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The following table lists records of extreme temperature in territories of [[Africa]]. |
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The following table lists records of extreme temperature in territories of [[Africa]]. The elevation in metres above sea level of locations reporting record minimum temperatures is given where relevant. |
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! width="140" rowspan="2" | Territory |
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! width="405" colspan="3" | Lowest Temperature |
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! width="405" colspan="3" | Highest Temperature |
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! width="35" | T°C |
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! width="225" | Place |
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! width="30" | T°C |
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! width="200" rowspan="2" style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px;” | Territory |
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|'''Africa''' |
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! width="455" colspan="4" style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px;” | Lowest Temperature |
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||-23.9||[[Ifrane|Īfrān (Ifrane)]] {{MAR}}||[[11 February]] [[1935]] |
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! width="420" colspan="3" style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px;” | Highest Temperature |
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||58.0||[[Al_'Aziziyah|Al-'Azīzīyah]] {{LBA}}||[[13 September]] [[1922]] |
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! width="45" style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px;” | T°C |
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! width="225" style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px;” | Place |
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! width="35" style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px;” | Elev. (m) |
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! width="150" style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px;” | Date |
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! width="45" style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px;” | T °C |
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! width="225" style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px;” | Place |
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! width="150" style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px;” | Date |
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| rowspan="2" style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px;" |'''Africa''' |
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| align=right |'''-25.5'''||[[Dayat Hachlaf|Ḍāyat Hashlāf]] {{MAR}}|| align=right |1760||[[2 February]] [[1935]] |
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| rowspan="2" align=right |'''51.3'''|| rowspan="2"| [[Ouargla|Warqlā (Ouargla)]] {{ALG}}|| rowspan="2" |[[5 July]] [[2018]] |
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| align=right |<span style="color:gray;">{{ref|reference_name_†50|†50}}-20.1</span> ||[[Buffelsfontein]] {{RSA}} || align=right |1275|| [[23 August]] [[2013]] |
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|{{ALG}} |
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||-20.0||[[Batna_City|Batna]] ''[[Batna_Province|Batna province]]'' <ref>[http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/cd002_pdf/000DDFF7.pdf Bulletin Mensuel 1945, Algérie du Nord, Institut de Météorologie et de Physique du Globe de l’Algérie], NOAA Central Library, Climate Data Imaging Project. Retrieved 24 January 2007.</ref> ||[[4 January]] [[1945]] |
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||50.6||[[In_Salah|In Salah]] ''[[Tamanghasset_Province|Tamanrasset province]]'' <ref>Temperatures between 53°C and 57°C have been reported from various places in [[Algeria]] including [[Tindouf]], [[Timimoun]], [[Ouargla|Ouargla (Warqlā)]] and [[Touggourt]] but none are believed to be reliable.</ref>||[[12 July]] [[2002]] |
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|{{ANG}} |
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||-8.3||[[Chitembo]] ''[[Bi%C3%A9_%28province%29|Bié province]]'' <ref>[http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/cd002_pdf/001428FA.pdf Elementos Meteorológicos e Climatológicos Angola 1947, Colonia de Angola, Serviço Meteorológico], NOAA Central Library, Climate Data Imaging Project. Retrieved 25 January 2007.</ref>||[[31 July]] [[1947]] |
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||43.5||[[Dondo]] ''[[Cuanza_Norte|Cuanza Norte province]]'' <ref>[http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/cd032_pdf/006F5CC2.pdf Anais Meteorológicos das Colónias Relativos a 1942, Direcção Geral de Fomento Colonial, Serviço Meteorológico], NOAA Central Library, Climate Data Imaging Project. Retrieved 25 January 2007.</ref>|| [[16 November]] [[1942]] |
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| rowspan="2" style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px; font-size"|'''{{ALG}}''' |
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||8.5||[[Kandi]] <ref name="FR_1959"/> ||[[January]] [[1957]] |
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| align=right |'''-20.0'''||[[Batna_City|Bātnah]] ''[[Batna_Province|Bātnah province]]'' <ref>[ftp://ftp.library.noaa.gov/docs.lib/htdocs/rescue/cd002_pdf/000DDFF7.pdf Bulletin Mensuel 1945, Algérie du Nord, Institut de Météorologie et de Physique du Globe de l’Algérie], NOAA Central Library, Climate Data Imaging Project (in French; ''Monthly Bulletin, 1945''). Retrieved 24 January 2007.</ref>|| align=right |1030||[[4 January]] [[1945]] |
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| rowspan="2" align=right |'''51.3|| rowspan="2"|[[Ouargla|Warqlā (Ouargla)]] ''[[Ouargla_Province|Warqlā (Ouargla) province]]'' <ref name="OGIMET"/><ref>Temperatures as high as 57°C have been reported at various places in [[Algeria]] including [[Tindouf|Tindūf]], [[Timimoun|Timimūn]], [[Ouargla|Warqlā (Ouargla)]] and [[Touggourt|Tūjurt (Touggourt)]] before [[1950]] but none are reliable.</ref>|| rowspan="2" |[[5 July]] [[2018]] |
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|align=right |<span style="color:gray;">{{ref|reference_name_†50|†50}}-13.8</span>||[[Mécheria|Mīshrīyah (Mécheria)]] ''[[Naâma_Province|Na’āmah (Naâma) province]]'' <ref>[https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/archive/arc0216/0253808/1.1/data/0-data/Region-1-WMO-Normals-9120/Algeria/CSV/Mecheria_60549.csv WMO Normals 1991-2020, Mecheria (Station 60549)], NOAA. Retrieved 17 December 2023.</ref>|| align=right|1125||[[28 January]] [[2005]] |
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|rowspan="2"|{{BOT}} |
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|rowspan="2"|-15.0||rowspan="2"|[[Tshabong|Tsabong]] <ref>[http://www.weather.info.bw/resources/entry_fs.html Botswana’s Climate], Meteorological Services, Botswana. Retrieved 28 January 2007.</ref>||rowspan="2"| |
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|rowspan="2"|43.9||[[Ghanzi]] <ref>[http://www.wetter.com/v2/?SID=&LANG=DE&LOC=0226&LOCFROM=0002&id_city=680240 Klimatabelle für Ghanzi], wetter.com. Retrieved 30 November 2007.</ref><ref>The date is believed to be correct.</ref>||[[25 February]] [[1922]] |
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||[[Gaborone]] <ref>[http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/cd122_pdf/LSN0613.PDF Report for the Year 1948, Weather Bureau, Union of South Africa], NOAA Central Library, Climate Data Imaging Project. Retrieved 28 April 2007.</ref> ||[[30 December]] [[1948]] |
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| rowspan="2" style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px;"|'''{{ANG}}''' |
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| align=right |'''-3.9'''||[[Mavinga]] ''[[Cuando_Cubango|Cuanda Cubango province]]'' <ref name="GSOD">[https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/search/data-search/global-summary-of-the-day Global Surface Summary of the Day (GSOD)], National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Retrieved 1 January 2024.</ref><ref name="ANG">-4.1°C was reported at a station (elevation 1245 m) in the generally uninhabited [[Bicauri National Park|Bicuari National Park]] on [[21 July]] [[2016]]. Temperatures as low as -8°C reported at various place in Angola between the late 1930’s and early 1950’s are unreliable, probably due to instrument overexposure.</ref>|| align=right |1090||[[15 June]] [[1968]] |
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| rowspan="2" align=right |'''41.6'''|| rowspan="2" |[[Espinheira]] ''[[Namibe_Province|Namibe province]]'' <ref name="SASSCAL"/><ref>Higher temperatures reported at various place in Angola between the late 1930’s and early 1950’s are unreliable, probably due to instrument overexposure.</ref>|| rowspan="2" |[[22 March]] [[2019]] |
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| align=right |<span style="color:gray;">{{ref|reference_name_†50|†50}}-1.7</span> ||[[Tchivinguiro]] ''[[Huíla_Province|Huíla province]]'' <ref name="SASSCAL"/><ref name="ANG"/>||align=right|1660||[[26 June]] [[2015]] |
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|[[Bouvet_Island|Bouvet Island (Bouvetøya)]] ''[[Norway|(Nor.)]]'' |
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||-18.7||<ref name="BVT">[http://www.ogimet.com/gsynres.phtml.en Form to get daily summaries from synop reports], OGIMet. Retrieved 6 August 2007.</ref><ref name="BVT2">Data is taken from an extremely short available record.</ref>||[[8 September]] [[2005]] |
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||10.6||<ref name="BVT"/><ref name="BVT2"/>||[[13 March]] [[2005]] |
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|{{IOT}} ''[[United_Kingdom|(UK)]]'' |
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| rowspan="2" style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px;"|'''{{BEN}}''' |
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||18.3||[[Diego_Garcia|Diego Garcia]] <ref>[http://www.wetter.com/v2/?SID=&LANG=DE&LOC=0226&LOCFROM=0002&search=1&city=diego+garcia&x=19&y=8 Klimatabelle für Diego Garcia / Chagos-Archipel], wetter.com. Retrieved 5 November 2007.</ref>|| |
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| align=right |'''8.5'''||[[Kandi]] <ref name="KNMI">[http://climexp.knmi.nl/selectdailyseries.cgi?someone@somewhere Climate Explorer], The Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI). Retrieved 3 January 2022.</ref>|| align=right |290||[[12 January]] [[1957]] |
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| rowspan="2" align=right |'''43.9'''|| rowspan="2" |[[Kandi]] <ref name="KNMI"/><ref>46.0°C reported at [[Kandi]] in [[April]] [[1940]], and 44.9°C reported at [[Natitingou]] in [[March]] [[1934]] are unreliable. 44.5°C reported at Kandi in [[April]] [[1952]] is possibly reliable.</ref>|| rowspan="2" |[[19 April]] [[1983]] |
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| align=right |<span style="color:gray;">{{ref|reference_name_†50|†50}}10.0</span> ||[[Kandi]] <ref name="KNMI"/>|| align=right |290||[[22 January]] [[1975]]<br> [[28 December]] [[1977]] |
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|{{BFA}} |
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||5.7||[[Dori]] <ref name="FR_1959"/><ref>2.9°C reported from [[Banankeledara]] near [[Bobo_Dioulasso]] may be unreliable.</ref>||[[December]] [[1936]] |
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||47.0||[[Dori]] <ref name="KNMI">[http://climexp.knmi.nl/selectdailyseries.cgi?someone@somewhere Climate Explorer], The Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI). Retrieved 22 April 2007.</ref>||[[12 April]] [[1978]] and [[31 March]] [[1979]] |
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|{{BDI}} |
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| rowspan="2" style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px;"|'''{{BOT}}''' |
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||-0.9||[[Gisozi|Gisozi (Kisozi)]]|| |
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| align=right |'''-10.6'''|| [[Tshabong|Tsabong]] <ref>[ftp://ftp.library.noaa.gov/docs.lib/htdocs/rescue/cd122_pdf/LSN0617.PDF Report for the Year 1953, Weather Bureau, Department of Transport, Republic of South Africa], NOAA Central Library, Climate Data Imaging Project. Retrieved 8 March 2008.</ref><ref>-15.2°C reported at the same place (in August between 1959 and 1980) is probably a ground temperature, not an air temperature.</ref>|| align=right |1000||[[30 July]] [[1953]] |
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||36.1||[[Bujumbura]] <ref name="MeteoFrance">[http://www.meteofrance.com/FR/climat/index.jsp Le climat dans le monde], MeteoFrance. Retrieved 22 April 2007.</ref>|| |
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| rowspan="2" align=right |'''44.3'''|| rowspan="2" |[[Ramotswa]] <ref name="SASSCAL">[http://www.sasscalweathernet.org Weather stations in Angola, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa and Zambia], SASSCAL WeatherNet. Retrieved 8 August 2021.</ref>|| rowspan="2" |[[7 January]] [[2016]] |
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| align=right |<span style="color:gray;">{{ref|reference_name_†50|†50}}-9.7</span> ||[[Werda,_Botswana|Werda]] <ref name="SASSCAL"/> ||align=right|1030||[[22 July]] [[2021]] |
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|{{CMR}} |
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||3.0||[[Adamawa_Plateau|Adamawa (Adamaoua) plateau]] <ref name="Knox">Knox, Alexander (1911). ''The Climate of the Continent of Africa''. The University Press.</ref><ref>-2.7°C has been recorded at high altitude on the summit of [[Fako_Peak|Fako Peak]], [[Mount_Cameroon|Mount Cameroon]].</ref>||[[January]] [[1892]] |
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||46||[[Maroua|Maroua-Salak Airport]] <ref>[http://www.tutiempo.net/en/Climate/Maroua-Salak/648510.htm Historical Weather: Maroua-Salak, Cameroon], El Tiempo. Retrieved 4 February 2007.</ref> ||[[28 March]] [[1999]] |
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|[[Canary_Islands|Canary Islands]] ''[[Spain|(Sp.)]]'' |
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| style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px;"|{{flagicon|Norway}} '''[[Bouvet_Island|Bouvet Island (Bouvetøya)]]''' ''[[Norway|(Nor.)]]'' |
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||1.1||[[Vilaflor%2C_Santa_Cruz_de_Tenerife|Vilaflor]] ''[[Tenerife]]'' <ref name="BioClimatics">[http://www.globalbioclimatics.org/data/indexcsp.htm#S.C.TENERIFE Worldwide Bioclimatic Classification System], Phytosociological Research Center. Retrieved 22 April 2007.</ref><ref>-21.0°C was recorded at high altitude at [[Cañada de la Grieta]] on [[Teide|Pico del Teide]], [[Tenerife]] in [[1912]].</ref>|| |
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| align=right |'''-18.7'''||[[Bouvet_Island|Bouvet Island (Nyrøysa)]] <ref name="OGIMET">[http://www.ogimet.com/gsynres.phtml.en Form to get daily summaries from synop reports], OGIMet. Retrieved 6 January 2024.</ref><ref name="Bouvet">The island is uninhabited.</ref>||||[[8 September]] [[2005]]<br> [[9 September]] [[2005]] |
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||49||[[Sabinar-Lomo Negro]] ''[[El_Hierro|El Hierro]]'' <ref name="INM"/>||[[6 September]] [[1986]] |
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| align=right |'''10.6'''||[[Bouvet_Island|Bouvet Island (Nyrøysa)]] <ref name="OGIMET"/><ref>14°C reported in [[March]] [[1980]] was taken at ground level.</ref>||[[12 December]] [[2004]]<br> [[13 December]] [[2004]]<br> [[13 March]] [[2005]] |
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| style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px;"|'''{{BFA}}''' |
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||5.0||[[Monte_Velha|Monte Velha]] ''[[Fogo,_Cape Verde|Fogo island]]'' <ref name="CPV">[http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/cd032_pdf/006F5CC6.pdf Anais Meteorológicos das Colónias, Relativos a 1943, Ministérios das Colónias], NOAA Central Library, Climate Data Imaging Project. Retrieved 4 February 2007.</ref> || [[March]] [[1943]] |
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| align=right |'''5.0'''||[[Markoye]] <ref name="BFA">[http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/napa/bfa01f.pdf Programme d’Action National d’Adaptation à la Variabilité et aux Changements Climatiques (PANA du Burkina Faso)], Ministère de l’Environnement et du Cadre de Vie, Burkina Faso (in French; ''National Action Program for Adaptation to Variability and to Climate Change''). Retrieved 3 January 2022.</ref><ref>2.9°C reported at [[Banankélédara|Banankélédara (Banankélédaga)]] (near [[Bobo-Dioulasso]]) on [[29 January]] [[1961]], and 5.0°C reported at the same place in [[1971]] are probably unreliable.</ref>|| align=right |305||[[January]] [[1975]] |
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||36.9||[[Praia]] ''[[Santiago%2C_Cape_Verde|São Tiago (Santiago) island]]'' <ref name="GSOD">[http://www7.ncdc.noaa.gov/CDO/cdoselect.cmd?datasetabbv=GSOD&countryabbv=&georegionabbv= Global Summary of the Day (GSOD)], National Climatic Data Center. Retrieved 19 December 2007.</ref><ref>Temperatures up to 38°C reported from [[Praia]] are possibly reliable.</ref>||[[7 November]] [[2006]] |
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| align=right |'''47.5'''||[[Dori]] <ref name="KNMI"/><ref>Higher temperatures recorded before the 1940’s, including 48.4°C at [[Dori]], 48.0°C at [[Ouahigouya]] and 47.9°C reported at both [[Fada N’gourma]] and [[Ouagadougou]] are unreliable.</ref>||[[13 April]] [[2016]] |
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| rowspan="2" style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px;"|'''{{BDI}}''' |
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||3.1||[[Birao]] <ref name="FR_1956">[http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/cd008A_pdf/00258738.pdf Annales des Services Météorologiques de la France d’Outre-Mer, Année 1956, Ministère la France d’Outre-Mer], NOAA Central Library, Climate Data Imaging Project. Retrieved 5 February 2006.</ref> ||[[19 January]] [[1956]] |
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| align=right |'''-0.9'''||[[Gisozi,_Burundi|Gisozi]] <ref>[http://www.kaowarsom.be/documents/BULLETINS_MEDEDELINGEN/1957-6.pdf Présentation du Bulletin climatologique annuel du Congo belge et du Ruanda-Urundi (1956) — Anomalies pluviométriques et valeurs remarquables de quelques éléments du climat, in: Bulletin des Séances, Academie Royale des Sciences Coloniales, 1957, 6, pp1214-1230], Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences, Belgium (in French; ''Presentation of the annual climatological bulletin of the Belgian Congo and Ruanda-Urundi (1956) - Pluviometric anomalies and remarkable values of some elements of the climate''). Retrieved 1 March 2021.</ref><ref>Recorded at the Kisozi-Marais meteorological station, now closed.</ref>|| align=right |2140||[[July]] [[1956]] |
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||45||[[Birao]] <ref>[http://www.tutiempo.net/en/Climate/Birao/03-1985/646580.htm Historical Weather: Birao, Central African Republic], El Tiempo. Retrieved 4 February 2007</ref>||[[22 March]] [[1985]] |
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| rowspan="2" align=right |'''37.5'''|| rowspan="2" |[[Mparambo]] <ref name="BDI">Simone di Prima (climateofburundi.altervista.org)</ref>|| rowspan="2" |[[10 October]] [[1969]]<br> [[11 October]] [[1974]] |
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| align=right |<span style="color:gray;">{{ref|reference_name_†50|†50}}0.0</span> ||[[Nyamuswaga]] (near [[Ngozi]]) <ref name="BDI"/>||align=right| 1530||[[6 August]] [[1986]]<br> [[7 August]] [[1986]]<br> [[8 August]] [[1986]] |
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||2.6||[[Faya|Faya (Faya-Largeau)]] <ref name="FR_1951">[http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/cd008A_pdf/00270A58.pdf Annales des Services Météorologiques de la France d’Outre-Mer, Année 1951, Ministère la France d’Outre-Mer], NOAA Central Library, Climate Data Imaging Project. Retrieved 5 February 2006.</ref>||[[31 December]] [[1951]] |
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||49.7||[[Faya|Faya (Faya-Largeau)]] <ref name="FR_1952">[http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/cd008A_pdf/00270A5C.pdf Annales des Services Météorologiques de la France d’Outre-Mer, Année 1952, Ministère la France d’Outre-Mer], NOAA Central Library, Climate Data Imaging Project. Retrieved 29 October 2006.</ref>||[[26 May]] [[1952]] and [[26 June]] [[1952]] |
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|{{COM}} |
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| rowspan="2" style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px;"|'''{{CMR}}''' |
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||13.6||[[Moroni]] ''[[Njazidja|Ngazidja (Grande Comore)]]'' <ref name="COM">[http://www.wetter.com/v2/?SID=&LANG=DE&LOC=0226&LOCFROM=0002&id_city=670010 Moroni / I.Njazidja (Grande Comore) (Komoren)], wetter.com. Retrieved 25 October 2007.</ref> || |
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| align=right |'''3.7'''||[[Ngaoundéré]] ''[[Adamawa Region|Adamawa region]]'' <ref>[https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/Bulletin_de_la_Soci%C3%A9t%C3%A9_de_g%C3%A9ographie/yNZJAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Ngaound%C3%A9r%C3%A9+temp%C3%A9rature&pg=PA373&printsec=frontcover La France équatoriale africaine: Le pays. Les habitants. La colonisation. Les pouvoirs publics], Google Books Search Engine. Retrieved 3 January 2022.</ref><ref name="CMR">Ngaoundéré may have recorded 3.2°C in February between [[1961]] and [[1990]]. -2.7°C has been recorded at high altitude on the summit of [[Fako Peak]], [[Mount Cameroon]] at an elevation exceeding 4000 m.</ref>|| align=right |1115||[[19 January]] [[1892]] |
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||35.6||[[Moroni]] ''[[Njazidja|Ngazidja (Grande Comore)]]'' <ref name="COM"/>|| |
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| align=right |'''45.9'''||[[Maroua]] ''[[Far_North_Region_(Cameroon)|Far North region]]'' <ref name="FR_1951"/><ref>47.7°C reported at [[Kousséri]] ''[[Far_North_Region_(Cameroon)|Far North region]]'' on [[18 April]] [[1908]] and 46.2°C reported at the same place in the previous month are sourced from a very limited record of less than a year and are of uncertain reliability.</ref>||[[May]] [[1937]] |
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| align=right |<span style="color:gray;">{{ref|reference_name_†50|†50}}4.0</span>||[[Ngaoundéré]] ''[[Adamawa Region|Adamawa region]]'' <ref name="GSOD"/><ref name="CMR"/> ||align=right|1115||[[22 January]] [[1989]] |
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| align=right |<span style="color:gray;">{{ref|reference_name_†50|†50}}45.5</span>||[[Maroua]] ''[[Far_North_Region_(Cameroon)|Far North region]]'' <ref name="GSOD"/>||[[3 April]] [[1998]] |
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||8.9||[[Sibiti]] <ref name="FR_1954">[http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/cd008A_pdf/00258732.pdf Annales des Services Météorologiques de la France d’Outre-Mer, Année 1954, Ministère la France d’Outre-Mer], NOAA Central Library, Climate Data Imaging Project. Retrieved 29 October 2006.</ref>||[[28 July]] [[1954]] |
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||41.0||[[Ouesso]] <ref name="FR_1954"/>||[[March]] [[1950]] and [[April]] [[1950]] |
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| rowspan="2" style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px;"|'''{{flag|Canary Islands}}''' ''[[Spain|(Sp.)]]'' |
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||-1.5||[[Sakania]] ''[[Katanga|Katanga province]]'' <ref name="Dunlop"/>||[[11 January]] [[1949]] |
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| rowspan="2" align=right |'''-4.0'''|| rowspan="2" |[[Tejeda|Cruz de Tejeda]] ''[[Gran Canaria]]'' <ref name="CAN">[https://www.ipma.pt/export/sites/ipma/bin/docs/publicacoes/atlas.clima.ilhas.iberico.2011.pdf Climate Atlas of the Archipelagos of the Canary Islands, Madeira and the Azores], Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera (IPMA). Retrieved 17 September 2023.</ref><ref>-21.0°C was recorded at an altitude of about 2100 m at [[Cañada de la Grieta]] on [[Teide|Pico del Teide]] ''[[Tenerife]]'' in [[1912]]. More recently, -16.0°C was recorded at [[Las Cañadas]] on the same mountain on [[17 February]] [[1991]].</ref>|| rowspan="2" align=right |855|| rowspan="2" |[[21 January]] [[1997]] |
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||41.0||[[Yahila]] ''[[Orientale, Congo|Orientale province]]'' <ref name="Dunlop"/>|| |
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| align=right |'''48'''||[[Arrecife]] ''[[Lanzarote]]'' <ref>[http://desarrollorurallanzarote.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/evolucion-temp-lz-centro-de-datos.pdf Evolución de la Temperatura en Lanzarote (1950-2008)], Centro de Datos, Lanzarote (in Spanish; ''Evolution of the Temperature in Lanzarote (1950-2008)''). Retrieved 3 January 2022.</ref><ref>This reading is possibly unreliable.</ref><ref name="CAN2">The official maximum temperature of 47.5°C reported at [[Masca_Gorge|Barranco de Masca]] ''[[Tenerife]]'' on [[17 July]] [[1978]] was taken at a station with a short period of record and is possibly unreliable.</ref>||[[20 July]] [[1953]] |
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| align=right |<span style="color:gray;">{{ref|reference_name_†50|†50}}47.0</span>||[[Sabinar-Lomo Negro]] ''[[El Hierro]]'' <ref name="CAN"/><ref name="CAN2"/>||[[24 August]] [[1986]] |
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||6.0||[[Man,_C%C3%B4te_d'Ivoire|Man]] <ref>[http://www.wetter.com/v2/?SID=&LANG=DE&LOC=0226&LOCFROM=0002&id_city=655480 Klimatabelle für Man], Wetter.com. Retrieved 30 November 2007.</ref>|| |
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||41.5||[[Odienn%C3%A9|Odienné]] <ref>[http://www.tutiempo.net/en/Climate/Odienne/655280.htm Historical Weather: Odienne, Cote D'Ivoire], El Tiempo. Retrieved 15 February 2007. </ref>|| [[5 February]] [[1998]] |
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| rowspan="2" style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px;"|'''{{CPV}}''' |
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|rowspan="2" | 12.5|| rowspan="2" | [[Ali_Sabieh|Ali-Sabieh]] <ref>[http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/cd120_pdf/LSN0505.PDF Résumé Mensuel de Temps 1964, Côte Française des Somalis, Service Météorologique], NOAA Central Library, Climate Data Imaging Project. Retrieved 17 February 2007.</ref>||rowspan="2" | [[26 December]] [[1964]] |
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| align=right |'''5.0'''||[[Monte Velha]] ''[[Fogo,_Cape Verde|Fogo]]'' <ref>[ftp://ftp.library.noaa.gov/docs.lib/htdocs/rescue/cd032_pdf/006F5CC6.pdf Anais Meteorológicos das Colónias, Relativos a 1943, Ministérios das Colónias, Serviço Meteorológico Nacional, Portugal], NOAA Central Library, Climate Data Imaging Project (in Portuguese, ''Meteorological Annals of the Colonies Relating to 1943''). Retrieved 4 February 2007.</ref><ref name=''CPV''>Temperatures at [[Bangaeira]] in the [[Chã das Caldeiras]] (elevation 1670 m) on ''[[Fogo,_Cape Verde|Fogo]]'' are reported to fall below 0°C in the winter months (January to March).</ref>|| align=right |1350||[[March]] [[1943]] |
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|rowspan="2"|49.5||[[Djibouti_%28city%29|Djibouti-Serpent]] <ref name="FR_1959"/><ref name="ASSAL">Temperatures at [[Lake_Asal_%28Djibouti%29|Lac Assal (Lake Asal)]] are believed to exceed 52°C.</ref>||[[July]] [[1934]] |
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| rowspan="2" align=right |'''37.3'''|| rowspan="2" |[[Praia]] ''[[Santiago,_Cape_Verde|Santiago]]'' <ref name="OGIMET"/><ref>Temperatures up to 38°C reported at [[Praia]] are possibly reliable.</ref>|| rowspan="2" |[[2 September]] [[2004]] |
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| align=right |<span style="color:gray;">{{ref|reference_name_†50|†50}}8</span>||[[Bangaeira]] ''[[Fogo,_Cape Verde|Fogo]]''<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20140106040657/http://en.climate-data.org/location/492351/ Climate: Bangaeira], Climate-Data.org. Retrieved 16 September 2022. Archived 6 January 2014.</ref><ref>This is the average monthly minimum temperature between January and March.</ref><ref name=''CPV''/>|| align=right |1670|| |
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||[[Tadjourah]] <ref name="FR_1952"/><ref name="ASSAL"/>||[[July]] [[1951]] |
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| rowspan="2" style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px;"|'''{{CAF}}''' |
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||-7||[[Nakhl|Qal’at an-Nakhl (Nakhl)]] ''[[Shamal_Sina%27|Shamal Sina' (Northern Sinai) governorate]]'' <ref>[http://www.weatherbase.com/weather/weather.php3?s=133426&refer=&units=metric El Nakhl, Egypt], Weatherbase. Retrieved 25 October 2007.</ref><ref>Weatherbase reports the readings as -7°C and also +18°F (which converts to -7.8°C). If the temperature was recorded in whole [[Fahrenheit]] degrees, the correct reading may be -7.8°C.</ref><ref>-15°C has been reported at high altitude on [[Mount_Catherine|Jabal Katrīnah (Mount Catherine)]] ''[[Janub_Sina%27|Janub Sina' (Southern Sinai) governorate]]''.</ref> || |
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| align=right |'''3.1'''||[[Birao]] <ref name="KNMI"/>|| align=right |465||[[19 January]] [[1956]] |
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||51||[[Aswan|Aswān]] ''[[Aswan_Governorate|Aswān governorate]]'' <ref>[http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/cd005_pdf/002254D2.pdf Daily Weather Report 1918, Ministry of Public Works, Cairo], NOAA Central Library, Climate Data Imaging Project. Retrieved 24 February 2006.</ref><ref>This reading is possibly unreliable. 50.6°C was reported at [[Aswan|Aswān]] on [[8 June]] [[1932]], and 50.3°C has been reported from [[Kharga_Oasis|Al-Khārga]] ''[[Al_Wadi_al_Jadid|Al-Wādi al-Jadid (New Valley) governorate]]''.</ref>||[[4 July]] [[1918]] |
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| rowspan="2" align=right |'''45'''|| rowspan="2" |[[Birao]] <ref name="TuTiempo"/>|| rowspan="2" |[[22 March]] [[1985]] |
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| align=right |<span style="color:gray;">{{ref|reference_name_†50|†50}}4.3</span>||[[Yalinga]] <ref name="GSOD"/>|| align=right |600||[[27 December]] [[1983]] |
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|{{EQG}} |
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||8||[[Valle_de_Moka|Valle de Moka]] ''[[Bioko]]'' <ref name="EQG">[http://www.angelfire.com/sk2/guineaecuatorial/enciclo.html Isla de Bioko], La Web Cultural de Guinea Ecuatorial. Retrieved 24 February 2007.</ref>|| |
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||35.3||[[Malabo]] ''[[Bioko]]'' <ref name="INM"/>||[[18 February]] [[1957]] |
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|{{ERI}} |
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| rowspan="2" style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px;"|'''{{flag|Ceuta}}''' ''[[Spain|(Sp.)]]'' |
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||-1.5||[[Asmara]] <ref name="GSOD"><ref>Temperatures as low as -4.0°C reported from [[Asmara]] in [[January]] and [[February]] [[1989]] are probably unreliable.</ref>||[[18 January]] [[1990]] |
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| align=right |'''-0.4'''||[[Monte Hacho]] <ref name="Ceuta">[http://www.aemet.es/es/serviciosclimaticos/datosclimatologicos/efemerides_extremos Valores Extremos], Agencia Estatal de Meteorología (AEMet) (in Spanish; ''Extreme Values''). Retrieved 3 January 2022.</ref>|| align=right |205||[[5 January]] [[1941]] |
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||49.1||[[Nokra]] ''[[Dahlak_Kebir|Dehalak’ Kebir]]'' <ref>This reading is possibly unreliable. 48.0°C has been reported from [[Massawa]].</ref>|| |
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| rowspan="2" align=right |'''40.8'''|| rowspan="2" |[[Ceuta]] <ref name="OGIMET"/>|| rowspan="2" |[[19 July]] [[2023]] |
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| align=right |<span style="color:gray;">{{ref|reference_name_†50|†50}}1.3</span>||[[Ceuta]] <ref name="Ceuta"/>|| ||[[27 January]] [[2005]] |
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|{{ETH}} |
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||-8.0||[[Jimma|Jīma (Jimma)]] ''[[Oromia_Region|Oromia region]]'' <ref>[http://www.ethiomet.gov.et/index.php?Page_No=5&item=3 Climate Data], National Meteorological Agency (NMA), Ethiopia. Retrieved 16 October 2007.</ref><ref>-15°C has been reported from high altitude on the [[Sanetti_Plateau|Sanetti Plateau]] ''[[Oromia_Region|Oromia region]]''.</ref> || |
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||48.9||[[Dallol]] ''[[Afar_Region|Afar region]]'' <ref>[http://wcuvax1.wcu.edu/~strauss/personal/weather/dallolweather.xls Dallol Weather], Bob Strauss, WCU. Retrieved 8 July 2007.</ref>||[[May]] [[1962]] and [[July]] [[1966]] |
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|{{ATF}} ''[[France|(Fr.)]]'' <ref>Data excludes [[Ad%C3%A9lie_Land|Adélie Land]] on the [[Antarctica|Antarctic]] mainland.</ref> |
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| rowspan="2" style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px;"|'''{{CHA}}''' |
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||-9.4||[[Port-aux-Fran%C3%A7ais|Base de Port-aux-Français]] ''[[Kerguelen]]'' <ref name="FR_1953">[http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/cd008A_pdf/00258727.pdf Annales des Services Météorologiques de la France d’Outre-Mer, Année 1953, Ministère la France d’Outre-Mer], NOAA Central Library, Climate Data Imaging Project. Retrieved 5 February 2006.</ref> || [[27 June]] [[1953]] |
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| align=right |'''-5'''||[[Wour_Chad|War (Wour)]] ''[[Tibesti_Region|Tibesti region]]'' <ref>[https://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=Aozou+Wour+Temperature&gws_rd=ssl Anti-Locust Bulletin, Issues 11-21 - Page 16], Google Books Search Engine. Retrieved 31 March 2019.</ref><ref name="CHA">Temperatures are known to reach -10°C on the high plateaux of the [[Tibesti|Tibesti Mountains]]. -6.8°C was recorded at an altitude of 2450 m on the uninhabited [[Trou_au_Natron|Doon Orei (Trou au Natron)]] [[Dormant_volcano|dormant volcano]] in the same range on [[15 January]] [[1967]]. The lowest fully dated temperature is -4.5°C recorded at [[Bardaï,_Chad|Bardāy (Bardaï)]] (elevation 1060 m) in the same region on [[27 December]] [[1966]] and [[27 January]] [[1967]].</ref>|| align=right |765||[[1933]]-[[1934]] |
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||26.4||[[Martin-de-Vivi%C3%A8s|Martin de Viviès]] ''[[Amsterdam_Island|Île Amsterdam]]'' <ref name="KNMI"/>||[[30 January]] [[2005]] |
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| rowspan="2" align=right |'''48'''|| rowspan="2" | [[Faya-Largeau|Faya-Largeau (Faya)]] ''[[Borkou_Region|Birku (Borkou) region]]'' <ref>[https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/sites/hist.phtml?station=FTTY&network=TD__ASOS Data Calendar for Faya-largeau], Iowa Environmental Mesonet, Iowa State University. Retrieved 28 October 2023.</ref><ref>Higher temperatures reported at Faya and [[Ndjamena|Ndjamena (Nijāmīnā)]] are unreliable.</ref>|| rowspan="2" |[[25 May]] [[2023]]<br> [[16 June]] [[2023]] |
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| align=right |<span style="color:gray;">{{ref|reference_name_†50|†50}}-1.3 ||[[Aouzou,_Chad|Awzū (Aouzou)]] ''[[Tibesti_Region|Tibesti region]]'' <ref name="Meteoprog"/><ref name="Meteoprog2"/><ref>The lowest ''recorded'' temperature is 2.5°C at [[Faya-Largeau|Faya-Largeau (Faya)]] ''[[Borkou_Region|Birku (Borkou) region]]'' on [[25 January]] [[2008]].</ref>|| align=right |920 ||[[10 January]] [[1981]]<br> [[3 January]] [[1983]] |
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||10.0||[[Mekambo|Mékambo]] <ref name="GAB">[http://horizon.documentation.ird.fr/exl-doc/pleins_textes/pleins_textes_5/b_fdi_16-17/21243.pdf Géographie et Cartographie du Gabon: Climatologie], Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD). Retrieved 7 March 2007.</ref>||[[30 July]][[1964]] |
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||37.2||[[Mouila]] <ref name="FR_1951"/>||[[28 February]] [[1951]] |
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|{{GAM}} |
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| style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px;"|'''{{COM}}''' |
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||7.2||[[Banjul]] <ref name="Met Off">''Tables of Temperature, Relative Humidity and Precipitation for the World''. Great Britain Meteorological Office (1958-1967).</ref>|| |
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| align=right |'''13.6'''||[[Moroni]] ''[[Ngazidja|Ngazidja (Grande Comore)]]'' <ref>[http://www-wds.worldbank.org/servlet/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2000/11/04/000094946_00102005304296/Rendered/INDEX/multi_page.txt Infrastructure, Eau, Environnement. Etude d'impact sur l'Environnement], The World Bank (in French; ''Infrastructure, Water, Environment. Environmental Impact Assessment''). Retrieved 9 January 2022.</ref>|| ||before [[2000]] |
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||45.1||[[Fatoto]] <ref>[http://www.tutiempo.net/en/Climate/FATOTO/617330.htm Historical Weather: Fatoto, Gambia], El Tiempo. Retrieved 19 March 2007.</ref> ||[[29 April]][[1995]] |
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| align=right |'''36.0'''||[[Hahaya-Aéroport|Hahaya Airport]] ''[[Ngazidja|Ngazidja (Grande Comore)]]'' <ref name="MANZ"/>||[[15 November]] [[2017]]<br> [[23 November]] [[2019]] |
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| rowspan="2" style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px;"|'''{{COD}}''' |
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||8.9||[[Dormaa_Ahenkro|Dormaa-Ahenkro]]||[[9 January]] [[1957]] |
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| align=right |'''-2.8'''||[[Kisanga]] ''[[Haut-Katanga_Province|Haut-Katanga province]]'' <ref>[http://www.kaowarsom.be/documents/BULLETINS_MEDEDELINGEN/1956-6.pdf Présentation du Bulletin climatologique annuel du Congo belge et du Ruanda-Urundi (1955) — Anomalies pluviométriques et valeurs remarquables de quelques éléments du climat, "in:" Bulletin des Séances, Academie Royale des Sciences Coloniales, 1956, 6, pp1231-1248], Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences, Belgium (in French; ''Presentation of the annual climatological bulletin of the Belgian Congo and Ruanda-Urundi (1955) - Pluviometric anomalies and remarkable values of some elements of the climate''). Retrieved 1 March 2021.</ref><ref>Recorded at the Kisanga-Verger (Keyberg) meteorological station, now closed.</ref>|| align=right|1175||[[August]] [[1955]] |
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||43.9||[[Navrongo]] <ref>[http://www.meteo.gov.gh/climatology.html Climatology], Ghana Meteorological Services Department. Retrieved 23 February 2007.</ref>|| |
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| align=right |'''40.6'''|| [[Kulu]] ''[[Bas-Uélé | Bas-Uélé province]]'' <ref name="COD">{{cite book|last=Vandenplas |first=A |authorlink=A Vandenplas |date=1947 |title=La Température au Congo Belge |language=French |trans-title=The temperature in the Belgian Congo |location=Brussels, Belgium |publisher=Ministère des Colonies, Direction de l'Agriculture}}</ref><ref>41.0°C reported at [[Yahila]] ''[[Tshopo|Tshopo province]]'' in [[March]] between [[1931]] and [[1936]] is unreliable.</ref>||[[22 March]] [[1936]] |
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| align=right |<span style="color:gray;">{{ref|reference_name_†50|†50}}6.0</span> ||[[Lubumbashi_International_Airport|Lubumbashi (Luano) Airport]] ''[[Haut-Katanga_Province|Haut-Katanga province]]'' <ref name="KNMI"/>||align=right|1310||[[28 June]] [[2006]] |
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| align=right |<span style="color:gray;">{{ref|reference_name_†50|†50}}39.4</span> ||[[Gemena]] ''[[Sud-Ubangi|Sud-Ubangi province]]'' <ref name="MANZ"/>||[[29 March]] [[2011]] |
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||2.5||[[Bareing]] ''[[Mamou_Region|Mamou region]]'' <ref name="GUI">[http://www.meteo-guinee-conakry.net/DMN/records.htm Quelques Records en Guinée], Météorologie Nationale, République de Guinée. Retrieved 23 February 2007</ref>||[[2 January]] [[1982]] |
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||43.3||[[Bok%C3%A9|Boké]] ''[[Bok%C3%A9_Region|Boké region]]'' <ref name="FR_1951"/><ref>[[Boké]] reported 46.5°C on [[8 March]] [[1938]] but this appears unreliable.</ref>||[[March]] [[1947]] |
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| rowspan="2" style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px;"|'''{{COG}}''' |
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||7.0||[[Farim]] <ref>[http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/cd015_pdf/0031B4B3.pdf Resultados das observações meteorológicas, 1961, Serviço Meteorológico da Guiné], NOAA Central Library, Climate Data Imaging Project. Retrieved 23 February 2007.</ref>||[[31 January]] [[1961]] |
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| align=right |'''8.9'''||[[Sibiti]] <ref name="KNMI"/>|| align=right |530||[[28 July]] [[1954]] |
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||43.6||[[Bafat%C3%A1|Bafatá]] <ref>[http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/cd013_pdf/002EDF28.pdf Resultados das observações meteorológicas, Março de 1969, Serviço Meteorológico da Guiné], NOAA Central Library, Climate Data Imaging Project. Retrieved 23 February 2007.</ref>||[[18 March]] [[1969]] |
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| rowspan="2" align=right |'''39.2'''|| rowspan="2" |[[Mpouya]] <ref name="OGIMET"/><ref>41.0°C reported at [[Ouésso]] in [[March]] [[1950]] and [[April]] [[1950]] is unreliable.</ref>|| rowspan="2" |[[8 March]] [[2011]] |
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| align=right |<span style="color:gray;">{{ref|reference_name_†50|†50}}10.0</span> ||[[Ouésso]] <ref name="MANZ"/>||align=right| 350||[[13 January]] [[2015]] |
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|{{KEN}} |
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||-2.2||[[Chagaik Estate]] ''[[Kericho_District|Kericho district]]'' <ref>[http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=chagaik+estate+lowest&btnG=Search&meta= The Impact of Resource Utilization on the Hydrology of the Mau Hills Forest in Kenya], JSTOR. Retrieved 16 October 2007.</ref><ref>-19°C has been reported at high altitude near the summit of [[Mount_Kenya|Kirinyaga (Mount Kenya)]], and -11°C at 4200m in the [[Teleki_Valley|Teleki Valley]] on the slopes of the mountain.</ref>|| |
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||42.6||[[Wajir]] <ref>[http://www.tutiempo.net/en/Climate/Wajir/636710.htm Historical Weather: Wajir, Kenya], El Tiempo. Retrieved 13 March 2007.</ref>||[[24 February]] [[2007]] |
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| rowspan="3" style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px;"|'''{{DJI}}''' |
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||-20.4||[[Letseng_La_Draai|Letseng-la-Draai (Letseng-la-Terae)]] <ref>[http://www.eld.geo.uu.se/shwg/INQUA%2099%20Excursion%20B3%20Fieldguide.doc Quaternary Periglacial Landforms in the Sani Pass Area, Southern Africa. South African Association of Geomorphologists], Uppsala Universitet. Retrieved 25 April 2007.</ref>||[[12 June]] [[1967]] |
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| rowspan="3" align=right |'''11.0|| rowspan="3" |[[Dikhil]] <ref name="GSOD"/>|| rowspan="3" align=right |490|| rowspan="3" |[[18 December]] [[2010]] |
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||38.4|||[[Maseru]] <ref>41.7°C reported from [[Butha-Buthe]] in [[1927]] is unreliable.</ref>|| |
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| align=right |'''47.3'''||[[Djibouti_(city)| Jībūtī (Djibouti-Serpent)]] <ref name="FR_1951"/><ref>49.5°C reported at the same place in [[July]] [[1934]] and at [[Tadjourah|Tajūrah (Tadjourah)]] in [[July]] [[1951]] are probably unreliable.</ref>||[[July]] [[1915]] |
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| rowspan="2" align=right |<span style="color:gray;">{{ref|reference_name_†50|†50}}47.0</span> ||[[Djibouti–Ambouli_International_Airport| Jībūtī (Djibouti) Airport (Ambouli)]] <ref name="GSOD"/><ref>The first of these dates has also been reported as 46.5°C.</ref>||[[14 July]] [[2009]]<br> [[17 July]] [[2017]] |
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||12.8|| [[Roberts_International_Airport|Roberts International Airport (Robertsfield)]] <ref>Temperatures as low as 10°C are believed to be reached in the [[Wologizi_Mountains|Wologizi Mountains]].</ref><ref>2.2°C reported from [[Sagleipie]] appears unreliable.</ref>|| |
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||40.6||[[Sikombe]] <ref name="LBR">[http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/034/mwr-034-11-0520c.pdf Climatology of Liberia, Monthly Weather Review Vol.34, No.11, p.521.], NOAA Central Library, Climate Data Imaging Project. Retrieved 24 April 2007.</ref><ref>The location of [[Sikombe]] is not known.</ref><ref> 42.8°C reported from [[Sagleipie]] appears unreliable.</ref>||[[February]] [[1905]] |
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|[[Camp Lemonnier|Camp Lemonnier (Ambouli)]] <ref name="GSOD"/>||[[14 July]] [[2009]]<br> [[26 July]] [[2009]] |
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||-9.0||[[Hūn]] <ref name="Dunlop"/>||[[10 January]] [[1938]] |
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||58.0||[[Al_'Aziziyah|Al-'Azīzīyah]] <ref name="Dunlop"/><ref>Temperatures of 55°C or more have not been reliably reported from anywhere in the world in the last 50 years and so this reading must be regarded with suspicion. A more reliable absolute maximum for Libya would be around 50°C. [[Jalo_oasis|Jālū]] recorded 48.9°C on [[30 May]] [[1961]]. </ref> ||[[13 September]] [[1922]] |
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| rowspan="3" style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px;"|'''{{EGY}}''' ''(Africa, excluding [[Sinai Peninsula]])'' |
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||-8.5||[[Nanokely]] ''[[Antananarivo_Province|Antananarivo province]]'' <ref>[http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/cd029_pdf/006B2F7E.pdf Résumé Mensuel du Temps à Madagascar, 1963, Météorologie Nationale], NOAA Central Library, Climate Data Imaging Project. Retrieved 24 February 2007.</ref><ref>[http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/cd029_pdf/006B2F43.pdf Résumé Mensuel du Temps à Madagascar, 1964, Météorologie Nationale], NOAA Central Library, Climate Data Imaging Project. Retrieved 24 February 2007.</ref><ref>-16°C has been reported from high altitude in the [[Andringitra_Mountains|Andringitra Mountains]] ''[[Fianarantsoa_Province|Fianarantsoa province]]'' in [[1995]].</ref>||[[23 July]] [[1963]] and [[August]] [[1964]] |
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| align=right |'''-3.9'''|| [[Dakhla Oasis|ad-Dākhilah (Dakhla Oasis)]] ''[[Al_Wadi_al_Jadid|al-Wādi al-Jadid (New Valley) governorate]]'' <ref name="KNMI"/><ref>The lowest temperatures in Egypt are recorded in the [[Sinai Peninsula]] which is geographically part of Asia, not Africa. For instance, -8.8°C was reported at [[Nakhl|Qal̒at an-Nakhl (Nakhl)]] ''[[Shamal_Sina'|Shamal Sinā̓ (Northern Sinai) governorate]]'' on [[16 January]] [[2008]], and -15°C was recorded at 2600 m on the uninhabited [[Jabal_Zubayr,_Sinai|Jabal Zubayr]], a spur of [[Mount_Catherine|Jabal Katrīnah (Mount Catherine)]] ''[[Janub_Sina'|Janub Sinā’ (Southern Sinai) governorate]]'' on approximately [[13 January]] and [[16 February]] [[1934]].</ref>|| align=right |110|| [[14 January]] [[1966]]<br> [[15 January]] [[1966]] |
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||44.4||[[Behara]] ''[[Toliara_Province|Toliara province]]'' <ref name="Dunlop"/><ref>48.3°C reported from [[Ankazoabo|Ankazoabo Sud]] ''[[Toliara_Province|Toliara province]]'' is unreliable. 46.5°C reported from [[Tranoroa]] ''[[Toliara_Province|Toliara province]]'' in [[November]] [[1936]] is possibly reliable.</ref>||[[20 November]] [[1940]] |
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| align=right |'''50.3'''||[[Kharga_Oasis|al-Khārījah (Kharga Oasis)]] ''[[Al_Wadi_al_Jadid|al-Wādi al-Jadid (New Valley) governorate]]'' <ref>[ftp://ftp.library.noaa.gov/docs.lib/htdocs/rescue/cd006_pdf/001FCBB6.pdf Monthly Weather Report 1961, Ministry of War Meteorological Department, Egypt], NOAA Central Library, Climate Data Imaging Project. Retrieved 8 May 2008.</ref><ref>51.0°C on [[4 July]] [[1918]], and 50.6°C on [[8 June]] [[1932]], both reported at [[Aswan|Aswān]] ''[[Aswan_Governorate|Aswān governorate]]'' are unreliable due to the thermometers (at a height of 1.3 m) being placed too close to the ground.</ref>||[[9 June]] [[1961]] |
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| align=right rowspan="2" |<span style="color:gray;">{{ref|reference_name_†50|†50}}-1.9</span> || rowspan="2" |[[Siwa_Oasis|Sīwah (Siwa Oasis)]] ''[[Matrouh_Governorate|Maṭrūḥ governorate]]'' <ref name="MANZ"/>|| rowspan="2" | || rowspan="2" | [[15 December]] [[1990]] |
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|[[Madeira]] ''[[Portugal|(Port.)]]'' |
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| align=right rowspan="2" |<span style="color:gray;">{{ref|reference_name_†50|†50}}50.0</span> ||[[Luxor|al-Uqṣur (Luxor)]] ''[[Luxor_Governorate|al-Uqṣur (Luxor) governorate]]'' <ref name="GSOD"/>||[[15 May]] [[1991]] |
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||4.4||[[Funchal]] <ref name="Madeira">[http://www.wetter.com/v2/?SID=&LANG=DE&LOC=0226&LOCFROM=&search=1&city=funchal&x=38&y=9 Klimatabelle für Funchal / Madeira], wetter.com. Retrieved 3 December 2007.</ref><ref>-3.9°C has been reported at high altitude on [[Pico_do_Arieiro|Pico de Arieiro (Arieiro Peak)]].</ref>|| |
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||38.5||[[Funchal]] <ref name="Madeira"/><ref>39.4°C reported from [[Funchal]] appears unreliable.</ref>|| |
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||[[Kharga_Oasis|al-Khārījah (Kharga Oasis)]] ''[[Al_Wadi_al_Jadid|al-Wādi al-Jadid (New Valley) governorate]]'' <ref name="GSOD"/>||[[15 May]] [[1991]]<br> [[31 July]] [[2002]] |
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|{{MWI}} |
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||-0.5||[[Lilongwe]] <ref name="MWI"/><ref>-2°C has been reported from [[Mzuzu]].</ref>|| |
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||44.5||[[Makhanga]] <ref name="MWI">Department of Meteorological Services, Malawi</ref>|| |
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|{{MLI}} |
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| rowspan="2" style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px;"|'''{{EQG}}''' |
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||0.5||[[Kidal]] ''[[Kidal_Region|Kidal region]]'' <ref>[http://www.meteomali.net/ Mali météo], Météo Mali. Retrieved 5 November 2007.</ref>||[[1 February]] [[1928]] |
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| rowspan="2" align=right |'''8'''|| rowspan="2" |[[Moka|Valle de Moka]] ''[[Bioko_Sur|Bioko Sur province]]'' <ref>[http://www.angelfire.com/sk2/guineaecuatorial/enciclo.html Isla de Bioko], La Web Cultural de Guinea Ecuatorial (in Spanish; ''Island of Bioko''). Retrieved 3 January 2022.</ref>|| rowspan="2" align=right |1200|| rowspan="2"| |
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||48.8||[[Nioro_du_Sahel|Nioro du Sahel]] ''[[Kayes_Region|Kayes region]]'' <ref name="FR_1951"/><ref>Reports from various places of temperatures exceeding 50°C are believed to be unreliable.</ref>||[[May]] [[1936]] |
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| align=right |'''35.6'''||[[Bata,_Equatorial_Guinea|Bata]] ''[[Litoral_Province_(Equatorial_Guinea)|Litoral province]]'' <ref>[https://www.dwd.de/DWD/klima/beratung/ak/ak_648200_kt.pdf Klimatafel von Bata / Insel Mbini / Äquatorial-Guinea], Deutscher Wetterdienst (in German: ''Climate Table for Bata /Mbini Island / Equatorial Guinea''. Retrieved 27 May 2019.</ref><ref name="EQG">36.5°C reported at [[Malabo]] ''[[Bioko]]'' on [[21 April]] [[2010]] is probably unreliable.</ref>||[[February]]<br> [[1956]]-[[1965]] |
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| align=right |<span style="color:gray;">{{ref|reference_name_†50|†50}}35.5</span>||[[Bata,_Equatorial_Guinea|Bata]] ''[[Litoral_Province_(Equatorial_Guinea)|Litoral province]]'' <ref name="OGIMET"/><ref name="EQG"/>||[[18 March]] [[2015]] |
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|{{MRI}} |
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||6.5||[[Belle_Rive_Mauritius|Belle Rive]] ''[[Quartier-Militaire|Quartier Militaire town]]'' <ref name="MRI">Mauritius Meteorological Services.</ref>||[[20 July]] [[1986]] |
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||37.5||[[Port_Louis|Port Louis]] <ref name="MRI"/>||[[7 February]] [[1975]] |
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|{{MTN}} |
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| rowspan="2" style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px;"|'''{{ERI}}''' |
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||1.0||[[Bir_Moghrein|Bir Moghrein]] ''[[Tiris_Zemmour|Tiris Zemmour region]]'' <ref name="FR_1959"/>||[[December]] [[1946]] |
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| rowspan="2" align=right |'''-4.0'''|| rowspan="2" |[[Asmara_airport|Asmara Airport]] <ref name="GSOD"/>|| rowspan="2" align=right |2325|| rowspan="2" |[[22 January]] [[1989]] |
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| align=right |'''48.0'''||[[Massawa]] <ref name="KNMI"/><ref>49.1°C reported at [[Nokra]] ''[[Nokra_Deset_island|Nokra Desēt island]]'' in the ''[[Dahlak_Archipelago|Dehalak’ (Dahlak) archipelago]]'' in [[September]] [[1938]] is unreliable.</ref>||[[18 August]] [[1960]] |
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| align=right |<span style="color:gray;">{{ref|reference_name_†50|†50}}46.0</span> ||[[Massawa]] <ref name="KNMI"/>||[[15 June]] [[1981]]<br> [[16 June]] [[1981]]<br> |
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|{{MYT}} ''[[France|(Fr)]]'' |
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||15.6|| [[Dzaoudzi_Pamandzi_International_Airport|Dzaoudzi Pamandzi International Airport]] ''[[Pamandzi|Pamandzi Island]]'' <ref name="MYT">[http://www.wetter.com/v2/?SID=&LANG=DE&LOC=0226&LOCFROM=0002&search=1&city=dzaoudzi&x=14&y=9 Klimatabelle für Dzaoudzi-Pamanzi], wetter.com. Retrieved 5 November 2007.</ref>|| |
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||35.0||[[Dzaoudzi_Pamandzi_International_Airport|Dzaoudzi Pamandzi International Airport]] ''[[Pamandzi|Pamandzi Island]]'' <ref name="FR_1952"/><ref name="MYT"/>||[[25 January]] [[1952]] |
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|{{MAR}} |
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| rowspan="2" style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px;"|'''{{SWZ}}''' |
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||-23.9||[[Ifrane|Īfrān (Ifrane)]] ''[[Mekn%C3%A8s-Tafilalet|Meknès-Tafilalt region]]'' <ref>[http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/corporate/library/factsheets/factsheet09.pdf Fact Sheet No. 9 – Weather extremes], Met Office, UK. Retrieved 27 December 2007.</ref>||[[11 February]] [[1935]] |
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| align=right |'''-6.1'''||[[Mbabane]] <ref>[ftp://ftp.library.noaa.gov/docs.lib/htdocs/rescue/cd121_pdf/LSN0599.PDF Report for the Year 1957, Weather Bureau, Department of Transport, Republic of South Africa], NOAA Central Library, Climate Data Imaging Project. Retrieved 7 March 2008.</ref><ref>-6.7°C reported at [[Big_Bend,_Swaziland|Big Bend]] is unreliable for the elevation of 155 m.</ref>|| align=right |1145||[[22 July]] [[1957]] |
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||48.9||[[Al_Massira_Airport|Al-Massira Airport]], [[Agadir|Aghādīr (Agadir)]] ''[[Souss-Massa-Dra|Souss-Massa-Dra region]]'' <ref>[http://www.tutiempo.net/en/Climate/Agadir_Al_Massira/602520.htm Historical Weather: Agadir Al Massira, Morocco], El Tiempo. Retrieved 27 December 2007.</ref><ref>51.7°C reported from [[Agadir|Aghādīr (Agadir)]] ''[[Souss-Massa-Dra|Souss Massa Dra region]]'' on [[17 August]] [[1940]], and 49.0°C reported from [[Marrakech]] ''[[Marrakech-Tensift-El_Haouz|Marrakech-Tensift-El Haouz region]]'' is possibly reliable.</ref>||[[10 July]] [[1994]] |
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| rowspan="2" align=right |'''47.4'''|| rowspan="2" |[[Lavumisa]] <ref>[http://resources.bgs.ac.uk/sadcreports/swaziland1991cidagroundwaterresourcesa.pdf Groundwater Resources of Swaziland (Government of Swaziland, Department of Geological Surveys and Mines)], British Geological Survey. Retrieved 3 January 2022. Archived 23 October 2016.</ref><ref>49.1°C reported at [[Siteki]] between [[1921]] and [[1958]] is unreliable.</ref>|| rowspan="2" |[[January]] [[1951]]-[[1986]] |
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| align=right |<span style="color:gray;">{{ref|reference_name_†50|†50}}-4.5</span> ||[[Mbabane]] <ref>[ftp://ftp.library.noaa.gov/docs.lib/htdocs/rescue/cd125_pdf/LSN0702.PDF Report on Meteorological Data of the Year 1976, Department of Transport, Republic of South Africa], NOAA Central Library, Climate Data Imaging Project. Retrieved 4 June 2018.</ref>||align=right|1145||[[21 June]] [[1976]] |
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|{{MOZ}} |
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||-2.8||[[Mauè]] ''[[Tete_Province|Tete province]]'' <ref name="MOZ">[http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/data_rescue/cd028_pdf0069C74B.pdf Boletim Mensual das Observações Meteorológicas 1956, Organizado Pelo Serviço Meteorológico], NOAA Central Library, Climate Data Imaging Project. Retrieved 29 October 2006.</ref> ||[[17 July]] [[1947]] |
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||47.1||[[Umbelúzi]] ''[[Maputo_Province|Maputo province]]'' <ref name="MOZ"/><ref>Temperatures between 48°C and 49°C reported from various places in [[Mozambique]] between [[1940]] and [[1955]] are believed to be unreliable.</ref>||[[24 September]] [[1931]] |
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|{{NAM}} |
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| rowspan="2" style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px;"|'''{{ETH}}''' |
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||-10.5||[[Stampriet]] ''[[Hardap_Region|Hardap region]]''|| |
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| rowspan="2" align=right |'''-8'''|| rowspan="2" |[[Debre Birhan]] ''[[Amhara_Region|Amhara region]]'' <ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20160304034133/http://www.ethiomet.gov.et/bulletins/bulletin_viewer/annual_climatic_bulletins/348/2013_Annual_Bulletin/en 2013 Annual Bulletin], National Meteorology Agency. Retrieved 3 January 2022. Archived 4 March 2016.</ref><ref>Also on earlier dates at the same place. -8.0°C reported at [[Jimma|Jīma (Jimma)]] ''[[Oromia_Region|Oromia region]]'' is probably unreliable. -15°C has been reported at high altitude on the [[Sanetti_Plateau|Sanetti Plateau]] in the Oromia region.</ref>|| rowspan="2" align=right |2300|| rowspan="2" | [[10 December]] [[2013]] |
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||47.8||[[Noordoewer]] ''[[Karas_Region|Karas region]]''|| |
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| align=right |'''48.9'''||[[Dallol]] ''[[Afar_Region|Afar region]]'' <ref>{{cite journal |
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| last = Pedgley |
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| first = DE |
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| authorlink = DE Pedgley |
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| title = Air Temperature at Dallol, Ethiopia. |
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| url = https://digital.nmla.metoffice.gov.uk |
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| journal = Meteorological Magazine |
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| publisher= Met Office |
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| volume = 97 |
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| pages = 265-271 |
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| date = 1967 }} |
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</ref>||[[May]] [[1962]]<br> [[July]] [[1966]] |
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| align=right |<span style="color:gray;">{{ref|reference_name_†50|†50}}48.6</span> ||[[Elidar]] ''[[Afar_Region|Afar region]]'' <ref>[http://www.ethiomet.gov.et/bulletins/annual_climatic_bulletins Annual Climate Bulletin for the Year 2019], National Meteorological Agency, Ethiopia. Retrieved 13 February 2021.</ref>||[[28 August]] [[2019]] |
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|{{NIG}} |
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||-3.0||[[Bilma]] ''[[Agadez_%28department%29|Agadez department]]'' <ref name="FR_1951"/>||[[January]] [[1937]] |
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||48.5||[[Tillab%C3%A9ri|Tillabéri]] ''[[Tillab%C3%A9ri_%28department%29|Tillabéri department]]'' <ref name="FR_1951"/>||[[May]] [[1939]] |
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|{{NGA}} |
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| style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px;"|'''{{ATF}}''' ''[[France|(Fr.)]]'' {{ref|reference_name_†O|†O}} <ref>Data excludes territory below 60°S as defined by the [[Antarctic Treaty]], thus excludes [[Adélie Land]] on the [[Antarctica|Antarctic]] mainland.</ref> |
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||4.4||[[Jos]] ''[[Plateau_ state|Plateau state]]'' <ref>[http://www.wetter.com/v2/?SID=&LANG=DE&LOC=0226&LOCFROM=&id_city=651340 Klimatabelle für Jos], wetter.com. Retrieved 3 December 2007.</ref>|| |
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| align=right |'''-9.5'''||[[Port-aux-Français]] ''[[Kerguelen]]'' <ref name="POLAR">[https://data.europeanpolarboard.org/stations/?no_cache=1&tx_infradatabase_stations%5Bcode%5D=CO1106&tx_infradatabase_stations%5Baction%5D=mapstationinfo&tx_infradatabase_stations%5Bcontroller%5D=Frontend&cHash=e4a1eb1eb08abe2b6abaa4905c52164b Port aux Français], European Polar Board. Retrieved 7 August 2023.</ref> ||||[[11 August]] [[2014]] |
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||47.2||[[Sokoto]] ''[[Sokoto_State|Sokoto state]]'' <ref name="MeteoFrance"/> and [[Hadejia]] ''[[Jigawa_State|Jigawa state]]'' <ref>48.9°C reported from [[Dumjeri]] (near [[Kukawa]]) ''[[Borno_State|Borno state]]''on [[26 April]] [[1906]] is probably unreliable.</ref>|| |
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| align=right |'''36.0'''||[[La Goulette]] [[Juan_de_Nova_Island|Juan de Nova Island (Île Juan de Nova)]] <ref name="JuandeNova">[https://www.infoclimat.fr/observations-meteo/archives/20/janvier/2021/ile-juan-de-nova-station-la-goulette/61970.html Ile Juan De Nova - Station La Goulette], InfoClimat (in French). Retrieved 22 January 2023.</ref>||[[20 January]] [[2021]] |
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|{{REU}} ''[[France|(Fr)]]'' |
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| rowspan="2" style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px; text-align: right;"|{{flagicon|French Southern and Antarctic Lands}} [[Île_Amsterdam|Amsterdam Island]] and [[Île_Saint-Paul|Saint Paul Island]] [[Île_Amsterdam|(Îles Saint Paul et Amsterdam)]] |
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||-4.0||[[Plaine_des_Cafres|La-Plaine-des-Cafres]]|| [[21 August]] [[1956]] |
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| align=right |1.8||[[Martin-de-Viviès]] ''[[Amsterdam_Island|Amsterdam Island (Île Amsterdam)]]'' <ref>[http://www.discoverfrance.net/Colonies/St-Paul_Amsterdam3.shtml St-Paul & Amsterdam Islands, Part 3], Discover France! Retrieved 3 January 2022.</ref><ref>The date is believed to be correct.</ref>||||[[31 July]] [[1964]] |
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||36.9||[[Le_Port,_R%C3%A9union|Le Port]] <ref>[http://www.temoignages.re/article.php3?id_article=3886 2003, année record pour les températures à La Réunion], Témoignages. Retrieved 23 February 2007.</ref> ||[[25 February]] [[2003]] |
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| rowspan="2" align=right |26.4|| rowspan="2" |[[Martin-de-Viviès]] ''[[Amsterdam_Island|Amsterdam Island (Île Amsterdam)]]'' <ref name="GSOD"/>|| rowspan="2" |[[30 January]] [[2005]] |
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| align=right |<span style="color:gray;">{{ref|reference_name_†50|†50}}2.8</span> ||[[Martin-de-Viviès]] ''[[Amsterdam_Island|Amsterdam Island (Île Amsterdam)]]'' <ref name="GSOD"/>|| ||[[14 August]] [[1995]] |
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|{{RWA}} |
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||7.0||[[Ruasa]] [[Lake_Ruhondo|(Lake Ruhondo)]] <ref>[http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/cd013_pdf/003EF8F6.pdf Mitteilungen aus den Deutschen Schutzgebieten, Wissenschaftliche Beihefte zum Deutschen Kolonialblatte], NOAA Central Library, Climate Data Imaging Project. Retrieved 22 April 2007.</ref>||[[August]] [[1909]] |
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||35.4||[[Kigali]] <ref>[http://www.rwandagateway.org/article.php3?id_article=5711 Rwanda’s perspective on global warming], Rwanda Development Gateway. Retrieved 14 July 2007.</ref><ref>This reading is possibly unreliable. 33.9°C has been reported from [[Colline_Bigutu|Colline Bigutu]]. Temperatures are believed to approach 38°C in the [[Nyagatare_(district)|Nyagatare]] and [[Bugesera]] districts.</ref>||[[2005]] |
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|{{SHN}} ''[[United_Kingdom|(UK)]]'' |
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| style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px; text-align: right;"| {{flagicon|French Southern and Antarctic Lands}} [[Bassas da India]] |
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||-2.7||[[Gough_Island|Gough Island]] <ref name="KNMI"/>||[[29 August]] [[1967]] |
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| align=right |15||<ref name="Est">Estimated. No data are known to exist.</ref>|||| |
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||35.0||[[Georgetown%2C_Ascension_Island|Georgetown]] ''[[Ascension_Island|Ascension]]'' <ref name="MeteoFrance"/>|| |
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| align=right |34||<ref name="Est"/>|| |
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|{{STP}} |
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| style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px; text-align: right;"| {{flagicon|French Southern and Antarctic Lands}} [[Crozet_Islands|Crozet Islands (Archipel Crozet)]] |
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||8.7||[[Roça]], [[Monte_Caf%C3%A9%2C_S%C3%A3o_Tom%C3%A9_and_Pr%C3%ADncipe|Monte Café]] ''[[S%C3%A3o_Tom%C3%A9_Island|São Tomé]]'' <ref>[http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/cd032_pdf/006F5CC2.pdf Anais Meteorológicos das Colónias Relativos a 1942], NOAA Central Library, Climate Data Imaging Project. Retrieved 25 January 2007.</ref><ref>5°C has been reported at high altitude on [[S%C3%A3o_Tom%C3%A9_Island|São Tomé]].</ref>|| |
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| align=right |-6.6||[[Alfred_Faure|Alfred-Faure]] ''[[Île_de_la_Possession_(Crozet)|Possession Island (Île de la Possession)]]'' <ref>[http://www.infoclimat.fr/climatologie/annee/2006/ile-de-la-possession-alfred-faure/valeurs/61997.html Climatologie de l'année 2006 à Île de la Possession - Alfred Faure], Infoclimat (in French; ''Climatology of Possession Island (Alfred-Faure), 2006''). Retrieved 3 January 2022.</ref>||||[[6 September]] [[2006]] |
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||36||[[S%C3%A3o_Tom%C3%A9|São Tomé]] ''[[S%C3%A3o_Tom%C3%A9_Island|São Tomé]]''|| various dates |
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| align=right |23.6||[[Alfred_Faure|Alfred-Faure]] ''[[Île_de_la_Possession_(Crozet)|Possession Island (Île de la Possession)]]'' <ref>[http://www.infoclimat.fr/climatologie/annee/1997/ile-de-la-possession-alfred-faure/valeurs/61997.html Climatologie de l'année 1997 à Île de la Possession - Alfred Faure], Infoclimat (in French; ''Climatology of Possession Island (Alfred-Faure), 1997''). Retrieved 3 January 2022.</ref>||[[9 January]] [[1997]] |
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|{{SEN}} |
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| style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px; text-align: right;"| {{flagicon|French Southern and Antarctic Lands}} [[Europa_Island|Europa Island (Île Europa)]] |
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||4.2||[[Diourbel]] <ref name="FR_1951"/>||[[January]] [[1947]] |
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| align=right |13.8||[[Station des Rosiers]] <ref>[http://www.infoclimat.fr/climatologie/annee/1984/ile-europa/valeurs/61972.html Climatologie de l'année 1984 à Ile Europa], InfoClimat (in French; ''Climatology of Europa Island, 1984''). Retrieved 3 January 2022.</ref><ref>[http://www.infoclimat.fr/climatologie/annee/1985/ile-europa/valeurs/61972.html Climatologie de l'année 1985 à Ile Europa], InfoClimat (in French; ''Climatology of Europa Island, 1985''). Retrieved 3 January 2022.</ref><ref>Lower temperatures reported from the island do not appear reliable.</ref>||||[[22 August]] [[1984]]<br> [[22 July]] [[1985]] |
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||48.8||[[Matam]] <ref>[http://www.tutiempo.net/en/Climate/Matam/616300.htm Historical Weather: Matam, Senegal], El Tiempo. Retrieved 29 April 2007.</ref>||[[26 May]] [[1993]] |
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| align=right |'''35.6'''||[[Station des Rosiers]] <ref name="MANZ"/><ref>35.8°C was possibly recorded on [[29 January 1981]] at the same place.</ref>||[[12 November]] [[2011]] |
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|{{SEY}} |
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| rowspan="2" style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px; text-align: right;"| {{flagicon|French Southern and Antarctic Lands}} [[Glorioso_Islands|Glorioso Islands (Îles Glorieuses)]] |
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||19.4||[[Victoria%2C_Seychelles|Port Victoria]] ''[[Mah%C3%A9%2C_Seychelles|Mahé]]'' <ref name="MeteoFrance"/>|| |
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| align=right |15.9||[[Gérard Martin]] ''[[Grande Glorieuse]]'' <ref>An unconfirmed 15.0°C (date unknown) has been reported from the island.</ref>||||[[26 July]] [[1971]] |
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||36.3||[[Aldabra]] <ref name="Farrow">Farrow, G.E. (1971). The Climate of Aldabra Atoll. Phil. Trans. Royal Soc. London, Ser B, Biological Sciences Vol 260, No 836, pp67-91. </ref>|| |
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| rowspan="2" align=right |35.1|| rowspan="2" |[[Gérard Martin]] ''[[Grande Glorieuse]]'' <ref name="KNMI"/>|| rowspan="2" |[[16 March]] [[1987]] |
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| align=right |<span style="color:gray;">{{ref|reference_name_†50|†50}}16.8</span> ||[[Gérard Martin]] ''[[Grande Glorieuse]]'' <ref>[https://www.infoclimat.fr/climatologie/annee/2001/iles-glorieuses-station-gerard-martin/valeurs/61968.html Climatologie de l'année 2001 à Iles Glorieuses, Station Gérard Martin], Infoclimat (in French; ''Climatology of the Glorioso Islands, Station Gérard Martin, 2001''). Retrieved 8 January 2022.</ref><ref>[https://www.infoclimat.fr/climatologie/annee/2013/iles-glorieuses-station-gerard-martin/valeurs/61968.html Climatologie de l'année 2013 à Iles Glorieuses, Station Gérard Martin], Infoclimat (in French; ''Climatology of the Glorioso Islands, Station Station Gérard Martin, 2013''). Retrieved 8 January 2022.</ref>|| ||[[18 July]] [[2001]]<br> [[8 July]] [[2013]] |
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|{{SLE}} |
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||9.0||[[Makeni]] <ref name="SLE">[http://www.wetter.com/v2/?SID=&LANG=DE&LOC=0226&LOCFROM=0002&id_city=618730 Klimadatenbank - Klimatabelle für Makene], wetter.com. Retrieved 16 July 2007.</ref><ref>4.4°C reported from [[Musaia]] appears unreliable.</ref>|| |
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||39.5||[[Makeni]] <ref name="SLE"/><ref>43.9°C reported from [[Kabala]] and 40.0°C from [[Musaia]] appear unreliable.</ref>|| |
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| style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px; text-align: right;"| {{flagicon|French Southern and Antarctic Lands}} [[Juan_de_Nova_Island|Juan de Nova Island (Île Juan de Nova)]] |
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||2.8||[[Hargeisa|Hargeysa]] <ref>[http://www.wetter.com/v2/?SID=&LANG=DE&LOC=0226&LOCFROM=&id_city=631700 Klimatabelle für Hargeysa], wetter.com. Retrieved 4 December 2007.</ref><ref>-3.3°C reported from [[Ceerigaabo|Ceerigaabo (Erigavo)]] is probably unreliable, although temperatures are believed to fall below 0°C in the northern highland areas.</ref>|| |
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| align=right |18.2||[[La Goulette]] <ref>[http://www.infoclimat.fr/climatologie/annee/2011/ile-juan-de-nova/valeurs/61970.html Climatologie de l'année 2011 à Ile Juan De Nova], InfoClimat (in French; ''Climatology of Juan de Nova Island, 2011''). Retrieved 3 January 2022.</ref><ref>Temperatures as low as 17.6°C have been reported but none appear reliable.</ref>||||[[26 July]] [[2011]] |
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| align=right |36.0||[[La Goulette]] <ref name="JuandeNova"/>||[[20 January]] [[2021]] |
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|{{RSA}} |
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| style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px; text-align: right;"| {{flagicon|French Southern and Antarctic Lands}} [[Kerguelen_Islands|Kerguelen Islands (Archipel des Kerguelen)]] |
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||-18.6||[[Buffelsfontein]] ''[[Eastern_Cape|Eastern Cape province]]'' <ref>[http://www.dispatch.co.za/2005/07/02/editoria/chiel.html The Chiel], The Daily Dispatch. Retrieved 16 July 2007.</ref>||[[28 June]] [[1996]] |
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| align=right |-9.5||[[Port-aux-Français]] ''[[Kerguelen#Grande_Terre|La Grande Terre]]'' <ref name="POLAR"/>||||[[11 August]] [[2014]] |
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||48.8||[[Vioolsdrif]] ''[[Northern_Cape|Northern Cape province]]'' <ref>Higher temperatures up to 51.6°C have been reported in [[South_Africa|South Africa]] but none are believed to be reliable.</ref> ||[[January]] [[1993]] |
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| align=right |25.8||[[Port-aux-Français]] ''[[Kerguelen#Grande_Terre|La Grande Terre]]'' <ref name="POLAR"/>||[[23 January]] [[1994]] |
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| rowspan="2" style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px; text-align: right;"| {{flagicon|French Southern and Antarctic Lands}} [[Tromelin_Island|Tromelin Island (Île Tromelin)]] |
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||-1||[[Zalingei]] ''[[West_Darfur|Gharb Darfor (West Darfur) state]]'' <ref>[http://www.fao.org/ag/AGP/AGPC/doc/counprof/sudan/sudan.htm Country Pasture Forage Resource Profiles, Sudan], Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Retrieved 27 July 2007.</ref><ref>-2.0°C reported from [[Wadi_Halfa|Wādī Ḥalfā]] ''[[Northern%2C_Sudan|Ash-Shamaliyah (Northern) state]]'' on |
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| align=right |17.4||[[Tromelin_Island|Serge-Frolow]] <ref>[https://donneespubliques.meteofrance.fr/FichesClim/FICHECLIM_98403004.pdf Fiche Climatologique: Tromelin (984)], Meteo France (in French; ''Climatological Data: Tromelin (984)''). Retrieved 3 January 2022.</ref>||||[[12 July]] [[1964]] |
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[[26 December]] [[1917]] is probably unreliable.</ref>||[[December]] [[1961]] and [[January]] [[1962]] |
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| rowspan="2" align=right |35.5|| rowspan="2"|[[Tromelin_Island|Serge-Frolow]] <ref name="OGIMET"/>|| rowspan="2" |[[4 January]] [[2024]] |
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||49.5||[[Tokar|Ţawkar]] ([[Tokar]]) ''[[Red_Sea%2C_Sudan|Al-Bahr Al-Ahmar (Red Sea) state]]'' <ref>[http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/cd005_pdf/002254D1.pdf Meteorological Report for the Year 1917], Ministry of Public Works, Egypt. Retrieved 25 April 2007.</ref><ref>Temperatures up to 54°C reported in [[Sudan]] are unreliable. 49.5°C was also reported from [[Abu_Hamed|Abu Hamed]] ''[[River_Nile%2C_Sudan|Nahr an-Nil (River Nile) state]]'' on [[27 July]] [[1987]] but this is probably unreliable. 49.7°C may have been recorded at [[Dongola]] ''[[Northern%2C_Sudan|Ash-Shamaliyah (Northern) state]]''.</ref>|| [[9 July]] [[1917]] |
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| align=right |<span style="color:gray;">{{ref|reference_name_†50|†50}}18.5</span> ||[[Tromelin_Island|Serge-Frolow]] <ref name="GSOD"/>|| ||[[23 July]] [[1992]] |
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|{{SWZ}} |
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||-6.1||[[Mbabane]] <ref>[http://www.wetter.com/v2/?SID=&LANG=DE&LOC=0226&LOCFROM=0002&id_city=680015 Klimatabelle für Mbabane], wetter.com. Retrieved 25 October 2007.</ref>|| |
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||46.0||[[Sidvokodvo]] ([[Dearn]]) <ref>[http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/cd121_pdf/LSN0599.PDF Report for the Years 1931-1932, Union of South Africa Meteorological Office], NOAA Central Library, Climate Data Imaging Project. Retrieved 27 March 2007.</ref>||[[September]] [[1931]] |
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|{{TAN}} |
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| rowspan="2" style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px;"|'''{{GAB}}''' |
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||-2.1||[[Shume|Shume (Neu-Hornow)]] ''[[Tanga_Region|Tanga region]]'' <ref>[http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/cd013_pdf/003EF882.pdf Mitteilungen aus den Deutschen Schutzgebieten, Wissenschaftliche Beihefte zum Deutschen Kolonialblatte], NOAA Central Library, Climate Data Imaging Project. Retrieved 21 April 2007.</ref><ref>-22°C has been reported from high altitude on the summit of [[Kilimanjaro]].</ref>||[[September]] [[1907]] |
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| align=right |'''10.0'''||[[Mékambo]] <ref name="KNMI"/>|| align=right |545||[[30 July]] [[1964]] |
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||39.4||[[Zanzibar_International_Airport|Zanzibar (Kisauni) International Airport]] ''[[Zanzibar_Urban/West_Region|Zanzibar Urban/West region]]'' <ref>[http://www.tutiempo.net/en/Climate/Zanzibar_Kisauni/638700.htm Historical Weather: Zanzibar / Kisauni, Tanzania], El Tiempo. Retrieved 22 July 2007.</ref><ref>39.8°C may have been recorded in the [[Dodoma_Region|Dodoma Region]] on [[10 February]] [[1999]].</ref>||[[27 February]] [[2007]] |
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| rowspan="2" align=right |'''37.5'''|| rowspan="2" |[[Tchibanga]] <ref name="OGIMET"/>|| rowspan="2" |[[6 May]] [[2008]] |
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| align=right |<span style="color:gray;">{{ref|reference_name_†50|†50}}11.6</span> ||[[Mékambo]] <ref name="KNMI"/>|| align=right |545||[[6 July]] [[1974]] |
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| rowspan="2" | {{TOG}} |
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| rowspan="2" |9.8|| rowspan="2" | [[Palimé|Palimé (Kpalimé)]] <ref>[http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/cd013_pdf/0040C206.pdf Mitteilungen aus den deutschen Schutzgebieten, Fünfundzwanzigster Band, 1912], NOAA Central Library, Climate Data Imaging Project. Retrieved 16 July 2007.</ref><ref>8°C reported from [[Sokod%C3%A9|Sokodé]] may not be reliable.</ref> || rowspan="2" |[[January]] [[1911]] |
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| rowspan="2" |44.4||[[Sansanne_Mango|Sansanné-Mango]] <ref name="FR_1959"/>||[[March]] [[1947]] |
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||[[Sansanne_Mango|Sansanné-Mango]] <ref>[http://www.tutiempo.net/en/Climate/Mango/653520.htm Historical Weather: Mango, Togo], El Tiempo. Retrieved 17 February 2007.</ref>||[[1 April]] [[1992]] |
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|rowspan="2" style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px;"|'''{{GAM}}''' |
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| align=right |'''7.2'''||[[Yundum_International_Airport|Banjul Airport (Yundum)]] <ref>[https://dap.ceda.ac.uk/badc/corral/images/metobs/africa/Gambia/Yundum1945-9/Capture_00057.JPG Meteorological Register. Weather of the Day, Yundum, Gambia. January 1947. Air Ministry, Meteorological Office], Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA). Retrieved 28 April 2021.</ref><ref>Unconfirmed temperatures below 5°C have been reported at inland stations.</ref>|| ||[[12 January]] [[1947]] |
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| align=right rowspan="2"|'''46.8'''||[[Jenoi]] <ref>[ftp://ftp.risoe.dk/pub/sys/maxtemp.xls Max Temp (oC)], Danmarks Tekniske Universitet, Risø. Retrieved 20 June 2014. {{Dead link|date=June 2017}}.</ref>||[[14 April]] [[2000]] |
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| align=right |<span style="color:gray;">{{ref|reference_name_†50|†50}}8.6</span> ||[[Janjanbureh,_Gambia|Janjanbureh (Georgetown)]] <ref name="MANZ"/>|| || [[30 December]] [[2014]] |
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|{{TUN}} |
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||[[Kuntaur]] <ref name="MANZ">[http://www.meteomanz.com/index?l=1 MeteoManz], MeteoManz.com. Retrieved 28 December 2023.</ref>||[[14 May]] [[2002]] |
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||-9.0||[[Fort-Saint|Burj al-Haṭṭabah (Fort-Saint)]] <ref name="Dunlop">McWhirter, Norris and Ross McWhirter (1969). ''Dunlop Illustrated Encyclopedia of Facts''. Doubleday. ISBN 0385011199.</ref>||[[22 December]] [[1940]] |
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||50.1||[[El_Borma|Al-Burmah (El Borma)]] <ref>[http://www.tutiempo.net/en/Climate/El_Borma/607800.htm Historical Weather: El Borma, Tunisia], El Tiempo. Retrieved 25 April 2007.</ref><ref>Temperatures up to 55°C have been reported from the desert areas of [[Tunisia]] but these are believed to be unreliable.</ref>||[[26 July]] [[2005]] |
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|{{UGA}} |
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| rowspan="2" style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px;"|'''{{GHA}}''' |
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||2.8||[[Kabale]] <ref>[http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/cd033_pdf/00731B0B.pdf Meteorological Observations, 1936], NOAA Central Library, Climate Data Imaging Project. Retrieved 6 August 2007.</ref> <ref>-7.7°C has been reported at high altitude on [[Ruwenzori]].</ref>||[[15 August]] [[1936]] |
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| align=right |'''6.7'''||[[Bui,_Ghana|Bui]] <ref>[https://books.google.com.au/books?redir_esc=y&id=PCoUAAAAIAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=temperature Ghana Year Book, 1963], Google Books. Retrieved 23 January 2023.</ref>|| align=right |250||before [[1963]] |
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||39.4||[[Kitgum]] <ref>[http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/cd032_pdf/006D25C3.pdf Summary of Meteorological Observations for 1953. Part III: Uganda, East African Meteorological Department], NOAA Central Library, Climate Data Imaging Project. Retrieved 25 April 2007.</ref><ref>40.1°C reported at [[Soroti]] on [[5 February]] and [[6 February]] [[1949]] is unreliable.</ref>||[[15 March]] [[1953]] |
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| rowspan="2" align=right |'''44.2'''|| rowspan="2" |[[Navrongo]] <ref>[https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/archive/arc0216/0253808/1.1/data/0-data/Region-1-WMO-Normals-9120/Ghana/CSV/Navrongo_65401.csv WMO Normals 1991-2020, Navrongo (Station 65401)], NOAA. Retrieved 17 December 2023.</ref><ref>45.0°C reported on [[8 April]] [[2021]] at Navrongo is probably unreliable. 44.2°C reported on [[17 April]] [[2006]] at Navrongo is probably reliable.</ref><ref>The date (19th) is believed to be correct.</ref>|| rowspan="2" | [[19 April]] [[2010]] |
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| align=right |<span style="color:gray;">{{ref|reference_name_†50|†50}}9.5</span> ||[[Bole,_Ghana|Bole]] <ref>[https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/archive/arc0216/0253808/1.1/data/0-data/Region-1-WMO-Normals-9120/Ghana/CSV/Bole_65416.csv WMO Normals 1991-2020, Bole (Station 65416)], NOAA. Retrieved 17 December 2023.</ref>||align=right|300||[[November]] [[2006]] |
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|{{ESH}} ''[[Morocco|(Mor.)]]'' |
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||2.8||[[El_Aai%C3%Ban|Al-`Ayūn (El-Aaiún)]] <ref>[http://www.weatherbase.com/weather/weather.php3?s=33006&refer= El Aaiun, Western Sahara], Weatherbase. Retrieved 3 December 2007.</ref> and [[Semara|S’mārah (Semara)]] || |
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||50.7||[[Semara|S’mārah (Semara)]] <ref name="INM">Instituto Nacional de Meteorología (España)</ref>||[[13 July]] [[1961]] |
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| style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px;"|'''{{GUI}}''' |
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||-8.0||[[Nalisa]] ''[[Western_Province%2C_Zambia|Western province]]'' <ref name="Knox"/>||[[10 July]] [[1898]] |
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| align=right |'''1.4'''||[[Mali,_Guinea|Mali-ville]] ''[[Labé_Region|Labé region]]'' <ref>[https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/report/83042/guinea-record-cold-snap-destroys-crops-kills-hundreds-animals Record cold snap destroys crops, kills hundreds of animals], The New Humanitarian. Retrieved 11 March 2021.</ref>|| align=right |1530||[[17 January]] - [[26 January]] [[2009]] |
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||42.3||[[Mfuwe]] ''[[Eastern_Province%2C_Zambia|Eastern province]]''||[[17 November]] [[2005]] |
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| align=right |'''45.0'''||[[Koundara]] ''[[Boké_Region|Boké region]]'' <ref name="OGIMET"/><ref>46.5°C reported at [[Boké]] on [[8 March]] [[1938]] is probably unreliable.</ref>||[[28 April]] [[2003]]<br> [[29 March]] [[2017]] |
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|{{ZIM}} |
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| rowspan="2" style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px;"|'''{{GNB}}''' |
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||-9.4||[[Matobo]] ''[[Matabeleland_South|Matabeleland South province]]'' <ref>Griffiths, J.F. (ed.) (1972). Climates of Africa, World Survey of Climatology, Volume 10. Elsevier Amsterdam. ISBN 0444412719.</ref> ||[[29 June]] [[1953]] |
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| align=right |'''7.0'''||[[Farim]] <ref>[ftp://ftp.library.noaa.gov/docs.lib/htdocs/rescue/cd015_pdf/0031B4B3.pdf Resultado das observações meteorológicas, 1961, Serviço Meteorológico da Guiné], NOAA Central Library, Climate Data Imaging Project (in Portuguese; ''Results of meteorological observations, 1961''). Retrieved 23 February 2007.</ref>||||[[31 January]] [[1961]] |
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||45.6||[[Kariba]] ''[[Mashonaland_West|Mashonaland West province]]'' ||[[13 November]] [[1955]] |
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| align=right |'''43.6'''||[[Bafatá]] <ref>[ftp://ftp.library.noaa.gov/docs.lib/htdocs/rescue/cd013_pdf/002EDF28.pdf Resultado das observações meteorológicas, Março de 1969, Serviço Meteorológico da Guiné], NOAA Central Library, Climate Data Imaging Project (in Portuguese; ''Results of meteorological observations, March 1969''). Retrieved 23 February 2007.</ref>||[[18 March]] [[1969]] |
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| align=right |<span style="color:gray;">{{ref|reference_name_†50|†50}}12.0</span> ||[[Bafatá]] <ref name="GSOD"/>|| ||[[14 December]] [[1974]] |
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| align=right |<span style="color:gray;">{{ref|reference_name_†50|†50}}43.5</span> ||[[Bafatá]] <ref name="GSOD"/>||[[1 May]] [[2016]] |
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| style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px;"|'''{{flag|Heard Island and McDonald Islands}}''' ''[[Australia|(Aus.)]]'' |
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| align=right |'''-11.5'''||[[Spit Bay]] ''[[Heard Island]]'' <ref name="OGIMET"/>||||[[23 August]] [[2014]] |
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| align=right |'''26.1'''||[[Spit Bay]] ''[[Heard Island]]'' <ref>[http://www.infoclimat.fr/observations-meteo/archives/1er/mars/2013/heard-island-the-spit/94997.html Heard Island The Spit, Relevés du 01 Mars 2013], Infoclimat (in French; ''Records of 1 March 2013''). Retrieved 4 January 2022.</ref>||[[1 March]] [[2013]] |
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| rowspan="3" style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px;"|'''{{flag|Ivory Coast}}''' |
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| align=right |'''6.0'''||[[Man,_Côte_d'Ivoire|Man]] <ref name="KNMI"/>|| align=right |330||[[10 January]] [[1957]]<br> [[11 January]] [[1957]] |
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| rowspan="3" align=right |'''41.5'''|| rowspan="3" |[[Odienné]] <ref name="KNMI"/>|| rowspan="3" |[[5 February]] [[1998]] |
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| rowspan="2" align=right |<span style="color:gray;">{{ref|reference_name_†50|†50}}8.0</span> ||[[Man,_Côte_d'Ivoire|Man]] <ref name="GSOD"/>||align=right|330||[[23 January]] [[1975]]<br> [[23 January]] [[1976]]<br> [[5 January]] [[1981]] |
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|[[Odienné]] <ref name="GSOD"/>||align=right|420||[[26 December]] [[1978]] |
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| rowspan="2" style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px;"|'''{{KEN}}''' |
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| align=right |'''-3.3'''||[[Ettrick Estate]] (near [[Eldama Ravine]]) <ref>[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=VIVyAAAAMAAJ&dq=Kenya%2C+A+Study+in+Physical+and+Human+Geography&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=ettrick Google Search Engine], Google. (Kenya, A Study in Physical and Human Geography, by Francis F. Ojany and R. B. Ogendo.) Retrieved 4 June 2018.</ref><ref>-13°C has been recorded at 4200 m in the [[Teleki Valley]] on the upper slopes of [[Mount_Kenya|Kirinyaga (Mount Kenya)]], and as low as -20°C has been reported near the summit (elevation close to 5200 m).</ref>|| align=right |2100||before [[1974]] |
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| rowspan="2" align=right |'''42.6'''|| rowspan="2" | [[Wajir]] <ref name="TuTiempo">[https://en.tutiempo.net/climate Global Climate Data], TuTiempo.net. Retrieved 25 May 2018.</ref>|| rowspan="2" | [[24 February]] [[2007]] |
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| align=right |<span style="color:gray;">{{ref|reference_name_†50|†50}}-3</span> ||[[Kinangop_Plateau|South Kinangop Plateau]] <ref>[https://edepot.wur.nl/205784 Climate and Soils of the South Kinangop Plateau of Kenya. Their limitations on land use.], Wageningen University and Research eDepot]. Retrieved 7 January 2024.</ref>||align=right|2500||[[January]] [[1976]] |
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| rowspan="2" style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px;"|'''{{LSO}}''' |
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| align=right |'''-20.4'''||[[Letseng_diamond_mine|Letšeng-la-Draai (Letšeng-la-Terae)]] <ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120207035811/http://www.eld.geo.uu.se/shwg/INQUA%2099%20Excursion%20B3%20Fieldguide.doc Quaternary Periglacial Landforms in the Sani Pass Area, Southern Africa. South African Association of Geomorphologists], Uppsala Universitet. Retrieved 9 January 2022. Archived 7 February 2012.</ref><ref>This reading has also been reported as -21°C.</ref>|| align=right |3050||[[12 June]] [[1967]] |
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| align=right |'''39.4'''||[[Maseru]] <ref>[ftp://ftp.library.noaa.gov/docs.lib/htdocs/rescue/cd122_pdf/LSN0626.PDF Report on Meteorological Data of the Year 1973, Weather Bureau, South Africa], NOAA Central Library, Climate Data Imaging Project. Retrieved 12 February 2012.</ref><ref>41.7°C reported at [[Butha-Buthe]] in [[January ]][[1927]], and 40.6°C reported at [[Hlotse|Hlotse (Leribe)]] in [[December]] [[1944]] are unreliable.</ref>||[[19 January]] [[1973]] |
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| align=right |<span style="color:gray;">{{ref|reference_name_†50|†50}}-16.9</span> ||[[Oxbow, Lesotho|Oxbow]] <ref>[ftp://ftp.library.noaa.gov/docs.lib/htdocs/rescue/cd122_pdf/LSN0624.PDF Report on Meteorological Data of the Year 1975, Department of Transport, Republic of South Africa], NOAA Central Library, Climate Data Imaging Project. Retrieved 4 June 2018.</ref>||align=right|2590||[[24 July]] [[1975]] |
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| align=right |<span style="color:gray;">{{ref|reference_name_†50|†50}}39.4||[[Maseru]] <ref name="Meteoprog"/><ref name="Meteoprog2"/>||[[6 January]] [[2016]] |
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| style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px;" rowspan="3"|'''{{LBR}}''' |
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| rowspan="2" align=right |'''4.4'''|| rowspan="2" | [[Voinjama]] <ref name="LIB">[https://liberiafti.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/sachtler_general-report-on-national-forest-inventory-in-liberia.pdf General Report on National Forest Inventory in Liberia - Technical Report No. 1. German Forestry Mission to Liberia, 1968], Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Retrieved 9 June 2018.</ref><ref>2.2°C reported at [[Sagleipie]] in the 1950’s is of questionable reliability. 3.9°C reported at [[Kesini]] before [[1964]] is possibly reliable.</ref>|| rowspan="2" align=right |550|| rowspan="2" |before [[1969]] |
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| align=right rowspan="2"|'''40.0'''||[[Ganta]] <ref name="LIB"/><ref name="LIB2"/><ref>Temperatures exceeding 41°C reported at [[Tubmanburg|Tubmanburg (Bomi)]] have not been confirmed. 40.6°C reported at [[Sikombe]], inland from [[Greenville,_Liberia|Greenville]] in the early 20th century, and also from [[Sagleipie]] in the 1950’s are of questionable reliability.</ref>|| before [[1969]] |
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||[[Tapeta]] <ref>[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=wb9PAQAAIAAJ&q=tappita+temperature+intitle:"Liberia" Google Search Engine], Google. (Quarterly Statistical Bulletin of Liberia). Retrieved 9 January 2022.</ref><ref name="LIB2"/>||before [[1973]] |
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| align=right |<span style="color:gray;">{{ref|reference_name_†50|†50}}8.1</span>||[[Tokadeh]] <ref name="LIB3">[https://liberia.arcelormittal.com/~/media/Files/A/ArcelorMittal-Liberia/reports-and-presentations/phase-1-esia/vol-3-part-2-1-hydrology-baseline-appendices.pdf Western Range DSO Iron Ore Project Volume 3, Part 2.1: Hydrology Baseline Final Report], ArcelorMittal Liberia Limited. Retrieved 7 May 2019.</ref><ref name="LIB4">No relevant measured data has been found. The value given is an estimate modelled by the [[United Kingdom]] [[Met Office]] based on data from [[Nzérékoré]] ''[[Guinea]]'', 40km to the north of Tokadeh.</ref><ref>The same modelling estimates minimum temperatures of 6.1°C are reached around 1000m on the peaks in the north of the country.</ref>|| align=right |460|| |
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| align=right |<span style="color:gray;">{{ref|reference_name_†50|†50}}38.0</span>||[[Tokadeh]] <ref name="LIB3"/><ref name="LIB4"/>|| |
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| rowspan="2" style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px;"|'''{{LBA}}''' |
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| align=right |'''-9.0'''|| [[Houn|Hūn]] ''[[Jufra_District|al-Jufrah district]]'' <ref name="Dunlop">McWhirter, Norris and Ross McWhirter (1969). ''Dunlop Illustrated Encyclopedia of Facts''. Doubleday. {{ISBN|0385011199}}.</ref><ref>-11°C reported in [[January]] [[1945]] has not been confirmed.</ref>|| align=right |265||[[10 January]] [[1938]] |
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| rowspan="2" align=right |'''50.2'''|| rowspan="2" |[[Zuwarah|Zuwārah (Zuara)]] ''[[Nuqat_al_Khams|Nuqāṭ al-Ḫams district]]'' <ref>[https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/archive/arc0216/0253808/1.1/data/0-data/Region-1-WMO-Normals-9120/Libya/CSV/ZUARA_62007.csv WMO Normals 1991-2020, Zuara (Station 62007)], WMO. NOAA. Retrieved 21 December 2023.</ref><ref>Libyan Meteorological Service</ref><ref>Higher temperatures reported are unreliable. 58.0°C reported at [[Al_'Aziziyah|al-‘Azīzīyah]] on [[13 September]] [[1922]] is a faulty reading and has been rejected by the [[World Meteorological Organization]].</ref>|| rowspan="2" |[[26 June]] [[1995]] |
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| align=right |<span style="color:gray;">{{ref|reference_name_†50|†50}}-8.0</span> ||[[Houn|Hūn]] ''[[Jufrah District|al-Jufrah district]]'' <ref name="GSOD"/>||align=right|265||[[11 January]] [[1981]] |
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| rowspan="2" style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px;"|'''{{MAD}}''' |
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| align=right |'''-8.5'''||[[Nanokely]] ''[[Vakinankaratra|Vakinankaratra region]]'' <ref>[ftp://ftp.library.noaa.gov/docs.lib/htdocs/rescue/cd029_pdf/006B2F7E.pdf Résumé Mensuel du Temps à Madagascar, 1963, Météorologie Nationale], NOAA Central Library, Climate Data Imaging Project (in French; ''Monthly Summary of the Weather of Madagascar, 1963''). Retrieved 24 February 2007.</ref><ref>[ftp://ftp.library.noaa.gov/docs.lib/htdocs/rescue/cd029_pdf/006B2F43.pdf Résumé Mensuel du Temps à Madagascar, 1964, Météorologie Nationale], NOAA Central Library, Climate Data Imaging Project (in French; ''Monthly Summary of the Weather of Madagascar, 1964''). Retrieved 24 February 2007.</ref><ref>-16°C was recorded in the uninhabited [[La Cuvette du Boby]] at an elevation of 2470 m on the [[Andringitra Massif]] ''[[Haute_Matsiatra|Haute Matsiatra region]]'' on [[1 July]] [[1956]]. -8.6°C reported at [[Antsirabe]] ''[[Vakinankaratra|Vakinankaratra region]]'' in [[August]] [[1915]] is unreliable.</ref>|| align=right |2020||[[23 July]] [[1963]]<br> [[August]] [[1964]] |
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| rowspan="2" align=right |'''43.6'''|| rowspan="2" |[[Ejeda]] ''[[Atsimo-Andrefana_Region|Atsimo-Andrefana region]]'' <ref>[http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/natc/mdgnc1.pdf Communication Nationale Initiale de Madagascar], United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (in French; ''First National Communication of Madagascar''). Retrieved 9 January 2022.</ref><ref>Higher temperatures (up to 48.3°C), especially those recorded in the 1930’s and 1940’s are probably unreliable.</ref>|| rowspan="2" |before [[2004]] |
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| align=right |<span style="color:gray;">{{ref|reference_name_†50|†50}}-2.9</span> ||[[Antsirabe]] ''[[Vakinankaratra|Vakinankaratra region]]'' <ref name="KNMI"/>||align=right|1530||[[1 July]] [[1996]] |
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| style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px;"|'''{{flag|Madeira}}''' ''[[Portugal|(Port.)]]'' |
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| align=right |'''1.8'''||[[Camacha]] ''[[Madeira Island]]'' <ref>[https://repositorio.ul.pt/bitstream/10451/581/1/16485_Tese_Raimundo_Quintal.pdf Estudo Fitogeográfico dos Jardins, Parques e Quintas do Concelho do Funchal], Universidade de Lisboa (in Portuguese; ''Phytogeographic Study of the Gardens, Parks and Farms of the Municipality of Funchal''). Retrieved 18 September 2023.</ref><ref>-9.5°C was recorded at an elevation of 1560m on the uninhabited mountain peak [[Bica da Cana]] ''[[Madeira Island]]'' on [[5 March]] [[1993]].</ref> || align=right |680||[[January]] [[1961]]-[[1988]] |
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| align=right |'''39.1'''||[[Quinta Grande]] ''[[Madeira Island]]'' <ref>[https://www.ipma.pt/pt/oclima/extremos.clima/ Extremos climatológicos Portugal], Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera (IPMA) (in Portuguese; ''Climatological Extremes Portugal''). Retrieved 17 September 2023.</ref>||[[27 June]] [[2023]] |
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| style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px;" rowspan="3"|'''{{MWI}}''' |
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| align=right rowspan="3"|'''-6.7'''||rowspan="3"|[[Nyika National Park|Chelinda (Nyika National Park)]] ''[[Rumphi_District|Rumphi district]]'' <ref>[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=SAbKE68l9GIC&pg=PA2&dq=orchids+of+malawi+lowest+temperature+chelinda&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj-6tP4_6biAhXo63MBHRhyAugQuwUILzAA#v=onepage&q=orchids%20of%20malawi%20lowest%20temperature%20chelinda&f=false Orchids of Malaŵi], Google Books Search Engine. Retrieved 19 May 2019.</ref><ref name="MWI">[http://library.wur.nl/isric/fulltext/isricu_i7127_001.pdf A Summary and Review of Monthly Temperature Data in Malaŵi, Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Department of Agricultural Development, Lilongwe], ISRIC World Soil Information Database. Retrieved 18 October 2011. {{Dead link|date=December 2023}}. </ref><ref>Reported as -7°C by the second reference.</ref>||rowspan="3" align=right |2300||rowspan="3"|[[July]] [[1975]] |
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| align=right rowspan="3"|'''46'''||[[Chingala]] ''[[Chikwawa_District|Chikwawa district]]'' <ref name="MWI"/><ref name="MWI2">Higher temperatures reported at [[Nkombedzi wa Fodya]] (near [[Chawuwa]]) ''Chikwawa district'' are unreliable.</ref>||[[November]] [[1969]] |
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||[[Nkate]] (near [[Mbewe]]) ''[[Thyolo_District|Thyolo district]]'' <ref name="MWI"/><ref name="MWI2"/>||[[November]] [[1969]]<br> [[November]] [[1972]] |
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||[[Nsanje]] ''[[Nsanje_District|Nsanje district]]'' <ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20191118180942/https://times.mw/hot-temperature-over-met/ Hot temperature over – Met.], The Times Group, Malawi. Retrieved 30 January 2020. Archived 18 November 2019.</ref>||[[29 October]] [[2019]] |
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| rowspan="2" style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px;"|'''{{MLI}}''' |
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| align=right |'''0.5'''||[[Kidal]] ''[[Kidal_Region|Kidal region]]'' <ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080929063108/http://www.meteomali.net/ Mali météo], Météo Mali (in French; ''Mali meteo[rology]''). Retrieved 10 January 2022. Archived 29 September 2008.</ref>|| align=right |460||[[1 February]] [[1928]] |
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| rowspan="2" align=right |'''48.2'''|| rowspan="2" |[[Gao]] ''[[Gao_Region|Gao region]]'' <ref name="GSOD"/><ref>Higher temperatures, including 54.5°C at [[Timbuktu|Tombouctou (Timbuktu)]] and 54.4°C at [[Araouane|Arawan (Araouane)]], both in the [[Tombouctou_Region|Tombouctou (Timbuktu) region]], and 52.0°C at [[Ménaka]] in the [[Gao_Region|Gao region]] on [[4 May]] [[1934]] are unreliable. 48.8°C reported at [[Nioro du Sahel]] ''[[Kayes_Region|Kayes region]]'' in [[May]] [[1936]], and at Timbuktu on [[14 May]] [[2011]] are also unreliable.</ref>|| rowspan="2" |[[30 May]] [[1988]] |
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| align=right |<span style="color:gray;">{{ref|reference_name_†50|†50}}3.0</span> ||[[Tessalit]] ''[[Kidal_Region|Kidal region]]'' <ref name="KNMI"/>||align=right|235||[[11 January]] [[1976]] |
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| rowspan="2" style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px;"|'''{{MTN}}''' |
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| align=right |'''1.0'''||[[Bir Moghrein|Bī’r Umm Qawayn (Bir Moghrein)]] ''[[Tiris_Zemmour|Tiris Zemmour region]]'' <ref name="KNMI"/><ref>0.0°C reported at the same place on [[16 December]] [[1962]] is probably unreliable.</ref>|| align=right |360||[[27 December]] [[1946]]<br> [[31 December]] [[1946]] |
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| align=right |'''50.0'''||[[Akjoujt|Aqjawajat (Akjoujt)]] ''[[Inchiri|Inchiri region]]'' <ref name="FR_1951"/><ref>Service de Météorologie (Mauritania)</ref>||[[27 July]] [[1939]] |
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| align=right |<span style="color:gray;">{{ref|reference_name_†50|†50}}3.0</span> ||[[Bir Moghrein|Bī’r Umm Qawayn (Bir Moghrein)]] ''[[Tiris_Zemmour|Tiris Zemmour region]]'' <ref name="KNMI"/>|| align=right |360||[[11 January]] [[1976]] |
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|align=right |<span style="color:gray;">{{ref|reference_name_†50|†50}}49.1</span> ||[[Bir Moghrein|Bī’r Umm Qawayn (Bir Moghrein)]] ''[[Tiris_Zemmour|Tiris Zemmour region]]'' <ref name="GSOD"/>||[[6 August]] [[1998]] |
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| style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px;"|'''{{MRI}}''' |
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| align=right |'''6.5'''||[[Quartier_Militaire|Belle Rive]] ''[[Quartier_Militaire|Quartier Militaire town]]'' <ref>Mauritius Meteorological Services.</ref><ref>[http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/natc/maunc1/chap1/chapter1.htm#CLIMATE Initial National Communication of the Republic of Mauritius under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (April 1999). Chapter 1, National Circumstances], Government of Mauritius. Retrieved 12 August 2021.</ref>|| align=right |490||[[20 July]] [[1986]] |
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| align=right |'''36.6'''||[[Constance,_Mauritius|Constance]] <ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20160305002627/http://users.clas.ufl.edu/prwaylen/Mauritius/01_Jan%2009.pdf Monthly Bulletin of Climatological Summaries, January 2009], Mauritius Meteorological Services. Retrieved 10 January 2022. Archived 5 March 2016.</ref><ref>38°C reported at [[Port Louis]] in [[January]] [[1957]], and 37.5°C reported at the same place on [[7 February]] [[1975]] are probably unreliable.</ref>||[[30 January]] [[2009]] |
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| style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px; text-align: right;"|{{flagicon|Mauritius}} [[Agaléga]] |
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| align=right |16.8||[[Agaléga|Agaléga (North Island)]] <ref name="MANZ"/>||||[[4 September]] [[2013]] |
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| align=right |35.7||[[Agaléga|Agaléga (North Island)]] <ref name="MANZ"/>||[[28 December]] [[2023]] |
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| rowspan="2" style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px; text-align: right;"|{{flagicon|Mauritius}} [[Cargados_Carajos|Cargados Carajos Shoals (Saint Brandon Rocks)]] |
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| align=right |15.9||[[Île Raphael]] <ref name="KNMI"/>||||[[22 June]] [[1958]] |
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| rowspan="2" align=right |35.6|| rowspan="2" |[[Île Raphael]] <ref name="GSOD"/><ref>36.1°C reported three times on Île Raphael in [[February]] [[1946]] is probably unreliable.</ref>|| rowspan="2" |[[19 January]] [[2020]] |
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| align=right |<span style="color:gray;">{{ref|reference_name_†50|†50}}16.4</span> ||[[Île Raphael]] <ref name="KNMI"/>||||[[24 July]] [[1980]] |
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| rowspan="2" style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px; text-align: right;"|{{flag|Rodrigues}} |
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| align=right |14.5||[[Port Mathurin|Port Mathurin (Point Canon)]] <ref name="KNMI"/>|| ||[[20 July]] [[1968]] |
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| rowspan="2" align=right |34.1|| rowspan="2" |[[Port Mathurin|Port Mathurin (Point Canon)]] <ref name="OGIMET"/>|| rowspan="2" |[[18 March]] [[2016]] |
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| align=right |<span style="color:gray;">{{ref|reference_name_†50|†50}}15.4</span> ||[[Port Mathurin|Port Mathurin (Point Canon)]] <ref name="KNMI"/>||||[[13 August]] [[1973]]<br> [[14 August]] [[1973]] |
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| style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px;"|'''{{flag|Mayotte|local}}''' ''[[France|(Fr.)]]'' |
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| align=right |'''14.5'''||[[Vahibé|Vahibé Prima]] ''[[Mamoudzou|Mamoudzou commune]]'' <ref name="Mayotte">Etienne Kapikian, MeteoFrance.</ref>|| align=right |190||[[13 July]] [[2010]] |
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| align=right |'''36.4'''||[[Trévani]] ''[[Koungou|Koungou commune]]'' <ref name="Mayotte"/>||[[14 April]] [[2020]] |
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| rowspan="2" style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px;"|'''{{flag|Melilla}}''' ''[[Spain|(Sp.)]]'' |
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| align=right |'''0.0'''||[[Melilla]] <ref name="Melilla">[http://www.tiemposol.com/tiempo-en-melilla-manana56D.htm El Tiempo en la Provincia de Melilla Mañana], tiemposol.com (in Spanish; ''The Weather in the Province of Melilla Tomorrow''). Retrieved 20 January 2022.</ref><ref>An unconfirmed -0.5°C has been reported, date unknown.</ref>||||[[4 February]] [[1907]] |
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| rowspan="2" align=right |'''41.8'''|| rowspan="2" |[[Melilla]] <ref name="Melilla"/>|| rowspan="2" |[[6 July]] [[1994]] |
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| align=right |<span style="color:gray;">{{ref|reference_name_†50|†50}}0.4</span> ||[[Melilla]] <ref name="KNMI"/>|| ||[[27 January]] [[2005]] |
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| rowspan="2" style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px;"|'''{{MAR}}''' |
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| align=right |'''-25.5'''||[[Dayat Hachlaf|Ḍāyat Hashlāf]] ''[[Ifrane_Province|Īfrān (Ifrane) province]]'' <ref>[http://www.sgg.gov.ma/BO/bo_fr/1935/bo_1170_fr.pdf Relevé climatologique du mois de février 1935, Bulletin Officiel, Protectorat de la République Française au Maroc, 29 Mars 1935 No. 1170], Secrétariat Général du Gouvernement, Royaume du Maroc (in French; ''Climatological Record for February 1935''. Retrieved 13 December 2023.</ref><ref>The details given are believed to be correct although the digitisation of the original reference is not completely clear. The same reference also reports -24.5°C at [[Bou Zemou|Būzmū (Bou Zemou)]] ''[[Midelt_Province|Mīdelt province]]'' (elevation 2350 m) on 1 February 1935.</ref><ref>-33.4°C reported at [[Tacheddirt|Tashdīrt (Tacheddirt)|]] ''[[Al_Haouz_Province|al-Ḥawz (Al Haouz) province]]'' (elevation 2330 m) on [[11 December]] [[1934]] is incorrect. -30°C reported in the [[Michlifen|Michlifen Depression]] ''[[Ifrane_Province|Īfrān (Ifrane) province]]'', elevation 1980 m sometime before [[1964]] has not been confirmed.</ref>|| align=right |1760||[[2 February]] [[1935]] |
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| rowspan="2" align=right |'''50.4'''|| rowspan="2" |[[Agadir|ʾAgādīr]] ''[[Agadir-Ida Ou Tanane|ʾAgādīr-'Īda Watanan (Agadir-Ida Ou Tanane) prefecture]]'' <ref name="MAR">[https://lematin.ma/express/2023/records-temperature-maximale-absolue-maroc/393130.html Vague de chaleur: de nouveaux records de température maximale au Maroc], Le Matin (in French; ''Heat wave: New maximum temperature records in Morocco''). Retrieved 24 November 2023.</ref><ref>51.8°C reported at [[Inezgane Airport]] in the same prefecture on [[17 August]] [[1940]] is unreliable.</ref>|| rowspan="2" |[[11 August]] [[2023]] |
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| align=right |<span style="color:gray;">{{ref|reference_name_†50|†50}}-14.4</span>||[[Ifrane|Īfrān (Ifrane)]] ''[[Ifrane_Province|Īfrān (Ifrane) province]]'' <ref>[https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/archive/arc0216/0253808/1.1/data/0-data/Region-1-WMO-Normals-9120/Morocco/CSV/IFRANE_60160.csv WMO Normals 1991-2020, Ifrane (Station 60160)], NOAA. Retrieved 17 December 2023.</ref><ref>-17.5°C was reported at an uninhabited location (elevation 3650 m) near the summit of [[M%27Goun|Jbel Mgun (Jebel M’Goun)]] ''[[Tinghir_Province|Tanghir (Tinghir) province]]'' on [[9 November]] [[2001]].</ref>||align=right|1665||[[28 January]] [[2005]] |
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| rowspan="2" style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px;"|'''{{MOZ}}''' |
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| align=right |'''-2.8'''||[[Máuè]] ''[[Tete_Province|Tete province]]'' <ref name="MOZ">[ftp://ftp.library.noaa.gov/docs.lib/htdocs/rescue/cd036_pdf/00743416.pdf Boletim mensal das observações meteorológicas feitas nos postos da Colónia, 1950, Organizado Pelo Observatório Campos Rodrigues], NOAA Central Library, Climate Data Imaging Project (in Portuguese; ''Monthly bulletin of the meteorological observations made at colonial stations, 1950''). Retrieved 6 September 2015.</ref>|| align=right |1190||[[17 July]] [[1947]] |
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| align=right |'''47.2'''||[[Umbelúzi]] ''[[Maputo_Province|Maputo province]]'' <ref name="MOZ"/><ref>47.3°C reported at [[Chibuto]] ''[[Gaza_Province|Gaza province]]'' on [[12 December]] [[1944]] is probably unreliable, being too high compared to nearby readings on this day. Temperatures as high as 49°C reported at various places between [[1940]] and [[1955]] are believed to be unreliable.</ref>||[[24 September]] [[1931]] |
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| align=right |<span style="color:gray;">{{ref|reference_name_†50|†50}}1.0</span> ||[[Lichinga]] ''[[Niassa_Province|Niassa province]]'' <ref name="KNMI"/>||align=right|1365 ||[[25 July]] [[1990]] |
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| align=right |<span style="color:gray;">{{ref|reference_name_†50|†50}}46.7</span> ||[[Massangena]] ''[[Gaza_Province|Gaza province]]'' <ref name="GSOD"/>||[[28 October]] [[2019]] |
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| style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px;"|'''{{NAM}}''' |
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| align=right |'''-10.5'''||[[Stampriet|Rohrbeck Farm (near Stampriet)]] ''[[Hardap_Region|Hardap region]]'' <ref>[ftp://ftp.library.noaa.gov/docs.lib/htdocs/rescue/cd122_pdf/LSN0623.PDF Report on Meteorological Data of the Year 1974, Department of Transport, Republic of South Africa], NOAA Central Library, Climate Data Imaging Project. Retrieved 4 June 2018.</ref>||align=right|1200||[[2 August]] [[1974]] |
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| align=right |'''47.5'''||[[Noordoewer|Noordoewer area]] ''[[Karas_Region|Karas region]]'' <ref>[https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&q=%22the+highest+of+47.5%22 Namibia Review Volume 1], Google Books Search Engine. Retrieved 9 June 2018.</ref><ref>47.8°C reported from Noordoewer was probably an estimate taken from an actual reading observed at [[Goodhouse]] ([[South Africa]]) on [[20 January]] [[1939]]. The highest fully dated record known is 46.2°C at Noordoewer on [[17 January]] [[2013]].</ref>||[[January]] [[1992]] |
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| style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px;"|'''{{NIG}}''' |
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| align=right |'''-2.4'''||[[Bilma]] ''[[Agadez_Region|Agadez region]]'' <ref name="KNMI"/><ref>-3.0°C reported at [[Bilma]] in [[January]] [[1937]] is unreliable.</ref>|| align=right |355||[[13 January]] [[1995]] |
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| align=right |'''49.0'''||[[Bilma]] ''[[Agadez_Region|Agadez region]]'' <ref name="KNMI"/><ref>49.5°C reported at [[Diffa]] on [[7 September]] [[1978]] is unreliable.</ref>||[[8 June]] [[2016]] |
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| style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px;"|'''{{NGA}}''' |
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| align=right |'''1.1'''|| [[Jos]] ''[[Plateau_State|Plateau state]]'' <ref>[https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/archive/arc0216/0253808/1.1/data/0-data/Region-1-WMO-Normals-9120/Nigeria/CSV/Jos_65134.csv WMO Normals 1961-1990, Jos (Station 65134)], NOAA. Retrieved 21 December 2023.</ref>|| align=right |1295||[[3 January]] [[1995]] |
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| align=right |'''46.4'''||[[Yola,_Nigeria|Yola]] ''[[Adamawa_State|Adamawa state]]'' <ref name="OGIMET"/><ref>47.2°C reported at both [[Sokoto]] and [[Hadejia]] ''[[Jigawa_State|Jigawa state]]'', as well as higher temperatures reported early in the 20th century are believed to be unreliable. More recently, 47.5°C on [[5 June]] [[2009]] and 46.6°C on [[9 March]] [[2010]], both at [[Nguru,_Nigeria|Nguru]] ''[[Yobe_State|Yobe state]]'', and 47.3°C at [[Gusau]] ''[[Zamfara_State|Zamfara state]]'' on [[1 April]] [[2007]] are all believed to be unreliable.</ref>||[[3 April]] [[2010]] |
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| rowspan="2" style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px;"|{{flagicon|South Africa}} '''[[Prince Edward Islands]]''' ''[[South_Africa|(Sth. Afr.)]]'' |
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| align=right |'''-6.5'''||[[Prince_Edward_Islands#Marion Research Station|Transvaal Cove]] ''[[Prince_Edward_Islands|Marion Island]]'' <ref name="KNMI"/>||||[[17 September]] [[1971]] |
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| rowspan="2" align=right |'''25.6'''|| rowspan="2" | [[Prince_Edward_Islands#Marion Research Station|Transvaal Cove]] ''[[Prince_Edward_Islands|Marion Island]]'' <ref name="KNMI"/>|| rowspan="2" |[[8 January]] [[2005]] |
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| align=right |<span style="color:gray;">{{ref|reference_name_†50|†50}}-5.7</span> ||[[Prince_Edward_Islands#Marion Research Station|Transvaal Cove]] ''[[Prince_Edward_Islands|Marion Island]]'' <ref name="KNMI"/>||||[[4 September]] [[2011]]<br> [[5 September]] [[2011]] |
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| style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px;"|'''{{flag|Réunion|local}}''' ''[[France|(Fr.)]]'' |
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| align=right |'''-5.0'''||[[Gîte de Bellecombe]] <ref name="Réunion">[http://www.meteofrance.re/climat/description-du-climat#record La Réunion, Météo et climat], Météo-France (in French; ''Reunion Island, Meteorology and climate''). Retrieved 10 January 2022.</ref><ref>This location is a mountain lodge or refuge. The lowest temperature recorded in a permanently inhabited location is -1.7°C at [[Plaine des Cafres]] (elevation 1560 m) on [[18 August]] [[1988]]. -4.0°C reported from the same place on [[21 August]] [[1956]] is probably unreliable.</ref>|| align=right |2270||[[10 September]] [[1975]] |
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| align=right |'''37.0'''||[[Les Trois-Bassins|Pointe des Trois-Bassins]] <ref name="Réunion"/>||[[25 January]] [[2019]] |
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| style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px;" rowspan="2"|'''{{RWA}}''' |
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| align=right rowspan="2"|'''0.0'''||[[Lake_Ruhondo|Ruhondo (Lake Ruhondo)]] <ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20210811185610/https://library.wur.nl/isric/fulltext/isricu_t4e2d6614_001.pdf Carte pédalogique du Rwanda au 1/50 000 - Gakenke, Ministère des Affaires Étrangères, du Commerce Extérieur et de la Coopération au Développement de Belqique], ISRIC World Soil Information Database (in French; ''Soil Map of Rwanda at 1/50 000 - Gakenke'). Retrieved 10 January 2022. Archived 11 August 2021.</ref>|| align=right |1790||before [[2002]] |
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| align=right|'''35.6'''||[[Kigali_International_Airport|Kigali Airport (Kanombe)]] <ref name="COD"/>||[[August]] [[1937]]-[[1939]] |
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||[[Kinigi]] <ref name="RWA">[https://web.archive.org/web/20160303231942/http://www.eac.int/environment/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_download&gid=180&Itemid=106 Climate Change Master Plan 2011-2031], East African Community. Retrieved 10 January 2022. Archived 3 March 2016.</ref>|| align=right |1695||before [[2012]] |
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| align=right |<span style="color:gray;">{{ref|reference_name_†50|†50}}35.4</span> ||[[Kigali_International_Airport|Kigali Airport (Kanombe)]] <ref name="RWA"/><ref>Rwanda Meteorological Service</ref>||[[22 February]] [[2005]] |
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| rowspan="2" style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px;"|'''{{SHN}}''' ''[[United_Kingdom|(UK)]]'' |
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| align=right |'''-2.7'''||[[Gough_Island#Weather_Station|Transvaal Bay]] ''[[Gough Island]]'' <ref name="KNMI"/>||||[[29 August]] [[1967]] |
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| rowspan="2" align=right |'''34.9'''|| rowspan="2" |[[Georgetown,_Ascension_Island|Georgetown]] ''[[Ascension Island]]'' <ref name="Ascension">[http://www.the-islander.org.ac/art_7543_26_2_1.html Met office Statistics for the week ending Monday 29-Mar-10], The Islander. Retrieved 1 June 2015. {{Dead link|date=January 2022}}</ref><ref name="Ascension2">[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/aug/12/heatwave-record-temperatures-world World feeling the heat as 17 countries experience record temperatures], The Guardian. Retrieved 10 January 2022.</ref><ref name="Ascension3">The date is believed to be correct. 35.0°C reported at [[Ascension_Island_Base|Wideawake Field (RAF Ascension Island)]] on [[17 April]] [[1971]], and similar high temperatures reported at the same site in the early 1970’s are unreliable.</ref>|| rowspan="2" |[[25 March]] [[2010]] |
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| align=right |<span style="color:gray;">{{ref|reference_name_†50|†50}}-1.3</span> ||[[Gough_Island#Weather_Station|Transvaal Bay]] ''[[Gough Island]]'' <ref name="KNMI"/>||||[[8 August]] [[1990]] |
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| style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px; text-align: right;"|{{flag|Ascension Island}} |
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| align=right |14.5||[[Ascension_Island|The Residency]] <ref>[http://www.the-islander.org.ac/oldsite/1551.htm The Islander - Thursday 30th August 2001], The Islander. Retrieved 10 January 2022.</ref><ref>The average minimum temperature recorded in the months of [[August]], [[October]], and [[November]] at [[Green Mountain Farm]] (elevation 660m) between [[1951]] and [[1953]] was 14.5°C. Extreme minimum temperatures are not known, but would likely to have descend to 12°C or possibly lower.</ref>|| align=right |550||[[August]] [[2001]] |
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| align=right |34.9||[[Georgetown,_Ascension_Island|Georgetown]] <ref name="Ascension"/><ref name="Ascension2"/><ref name="Ascension3"/> ||[[25 March]] [[2010]] |
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| rowspan="2" style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px; text-align: right;"| {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} [[Gough Island]] |
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| align=right |-2.7||[[Gough_Island#Weather_Station|Transvaal Bay]] <ref name="KNMI"/>||||[[29 August]] [[1967]] |
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| rowspan="2" align=right |28.6|| rowspan="2" |[[Gough_Island#Weather_Station|Transvaal Bay]] <ref name="KNMI"/><ref>29.0°C reported on [[20 March]] [[2021]] is unreliable.</ref>|| rowspan="2" |[[25 February]] [[1975]] |
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| align=right |<span style="color:gray;">{{ref|reference_name_†50|†50}}-1.3</span> ||[[Gough Island|Transvaal Bay]] <ref name="KNMI"/>||||[[8 August]] [[1990]] |
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| align=right |7.8||[[Saint_Matthew,_Hutt%27s_Gate|Hutt’s Gate]] <ref>[https://dap.ceda.ac.uk/badc/corral/images/metobs/atlantic/ST_HELENA/ST_HELENA2/IMGP9119.JPG Meteorological Observations taken at St Matthews Vicarage, St Helena during July 1898], Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA). Retrieved 28 April 2021.</ref>|| align=right |630||[[4 July]] [[1898]] |
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| align=right |32.8||[[Jamestown,_Saint_Helena|Jamestown]] <ref>[http://sainthelenaisland.info/kitching1947.pdf A Handbook and Gazetteer of the Island of St Helena Including a Short History of the Island Under the Crown 1834-1902], Saint Helena Info. Retrieved 4 September 2023.</ref><ref>33.9°C recorded at Jamestown on [[25 April]] [[1860]] is unreliable, probably resulting from the misreading of a maximum themormeter which also gave an average month maximum temperature in the same month of 33.2°C.</ref>||[[9 March]] [[1891]] |
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| align=right |<span style="color:gray;">{{ref|reference_name_†50|†50}}10.1</span> ||[[Longwood, Saint Helena|Bottom Woods (Longwood)]] <ref>[https://www.infoclimat.fr/climatologie/annee/2010/saint-helena-island/valeurs/61901.html Climatologie de l'année 2010 à Saint Helena Island], InfoClimat. Retrieved 7 January 2024.</ref>||align=right|435||[[19 July]] [[2010]] |
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| align=right |<span style="color:gray;">{{ref|reference_name_†50|†50}}32.4</span> ||[[Jamestown,_Saint_Helena|Jamestown]] <ref>[https://www.sainthelena.gov.sh/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Climate.xlsx Climate], Saint Helena Government. Retrieved 9 April 2019.</ref><ref>Data reported from the station (located at the Jamestown Swimming Pool) in the given reference before [[2005]] is generally unreliable, and occasionally unreliable since that date due to poor quality control. The figure given is believed to be a monthly maximum temperature, not an average monthly maximum temperature as stated in the reference.</ref>||[[April]] [[2014]] |
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| align=right |2.4||[[Edinburgh_of_the_Seven_Seas|Edinburgh of the Seven Seas (The Settlement)]] <ref>[ftp://ftp.library.noaa.gov/docs.lib/htdocs/rescue/cd125_pdf/LSN0697.PDF Report on Meteorological Data of the Year 1961], Republic of South Africa Weather Bureau. Retrieved 16 November 2008.</ref>||||[[22 July]] [[1961]] |
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| rowspan="2" align=right |27.6|| rowspan="2" |[[Edinburgh_of_the_Seven_Seas|Edinburgh of the Seven Seas (The Settlement)]] <ref name="GSOD"/>|| rowspan="2" |[[20 February]] [[2005]] |
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| align=right |<span style="color:gray;">{{ref|reference_name_†50|†50}}4.1</span> ||[[Edinburgh_of_the_Seven_Seas|Edinburgh of the Seven Seas (The Settlement)]] <ref name="GSOD"/>|| ||[[16 July]] [[2003]] |
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| rowspan="2" style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px;"|'''{{STP}}''' |
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| align=right |'''8.7'''||[[Monte_Café,_São_Tomé_and_Príncipe|Monte Café]] ''[[São_Tomé_Island|São Tomé]]'' <ref name="STP">[ftp://ftp.library.noaa.gov/docs.lib/htdocs/rescue/cd032_pdf/006F5CC2.pdf Anais Meteorológicos das Colónias Relativos a 1942, Ministérios das Colónias, Serviço Meteorológico Nacional, Portugal], NOAA Central Library, Climate Data Imaging Project (in Portuguese; ''Meteorological Annals of the Colonies Relating to 1942''). Retrieved 25 January 2007.</ref><ref>[https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbo=p&tbs=bks%3A1&q=Roça+Monte+Cafe+temperatura+minima+8°%2C7+1894&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&cad=h Google Book Search], Google Books. Retrieved 31 May 2019.</ref>|| align=right |690||[[1885]]-[[1894]] |
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| align=right |'''34.7'''||[[Rio do Ouro]] ''[[São_Tomé_Island|São Tomé]]'' <ref>[http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/cd013_pdf/003EF882.pdf Anais Meteorológicos das Colónias Relativos a 1944, Ministérios das Colónias, Serviço Meteorológico Nacional, Portugal], NOAA Central Library, Climate Data Imaging Project (in Portuguese; ''Meteorological Annals of the Colonies Relating to 1944''). Retrieved 1 July 2018.</ref><ref name="STP2">Unconfirmed reports of 36°C at [[São_Tomé_International_Airport|São Tomé Airport]] on various dates in [[1998]] and other years are possibly reliable.</ref> || [[14 April]] [[1944]] |
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| align=right |<span style="color:gray;">{{ref|reference_name_†50|†50}}12</span> ||[[Monte_Café,_São_Tomé_and_Príncipe|Monte Café]] ''[[São_Tomé_Island|São Tomé]]'' <ref>Due to a lack of available data, this is an estimated value based on a ten year average yearly temperature of 20.6°C recorded at the station. At uninhabited [[Lagôa Amélia]] (elevation 1490 m), the average annual temperature is 18.4°C and lower temperatures may occur. The lowest temperature reported in the last 50 years close to sea level is 16.0°C at [[São_Tomé_International_Airport|São Tomé Airport]] on [[8 July]] [[1974]] and [[8 July]] [[1977]].</ref>|| align=right |690 || |
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| align=right |<span style="color:gray;">{{ref|reference_name_†50|†50}}34.0</span> ||[[São_Tomé_International_Airport|São Tomé Airport]] <ref name="MANZ"/><ref name="STP2"/>||[[10 April]] [[2003]] |
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| rowspan="2" style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px;"|'''{{SEN}}''' |
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| align=right |'''4.2'''||[[Diourbel]] <ref name="FR_1951">[ftp://ftp.library.noaa.gov/docs.lib/htdocs/rescue/cd008A_pdf/00270A58.pdf Annales des Services Météorologiques de la France d’Outre-Mer, Année 1951, Ministère la France d’Outre-Mer], NOAA Central Library, Climate Data Imaging Project (in French; ''Annals of the Meteorological Services of Overseas France for 1951''). Retrieved 5 February 2006.</ref><ref>Some sources give the date as [[January]] [[1948]].</ref>||||[[January]] [[1947]] |
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| align=right |'''49'''||[[Fété-Olé]] <ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200601222616/https://horizon.documentation.ird.fr/exl-doc/pleins_textes/num-dakar-02/00331.pdf Analyse des Données Météorologiques Recuellies (sic) à Fété-Olé (Nord du Sénégal) de Septembre 1969 à Décembre 1977], Institut de Recherche pour la Développement (IRD) (in French; ''Analysis of Meteorological Data Collected at Fété-Olé (North Senegal) from September 1969 to December 1977''). Retrieved 10 January 2022. Archived 1 June 2020.</ref><ref>This reading is probably rounded to the nearest 0.5°C. 49.0°C reported at [[Linguère]] in [[March]] [[1940]] is unreliable.</ref>||[[2 April]] [[1973]] |
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| align=right |<span style="color:gray;">{{ref|reference_name_†50|†50}}5.5</span>||[[Diourbel]] <ref>[https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/archive/arc0216/0253808/1.1/data/0-data/Region-1-WMO-Normals-9120/Senegal/CSV/Diourbel_61666.csv WMO Normals 1991-2020, Diourbel (Station 61666)], NOAA. Retrieved 21 December 2023.</ref>|| ||[[29 January]] [[2013]] |
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| align=right |<span style="color:gray;">{{ref|reference_name_†50|†50}}48.8</span>||[[Matam]] <ref>[http://www.tutiempo.net/en/Climate/Matam/616300.htm Historical Weather: Matam, Senegal], El Tiempo. Retrieved 14 November 2023.</ref>||[[26 May]] [[1993]] |
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| rowspan="2" style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px;"|'''{{SEY}}''' |
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| align=right |'''17.5'''||[[Picard Island|Settlement, Picard (West) Island]] ''[[Aldabra]]'' <ref name="Aldabra">[https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/5061/00202x.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y Climate of Aldabra Atoll. Atoll Research Bulletin, No. 202, February 1977], Smithsonian Libraries. Retrieved 10 January 2022.</ref>|| || [[June]] [[1969]] |
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| align=right |'''36.3'''|| [[Picard Island|Settlement, Picard (West) Island]] ''[[Aldabra]]'' <ref name="Aldabra"/>||[[January]] [[1968]] |
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| align=right |<span style="color:gray;">{{ref|reference_name_†50|†50}}19.6</span>|| [[Seychelles Airport]] ''[[Mahé,_Seychelles|Mahé]]'' <ref name="KNMI"/>|| ||[[29 August]] [[1977]] |
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| align=right |<span style="color:gray;">{{ref|reference_name_†50|†50}}34.8</span>|| [[Seychelles Airport]] ''[[Mahé,_Seychelles|Mahé]]'' <ref name="OGIMET"/>|| [[10 April]] [[2013]] |
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|rowspan="4" style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px;"|'''{{SLE}}''' |
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| align=right rowspan="3"|'''5.0'''||rowspan="3"|[[Kabala,_Sierra_Leone|Kabala]] <ref>[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=4T4iAQAAMAAJ&q=batkanu+temperature&dq=batkanu+temperature&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y Bulletin of Entomological Research, 1914], Google Books Search Engine. Retrieved 10 January 2022.</ref>|| align=right rowspan="3"|435||rowspan="3"|before [[1915]] |
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| align=right rowspan="3"|'''39.4'''||[[Njala]] <ref>[https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/Summary_of_Report_with_Extracts/nCAiAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=103&dq=njala+temperature+103&printsec=frontcover Google Books Search Engine], Google Books (Summary of report [with extracts], 1937). Retrieved 29 December 2023.</ref><ref name="SLE1"/><ref name="SLE2"/>||[[1935]]-[[1937]] |
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|[[Marampa]] <ref name="SLE1"/><ref name="SLE2"/>||[[1941]]–[[1950]] |
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| [[Makeni]] <ref name="SLE1">[https://edepot.wur.nl/480759 The Soils and Geography of the Bolilands of Sierra Leone], Wageningen University and Research. Retrieved 10 January 2022.</ref><ref name="SLE2">40°C reported at a number of places including [[Njala]] and [[Daru]], and 39.4°C reported at [[Yengema]] have not been confirmed.</ref>||[[1942]]–[[1950]] |
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| align=right |<span style="color:gray;">{{ref|reference_name_†50|†50}}10.0</span> || [[Kabala,_Sierra_Leone|Kabala]] <ref name="GSOD"/>|| align=right |435 || [[22 January]] [[1976]] |
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| align=right |<span style="color:gray;">{{ref|reference_name_†50|†50}}38.2</span> ||[[Njala]] <ref name="GSOD"/>||[[25 March]] [[1984]] |
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| rowspan="2" style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px;"|'''{{SOM}}''' |
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| align=right |'''-3.3'''||[[Ceerigaabo|Ceerigaabo (Erigavo)]] ''[[Sanaag|Sanaag region]]'' <ref name="CR">Colonial Reports Annual No. 1451; Somaliland. Report for 1928, United Kingdom Colonial Office.</ref><ref name="CR2">This reading may be too low due to overexposure although readings close to 0°C are expected to occur at high elevations.</ref>|| align=right |1745||[[1928]] |
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| rowspan="2" align=right |'''47.8'''|| rowspan="2" | [[Berbera|Barbara (Berbera)]] ''[[Sahil,_Somaliland|Saaxil (Sahil) region]]'' <ref name="OGIMET"/><ref name="SOM">Temperatures exceeding 48°C taken during the Italian Occupation of Somalia, including 50.2°C reported at [[Luuq]], also known as Lugh Ferrandi or Luuq Ganaane on [[3 April]] [[1933]] are unreliable.</ref><ref name="SML">Temperatures exceeding 48°C reported at [[Berbera]] are probably unreliable.</ref>|| rowspan="2" |[[8 June]] [[2004]] |
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| align=right |<span style="color:gray;">{{ref|reference_name_†50|†50}}6.4</span> || [[Ceerigaabo|Ceerigaabo (Erigavo)]] ''[[Sanaag|Sanaag region]]'' <ref name="Meteoprog"/><ref name="Meteoprog2"/><ref name="SML"/>||align=right|1745 ||[[12 January]] [[2018]] |
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| rowspan="2" style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px; text-align: right;"|{{SOM}} |
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| align=right |5.6||[[Qardho]] ''[[Kaarkaar|Kaarkaar province]]'' <ref>[http://www.dwd.de/DWD/klima/beratung/ak/ak_632250_kt.pdf Klimatafel von Gardo / Somalia], Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD). Retrieved 10 January 2022.</ref>|| align=right |730||[[1953]]-[[1958]] |
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| align=right |45.3||[[Bosaso|Boosaaso (Bosaso; Bandar Qasim)]] ''[[Bari,_Somalia|Bari province]]'' <ref>[http://www.dwd.de/DWD/klima/beratung/ak/ak_632100_kt.pdf Klimatafel von Bosaso (Bender Cassim) / Somalia], Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD). Retrieved 10 January 2022.</ref><ref name="SOM"/>||[[1934]]-[[1958]] |
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| align=right |<span style="color:gray;">{{ref|reference_name_†50|†50}}12.1</span> ||[[Garoowe]] ''[[Nugal,_Somalia|Nugal province]]'' <ref name="Meteoprog">[https://www.meteoprog.com/ METEOPROG.com], METEOPROG.com. Retrieved 15 January 2023.</ref><ref name="Meteoprog2">The reference has interpolated the value from the conditions prevailing at the time.</ref><ref>The lowest recorded value is 13.8°C at the same place on [[4 January]] [[2022]].</ref>|| align=right|465||[[12 January]] [[2018]] |
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| align=right |<span style="color:gray;">{{ref|reference_name_†50|†50}}45.2</span> ||[[Bosaso|Boosaaso (Bosaso; Bandar Qasim)]] ''[[Bari,_Somalia|Bari province]]'' <ref name="MANZ"/>||[[21 June]] [[2008]] |
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| rowspan="2" style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px; text-align: right;"|{{flag|Somaliland}} |
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| align=right |-3.3||[[Ceerigaabo|Ceerigaabo (Erigavo)]] ''[[Sanaag|Sanaag region]]'' <ref name="CR"/><ref name="CR2"/>|| align=right |1745||[[1928]] |
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| rowspan="2" align=right |47.8|| rowspan="2" |[[Berbera|Barbara (Berbera)]] ''[[Sahil,_Somaliland|Saaxil (Sahil) region]]''<ref name="OGIMET"/><ref name="SML"/>|| rowspan="2" |[[8 June]] [[2004]] |
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| align=right |<span style="color:gray;">{{ref|reference_name_†50|†50}}6.4</span> || [[Ceerigaabo|Ceerigaabo (Erigavo)]] ''[[Sanaag|Sanaag region]]'' <ref name="Meteoprog"/><ref name="Meteoprog2"/><ref name="SML">The lowest recorded value is 7.8°C at [[Hargeisa Airport]] ''[[Woqooyi_Galbeed|Woqooyi Galbeed region]]'' on [[13 January]] [[2018]].</ref>||align=right|1745 ||[[12 January]] [[2018]] |
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| style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px;"|'''{{RSA}}''' |
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| align=right |'''-20.1'''||[[Buffelsfontein]] (near [[Molteno]]) ''[[Eastern_Cape|Eastern Cape province]]'' <ref>[https://www.news24.com/News24/sa-gripped-by-cold-temperatures-20160623 SA gripped by cold temperatures], News24. Retrieved 4 January 2022.</ref>|| align=right |1275||[[23 August]] [[2013]] |
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| align=right |'''48.8'''||[[Vioolsdrif]] ''[[Northern_Cape|Northern Cape province]]'' <ref>[http://books.google.com/books?lr=&cd=1&as_brr=0&id=SMdzAAAAMAAJ&dq=vioolsdrif+1993+intitle%3Ayearbook&q=vioolsdrif#search_anchor South Africa Yearbook, 1997], Google Books Search Engine. Retrieved 4 January 2022.</ref><ref>51.7°C reported in [[1948]] near [[Upington]] ''[[Northern_Cape|Northern Cape province]]'' is unreliable. 51.6°C on [[28 January]] [[1903]] and 50.8°C in [[November]] [[1904]] reported at [[Main,_South_Africa|Main]] (near [[Tsomo]]) ''[[Eastern_Cape_Province|Eastern Cape province]]'' are unreliable. 50.3°C reported in [[1928]] at [[Kirkwood,_Eastern_Cape|Kirkwood]] ''[[Eastern_Cape_Province|Eastern Cape province]]'' is unreliable. 50.0°C reported on [[3 November]] [[1918]] and 49.9°C in [[January]] [[1925]] at [[Dunbrody,_Eastern_Cape|Dunbrody]] ''[[Eastern_Cape_Province|Eastern Cape province]]'' are probably unreliable.</ref>||[[3 January]] [[1993]] |
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| rowspan="2" style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px;"|'''{{SSD}}''' |
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| align=right |'''3.6'''||[[Raga,_Sudan|Raga]] ''[[Lol_State|Lol state]]'' <ref name="SSD">[http://geodata.lib.ncsu.edu/fedgov/noaa/clino/TABLES/REG__I/SU/62871.TXT WMO Normals 1961-1990, Raga (Station 62871)], NOAA. Retrieved 4 January 2022.</ref>|| align=right |545||[[28 December]] [[1961]] |
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| rowspan="2" align=right |'''47.3'''|| rowspan="2" |[[Renk,_South_Sudan|ar-Rank (Renk)]] ''[[Eastern_Nile_State|Eastern Nile state]]'' <ref>[http://geodata.lib.ncsu.edu/fedgov/noaa/clino/TABLES/REG__I/SU/62801.TXT WMO Normals 1961-1990, Renk (Station 62801)], NOAA. Retrieved 4 January 2022.</ref>|| rowspan="2" |[[19 March]] [[1985]] |
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| align=right |<span style="color:gray;">{{ref|reference_name_†50|†50}}4.2</span> ||[[Raga,_Sudan|Raga]] ''[[Lol_State|Lol state]]'' <ref name="SSD"/>|| align=right |545 ||[[18 January]] [[1989]] |
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| rowspan="2" style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px;"|'''{{SUD}}''' |
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| align=right |'''-1'''||[[Zalingei]] ''[[Central_Darfur|Wasaṭ Dārfūr (Central Darfur) state]]'' <ref name="SUD">[https://web.archive.org/web/20170810063308/http://www.fao.org/ag/AGP/AGPC/doc/counprof/sudan/sudan.htm Country Pasture Forage Resource Profiles, Sudan], Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Retrieved 4 January 2022. Archived 10 August 2017.</ref><ref>-2.0°C reported at [[Wadi_Halfa|Wādī Ḥalfā]] ''[[Northern,_Sudan|ash-Shamālīyah (Northern) state]]'' on [[26 December]] [[1917]] is unreliable.</ref>|| align=right |900||[[December]] [[1961]]<br> [[January]] [[1962]] |
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| rowspan="2" align=right |'''49.6'''|| rowspan="2" |[[Dongola|Dunqulah (Dongola)]] ''[[Northern_state,_Sudan|ash-Shamālīyah (Northern) state]]'' <ref name="OGIMET"/><ref>M.A. Hassab Eldayem, Sudan Meteorological Authority reports this reading as 49.7°C.</ref><ref>Temperatures as high as 52.8°C reported at [[Wadi_Halfa|Wādī Ḥalfā’]] ''[[Northern,_Sudan|ash-Shamālīyah (Northern) state]]'' are unreliable.</ref>|| rowspan="2" |[[22 June]] [[2010]] |
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| align=right |<span style="color:gray;">{{ref|reference_name_†50|†50}}1.0</span> ||[[Dongola|Dunqulah (Dongola)]] ''[[Northern_state,_Sudan|ash-Shamālīyah (Northern) state]]'' <ref>[http://geodata.lib.ncsu.edu/fedgov/noaa/clino/TABLES/REG__I/SU/62650.TXT WMO Normals, Dongolah (Station 62650)], NOAA. Retrieved 4 January 2022.</ref>||align=right|235 ||[[9 February]] [[1982]] |
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| style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px;"|'''{{TAN}}''' |
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| align=right |'''-2.4'''||[[Mbeya]] <ref>[http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/napa/tza01.pdf National Adaptation Programme of Action], United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Retrieved 4 January 2022.</ref><ref>Climatology and Climate Change Section, Tanzania Meteorological Agency.</ref><ref>Lower temperatures reported at Mbeya provided by the Tanzania Meteorological Agency appear to be unreliable, possibly due to a faulty instrument, including -8.0°C on [[20 June]] [[1974]] and -5.5°C on [[28 July]] [[1975]]. A similar low reading of -2.5°C recorded in [[1973]] may also be unreliable.</ref><ref>Temperatures on the summit of [[Kilimanjaro]] (elevation 5895 m) may approach -20°C.</ref>|| align=right |1760|| [[1990]] |
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| align=right |'''39.4'''||[[Kisauni Airport]] ''[[Zanzibar]]'' <ref name="TuTiempo"/><ref>39.8°C may have been recorded in the [[Dodoma_Region|Dodoma Region]] on [[10 February]] [[1999]].</ref><ref>Temperatures are reported to exceed 40°C in the [[Lake Natron]] region.</ref>||[[27 February]] [[2007]] |
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| style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px;"|'''{{TOG}}''' |
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| align=right |'''9.0'''||[[Kara,_Togo|Kara]] <ref name="KNMI"/><ref>8°C reported at [[Sokodé]] is unreliable.</ref>||align=right|340||[[2 January]] [[1991]] |
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| align=right |'''43.5'''||[[Mango,_Togo|Sansanné-Mango]] <ref name="OGIMET"/><ref>44.4°C reported at Sansanné-Mango in [[March]] [[1947]] and on [[1 April]] [[1992]] is unreliable. 44.0°C reported at [[Dapaong]] is possibly reliable.</ref>||[[29 March]] [[2019]]</br> [[5 April]] [[2019]] |
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| rowspan="2" style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px;"|'''{{TUN}}''' |
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| align=right |'''-10.3'''||[[Bū Shabakah|Bū Shabakah (Bou Chebka)]] ''[[Kasserine_Governorate|al-Qaṣrayn (Kasserine) governorate]]'' <ref>[http://www.bnt.nat.tn:81/numerisation/periodiques/fr/E-Per-2850/1891.pdf Bulletin Mensuel No. 1 Janvier 1891], Service Météorologique de la Tunisie (in French; ''Monthly Bulletin No. 1, January 1891''. Retrieved 18 February 2021.</ref>|| align=right |1130||[[17 January]] [[1891]] |
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| rowspan="2" align=right |'''50.3'''|| rowspan="2" |[[Kairouan|al-Qiyrwān (Kairouan)]] ''[[Kairouan_Governorate|al-Qiyrwān (Kairouan) governorate]]'' <ref name="OGIMET"/><ref>Temperatures up to 55°C reported in the desert areas of Tunisia before [[1950]] are unreliable.</ref>|| rowspan="2" |[[11 August]] [[2021]] |
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| align=right |<span style="color:gray;">{{ref|reference_name_†50|†50}}-8.4</span> ||[[Thala,_Tunisia|Tāla]] ''[[Kasserine_Governorate|al-Qaṣrayn (Kasserine) governorate]]'' <ref>[http://lodel.irevues.inist.fr/climatologie/index.php?id=477 Les paroxysmes climato-thermiques en Tunisie : approche méthodologique et étude de cas], Climatologie (in French; ''Climatological-heat paroxysms in Tunisia: methodological approach and case study''). Retrieved 25 February 2020.</ref>||align=right|1090 ||[[9 January]] [[1981]] |
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| rowspan="2" style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px;"|'''{{UGA}}''' |
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| align=right |'''2.8'''||[[Kabale]] <ref>[ftp://ftp.library.noaa.gov/docs.lib/htdocs/rescue/cd033_pdf/00731B0B.pdf Meteorological Observations, 1936], NOAA Central Library, Climate Data Imaging Project. Retrieved 6 August 2007.</ref><ref>-7.7°C has been reported at high altitude in the [[Rwenzori Mountains]].</ref>|| align=right |1870||[[15 August]] [[1936]] |
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| rowspan="2" align=right |'''39.5'''|| rowspan="2" |[[Wadelai]] <ref>[https://www.unma.go.ug/index.php/dekadals Dekadal Agrometeorological Bulletin Period: 1st – 10th March 2016 (Dekad 1 for March 2016)], Uganda National Meteorological Authority. Retrieved 21 August 2016. {{Dead link|date=January 2022}}</ref><ref>43.3°C reported at Wadelai in [[1905]] is unreliable. 40.1°C reported at [[Soroti]] on [[5 February]] and [[6 February]] [[1949]] is probably unreliable. 40°C has been reported in the [[Kitgum_District|Kitgum district]] in [[2005]], but further details are not available.</ref>|| rowspan="2" |[[11 February]] -<br> [[20 February]] [[2016]] |
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| align=right |<span style="color:gray;">{{ref|reference_name_†50|†50}}5.0</span> ||[[Kabale]] <ref name="GSOD"/>|| align=right |1870 ||[[20 July]] [[1978]] |
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| rowspan="3" style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px;"|'''{{flag|Western Sahara}}''' ''[[Morocco|(Mor.)]]'' |
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| align=right rowspan="2" |'''2.8'''|| [[Smara|as-Samārah (Smara)]] <ref name="Met Off">''Tables of Temperature, Relative Humidity and Precipitation for the World. Part IV. Africa, The Atlantic Ocean South of 35°N and the Indian Ocean''. United Kingdom Meteorological Office (1967).</ref>|| align=right|110||[[1943]]-[[1954]] |
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| align=right rowspan="2" |'''50.7'''|| rowspan="2" |[[Smara|as-Samārah (Smara)]] <ref name="INM">Instituto Nacional de Meteorología (España).</ref>||rowspan="2"|[[13 July]] [[1961]] |
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| align=right |<span style="color:gray;">{{ref|reference_name_†50|†50}}3.0</span> ||[[Smara|as-Samārah (Smara)]] <ref>[https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/archive/arc0216/0253808/1.1/data/0-data/Region-1-WMO-Normals-9120/WesternSahara/CSV/SMARA_60335.csv WMO Normals 1991-2020, Smara (Station 60335)], NOAA. Retrieved 17 December 2023.</ref>|| align=right|110 ||[[29 January]] [[2005]] |
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| align=right |<span style="color:gray;">{{ref|reference_name_†50|†50}}49.9</span> ||[[Smara|as-Samārah (Smara)]] <ref name="MAR"/>||[[13 July]] [[2023]] |
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| align=right |'''-7.1'''||[[Sesheke]] ''[[Western_Province,_Zambia|Western province]]'' <ref>[https://geodata.lib.ncsu.edu/fedgov/noaa/clino/TABLES/REG__I/ZA/67741.TXT WMO Normals 1961-1990, Sesheke (Station 67741)], NOAA. Retrieved 17 December 2023.</ref>|| align=right |950|| [[16 June]] [[1968]] |
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| align=right |'''44.4'''||[[Luangwa]] ''[[Lusaka_Province|Lusaka province]]'' <ref>[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=cs4ZAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA14-PA5&lpg=RA14-PA5&dq=feira+%22highest+temperature%22+%22northern+rhodesia%22&source=bl&ots=s19PRDUT88&sig=ACfU3U1W44O2p3Gh2ZCjh9uMz8W4UOC60g&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiRoP-q3J_1AhUG7HMBHdE7BEwQ6AF6BAgDEAM#v=onepage&q=feira%20%22highest%20temperature%22%20%22northern%20rhodesia%22&f=false Annual Report on the Social and Economic Progress of the People of Northern Rhodesia, 1932], Google Book Search Engine. Retrieved 7 January 2022.</ref>||[[1932]] |
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| align=right |<span style="color:gray;">{{ref|reference_name_†50|†50}}-5.8</span> ||[[Sesheke]] ''[[Western_Province,_Zambia|Western province]]'' <ref>[https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/archive/arc0216/0253808/1.1/data/0-data/Region-1-WMO-Normals-9120/Zambia/CSV/Sesheke_67741.csv WMO Normals 1991-2020, Sesheke (Station 67741)], NOAA. Retrieved 17 December 2023.</ref><ref>-5.9°C reported from [[Livingstone,_Zambia]] ''[[Southern_Province,_Zambia|Southern province]]'' on [[18 June]] [[1995]] is |
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| align=right |<span style="color:gray;">{{ref|reference_name_†50|†50}}44.1||[[Mfuwe]] ''[[Eastern_Province,_Zambia|Eastern province]]'' <ref>[https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/archive/arc0216/0253808/1.1/data/0-data/Region-1-WMO-Normals-9120/Zambia/CSV/Mfuwe_67577.csv WMO Normals 1991-2020, Mfuwe (Station 67577)], NOAA. Retrieved 17 December 2023.</ref>||[[1 November]] [[2011]] |
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| align=right |'''-12.7'''||[[Matobo National Park| Matopos]] ''[[Matabeleland_South|Matabeleland South province]]'' <ref>[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=pJyFAAAAIAAJ&q=matopos+beitbridge+sayce+1987&dq=matopos+beitbridge+sayce+1987&hl=en&sa=X&ei=8wpTT6bMA62TiAe029SPAQ&redir_esc=y Zimbabwe’s Environmental Dilemma: Balancing Resource Inequities], Google Book Search Engine. Retrieved 9 January 2022.</ref><ref>The date is believed to be correct: On the same day, a ground minimum temperature of -14.0°C was recorded here.</ref>|| align=right |1350||[[13 June]] [[1968]] |
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| rowspan="2" align=right |'''47.6'''|| rowspan="2" |[[Buffalo Range Airport]] ''[[Masvingo_Province|Masvingo province]]'' <ref>[https://www.herald.co.zw/record-breaking-temperatures-for-chiredzi-west-nicholson/ Record-breaking temperatures for Chiredzi, West Nicholson], The Herald. Retrieved 30 January 2020.</ref><ref>The date is believed to be correct.</ref>|| rowspan="2" | [[28 October]] [[2019]] |
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| align=right |<span style="color:gray;">{{ref|reference_name_†50|†50}}-10</span> ||[[Matobo National Park|Matopos]] ''[[Matabeleland_South|Matabeleland South province]]'' <ref>[https://www.herald.co.zw/cold-spell-to-persist-met-office/ Cold Spell to Persist: Met Office], The Herald. Retrieved 18 December 2022.</ref>||align=right|1350|| [[1980]] |
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Revision as of 08:59, 10 February 2024
The following table lists records of extreme temperature in territories of Africa. The elevation in metres above sea level of locations reporting record minimum temperatures is given where relevant.
^†ʘ Record observed in an area with a permanent resident population. Unless otherwise stated, this will be the case.
^†O Territory or location has no permanent resident population.
^†50 Record in the last 50 years; only given if the all-time record occurred more than 50 years ago.
Notes and References
- ^ Bulletin Mensuel 1945, Algérie du Nord, Institut de Météorologie et de Physique du Globe de l’Algérie, NOAA Central Library, Climate Data Imaging Project (in French; Monthly Bulletin, 1945). Retrieved 24 January 2007.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s Form to get daily summaries from synop reports, OGIMet. Retrieved 6 January 2024.
- ^ Temperatures as high as 57°C have been reported at various places in Algeria including Tindūf, Timimūn, Warqlā (Ouargla) and Tūjurt (Touggourt) before 1950 but none are reliable.
- ^ WMO Normals 1991-2020, Mecheria (Station 60549), NOAA. Retrieved 17 December 2023.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab Global Surface Summary of the Day (GSOD), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Retrieved 1 January 2024.
- ^ a b -4.1°C was reported at a station (elevation 1245 m) in the generally uninhabited Bicuari National Park on 21 July 2016. Temperatures as low as -8°C reported at various place in Angola between the late 1930’s and early 1950’s are unreliable, probably due to instrument overexposure.
- ^ a b c d Weather stations in Angola, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa and Zambia, SASSCAL WeatherNet. Retrieved 8 August 2021.
- ^ Higher temperatures reported at various place in Angola between the late 1930’s and early 1950’s are unreliable, probably due to instrument overexposure.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak Climate Explorer, The Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI). Retrieved 3 January 2022.
- ^ 46.0°C reported at Kandi in April 1940, and 44.9°C reported at Natitingou in March 1934 are unreliable. 44.5°C reported at Kandi in April 1952 is possibly reliable.
- ^ Report for the Year 1953, Weather Bureau, Department of Transport, Republic of South Africa, NOAA Central Library, Climate Data Imaging Project. Retrieved 8 March 2008.
- ^ -15.2°C reported at the same place (in August between 1959 and 1980) is probably a ground temperature, not an air temperature.
- ^ The island is uninhabited.
- ^ 14°C reported in March 1980 was taken at ground level.
- ^ Programme d’Action National d’Adaptation à la Variabilité et aux Changements Climatiques (PANA du Burkina Faso), Ministère de l’Environnement et du Cadre de Vie, Burkina Faso (in French; National Action Program for Adaptation to Variability and to Climate Change). Retrieved 3 January 2022.
- ^ 2.9°C reported at Banankélédara (Banankélédaga) (near Bobo-Dioulasso) on 29 January 1961, and 5.0°C reported at the same place in 1971 are probably unreliable.
- ^ Higher temperatures recorded before the 1940’s, including 48.4°C at Dori, 48.0°C at Ouahigouya and 47.9°C reported at both Fada N’gourma and Ouagadougou are unreliable.
- ^ Présentation du Bulletin climatologique annuel du Congo belge et du Ruanda-Urundi (1956) — Anomalies pluviométriques et valeurs remarquables de quelques éléments du climat, in: Bulletin des Séances, Academie Royale des Sciences Coloniales, 1957, 6, pp1214-1230, Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences, Belgium (in French; Presentation of the annual climatological bulletin of the Belgian Congo and Ruanda-Urundi (1956) - Pluviometric anomalies and remarkable values of some elements of the climate). Retrieved 1 March 2021.
- ^ Recorded at the Kisozi-Marais meteorological station, now closed.
- ^ a b Simone di Prima (climateofburundi.altervista.org)
- ^ La France équatoriale africaine: Le pays. Les habitants. La colonisation. Les pouvoirs publics, Google Books Search Engine. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
- ^ a b Ngaoundéré may have recorded 3.2°C in February between 1961 and 1990. -2.7°C has been recorded at high altitude on the summit of Fako Peak, Mount Cameroon at an elevation exceeding 4000 m.
- ^ a b c d Annales des Services Météorologiques de la France d’Outre-Mer, Année 1951, Ministère la France d’Outre-Mer, NOAA Central Library, Climate Data Imaging Project (in French; Annals of the Meteorological Services of Overseas France for 1951). Retrieved 5 February 2006.
- ^ 47.7°C reported at Kousséri Far North region on 18 April 1908 and 46.2°C reported at the same place in the previous month are sourced from a very limited record of less than a year and are of uncertain reliability.
- ^ a b Climate Atlas of the Archipelagos of the Canary Islands, Madeira and the Azores, Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera (IPMA). Retrieved 17 September 2023.
- ^ -21.0°C was recorded at an altitude of about 2100 m at Cañada de la Grieta on Pico del Teide Tenerife in 1912. More recently, -16.0°C was recorded at Las Cañadas on the same mountain on 17 February 1991.
- ^ Evolución de la Temperatura en Lanzarote (1950-2008), Centro de Datos, Lanzarote (in Spanish; Evolution of the Temperature in Lanzarote (1950-2008)). Retrieved 3 January 2022.
- ^ This reading is possibly unreliable.
- ^ a b The official maximum temperature of 47.5°C reported at Barranco de Masca Tenerife on 17 July 1978 was taken at a station with a short period of record and is possibly unreliable.
- ^ Anais Meteorológicos das Colónias, Relativos a 1943, Ministérios das Colónias, Serviço Meteorológico Nacional, Portugal, NOAA Central Library, Climate Data Imaging Project (in Portuguese, Meteorological Annals of the Colonies Relating to 1943). Retrieved 4 February 2007.
- ^ Temperatures at Bangaeira in the Chã das Caldeiras (elevation 1670 m) on Fogo are reported to fall below 0°C in the winter months (January to March).
- ^ Temperatures up to 38°C reported at Praia are possibly reliable.
- ^ Climate: Bangaeira, Climate-Data.org. Retrieved 16 September 2022. Archived 6 January 2014.
- ^ This is the average monthly minimum temperature between January and March.
- ^ a b c Global Climate Data, TuTiempo.net. Retrieved 25 May 2018.
- ^ a b Valores Extremos, Agencia Estatal de Meteorología (AEMet) (in Spanish; Extreme Values). Retrieved 3 January 2022.
- ^ Anti-Locust Bulletin, Issues 11-21 - Page 16, Google Books Search Engine. Retrieved 31 March 2019.
- ^ Temperatures are known to reach -10°C on the high plateaux of the Tibesti Mountains. -6.8°C was recorded at an altitude of 2450 m on the uninhabited Doon Orei (Trou au Natron) dormant volcano in the same range on 15 January 1967. The lowest fully dated temperature is -4.5°C recorded at Bardāy (Bardaï) (elevation 1060 m) in the same region on 27 December 1966 and 27 January 1967.
- ^ Data Calendar for Faya-largeau, Iowa Environmental Mesonet, Iowa State University. Retrieved 28 October 2023.
- ^ Higher temperatures reported at Faya and Ndjamena (Nijāmīnā) are unreliable.
- ^ a b c d e METEOPROG.com, METEOPROG.com. Retrieved 15 January 2023.
- ^ a b c d e The reference has interpolated the value from the conditions prevailing at the time.
- ^ The lowest recorded temperature is 2.5°C at Faya-Largeau (Faya) Birku (Borkou) region on 25 January 2008.
- ^ Infrastructure, Eau, Environnement. Etude d'impact sur l'Environnement, The World Bank (in French; Infrastructure, Water, Environment. Environmental Impact Assessment). Retrieved 9 January 2022.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k MeteoManz, MeteoManz.com. Retrieved 28 December 2023.
- ^ Présentation du Bulletin climatologique annuel du Congo belge et du Ruanda-Urundi (1955) — Anomalies pluviométriques et valeurs remarquables de quelques éléments du climat, "in:" Bulletin des Séances, Academie Royale des Sciences Coloniales, 1956, 6, pp1231-1248, Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences, Belgium (in French; Presentation of the annual climatological bulletin of the Belgian Congo and Ruanda-Urundi (1955) - Pluviometric anomalies and remarkable values of some elements of the climate). Retrieved 1 March 2021.
- ^ Recorded at the Kisanga-Verger (Keyberg) meteorological station, now closed.
- ^ a b Vandenplas, A (1947). La Température au Congo Belge [The temperature in the Belgian Congo] (in French). Brussels, Belgium: Ministère des Colonies, Direction de l'Agriculture.
- ^ 41.0°C reported at Yahila Tshopo province in March between 1931 and 1936 is unreliable.
- ^ 41.0°C reported at Ouésso in March 1950 and April 1950 is unreliable.
- ^ 49.5°C reported at the same place in July 1934 and at Tajūrah (Tadjourah) in July 1951 are probably unreliable.
- ^ The first of these dates has also been reported as 46.5°C.
- ^ The lowest temperatures in Egypt are recorded in the Sinai Peninsula which is geographically part of Asia, not Africa. For instance, -8.8°C was reported at Qal̒at an-Nakhl (Nakhl) Shamal Sinā̓ (Northern Sinai) governorate on 16 January 2008, and -15°C was recorded at 2600 m on the uninhabited Jabal Zubayr, a spur of Jabal Katrīnah (Mount Catherine) Janub Sinā’ (Southern Sinai) governorate on approximately 13 January and 16 February 1934.
- ^ Monthly Weather Report 1961, Ministry of War Meteorological Department, Egypt, NOAA Central Library, Climate Data Imaging Project. Retrieved 8 May 2008.
- ^ 51.0°C on 4 July 1918, and 50.6°C on 8 June 1932, both reported at Aswān Aswān governorate are unreliable due to the thermometers (at a height of 1.3 m) being placed too close to the ground.
- ^ Isla de Bioko, La Web Cultural de Guinea Ecuatorial (in Spanish; Island of Bioko). Retrieved 3 January 2022.
- ^ Klimatafel von Bata / Insel Mbini / Äquatorial-Guinea, Deutscher Wetterdienst (in German: Climate Table for Bata /Mbini Island / Equatorial Guinea. Retrieved 27 May 2019.
- ^ a b 36.5°C reported at Malabo Bioko on 21 April 2010 is probably unreliable.
- ^ 49.1°C reported at Nokra Nokra Desēt island in the Dehalak’ (Dahlak) archipelago in September 1938 is unreliable.
- ^ Report for the Year 1957, Weather Bureau, Department of Transport, Republic of South Africa, NOAA Central Library, Climate Data Imaging Project. Retrieved 7 March 2008.
- ^ -6.7°C reported at Big Bend is unreliable for the elevation of 155 m.
- ^ Groundwater Resources of Swaziland (Government of Swaziland, Department of Geological Surveys and Mines), British Geological Survey. Retrieved 3 January 2022. Archived 23 October 2016.
- ^ 49.1°C reported at Siteki between 1921 and 1958 is unreliable.
- ^ Report on Meteorological Data of the Year 1976, Department of Transport, Republic of South Africa, NOAA Central Library, Climate Data Imaging Project. Retrieved 4 June 2018.
- ^ 2013 Annual Bulletin, National Meteorology Agency. Retrieved 3 January 2022. Archived 4 March 2016.
- ^ Also on earlier dates at the same place. -8.0°C reported at Jīma (Jimma) Oromia region is probably unreliable. -15°C has been reported at high altitude on the Sanetti Plateau in the Oromia region.
- ^ Pedgley, DE (1967). "Air Temperature at Dallol, Ethiopia". Meteorological Magazine. 97. Met Office: 265–271.
- ^ Annual Climate Bulletin for the Year 2019, National Meteorological Agency, Ethiopia. Retrieved 13 February 2021.
- ^ Data excludes territory below 60°S as defined by the Antarctic Treaty, thus excludes Adélie Land on the Antarctic mainland.
- ^ a b c Port aux Français, European Polar Board. Retrieved 7 August 2023.
- ^ a b Ile Juan De Nova - Station La Goulette, InfoClimat (in French). Retrieved 22 January 2023.
- ^ St-Paul & Amsterdam Islands, Part 3, Discover France! Retrieved 3 January 2022.
- ^ The date is believed to be correct.
- ^ a b Estimated. No data are known to exist.
- ^ Climatologie de l'année 2006 à Île de la Possession - Alfred Faure, Infoclimat (in French; Climatology of Possession Island (Alfred-Faure), 2006). Retrieved 3 January 2022.
- ^ Climatologie de l'année 1997 à Île de la Possession - Alfred Faure, Infoclimat (in French; Climatology of Possession Island (Alfred-Faure), 1997). Retrieved 3 January 2022.
- ^ Climatologie de l'année 1984 à Ile Europa, InfoClimat (in French; Climatology of Europa Island, 1984). Retrieved 3 January 2022.
- ^ Climatologie de l'année 1985 à Ile Europa, InfoClimat (in French; Climatology of Europa Island, 1985). Retrieved 3 January 2022.
- ^ Lower temperatures reported from the island do not appear reliable.
- ^ 35.8°C was possibly recorded on 29 January 1981 at the same place.
- ^ An unconfirmed 15.0°C (date unknown) has been reported from the island.
- ^ Climatologie de l'année 2001 à Iles Glorieuses, Station Gérard Martin, Infoclimat (in French; Climatology of the Glorioso Islands, Station Gérard Martin, 2001). Retrieved 8 January 2022.
- ^ Climatologie de l'année 2013 à Iles Glorieuses, Station Gérard Martin, Infoclimat (in French; Climatology of the Glorioso Islands, Station Station Gérard Martin, 2013). Retrieved 8 January 2022.
- ^ Climatologie de l'année 2011 à Ile Juan De Nova, InfoClimat (in French; Climatology of Juan de Nova Island, 2011). Retrieved 3 January 2022.
- ^ Temperatures as low as 17.6°C have been reported but none appear reliable.
- ^ Fiche Climatologique: Tromelin (984), Meteo France (in French; Climatological Data: Tromelin (984)). Retrieved 3 January 2022.
- ^ Meteorological Register. Weather of the Day, Yundum, Gambia. January 1947. Air Ministry, Meteorological Office, Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA). Retrieved 28 April 2021.
- ^ Unconfirmed temperatures below 5°C have been reported at inland stations.
- ^ Max Temp (oC), Danmarks Tekniske Universitet, Risø. Retrieved 20 June 2014. [dead link].
- ^ Ghana Year Book, 1963, Google Books. Retrieved 23 January 2023.
- ^ WMO Normals 1991-2020, Navrongo (Station 65401), NOAA. Retrieved 17 December 2023.
- ^ 45.0°C reported on 8 April 2021 at Navrongo is probably unreliable. 44.2°C reported on 17 April 2006 at Navrongo is probably reliable.
- ^ The date (19th) is believed to be correct.
- ^ WMO Normals 1991-2020, Bole (Station 65416), NOAA. Retrieved 17 December 2023.
- ^ Record cold snap destroys crops, kills hundreds of animals, The New Humanitarian. Retrieved 11 March 2021.
- ^ 46.5°C reported at Boké on 8 March 1938 is probably unreliable.
- ^ Resultado das observações meteorológicas, 1961, Serviço Meteorológico da Guiné, NOAA Central Library, Climate Data Imaging Project (in Portuguese; Results of meteorological observations, 1961). Retrieved 23 February 2007.
- ^ Resultado das observações meteorológicas, Março de 1969, Serviço Meteorológico da Guiné, NOAA Central Library, Climate Data Imaging Project (in Portuguese; Results of meteorological observations, March 1969). Retrieved 23 February 2007.
- ^ Heard Island The Spit, Relevés du 01 Mars 2013, Infoclimat (in French; Records of 1 March 2013). Retrieved 4 January 2022.
- ^ Google Search Engine, Google. (Kenya, A Study in Physical and Human Geography, by Francis F. Ojany and R. B. Ogendo.) Retrieved 4 June 2018.
- ^ -13°C has been recorded at 4200 m in the Teleki Valley on the upper slopes of Kirinyaga (Mount Kenya), and as low as -20°C has been reported near the summit (elevation close to 5200 m).
- ^ Climate and Soils of the South Kinangop Plateau of Kenya. Their limitations on land use., Wageningen University and Research eDepot]. Retrieved 7 January 2024.
- ^ Quaternary Periglacial Landforms in the Sani Pass Area, Southern Africa. South African Association of Geomorphologists, Uppsala Universitet. Retrieved 9 January 2022. Archived 7 February 2012.
- ^ This reading has also been reported as -21°C.
- ^ Report on Meteorological Data of the Year 1973, Weather Bureau, South Africa, NOAA Central Library, Climate Data Imaging Project. Retrieved 12 February 2012.
- ^ 41.7°C reported at Butha-Buthe in January 1927, and 40.6°C reported at Hlotse (Leribe) in December 1944 are unreliable.
- ^ Report on Meteorological Data of the Year 1975, Department of Transport, Republic of South Africa, NOAA Central Library, Climate Data Imaging Project. Retrieved 4 June 2018.
- ^ a b General Report on National Forest Inventory in Liberia - Technical Report No. 1. German Forestry Mission to Liberia, 1968, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Retrieved 9 June 2018.
- ^ 2.2°C reported at Sagleipie in the 1950’s is of questionable reliability. 3.9°C reported at Kesini before 1964 is possibly reliable.
- ^ a b Cite error: The named reference
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was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Temperatures exceeding 41°C reported at Tubmanburg (Bomi) have not been confirmed. 40.6°C reported at Sikombe, inland from Greenville in the early 20th century, and also from Sagleipie in the 1950’s are of questionable reliability.
- ^ "Liberia" Google Search Engine, Google. (Quarterly Statistical Bulletin of Liberia). Retrieved 9 January 2022.
- ^ a b Western Range DSO Iron Ore Project Volume 3, Part 2.1: Hydrology Baseline Final Report, ArcelorMittal Liberia Limited. Retrieved 7 May 2019.
- ^ a b No relevant measured data has been found. The value given is an estimate modelled by the United Kingdom Met Office based on data from Nzérékoré Guinea, 40km to the north of Tokadeh.
- ^ The same modelling estimates minimum temperatures of 6.1°C are reached around 1000m on the peaks in the north of the country.
- ^ McWhirter, Norris and Ross McWhirter (1969). Dunlop Illustrated Encyclopedia of Facts. Doubleday. ISBN 0385011199.
- ^ -11°C reported in January 1945 has not been confirmed.
- ^ WMO Normals 1991-2020, Zuara (Station 62007), WMO. NOAA. Retrieved 21 December 2023.
- ^ Libyan Meteorological Service
- ^ Higher temperatures reported are unreliable. 58.0°C reported at al-‘Azīzīyah on 13 September 1922 is a faulty reading and has been rejected by the World Meteorological Organization.
- ^ Résumé Mensuel du Temps à Madagascar, 1963, Météorologie Nationale, NOAA Central Library, Climate Data Imaging Project (in French; Monthly Summary of the Weather of Madagascar, 1963). Retrieved 24 February 2007.
- ^ Résumé Mensuel du Temps à Madagascar, 1964, Météorologie Nationale, NOAA Central Library, Climate Data Imaging Project (in French; Monthly Summary of the Weather of Madagascar, 1964). Retrieved 24 February 2007.
- ^ -16°C was recorded in the uninhabited La Cuvette du Boby at an elevation of 2470 m on the Andringitra Massif Haute Matsiatra region on 1 July 1956. -8.6°C reported at Antsirabe Vakinankaratra region in August 1915 is unreliable.
- ^ Communication Nationale Initiale de Madagascar, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (in French; First National Communication of Madagascar). Retrieved 9 January 2022.
- ^ Higher temperatures (up to 48.3°C), especially those recorded in the 1930’s and 1940’s are probably unreliable.
- ^ Estudo Fitogeográfico dos Jardins, Parques e Quintas do Concelho do Funchal, Universidade de Lisboa (in Portuguese; Phytogeographic Study of the Gardens, Parks and Farms of the Municipality of Funchal). Retrieved 18 September 2023.
- ^ -9.5°C was recorded at an elevation of 1560m on the uninhabited mountain peak Bica da Cana Madeira Island on 5 March 1993.
- ^ Extremos climatológicos Portugal, Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera (IPMA) (in Portuguese; Climatological Extremes Portugal). Retrieved 17 September 2023.
- ^ Orchids of Malaŵi, Google Books Search Engine. Retrieved 19 May 2019.
- ^ a b c A Summary and Review of Monthly Temperature Data in Malaŵi, Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Department of Agricultural Development, Lilongwe, ISRIC World Soil Information Database. Retrieved 18 October 2011. [dead link].
- ^ Reported as -7°C by the second reference.
- ^ a b Higher temperatures reported at Nkombedzi wa Fodya (near Chawuwa) Chikwawa district are unreliable.
- ^ Hot temperature over – Met., The Times Group, Malawi. Retrieved 30 January 2020. Archived 18 November 2019.
- ^ Mali météo, Météo Mali (in French; Mali meteo[rology]). Retrieved 10 January 2022. Archived 29 September 2008.
- ^ Higher temperatures, including 54.5°C at Tombouctou (Timbuktu) and 54.4°C at Arawan (Araouane), both in the Tombouctou (Timbuktu) region, and 52.0°C at Ménaka in the Gao region on 4 May 1934 are unreliable. 48.8°C reported at Nioro du Sahel Kayes region in May 1936, and at Timbuktu on 14 May 2011 are also unreliable.
- ^ 0.0°C reported at the same place on 16 December 1962 is probably unreliable.
- ^ Service de Météorologie (Mauritania)
- ^ Mauritius Meteorological Services.
- ^ Initial National Communication of the Republic of Mauritius under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (April 1999). Chapter 1, National Circumstances, Government of Mauritius. Retrieved 12 August 2021.
- ^ Monthly Bulletin of Climatological Summaries, January 2009, Mauritius Meteorological Services. Retrieved 10 January 2022. Archived 5 March 2016.
- ^ 38°C reported at Port Louis in January 1957, and 37.5°C reported at the same place on 7 February 1975 are probably unreliable.
- ^ 36.1°C reported three times on Île Raphael in February 1946 is probably unreliable.
- ^ a b Etienne Kapikian, MeteoFrance.
- ^ a b El Tiempo en la Provincia de Melilla Mañana, tiemposol.com (in Spanish; The Weather in the Province of Melilla Tomorrow). Retrieved 20 January 2022.
- ^ An unconfirmed -0.5°C has been reported, date unknown.
- ^ Relevé climatologique du mois de février 1935, Bulletin Officiel, Protectorat de la République Française au Maroc, 29 Mars 1935 No. 1170, Secrétariat Général du Gouvernement, Royaume du Maroc (in French; Climatological Record for February 1935. Retrieved 13 December 2023.
- ^ The details given are believed to be correct although the digitisation of the original reference is not completely clear. The same reference also reports -24.5°C at Būzmū (Bou Zemou) Mīdelt province (elevation 2350 m) on 1 February 1935.
- ^ -33.4°C reported at Tashdīrt (Tacheddirt)| al-Ḥawz (Al Haouz) province (elevation 2330 m) on 11 December 1934 is incorrect. -30°C reported in the Michlifen Depression Īfrān (Ifrane) province, elevation 1980 m sometime before 1964 has not been confirmed.
- ^ a b Vague de chaleur: de nouveaux records de température maximale au Maroc, Le Matin (in French; Heat wave: New maximum temperature records in Morocco). Retrieved 24 November 2023.
- ^ 51.8°C reported at Inezgane Airport in the same prefecture on 17 August 1940 is unreliable.
- ^ WMO Normals 1991-2020, Ifrane (Station 60160), NOAA. Retrieved 17 December 2023.
- ^ -17.5°C was reported at an uninhabited location (elevation 3650 m) near the summit of Jbel Mgun (Jebel M’Goun) Tanghir (Tinghir) province on 9 November 2001.
- ^ a b Boletim mensal das observações meteorológicas feitas nos postos da Colónia, 1950, Organizado Pelo Observatório Campos Rodrigues, NOAA Central Library, Climate Data Imaging Project (in Portuguese; Monthly bulletin of the meteorological observations made at colonial stations, 1950). Retrieved 6 September 2015.
- ^ 47.3°C reported at Chibuto Gaza province on 12 December 1944 is probably unreliable, being too high compared to nearby readings on this day. Temperatures as high as 49°C reported at various places between 1940 and 1955 are believed to be unreliable.
- ^ Report on Meteorological Data of the Year 1974, Department of Transport, Republic of South Africa, NOAA Central Library, Climate Data Imaging Project. Retrieved 4 June 2018.
- ^ Namibia Review Volume 1, Google Books Search Engine. Retrieved 9 June 2018.
- ^ 47.8°C reported from Noordoewer was probably an estimate taken from an actual reading observed at Goodhouse (South Africa) on 20 January 1939. The highest fully dated record known is 46.2°C at Noordoewer on 17 January 2013.
- ^ -3.0°C reported at Bilma in January 1937 is unreliable.
- ^ 49.5°C reported at Diffa on 7 September 1978 is unreliable.
- ^ WMO Normals 1961-1990, Jos (Station 65134), NOAA. Retrieved 21 December 2023.
- ^ 47.2°C reported at both Sokoto and Hadejia Jigawa state, as well as higher temperatures reported early in the 20th century are believed to be unreliable. More recently, 47.5°C on 5 June 2009 and 46.6°C on 9 March 2010, both at Nguru Yobe state, and 47.3°C at Gusau Zamfara state on 1 April 2007 are all believed to be unreliable.
- ^ a b La Réunion, Météo et climat, Météo-France (in French; Reunion Island, Meteorology and climate). Retrieved 10 January 2022.
- ^ This location is a mountain lodge or refuge. The lowest temperature recorded in a permanently inhabited location is -1.7°C at Plaine des Cafres (elevation 1560 m) on 18 August 1988. -4.0°C reported from the same place on 21 August 1956 is probably unreliable.
- ^ Carte pédalogique du Rwanda au 1/50 000 - Gakenke, Ministère des Affaires Étrangères, du Commerce Extérieur et de la Coopération au Développement de Belqique, ISRIC World Soil Information Database (in French; Soil Map of Rwanda at 1/50 000 - Gakenke'). Retrieved 10 January 2022. Archived 11 August 2021.
- ^ a b Climate Change Master Plan 2011-2031, East African Community. Retrieved 10 January 2022. Archived 3 March 2016.
- ^ Rwanda Meteorological Service
- ^ a b Met office Statistics for the week ending Monday 29-Mar-10, The Islander. Retrieved 1 June 2015. [dead link]
- ^ a b World feeling the heat as 17 countries experience record temperatures, The Guardian. Retrieved 10 January 2022.
- ^ a b The date is believed to be correct. 35.0°C reported at Wideawake Field (RAF Ascension Island) on 17 April 1971, and similar high temperatures reported at the same site in the early 1970’s are unreliable.
- ^ The Islander - Thursday 30th August 2001, The Islander. Retrieved 10 January 2022.
- ^ The average minimum temperature recorded in the months of August, October, and November at Green Mountain Farm (elevation 660m) between 1951 and 1953 was 14.5°C. Extreme minimum temperatures are not known, but would likely to have descend to 12°C or possibly lower.
- ^ 29.0°C reported on 20 March 2021 is unreliable.
- ^ Meteorological Observations taken at St Matthews Vicarage, St Helena during July 1898, Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA). Retrieved 28 April 2021.
- ^ A Handbook and Gazetteer of the Island of St Helena Including a Short History of the Island Under the Crown 1834-1902, Saint Helena Info. Retrieved 4 September 2023.
- ^ 33.9°C recorded at Jamestown on 25 April 1860 is unreliable, probably resulting from the misreading of a maximum themormeter which also gave an average month maximum temperature in the same month of 33.2°C.
- ^ Climatologie de l'année 2010 à Saint Helena Island, InfoClimat. Retrieved 7 January 2024.
- ^ Climate, Saint Helena Government. Retrieved 9 April 2019.
- ^ Data reported from the station (located at the Jamestown Swimming Pool) in the given reference before 2005 is generally unreliable, and occasionally unreliable since that date due to poor quality control. The figure given is believed to be a monthly maximum temperature, not an average monthly maximum temperature as stated in the reference.
- ^ Report on Meteorological Data of the Year 1961, Republic of South Africa Weather Bureau. Retrieved 16 November 2008.
- ^ Anais Meteorológicos das Colónias Relativos a 1942, Ministérios das Colónias, Serviço Meteorológico Nacional, Portugal, NOAA Central Library, Climate Data Imaging Project (in Portuguese; Meteorological Annals of the Colonies Relating to 1942). Retrieved 25 January 2007.
- ^ Google Book Search, Google Books. Retrieved 31 May 2019.
- ^ Anais Meteorológicos das Colónias Relativos a 1944, Ministérios das Colónias, Serviço Meteorológico Nacional, Portugal, NOAA Central Library, Climate Data Imaging Project (in Portuguese; Meteorological Annals of the Colonies Relating to 1944). Retrieved 1 July 2018.
- ^ a b Unconfirmed reports of 36°C at São Tomé Airport on various dates in 1998 and other years are possibly reliable.
- ^ Due to a lack of available data, this is an estimated value based on a ten year average yearly temperature of 20.6°C recorded at the station. At uninhabited Lagôa Amélia (elevation 1490 m), the average annual temperature is 18.4°C and lower temperatures may occur. The lowest temperature reported in the last 50 years close to sea level is 16.0°C at São Tomé Airport on 8 July 1974 and 8 July 1977.
- ^ Some sources give the date as January 1948.
- ^ Analyse des Données Météorologiques Recuellies (sic) à Fété-Olé (Nord du Sénégal) de Septembre 1969 à Décembre 1977, Institut de Recherche pour la Développement (IRD) (in French; Analysis of Meteorological Data Collected at Fété-Olé (North Senegal) from September 1969 to December 1977). Retrieved 10 January 2022. Archived 1 June 2020.
- ^ This reading is probably rounded to the nearest 0.5°C. 49.0°C reported at Linguère in March 1940 is unreliable.
- ^ WMO Normals 1991-2020, Diourbel (Station 61666), NOAA. Retrieved 21 December 2023.
- ^ Historical Weather: Matam, Senegal, El Tiempo. Retrieved 14 November 2023.
- ^ a b Climate of Aldabra Atoll. Atoll Research Bulletin, No. 202, February 1977, Smithsonian Libraries. Retrieved 10 January 2022.
- ^ Bulletin of Entomological Research, 1914, Google Books Search Engine. Retrieved 10 January 2022.
- ^ Google Books Search Engine, Google Books (Summary of report [with extracts], 1937). Retrieved 29 December 2023.
- ^ a b c The Soils and Geography of the Bolilands of Sierra Leone, Wageningen University and Research. Retrieved 10 January 2022.
- ^ a b c 40°C reported at a number of places including Njala and Daru, and 39.4°C reported at Yengema have not been confirmed.
- ^ a b Colonial Reports Annual No. 1451; Somaliland. Report for 1928, United Kingdom Colonial Office.
- ^ a b This reading may be too low due to overexposure although readings close to 0°C are expected to occur at high elevations.
- ^ a b Temperatures exceeding 48°C taken during the Italian Occupation of Somalia, including 50.2°C reported at Luuq, also known as Lugh Ferrandi or Luuq Ganaane on 3 April 1933 are unreliable.
- ^ a b c d Temperatures exceeding 48°C reported at Berbera are probably unreliable. Cite error: The named reference "SML" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
- ^ Klimatafel von Gardo / Somalia, Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD). Retrieved 10 January 2022.
- ^ Klimatafel von Bosaso (Bender Cassim) / Somalia, Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD). Retrieved 10 January 2022.
- ^ The lowest recorded value is 13.8°C at the same place on 4 January 2022.
- ^ SA gripped by cold temperatures, News24. Retrieved 4 January 2022.
- ^ South Africa Yearbook, 1997, Google Books Search Engine. Retrieved 4 January 2022.
- ^ 51.7°C reported in 1948 near Upington Northern Cape province is unreliable. 51.6°C on 28 January 1903 and 50.8°C in November 1904 reported at Main (near Tsomo) Eastern Cape province are unreliable. 50.3°C reported in 1928 at Kirkwood Eastern Cape province is unreliable. 50.0°C reported on 3 November 1918 and 49.9°C in January 1925 at Dunbrody Eastern Cape province are probably unreliable.
- ^ a b WMO Normals 1961-1990, Raga (Station 62871), NOAA. Retrieved 4 January 2022.
- ^ WMO Normals 1961-1990, Renk (Station 62801), NOAA. Retrieved 4 January 2022.
- ^ Country Pasture Forage Resource Profiles, Sudan, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Retrieved 4 January 2022. Archived 10 August 2017.
- ^ -2.0°C reported at Wādī Ḥalfā ash-Shamālīyah (Northern) state on 26 December 1917 is unreliable.
- ^ M.A. Hassab Eldayem, Sudan Meteorological Authority reports this reading as 49.7°C.
- ^ Temperatures as high as 52.8°C reported at Wādī Ḥalfā’ ash-Shamālīyah (Northern) state are unreliable.
- ^ WMO Normals, Dongolah (Station 62650), NOAA. Retrieved 4 January 2022.
- ^ National Adaptation Programme of Action, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Retrieved 4 January 2022.
- ^ Climatology and Climate Change Section, Tanzania Meteorological Agency.
- ^ Lower temperatures reported at Mbeya provided by the Tanzania Meteorological Agency appear to be unreliable, possibly due to a faulty instrument, including -8.0°C on 20 June 1974 and -5.5°C on 28 July 1975. A similar low reading of -2.5°C recorded in 1973 may also be unreliable.
- ^ Temperatures on the summit of Kilimanjaro (elevation 5895 m) may approach -20°C.
- ^ 39.8°C may have been recorded in the Dodoma Region on 10 February 1999.
- ^ Temperatures are reported to exceed 40°C in the Lake Natron region.
- ^ 8°C reported at Sokodé is unreliable.
- ^ 44.4°C reported at Sansanné-Mango in March 1947 and on 1 April 1992 is unreliable. 44.0°C reported at Dapaong is possibly reliable.
- ^ Bulletin Mensuel No. 1 Janvier 1891, Service Météorologique de la Tunisie (in French; Monthly Bulletin No. 1, January 1891. Retrieved 18 February 2021.
- ^ Temperatures up to 55°C reported in the desert areas of Tunisia before 1950 are unreliable.
- ^ Les paroxysmes climato-thermiques en Tunisie : approche méthodologique et étude de cas, Climatologie (in French; Climatological-heat paroxysms in Tunisia: methodological approach and case study). Retrieved 25 February 2020.
- ^ Meteorological Observations, 1936, NOAA Central Library, Climate Data Imaging Project. Retrieved 6 August 2007.
- ^ -7.7°C has been reported at high altitude in the Rwenzori Mountains.
- ^ Dekadal Agrometeorological Bulletin Period: 1st – 10th March 2016 (Dekad 1 for March 2016), Uganda National Meteorological Authority. Retrieved 21 August 2016. [dead link]
- ^ 43.3°C reported at Wadelai in 1905 is unreliable. 40.1°C reported at Soroti on 5 February and 6 February 1949 is probably unreliable. 40°C has been reported in the Kitgum district in 2005, but further details are not available.
- ^ Tables of Temperature, Relative Humidity and Precipitation for the World. Part IV. Africa, The Atlantic Ocean South of 35°N and the Indian Ocean. United Kingdom Meteorological Office (1967).
- ^ Instituto Nacional de Meteorología (España).
- ^ WMO Normals 1991-2020, Smara (Station 60335), NOAA. Retrieved 17 December 2023.
- ^ WMO Normals 1961-1990, Sesheke (Station 67741), NOAA. Retrieved 17 December 2023.
- ^ Annual Report on the Social and Economic Progress of the People of Northern Rhodesia, 1932, Google Book Search Engine. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
- ^ WMO Normals 1991-2020, Sesheke (Station 67741), NOAA. Retrieved 17 December 2023.
- ^ -5.9°C reported from Livingstone,_Zambia Southern province on 18 June 1995 is Is incorrect.
- ^ WMO Normals 1991-2020, Mfuwe (Station 67577), NOAA. Retrieved 17 December 2023.
- ^ Zimbabwe’s Environmental Dilemma: Balancing Resource Inequities, Google Book Search Engine. Retrieved 9 January 2022.
- ^ The date is believed to be correct: On the same day, a ground minimum temperature of -14.0°C was recorded here.
- ^ Record-breaking temperatures for Chiredzi, West Nicholson, The Herald. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
- ^ The date is believed to be correct.
- ^ Cold Spell to Persist: Met Office, The Herald. Retrieved 18 December 2022.