This Is The Hottest Inhabited Place on Earth

By Douglas A. McIntyre Published Jun 4, 9:30AM EDT

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High temperatures in India and Pakistan have made some areas in those countries almost uninhabitable. This April was the hottest April in India in history. In Pakistan, it was the hottest April in 61 years. Global warming was blamed, as it has been for many extremely high hot weather events over the last several years. Unfortunately, almost every climate scientist in the world believes that, over the decades ahead, this situation will get much worse and spread to other parts of the globe.

Using data from the Global Historical Climate Network, 24/7 Wall St. identified the hottest inhabited place on Earth. Places were ranked based on the average year-round temperature. Only places that are currently inhabited were included.

The cities and towns we considered span the Middle East, Africa, and South America. Several of these areas have had at least one month in the last 10 years where the average temperature was above 100 F.

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To determine the hottest inhabited place on Earth, 24/7 Wall St. reviewed average temperature data from the Global Historical Climate Network (Version 4) of the National Centers for Environmental Information of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Weather stations were ranked based on the average year-round temperature from 2011 to 2020. Only places with at least five years of data were considered. Data used to determine the hottest month also came from the GHCN and are for the years 2011 to 2020.

The hottest inhabitant place on Earth is Abéché, Chad. Here are the details:

> Avg. year-round temperature: 90.0 F
> Hottest avg. month: May (99.3 F avg. temp.)
> Hottest month in last decade: May 2020 (100.7 F avg. temp.)
> Elevation at nearest weather station: 1,801 feet

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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.