The World's HOTTEST Cities
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- čas přidán 10. 08. 2022
- What is the hottest city in the world? In this video we examine numerous cities known for their blistering heat and judge which ones are the hottest (using various ways measuring).
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apart from temperature, i think the humidity contribute a lot to a hellish hot day. in my experience, 33°c and >90% humidity ( which usually happens before a heavy summer rain where i live) feels much worse than a sunny 40°c day. but i still prefer summer to even mildly cold winter 😄😄😄
This is so true. 95°f (35°c) in Phoenix, Arizona is much more tolerable than the same temperature in New Orleans, Louisiana!
True. Three years ago I went to Egypt and Turkey for a vacation. In Hurghada in june, it was about 37-42°C,but doe to the dry air, I didn't feel the heat, while in Alanya in august, it was around 35-39°C, and it felt hotter due to the humidity.
Absolutely, I am originally from a humid city in southeastern US and I moved to Spain which is quite dry. My first week there I was walking around outside enjoying the weather, I assumed it had to be in the mid 20 degrees celsius, so I was shocked when I checked my phone and saw it was 32 degrees. The same temperature in my humid home city would have been nearly insufferable to be spending all day outside!
I still prefer a harsh winter to even a mildly hot summer, unless every indoor place has AC on
Hanoi?
I think it would be interesting to see the coldest cities next, this video was very fun to watch
That's another idea to add to my list. :) I might do that someday.
I mention one of the coldest cities in my video on Russia. But it doesn't have a population of over a million (if that's part of the criteria I would use).
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If you are going to do a video about coldest cities, you probably have to lower the population criteria. Otherwise it will only involve some cities much further south than other, much colder cities (looking at you, Nordic countries).
Yakut in Sibéria is the coldest city ... -50 in winter is "normal" ... the record is -68 !
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Yeah, Siberia will definitely take all the top ten places, or something. Makes the Nordic countries almost feel a bit warm during the winter. :)
@@GEOfocusChannel cold cities usually dont have much population , its simple
I am Singaporean.
I can't wait to get out of here because the weather has been getting consistently hotter in such a humid climate. For example, 2021 was the first year ever that we no longer experience our "winter" (monsoon) season in Dec-Jan. It was all hot and we were wondering where did all the rain go? It was used to be 2-3 months of the year that we experience out hottest weather. Now, it feels more like 8-9 months of the year that we experience the hottest weather of the year!
Kinda funny how you mention that people can come to Singapore if they hate winter. Well, if you stay in Singapore for at least several months, you'll hate summer!
I can't imagine living in an Equatorial region, lack of 4 seasons with constant summer weather. The summer in Central Eu isnt even that long but I always lose patience and can't wait for autumn xD
There’s no escape. The same phenomenon occurred in my region here in Mexico. I live near Mexicali, in the city of Ensenada, which is considered a cool or middle-temperature city. We experienced no winter and no rain on 2021 either. It is horrible, everything has drought. The dams, the small rivers, the lagoons, the weed on the hills, everything. :(
And yet, it's been raining nearly everyday since the middle of August 2022, and it's been consistently cool during that time.
I was in Singapore for 3 days in August 2013 and it was sunny and 34 degrees every day. HOT 🥵
I live in Wellington, New Zealand which can be characterised by its lack of heat. The average high in the hottest month (February) is only 20.4°C and the record high is only 30.3°C. It is also the worlds windiest city so it often feels much cooler than the averages suggest!
"only" that's when us finnish people start to complain that it's too hot :D
Sounds like heaven
I live in Jeddah, which is right next to Mecca but on the sea, making it so much more humid than Mecca.
Our summers, just like Mecca, are extremely long and are always 35+ celcius... but admittedly it's not as hot as gulf cities like basra, Kuwait, Baghdad, or even Riyadh..
However our winters are usually pleasant and are usually between 15 to 25 Celsius..
Jeddah is considerably cooler than Mecca though, given its coastal location
@@Alex_Gordon
Ahh.. that’s not how it works in The Middle East lol. Coastal areas are usually more hot because of the humidity which traps the heat, while cities away from the sea have more of a classical desert weather, meaning it gets so much colder in winter and night - but yes in the summer it can also get hotter.
@@Ahmed-pf3lg yeah i know it might FEEL hotter in Jeddah sometimes, even though the thermometer would suggest otherwise
@@Ahmed-pf3lg Exactly, i'm from Bahrain which is an island. You'd expect it to be cooler than other middle eastern countries but oh boy , the Feels Like temperature reaches to 57c in summer
Here in khuzestan , iran.
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I live in Johor Bahru, the southernmost city of Malaysia, just 10 km from Singapore. Hence, we also experience a similar climate. In fact, every place in Malaysia endures a consistent hot temperature all year round, except the highlands.
cringe ass city name
Cameron Highlands ;-)
@@MaximilianoHerrera72 i was just gonna say that! lol. the Cameron Highlands...
Wow a lot of research went into this. Thanks Paul :)
Thanks Paul, I really appreciate your thorough, well researched content!
Even in Germany we can get temperatures above 40°C by now 🥵
But at least it's cooling down again during night usually.
We call nights with a temperature of more than 20°C "tropical" as it used to be very uncommon until some years ago. This summer alone, though, we got 5-10 of those nights 🥵
the term tropical nights stands for temperatures above 25 here (Toulouse France) , which was the case last night (and is still today). it is very unpleasant for me.
@@benjaminb5889 Ikr, I sweat too much and can't sleep if it's above 20 degrees
are serious here in my country could reach over 50C
@@hasanamir439 that's crazy, I have that temp inside a car sometimes, and its unbearable
We call nights with a temperature of more than 20°C "tropical" here in Sweden too
Love the content, I could watch 20 videos in a row from either channel.
Amazing concept. Thank you 👍
It's not the heat, it's the humidity!
In addition to doing a video on coldest cities like I saw suggested in the comments, it would also be interesting to see things like driest and wettest. I've always wondered whether British people are exaggerating about having poor weather all the time or if they really do have a remarkable number of rainy days.
I have been to Mecca (Makkah) and it is so hot there. Even at December (their winter), it is still over 30C. I agree about Seville and Athens because I did go there in the summer but Cordoba in Spain is very hot too. I'll say Luxor in Egypt was very hot. Singapore, KL and Bangkok were hot and humid all year round. I've experienced hot temperatures in Pakistan, India, Oman, UAE, Qatar, Spain and Italy. I am aware that the video is discussing cities with over a million in population. But here in the UK, we have been currently in a heatwave having finally broke the 40C mark for the first time ever. Today it is 33C in the area I live right now - definitely been the hottest year on record
Perfectly composed video with very satisfying answers!
Great! Was wondering about this. Good summary and I agree. Love your work. Another interesting place temperature wise is Harbin, China, known for its ice festival. Cheers
Excellently described ❤
Great video!
Gracias nuevamente por estos vídeos. 👍
I'm quite surprised with the absence of some major Brazilian cities, such as Cuiabá, Belém and Manaus. But I guess it's because it does cool down a bit on rainy days and nights. And Iraq's temperatures are insane!
I live in Barranquilla, Colombia. It is close in latitude and temperature to Panama City, with highest record temperature of 39.8 °C and lowest of 18.0 °C. Average in the hottest month is 29.1 °C, which doesn't sound impressive until we take into account that average humidity is close to 80% year round, with lowest being 70% in January.
Over here it is normal to get some days with 90%+ humidity and 34°C, which leaves you sweating like a pig and no relief as the sweat doesn't dry up. But the city is near the coast so the sensations are not as bad as other cities you described in the video.
My family is from Chihuahua, Mexico. It is so dry and hot there. When I hop out of the shower, my skin is already dry. The winters in that area can be freezing also. It's weird what you get in inland deserts.
I am from Basra. The weather in summer is harsh, but the sun in Basra is less intense than the sun in Baghdad, because Basra has a percentage of humidity that limits the sun's rays.
Thanks!
I love these GEOfocus videos. Keep up the good work Paul!
Thanks!
Very interesting video!
Currently where I live in the Netherlands it's around 33 degrees and we're in the middle of a heatwave.
The highest temperature set here was on the 25th of July 2019 with 40.2 degrees Celsius
On average we have a temperature of 10.1 degrees year round and in the hottest month the average maximum is 23.6
Great!
My city (Wollongong, Australia) does at times get rather uncomfortably warm. The Hottest day I remember killed the veggies growing in the garden. That was new years day, I can't recall exatly what year but it was 2000 and something.
Buenos Aires city in january (december and february are also close) could be like Singapore with the heat, humid and also being extremely urbanized (less wind and green spaces). I live in the extreme south part of the metropolitan area of Buenos Aires where generally is a little bit cooler (kinda 2°C less lets say) due to the green and open spaces. But considering all year, we must be around 16-20°C, we have the four seasons like Europe, but a little bit warmer on average, e.g. our winters are not that cool, snow doesn't exist in the metro, we barely touch the 0°C.
In Finland where I live the hottest temperature is usually about 30°C and the lowest is about -30°C.
Wow that's so extreme
And the avarge is zero? 😅
@@19bendunk No, it's actually something like +4°C
This is such a good vid. Some of the 'not that hot' cities would suck to be in during summer because of the oppressive humidity. 50 degrees and dry heat is super bad. But 40 degrees with high humidity is also mega unpleasant. I mean peeps go troppo from the heat, is there any cold induced madness?
Thank you for this video, Paul, it is interesting.
In my experience heat is not the only factor in determining how bearable a city's climate is.
I spent several day in Beijing in July and August and it was utterly unpleasant because it was not only hot but also very humid and the air was also extremely polluted. At night the temperature dropped but not by very much and it was one of the very few instances I was happy to have air conditioning in my room.
I haven't travelled extensively in desert areas, but I have been told that it is not really unpleasant until temperatures peak beyond 45/50°
I wonder whether someone can confirm this.
I've been to some hot desert areas (like Luxor and the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt, and the southern Negev in Israel). It's dry heat, so you don't feel drenched in sweat, but you feel kind of dry and sticky because your sweat evaporates quickly. I find it harder to breathe in dry desert heat than in humid heat.
I've been to Dubai in the summer, and I sweat like crazy but I didn't find it as hard to breathe.
@@GEOfocusChannel Personally it's the opposite. The humid heat of Bangkok made it a lot harder for me to breath than the dry heat of Phoenix (even when hiking!), despite similar temperatures in both places when I was there. I would also crash around midday for a two hour nap in Thailand, where I didn't have this issue in hot dry places, be it Arizona or Australia.
Tbh anything higher than 32 is unbearable.
I have been to Death Valley at a temperature over 40, however as you say the extremely dry heat was not overly unpleasant as long as you kept out of direct sunlight.
Compare it to a humid 30 in London, where your clothes become a damp hot towel wrapped around your sticky body and the shade does absolutely nothing because the air itself is thick hot soup. I’d rather be in Death Valley.
Good stuff, I think one of the things that really makes a place like singapore stand out is that it's not just hot year round, but also very humid. Average relative humidity of 80--85% year round!
Thank you! Please make a video about coldest cities!
Hello Paul
Great video.
I'd like to hear about more cities in the southern hemisphere (except Australian ones)
Was curious to compare the temperatures there with the ones in the northern half.
Thanks
I live in the southern hemisphere, South Africa to be specific, we never reached all the mentioned temperatures. The highest temperature I remember is 38 °c in Summer around December. Now it is winter but i dont even own a jacket. Even though in some areas there's snow but no one lives there, it's just fallow land. Summers are always around 25 - 35 ° c and winter around 15 °c where i live
I live in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. The July here is extremely hot, usually from 37 to 45. But winter is relatively cold, usually about 0 - 5, sometimes it can be -5 or lower.
The issue of looking at average year round temperature is that it gives a very bad idea of seasonality.
Cities like Moscow, Ankara, Salt Lake, or NurSultan hace huge variation.
Yes, true.
Hong Kong is very hot. Hong Kong's summer is tropical. High humidity (high dew point) is definitely the culprit. And high degree of urbanization makes things worse because all the tall buildings trap the heat. Finally, heat emitted from air-conditioners in all those tall buildings makes summer unbearable.
Yes, it's considered sub-tropical because winters are mild. I've been there twice, but both times in March. It was mild. Sometimes I needed to wear a hoodie, and other times a t-shirt was fine.
What about the rainiest cities of the world?
That's another idea for my list. :) Maybe I'll do that someday.
@@GEOfocusChannel Cool! I live in a city that gets 2300 mm in an average year, so I’m curious if it would be included. Although the cut off of needing a million people seems a bit strict and would exclude my location.
In my city near Delhi, India is 20-25 degrees Celsius in Spring, Monsoon, and Autumn. 25 (during summer storms)-40 degrees Celsius in Summer. 20-1 degrees Celsius in Winter
Montreal here. 🥶 I’ll wait for the opposite list of coldest big cities. Fun exploration! I especially like your attention to explaining statistical methods. Geography is definitely the art and science of representation and statistics. (I have a degree in it, I know.)
Yes! Can’t wait
Eek! So excited!
Me too! It should be a fun topic. :)
Montpellier (and surroundings) in southern France recently beat it’s record high temperature in the 2019 heat wave with 46C to set the highest temperature ever recorded in France. And altho winters are cool to cold with -0C temperature common at night, almost every summer has a big heat wave with temperature going over the 40C at least once in the summer
NYC in summer. No breeze. Wintertime... Endless wind tunnel, especially in Manhattan with the concrete canyons lol.
Tucson, Arizona. It’s 2 hours south of Phoenix and higher elevation, so it can get fairly cold here in the winter. The sonoran desert is beautiful!!
I think the feeling of high humidity is a large factor when talking about high temperatures. For example where I live in Sacramento, California it often gets to 105 to 113 in its summers, but it’s a dry heat. Even though it’s hot it doesn’t feel as hot as say Bangkok or Panama City where it’s very humid.
What sucks is since you were looking at cities it meant that Australia's truly hottest temperature wasn't discussed, I remember one summer morning looking on the news to see that the town of Port Augusta was reporting a temp of I believe 52 or 53 degrees Celsius
Because Australia's hottest temperatures are in the outback which is very empty population wise
highest ever recorded temp in Port Augusta is 49.5 C
@@Alex_Gordon Thanks 👍
I’m soooo glad I live in a temperate rain forest. That was a lot of work Paul. All toooooo hot for me. Thank you
Well, my city was the first one on your list (Phoenix, ARIZONA). It is 100+ degrees May until October, but it it is tolerable until it gets to be 110 degrees. 115+ = hell outside. The first half of summer is dry with almost no humidity. The second half is high humidity and very brief but extreme storms we call monsoons. Even though the heat feels worse in humidity, I prefer the monsoon heat because of the chance of storms that will cool everything down for a day or two. In December and early January, it can get cold enough to freeze at night but it's rare. Most people put blankets on their flowers and fruit trees on those rare occasions. They put mittens or Santa hats on the arms of a cactus when it gets below freezing because this happens around Christmas.
Penrith a suburb of Sydney had a top of 49 dec 2023 and Ethiopian city was 58 but Death Valley had surface temp of 90 c and in the USA it was 70c for 3 seconds and 3 people died of heatstroke
San Franciscan here. When it gets over 70°F (21.1°C) for more than a day or two I start thinking "heat wave". I was in Phoenix in the summer one time and slept 12 hours every night. But I do remember the temp here going over 100°F (37.7°C) one time.
Fun video, and yeah, ¿how do you decide the criteria for the hottest? I think you handled it well.
Great video. What hell holes.
I'm in Stockton, California and our summer is hot, June til mid September especially July and August temperatures reach 115 f throughout those months
Mark Twain: "In India, 'cold weather' is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather which will melt a brass door-knob and weather which will only make it mushy."
It was 40 degrees once in Edmonton Alberta Canada.
Perth can get quite hot in the summer but this winter has been quite chilly.
Thanks for the video, I like (as with all your videos) the care you take that to answer a question, you have to look at more than one number.
Climate is one of those things that can be quite surprising and contrary to perceptions. One of those is summer heat.
Compare the largest cities in cold Canada and warm sunny South Africa:
The largest city in Canada, Toronto, has an average high in it’s hottest month, July, of 26.6 C with an average low of 18 C.
The largest city in South Africa, namely Johannesburg , where I live, has an average high in it’s hottest month January of only 25.6 C, dropping to an average of 16 C. One thing that often makes temperature numbers feel hotter is humidity, but in this case there is not much in it. Toronto’s hottest month comes with 69% humidity, Johannesburg with 68%. So surprisingly, Joburg’s summers are “cooler” than Toronto, and should feel that way too. Also, 18 C at night vs 16 C is significant, as it touches the boundary of comfortable sleep.
Even more surprisingly, the average low and it’s coldest month of July is -4.1 C. Toronto drops to -6.7 C not as much of a difference as one would expect. True, this can be explained by Toronto’s being next to a large body of water which has a moderating effect on temperature swimgs, which Johannesburg has not, but that makes the lower summer maximum in Johannesburg even more surprising. It also shows that it’s not that Johannesburg does not have very distinct seasons, which might be the first reaction people might say when hearing Toronto has a hotter summer peak than Johannesburg.
You have to dig a little deeper to see where the numbers do support the idea that Johannesburg actually does have a notably pleasant climate.
Johannesburg has an annual average of 15.9 C where Toronto has 8.7 C.
Toronto has 4 months where average summer maximum breaches 20C. Johannesburg has 9. The coldest month’s I already mentioned, Johannesburg’s -4.1 C warms up nicely 16.8, Toronto’s -6.7 only “warms” to -0.9 C. And Johannesburg has more than 9 hours of daily sunshine in it’s coldest month, Toronto has 3.3
At risk of overusing the word, again surprisingly, both cities receive more rain per year than the UK’s drizzly London. Rainfall in Johannesburg is 784mm per year, Toronto 845mm, and London 690mm. London incidentally has the warmest winter lows (2 C). It’s reputation for it’s climate not a strongpoint is somewhat deserved by it’s changeable weather on a day, long cloud cover, and long periods of dampness. But I’ve seen many movies portraying London (or England) as a place of torrential rains, which it is not.
I'm from valledupar Colombia and we have hight temperatures all the year, there cities like Barranquilla and SantaMarta with a terrible weather too
I hate high temperature, above 30c and I can't function properly... I'm from Jordan, the summer months are 28-32 degrees and around 18 at night. But I live 800m above sea levels, in Jordan Valley and around the dead sea it's 10 degrees higher all year round
13.9C is like a summer evening? Where I’m from, it doesn’t get that cold, even in the winter 🤯
13.9 is a bit too cold for me. I’d like lows of 20 degrees or so. A bit of an escape from the heat, but still pleasantly warm. 🙂👍🏻
@@GEOfocusChannel I looked up the weather records for my hometown (Bangalore, India), apparently the recorded low is 7°C, but that was in 1884. The current average in December, the coldest month appears to be around 20°C.
Maybe do a video about where the gap between the hottest and coldest temperature is the largest?
I'm in Wenatchee, WA in the USA. Last summer we reached record breaking temperatures at around 119 or 120 degrees Fahrenheit. However, this past winter, we had one night in early January where it snowed a record 3 feet in a 12-15 hour period, but didn't receive any more snowfall until mid-March. Usually we're in one of the hottest parts of WA state, but still gets relatively cold winters, which puts our average year-round temperatures down quite a bit.
Thanks for this video actually where I live also records a very high temperature nowadays it's really hot it goes like 49 and 50° but the crazy thing that I can't understand even if it's really hot when I go outside I see a lot of tourists i am talking about Marrakesh
Vancouver is usually around 22c to 28c in the summer months, but last year we had a deadly heat wave (in June, a normally somewhat rainy month) that was into the low 40s with humidity factored in (mid 40s in the suburbs). As the city has minimal air conditioning, that was very difficult.
The minimal air conditioning is definitely a problem when there's that bad of a heat wave. Luckily it's not too common.
I find it interesting that in both Alaska and Hawaii, the highest temperature ever recorded is 100 F (37.8 C).
OMG - how are these places even habitable?!?!?!
And for such a holy city, Mecca's climate is absolutely _infernal._
I live in Wausau, Wisconsin. A hot summer day is 85 to 90 degrees Fahrenheit. Temperatures of that type are typically only experienced in July. Our winters last from late October to early May!😅
I think somewhere in Australia and Ethiopia.
I live in Caxias do Sul Brazil, the average temperatura according to google is 16 celsius. The weather here is pretty good, not too hot and not too cold
I experienced 48 Celsius in the jordan valley in israel, you truly get the smack of sun rays on your body.
I'm in Apache Junction and the nights low temps are finally dipping through the 80s. Triple digit in the mid to high teens and beyond lasts week's...months even. It costs a fortune for HAVOC. Lake Meade, Lake Powell and the Colorado River are going dry, by the way !!!
I vacation in Apan, Hidalgo in Mexico ; and we're at 19N latitude; however we're above 8,000'! In July, we have a windchill in the evenings, and we'll hit 45 F in the evenings.
I'm from Pretoria, South Africa and in the summer months the temperatures reach in the mid 30s degrees Celsius. The nights are still warm, but not as bad as during the day
In Africa apart from not inhabited Dallol, the highest yearly averages are Matam Senegal and Yelimane , Mali.
I'm from Zhenjiang, China. The hottest month of the year is July, when the average high temperature reaching 32 degree Celsius. However the humidity is often above 70% which makes it feel a lot hotter. The record high was actually recorded this year at 41 degrees Celsius. I currently live in Vancouver BC Canada.
Is China hot country?
how surprising that you live in Vancouver! 😂lol. ALL chinese move to Vancouver!
Shanghai had an extreme hot spell this summer with weeks of 38 C
別忘了中國的四大火爐😂
@@Alex_Gordon yes, especially Hongkongers.
Toulouse, southern France here. Today is 37°C high and 26°C low ; at midnight it is still above 30°C. Too hot for me.
In my hometown of Beijing many people are amazed at just how north Europe as a whole is, for example, how Madrid has the same latitude (40 degrees north) as Beijing. But then we remember that Beijing constantly reaches 40 degress centigrade in the summer so it's not so surprising anymore 😂
i actually just left athens. it was pretty painful during the day at around ~35° and humid 😭
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Here in Kamloops the typical summer high is 30-35. We hit 40 a few days a year. It's dry and everybody has air conditioning, so it's not a big deal. Our record high is 47, set last year. This demolished the previous record, 42, which was set in July 1941. Much of B.C. set temperature records that summer, many of which still stand.
insane
I think the other way. If 30C feels super hot, then how people in hotter places can even live
30 is hot 🥵
20 is nice 😊
10 is cool 😎
0 is ice 🥶
in canada 0 is considered ' not bad' in the winter.
@@Geardos1 Facts, it basically snows everyday.
15°C is the perfect temperature.
I live in Madrid, Spain, and I have to say in terms of sheer extreme climate (i.e both hot and cold annually), it definitely takes some beating. For a full half of the year, 6 months between November and April, it is proper cold, you wear coats, scarves etc. And then in summer, particularly July and August, it is unbearably hot, 35-40 degrees virtually every day of those summer months. There is simply no in-between in Madrid in terms of climate, and it only really has about 3 months of mild weather a year: May, September and October, it's a super quick spring and a super quick autumn. The rest of the year you are literally either very hot or cold! So Madrid may not be among the very hottest cities in the world mentioned in this video, but in terms of annual climatic extremity, there can surely be few more extreme cities anywhere in the world.
I live in siberia we have +40 for all summer months and -50 for most of winter... It is probably one of the biggest differences in the world, almost 100... But there are other cities in siberia which have over 100 difference between summer and winter ... I think the funny thing is, after a long time of -50 , some random day it sometimes goes to -30 or -20 and everyone will say "what a warm day!" haha and it's actually true when you are accustomed to -50 then suddenly it's -20 it really does feel like really warm
MAdrid is nothing in comparason. if you want REAL extreme weather go to Kazakhstan or Mongolia! there we can talk about real extremes.
I am from Delhi, India.
Hottest temperature is 47°C.( Too hot)
Coldest here is 1-2°C ( satisfactory)
I've only ever lived in areas with very low humidity, like Phoenix. First time I could feel humidity what when I stepped off of a plane in Cancun. Seems like, high humidity AND high heat are miserable.
Spokane. As of last year it was 106°f in the summer😣 and I believe at one point we dipped to about -5°f in the Winter ☺️
It's relatively dry here though so it's not the worst heat I've felt worldwide, but the winters, as long as there is no wind, you regularly see people in t shirts and shorts around 15-20°f out. This is in part due to the fact that it is super sunny here. In fact the name of the town is based of the tribe that used to live here, whose name means children of the sun.
Speak Celsius, please
I cannot with that measures... Here at the Boyacá department in Colombia (at least in the central part) it goes from -4 to 25 °C. So for me... Any of the places you mentioned is the hell
Something weird is happening around the world. People have been reporting unusually high temperatures and winters that never came last year. The same phenomenon occurred in my region here in Mexico. I live near Mexicali, in the city of Ensenada, but Ensenada is considered a cool or middle-temperature city. Nothing like Mexicali. Last year, we experienced no winter and no rain either. It is horrible, everything has drought. The dams, the small rivers, the lagoons, the weed on the hills, everything. :(
I am from basra Iraq, it doesn't only have some of the hottest summer temps in the world but also it can get humid sometimes , so you can imagine how bad it is !
no I can NOT imagine! LOL
@@Alex_Gordon lol 😂 it's October and it's still in the high 30s
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i would add another category: which place feels the hottest.
before you start screaming "that's not scientific", hear me out. we feel hot when our core temperature rises. we prevent ourselves from overheating by sweating. how efficient sweating is heavily depends on the humidity. the higher the humidity, the harder your sweat evaporates, therefore you feel hotter because your body heat isn't dissipating. cities like Tokyo for example, doesn't really reach extreme tenperatures like the cities in this video does. but its super high summer humidity means your body temperature in a 33 degree overcast Tokyo day may very well be higher than in a 36 degree Melbourne day.
i'm only using those two cities because i've lived in each. it would be interesting to find out which city actually feels the hottest in the world.
Is that scientific information, or is that your own logical conclusion? I thought that sweat evaporates more quickly in dry heat. I’ve been in hot desert climates, and I definitely sweat like a pig, but rather than leaving me wet, it left me with a dry but with a sticky feeling and salt residue all over my body because the sweat evaporated. But that’s just my interpretation of what I experienced. I’ve never looked into the science of it.
@@GEOfocusChannel water turning into steam is endothermic. the more your sweat evaporates, the faster you cool down. humidity is essentially how much water vapour is already in the air. 100% humidity means no more water vapour can be dissolved in air. a typical tokyo summer day has a humidity of 80% or more while melbourne averages around 60%. your sweat just have a very hard time evaporating into already very saturated air in tokyo which makes mild temperature feel hot.
I see. I think I misunderstood this phrase: "the harder your sweat evaporates".
Probably the cities on the Arabian peninsula. The presence of the Red Sea and Persian gulf which have bathtub warm waters means that humidity levels in that region are higher than the other deserts. Also there’s a way to measure heat index which combines temperatures and humidity
I live in a tropical city but at a high altitude. That is, it’s hot in the summer and very cold in the winter and can even snow! I’m brazilian.
Brasilia, Cuiaba or Curitiba?
@@Alex_Gordon none of them. I don’t live in a capital city. Actually, currently I’m living in São Paulo, but I was referring to my hometown, a small city.
@@felipec2190 cool
The truly highest temperatures are likely to be much higher than those officially recorded. This depends on how they are calculated.
I have several thermometers at home. Both the traditional mercury ones and the modern electronic ones with more accurate information. During the summer I always get higher temperatures than what the weather websites say for my hometown.
In my town (Murrieta, CA, USA) the average temperature is 77.3°F year round. The hottest month is August, with a mean maximum of 90.1°F. The coldest month is December, with a mean maximum of 63.1°F. The hottest recorded temperature in Murrieta was in August, at 117°F. The coldest recorded temperature in Murrieta was in January, at 14°F.
Murrieta is subject to microclimates, so the temperature varies significantly between parts of town closer to and further from the coast. It’s situated in a valley in Southern California, blocked from the sea by the low-lying Santa Ana Mountains. So unlike the coastal areas nearby (cool semi-arid) and the deserts further inland (warm or hot semi-arid), Murrieta has a Mediterranean climate. Hot as hell in summer, but with mild and wet winters.
Like they say in the Midwest, “ya know, it’s nat tha heat, it’s tha hyoomiddidy!”
Don't forget the other parts of Africa, especially West Africa. All along the sahel region ther yearly average is around 30C and even south of it there's some really hot cities. Also you could have mentioned humidity, it plays a big role in heat perception. That's why Bankok would be my guess for the hottest city (by feel), its huge size adds to that. Although, the temperatures in Basra are insane. I really didn't expect there to be such a hot city anywhere in the world. Maybe it was new data from the 1990-2020 period.
We looked at some other places in Africa, but specifically for cities of over 1 million, we didn't see any above Khartoum.
@@GEOfocusChannel ok, makes sense! The city pf Gao, Mali would be a hot contender but it's way smaller than 1 Million.
Thank you for including Fahrenheit, I'm stupid and don't know Celsius
lol. You’re not stupid, you’ve just had the old system imposed on you. As a Canadian I have to have a sense of how both work, but celsius makes way more sense.
You should do the world’s coldest cities too
I'm from Melbourne and 40+ is normal for summer but its not the heat, its the humidity that gets you. Relatives from Canada came out in summer and spent many days inside, unable to move because the they felt so unwell. It finally dawned on them what we meant when we said the heat is different here. Its something you have to experience yourself to understand not to mention the sun.
the Average high in January is only 27 C though. Melbourne is knows for its extremly changeable weather
proud to live in finland -50 celsius winters