This Is the Hottest Place on Earth. It Is 115 Degrees.

By Douglas A. McIntyre Published Apr 26, 8:15AM EDT

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This Is the Hottest Place on Earth. It Is 115 Degrees. — © Ian Waldie / Getty Images

How hot is too hot for a human to live? One study has an upper temperature of 140 degrees Fahrenheit. However, that is only possible if humidity is close to zero. Since humans have never been subjected to heat that high for any period, it is only a theory.

Over the course of the year, temperatures rise as high as 115 degrees in some highly populated cities, particularly in India. These conditions begin to trigger deaths, but not in large numbers. Access to drinking water has been critical in these situations. So has the ability to stay out of the sun.

The hottest places on earth are almost always in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, the Middle East or northern Africa. The United States occasionally makes the list. The temperature in several places, like Death Valley, has risen above 115 degrees.

It is 115 degrees in Nuwaiseeb, Kuwait, on Monday, April 26. The city sits on the Persian Gulf, just south of Kuwait City and north of the border with Saudi Arabia. This is not the highest the temperature has been in the area. It briefly topped 125 degrees in 2000.
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Despite the heat, the area around Nuwaiseeb has several resorts. The temperature does drop into the 80s part of the year, and it almost never rains.

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About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.