So you think it’s hot where you are? Not even close.
The Hottest Place on Earth ever recorded was El Azizia in Libya where the temperature reached a scorching 136 degrees Fahrenheit (57.8 Celsius) on Sept. 13, 1922. Making it the hottest place in the world.
The second hottest place recorded on earth was in Death Valley, California, USA, where it got up to 134 Fahrenheit (57.8 Celsius) on July 10, 1913.
Dallol, Ethiopia, is the warmest place on earth with an average yearly ambient surface air temperature of 307.55 kelvin (34.4°C = 93.92°F).
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I live in Adelaide in South Australia and we have just broken a record for the number of days over 35C, 8 so far with a forecast of at least 8 more which lead me to research what was the hottest place on earth.
As it turns out I checked a number of sources including the Australian weather bureau and I have found that Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia has a higher temp than that you mentioned whose average maximum temperature is 35.6 °C (96 °F)
Fitzroy Crossing’s mean maximum temperature in 2005 was 37.1°C, measured at the airport. Only once in the past has a higher figure been officially recorded in Western Australia, when Wyndham averaged 37.3°C in 1992.
the hottest point on the earth is located in iran,the zone that called gandom beryan in loot desert,
It’s temprature on summer (in the shadow) was up to 67 degree (celsius)
Wow. That place looks hot wonder what kind of tan I would get from there! XD
The hottest air temperature EVER RECORDED on earth was on Lut Desert in Iran at 70.7° Celsius. The highest ground temperature RECORDED was 93.1° Celsius at Furnace Creek, Death Valley National Park, on July 15, 1972. Dallol, Ethiopia, is the most consistently warm place on earth with an average yearly ambient surface air temperature of 34.4°C.
Gents, Ladies,
Stumbled across this thread whilst stuck inside during one afternoon. Just thought I would inform you all that where I work in the middle east, the temperaure very rarely drops below 40 degrees during the Months of July and August. Our record so far is 52 Degrees. Luckily for us however is the humidity, Down by the coast it reaches 40+ Deg with a relative humidity of 90%!!!!! Whilst up here in near the empty quarter it is slightly drier.
Wouldnt change it for the world though.
Laters
Hottest Extreme: Al Aziziyah, Libya
Hottest Average: Dallol, Ethiopia
Driest: Not sure of the name of the town but it is in the Atacama Desert in Chile
No site help with my homework! Everyone says a different place and some say when it was recorded in the past….but i need to know about it now! Homework is silly, especially geography. What kind of a prep is: “Find the hottest, coldest, wettest and driest places on earth and why?” I’m never going to need to know that in an exam!
Thanks for the help though, that’s another vote for all the places you mentioned.
Marble Bar of Western Australia set a world record of most consecutive days of maximum temperatures of 100 degrees Fahrenheit (37.8 degrees Celsius) or more, during a period of 160 such days from 31 October 1923 to 7 April 1924.
During December and January, temperatures in excess of 45 degrees Celsius (113 degrees Fahrenheit) are common, and the average maximum temperature exceeds 100 degrees Fahrenheit during 6 months each year.
recently went out to Qatar. temp through the day was around 46c! on one day site was nearly closed cos’ it nearly got upto 50c! i live in the uk, and these temps were hard work. it’s snowing now here in the uk!! kinda wish i was back at ras laffan!!!
I live in Mesa, Arizona where in 2008 the average high temperature in July was 104 degrees F. We may not have the highest year round average, but I would say that the summer average exeeds that of most anywhere else. I have seen 10 consecutive days of over 107F, and that is not the worst.
WHEN SOME PEOPLE SAY ” YESTERDAY WAS THE HOTTEST DAY IN MY LIFE IT WAS 35 DEGREES C” I REALLY LAUGH MY SOCKS OF , CAUSE IN THE THE MIDDLE EAST IT CAN RISE UP TO 50+ DEGREE C BUT I ENJOY IT WHILE ITS HOT……WAIT THAT’S WHAT I SAY WHEN I HAVE SOUP.
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iraq is hot as hell. i’m over here now at camp bucca (umm qasr) and it’s already 120 degress and it’s not even 1pm yet. this is my third time in iraq, and it got up to 140 degrees.
The Driest place on Earth is Antarctica (the worlds largest desert), due to it being so cold, warm air can not rise, therefore producing no or very minimal rainfall!
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the hottest place on earth is the Lut Desert in Iran with a top temperature of 70.7 degress celcius (159 Fahrenheit)
The hottest place on Earth as of 2005 is in the Lut Desert in Iran at 70.7 degrees Celsius. This inviting region is abiotic – meaning without life; not even bacteria have been found. The specific hot zone, covering 480 square kilometers is called Gandom Beriyan (the toasted wheat). The high temperatures are party as a result of the dried, black lava rock which absorbs the heat of the desert sun – kind of like walking across a 480 kilometer bed of coals! Kilometers and kilometers of mountains and sand fill corridors between high ridges of rock and 150 meter tall sand dunes.
The hottest place on warth was on Hiroshima and Nagasaki between the 6th and 9th August 1945 hwere temperatured rised from normal to 3,900 celsius (7,000 degrees Fahrenheit).. Pretty darn hot…
Dallol, Ethiopia, is the hottest place on earth with an average yearly temperature of 307.55 C NOONE can live in these conditions its like an abandoned dessert!
Not that this has much to do with it but i thought i would mention a time i did a little test as a kid.
I decided to put a thermometer in the car and leave it suspended from the dome light to see how hot it would get while the temperature outside soared. It was the middle of summer and the car had been left outside in the sun while temperature outside was a record 40.8 degrees (Tasmania).
After checking it every hour, 1, 2, 3 & 4pm the highest temperature reading was 61 at 3pm!
I could barely breath…
No wonder they say not to leave pets and kiddies in the car with the windows up.
45-47 no i have once went out to the desert to go quad biking and while we were in the car the temp read 59 degrees and it was a brand new volvo S80 thus no problem with the thermometer.
Down under today in Sydney it’s expected to reach 47 deg
C. Glad I’m in Perth.
These may not be the absolute hottest places on earth right now, but South Australia and Victoria have been enduring temperatures over 40deg C for days on end now. Tomorrow and Sunday, Sydney is predicted to have temperatures of up to 47deg C. I live in Sydney and am certainly not looking forward to those high temperatures. Pray for a cool change for us all with some rain please?
For the previous poster, I don’t envy your 40 deg+ in the Middle East during July and August. It’s great that you enjoy it though.
(ONE state will be the hottest place on Earth, another will burn and a third is still flooded.
PARTS of Australia will be hotter than the African plains or Middle Eastern deserts this weekend, while other parts battle raging bushfires and still others cope with widespread flooding.
New South Wales is forecast to become the hottest place on the planet on Sunday, with the current heatwave sending temperatures soaring to 47C. Worst hit will be residents in the western NSW towns of Ivanhoe, Tibooburra and Broken Hill.
Sydney will not be spared either, with the mercury set to reach 44C in the western suburb of Penrith on Sunday.)
This is a news article i read and i live in sydney and it definately went over 48°C and thats not where the worst of the heatwave was supposed to hit…
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Ya i think its hot where i am.. KUWAIT wafrah in the middle of the desert. In mid july the car temp. read 59 degrees celcuis.
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the hottest place on the earth is Death Valley, and i imagine the coldest place is the arctic, the wettest place errrr could it be the tropical rainforest? and the driest place would be sahara desert Dont know if thats of any help :S xx
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The area is called “Erta Ale” it is the lowest and warmest place on earth.
I personally lived there for a while.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7950845.stm
please watch the documentary.
Antartica is much colder than the arctic!!
This is really hot!!!!!!
Wish I could live here & Arun
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The hottest place on Earth as of 2005 is in the Lut Desert in Iran at 70.7 degrees Celsius. This inviting region is abiotic – meaning without life; not even bacteria have been found. The specific hot zone, covering 480 square kilometers is called Gandom Beriyan (the toasted wheat). The high temperatures are party as a result of the dried, black lava rock which absorbs the heat of the desert sun – kind of like walking across a 480 kilometer bed of coals! Kilometers and kilometers of mountains and sand fill corridors between high ridges of rock and 150 meter tall sand dunes.
***This temperature was recorded by one of NASA’s satellites.***
Then it is El Azizia in Libya & Death Valley, California, USA with a temperature around 57 degrees Celsius.
How shall we hit you up?
The hottest place on Earth as of 2005 is in the Lut Desert in Iran at 70.7 degrees Celsius. This inviting region is abiotic – meaning without life; not even bacteria have been found. The specific hot zone, covering 480 square kilometers is called Gandom Beriyan (the toasted wheat). The high temperatures are party as a result of the dried, black lava rock which absorbs the heat of the desert sun – kind of like walking across a 480 kilometer bed of coals! Kilometers and kilometers of mountains and sand fill corridors between high ridges of rock and 150 meter tall sand dunes.
when i was in iraq we had a thermometer hanging on the pole in front of the smoke pit. it was 144
Get off your couches and see the world.
“So you think it’s hot where you are? Not even close.”
D*mned right I think it’s hot here. Try 56-57 Celsius for CONSECUTIVE WEEKS. Dibouti, Africa baby, a few miles away from Ethiopia. THIS IS HOT. 134 Farenheit for consecutive days. Asia? who are you kidding. I lived in asia. I’m US military, i’ve seen the damned world. Asia has nothng on Africa when it comes to heat. Maybe more humidity, and more people. I’m not exaggerating. you dont feel the heat getting hotter after a certain point. say 115 Farenheit. Give me a break people.
always thought leonardo dicaprio was hot, but holy crap 136 degrees farenheit! thts really hot.
I am affraid to say that i live in the hottest place on the earth. I am a chicken and i live in a oven in yorkshire, u.k. And always reaches 200 c everyday. Its roasting!
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I am very well thankyou how are you? What do you enjoy doing on a friday night because i am a raging alcoholic and love getting drunk with my mates.
I live in Phoenix and the temp. reaches to 118 on occaisions. So yes, fairly speaking, we do have it that bad. Last year there was 45 days that were over 110, which is pretty normal We even have records of 11 or 12 days that are 116 in the year alone. We can’t swim becauseits so hot.
Are you joking?? Where i live, (mexicali, mexico) on summer, lower temperatures are of 46° Celsius, and maxium registered this year was 52° Celsius, but what makes me think you are joking is the humidity thing, i mean, here its really really dry, but when it gets very humid, it really feels horrible, you start sweating like if you have been excersising for hours, and its really hard to breath.
When it is dry, and its 52° Celsius, it really does not feel so bad, at least i dont even use my car A/C.
Still i cant imagine been at least one minute on that iran desert, that would really be a hot experience
im kuwait is one of the hottest places on earth where the temperature is always at around 45C to 47C every day
i just came back from india about a month ago and the weather is unbelevable where every day it went to about 45C it was extreamly hot and i could take the heat i had to stay in and even at night it was about 38C
where in india did you stay?
I agree this is a great destination for travelers to venture off to during the winter or summer months.
im disable now for the past 3 years, and I got me a motar cycle and now im just trying to find some place to call home during the winter months, I just cant stand the cold any more, thanks for the info.
Assia is hot in everything, the weather is not talkable girls are cool and he hottest mentality which is full of scrab. When we refere to the hottest weather on earth some people miss understand and say Africa I will say those are people who never study even bit of geography or may be the book was written with errors. Asia is the birth place of heat. I have never experience such heat in any part of the Earth to the places I have been to but here in Asia My electricity bill runs above $140 as I turn on my Air corn day in and day out.
China expecially with all their mentality thatAfrica is hot its the place where I am based corrently and I wonder which part of Africa is having such a heat here. yet they told me the city is not yet hot when it rise up to 42 Dc let the greographers work on this and sensitize those who deserve it.
Antarctica is also holds the record for coldest place on Earth.
The Atacama Desert is the driest known place on Earth (other than Antarctica)
Kauai holds the record for wettest place on Earth.
I read somewhere that Russia was the coldest not Antarctica.
There is a big discussion about the hottest spot on Earth. Many believe it is in Al Azizyah, Libya, with a recorded temperature of 136 degrees Fahrenheit (57.8 Celsius), and the second hottest place being in Death Valley, California, USA, where it got up to 134 Fahrenheit in 1913. But according to other sites, a NASA satellite recorded surface temperatures as high as 71 °C (159 °F) in the Lut desert of Iran, supposedly the hottest temperature ever recorded on the surface of Earth. This region, which covers an area of about 480 kilometers, is called Gandom Beriyan (the toasted wheat).
first, Mr. Fred from where are you?
There are many hot places here in Asia but not the hottest place..
If you go around Asia yourself, you’ll find out that it’s not the hottest place..
Please stop talking nonsense
It turns out that the place became known only because of the scorching sun and high temperatures. I do not dispute that 136 degrees Fahrenheit is davolno impressive, but I see little good in this!
K-e-l-v-i-n, not kevin who is an uncle of mine
Hottest place is my microwave oven., I try to pick up my dish from oven I burn my finger.
el aziza in Libya is also really hot, it reached 57.5 degrees on 1922
posted by blanca
The contender for the hottest place on Earth should be Imperial Valley. California. The highest temperature ever recorded was 121 degrees in 1995. The average temperature is 110+ for 8 months of the year not counting october through which could be pretty cool. An average of 70- 90 degrees.
Anyone who thinks this place is hot should spend a summer in the Imperial Valley. Imperial Valley is the most hottest habited place in the United State. People live there.
A more hottest habited place on Earth is the Imperial Valley. About more than 8 months of the year the temperature is 110+.
That sounds just like the imperial valleyand mexicali, 90% humidaty to
the hottest place in the world is in san diego because that is where i live and i just ran for 10 miles and my nut sack is steeming hot. wow caliente
ive been all round the world and california was 40 celcias and in awtumn in coffs harbour where you get the breese it still reached 49 celcious and when i was a little kid i was at maclean and it reached so hot we had the day off schoo every one there did it was 59.7 celciuos in awtomn
Now that’s the hottest.
sad its always hot where i live i live in tucsun AZ once it got over 120 c
you want to know what is hot? come to abu dhabi or dubai then talk!
I think some of you need to go back to school and learn to spell .
where im from we went to school and learnt to read and write which some of you dumb kents should do. and where i come from, its 300c here in adelaide australia
hi my name is ste. My house has got to be the hottest place on earth as my mom burns everything she cooks lol
Hi guys,
my church is the hottst place on earth as the condensation from our breath heats it up as we all raise the roof every week!!
Where i live in india it is 47 degrees at the moment and my mon still insists we eat hot and spicy curries evey night lol
The inside of my oven is far hotter than that, imagine if I had a kiln.
What a load of tosh..
This isn’t true. I was stationed in Djibouti, Africa and it got up to 140 F, and steady too during the summer. Not saying its the hottest on eart, but definately hotter than the so-called record on this site.
I too used to live in phoenix many years, i graduated from there, and i remember it getting 110-120 degrees F easy. So take my word for it, Africa was beyond hotter than Phoenix.
Hottest place on earth is the african sahara,, NOT IRAn NOT DEATH VALLEY NOT KUWAIT…or middle east
the africaN SAHARA IS THE HOTTEST
the hottest places on earth are the volcanoes
England can get pretty hot… honest XD
many hottest place in asia india is always a hottest place
I love Los Angeles. The wather is always perfect. Even when it’s hot, it”s not too hot aand when it rains, it’ s not that cold. Ahhh the wine, women and weed of L.A., Gotta love it.
Hottest place on Earth is Lut desert(Iran)
The hottest place on Earth in 2005 was in the Lut Desert in Iran at 70.7 degrees Celsius. nothing more to say…
Yeah well I live in England and it reached all the way up to 11 degrees celsius today!!!
waiit what about the sarhara desert? what about that isn’t that hottest place on earth?
Yeah SmartProduction, i would have thought the same……can anyone give an answer to our question?
Ok 2 day was hot a station outside of town got 45celsius/113f with 0% humidity damn almst died haha
If i’m just only 5 minutes in there i’ll die