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Maracaibo, Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela; Jakarta, Indonesia seem to be the hottest. All ~28.5°C annual mean. Any other humid/wet places you might think are hotter?
Maracaibo, Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela; Jakarta, Indonesia seem to be the hottest. All ~28.5°C annual mean. Any other humid/wet places you might think are hotter?
Maracaibo, Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela; Jakarta, Indonesia seem to be the hottest. All ~28.5°C annual mean. Any other humid/wet places you might think are hotter?
You're right. I'm just going by what I read in this thread. I read the temperature records on Wikipedia. Didn't realise this. Ciudad Bolivar is the same, I think. What about Valledupar, Colombia? Is it semi-arid?
You're right. I'm just going by what I read in this thread. I read the temperature records on Wikipedia. Didn't realise this. Ciudad Bolivar is the same, I think. What about Valledupar, Colombia? Is it semi-arid?
Not Ciudad BolÃvar is a tropical savanna climate as Caracas, but with slightly higher temperatures due to the low altitude.
Coro also has a semi arid climate with much less rainfall than Maracaibo.
Just the annual rains in Caracas, Valledupar and Ciudad BolÃvar are significantly smaller than other cities with similar climates.
Caracas is really surprisingly little rain considering its altitude.
Maracaibo is really hot, in January the temperature can reach 38-40 ° C, due to the sunny weather in winter (December to March) is almost no rain and the as whole sky is very clear.
What about Vanimo in Papua New Guinea? The Wikipedia page says the annual daily mean is 29.7°C. Can you think of any humid place that's hotter?
There is no way the mean minimum is 28.8C as stated by the wiki article. These wet equatorial climates tend to average closer to 23-25C and this is evident by looking at the climate data for such places, e.g Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Colombo etc.
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However, I discussed with an expert climatologist about this issue and he told me that, despite what wikipedia says, the hottest city year-round in the world (that means: the city with the highest annual mean) is Berbera, Somalia, with an average of 31.5°C. However, Mecca is a close second with an average of around 31° and it is the hottest major city in the world. Generally speaking the hottest cities year-round can be found in the climatic belt on the two shores of the Red Sea, where summers are extremely hot and humid but winters are still warm because of the low latitude; consequently cities such as Jizan, Aden, Djibouti City and Massawa have all an annual mean around 30°C or higher, and they're also very humid though not wet (Jizan can easily record 37°C with 65% humidity). Other cities with similar annual means are those on the southern Saharan border, like Bamako, Niamey and Khartoum, having a sort of desert climate with hot winters.
Outside this area it is very difficult to find such an hot climate, because of the lack of climate extremes in tropical climates (tropical and equatorial cities like Singapore or Jakarta usually have an annual average of 27°-28°) and the relatively cool winters of the desert climates like those found in the cities of Phoenix, Baghdad and Dubai. There are, though, some places with a wet and dry climate where temperatures can raise over the 30°-32° range for some months right before the monsoon season, like in Northern Colombia or in Thailand; here cities like Maracaibo and Bangkok have an average of 28°-29°, that become more than 30° in the middle of the urban heat island.
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