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Top 5 highest officially recognized air temperatures

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Highest recorded surface air temperature — Temperature records

Snapshot · 2026-05-31

  1. 1

    Furnace Creek, Death Valley, USA (1913)

    56.7 C

  2. 2

    Kebili, Tunisia (1931)

    55.0 C

  3. 3

    Death Valley, USA (modern era, 2020/2021)

    54.4 C

  4. 4

    Tirat Zvi, Israel (1942)

    54.0 C

  5. 5

    Mitribah, Kuwait (2016)

    53.9 C