Record #00036Nature archive
The WMO Archive of Weather and Climate Extremes records the hottest temperature ever measured as 56.7 °C at Furnace Creek, Death Valley, California, on 10 July 1913.
Current Record
56.7°C
Current record value
The record is held in the WMO Archive of Weather and Climate Extremes; WMO is the recognised authority for verifying extreme weather records.
The 1913 reading was taken by the US National Weather Service at the Furnace Creek station and is accepted by both the US National Extremes Committee and the WMO Archive.
The former 1922 record of 57.8 °C at Aziziya, Libya, was decertified in 2012; two 54.4 °C readings at Death Valley in the 2020s remain under verification.
The record conclusion has sufficient verification support.
Verification explanation pending
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