole other country... on the other hand, I just checked and the information I find now conflicts with what I saw before. On Wikipedia the average annual high for Phnom Penh is 32.9 C, which would not only put it in the top 30 but actually the top 15.

If Quizmaster ever decides to feature this one again maybe we can update it. If not it's probably not worth upsetting everyone's points to put in the correction. And as this data was from 3 years ago... it's possible that there have been many changes. I'd have to go through the whole list of countries again and double check everything.

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Level 70
Jun 14, 2016
25/30. Missed Ouagadougou (Didn't allow the common abbrev. Ouaga here), Abu Dhabi, Kingston, Port-au-Prince, and Managua.I'm surprised cities like Tunis, Manama and Baghdad didn't appear.
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Level 48
Jul 22, 2016
I was surprised Dakar is not here. Any theories, why it is colder than others around?
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Level 82
Jul 22, 2016
It's at the end of a peninsula that juts out into the sea, almost completely surrounded by water. Being surrounded by water usually mitigates high temperatures even while it adds to humidity. That's my best uneducated guess.
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Level 31
Jul 26, 2016
I typed in Ouaga expecting it to work as it does in the world capitals list. To be fair, I probably could have had a go at spelling it but figured it must not be on there, because it wasn't accepted

Any chance of fixing?

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Level 63
Jul 28, 2016
I am very proud of my 25/30, but what made me the happiest was that I spelled N'Djamena, Ouagadougou, and Naypyidaw right on my first try.
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Level 82
Aug 24, 2016
Basically just list the capitals of Saharan Africa and the Arabian Peninsula and you'll get the bulk of the top part of the list and then just list tropical capitals more or less at random.
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Level 74
Oct 17, 2016
Six I missed through spelling
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Level 75
Dec 15, 2016
got 20/20 on coldest capitals and here 12/30.. do not understand what has happened :D
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Level 75
Mar 11, 2017
Might consider another spelling or two for Burkina Faso's capital which I spelled Ougadougou. Good quiz!
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Level 73
Aug 16, 2018
I was surprisingly terrible at this. The coldest capitals were so much easier. There were just so many possibilities for hot capitals, I suppose.
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Level 82
Aug 16, 2018
The coldest ones are all northern countries, mostly in Europe which people on this site seem to know about. The hottest ones are clustered around the equator- lots of African cities that visitors to this site don't care about as much.
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Level 48
Feb 6, 2023
It seems almost none of them are at or around equator - there is no Nairobi, Kampala, Libreville, Jakarta or Quito. I was very surprised to see that.
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Level 72
Feb 14, 2023
Directly on the equator, temperatures are usually quite stable. Also, Quito is at a high elevation which reduces a lot of the heat.
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Level 82
Jun 18, 2019
This was incredibly hard.
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Level 14
Jan 23, 2020
Great quiz, but could you please add countries next to them
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Level 61
Jan 23, 2020
amazing quiz :)
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Level 51
Jan 23, 2020
No Sana'a
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Level 82
Jan 23, 2020
Yemen is pretty mountainous.
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Level 76
Feb 21, 2020
And of course, I put in Dubai instead of Abu Dhabi. At least I got the least-guessed answer (South Tarawa)
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Level 71
Apr 18, 2020
Thank you for being generous with the spelling for Ouagadougou. I always struggle with that and phnom penh for some reason
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Level 50
Jul 29, 2022
Yeah, I hate Burkina Faso capital, like seriously, who came up with Ouagagagagagaou
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Level 65
Feb 9, 2024
Ou aga dou gou, it's not that hard
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Level 52
Apr 27, 2020
For some reason, Muscat didn’t work for me. Also no Rabat, Algiers, Tunis, Tripoli, Cairo, Nouakchott, Dakar, Brazzaville, Asmara, Mogadishu, Addis Ababa, Windhoek, Baku, Damascus, Beirut, Amman, Jerusalem, Sana’a, Tehran, Baghdad, Manama, Vientiane, Hanoi, Jakarta, Singapore, Dili, Canberra, Brasília, Asunción, Montevideo, Buenos Aires, Georgetown, Paramaribo, or Havana?
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Level 37
Aug 31, 2020
Does this also include Climate Change?
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Level 29
Dec 15, 2020
I’d assume so
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Level 51
Dec 18, 2020
Last time I visited India it DID NOT feel like it was anywhere near 80 degrees! weird
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Level 29
Dec 21, 2020
In the summer it can get hot, but the winter balances it out, because it the summer it can be around 110.
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Level 29
Dec 21, 2020
Me at 10 seconds when I realize I forgot all of Africa except Nouakchott. *sigh*
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Level 61
Apr 15, 2021
Whats the nearest miss?
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Level 50
Jun 13, 2022
I think it’s girls city
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Level 50
May 25, 2022
Man, I was really looking for places to find girls
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Level 82
May 25, 2022
I have a different quiz on that subject.
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Level 50
May 25, 2022
Really!? Tell me the quiz name!
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Level 82
May 26, 2022
You're on the right track. Do some digging, you'll find it.
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Level 50
May 26, 2022
Okay!
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Level 50
May 26, 2022
Hey uh, so I did some digging in somewhere for like 2 hours? And I still can’t seem to find some girls, but instead some girls was looking weirdly at me or was going away, their face seemed disgusted? Yeah, I think there not gonna like me any time soon. :(. Guess I won’t be finding any girls any time soon?
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Level 82
May 26, 2022
really? Just go to my list of published quizzes, then search on the page for the word "hottest"... it's one of two things.
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Level 50
Jun 4, 2022
it’s literally says countries with the hottest woman’s and it says in the comment don’t take it seriously
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Level 82
Jun 4, 2022
I mean that I thought about the rankings seriously, but, they're not based on anything other than my own opinions/feelings/experiences, and beauty and "hotness" is subjective anyway. Why aren't you commenting on that quiz?
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Level 50
Jun 7, 2022
cause I don’t want to?
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Level 50
Jul 29, 2022
Hey, cowbahamut, how do you pronounce your name
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Level 15
Jul 30, 2022
mooooo(totally not YouLoveEagle)
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Level 48
Feb 6, 2023
Only 16. The cities seems to be totally random across all the globe with no shared characteristic, the would made them easy to guess - different regions, different climats.

I am surprised, there is so few from Africa - no Dakar, Porto-Novo, Lome...

Also it seems, equator is not that hot in fact? There is no Kampala, Nairobi, Libreville or even Quito in South America.

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Level 53
Feb 1, 2024
tripoli ?