Where is the Hottest Place on Earth?

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.

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.

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.

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).

I thought the driest place is somewhere in south america, behind some mountain.

im kuwait is one of the hottest places on earth where the temperature is always at around 45C to 47C every day

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.

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.

This is really hot!!!!!! :(
Wish I could live here & Arun

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.

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

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!

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i know im the hottest girl on earth but what about the boy ????

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.

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.

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.

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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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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.

the hottest place on earth is in my underwear!

Wow. That place looks hot wonder what kind of tan I would get from there! XD

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.