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November 10th, 2026
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Theme: Towns Where the Mercury Rarely Dips: The World's Hottest Inhabited Places
These five towns are among the hottest permanently inhabited places on Earth, where summer highs routinely blow past 45°C. Dallol in Ethiopia's Danakil Depression holds the record for highest average annual temperature of any inhabited place. Death Valley's Furnace Creek recorded the highest reliably measured air temperature on the planet, while Kebili in Tunisia and Wadi Halfa in Sudan simmer at the edges of the Sahara, and Marble Bar in Australia once endured a 160-day streak above 37.8°C.
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Furnace Creek, United StatesA tiny outpost in California's Death Valley, site of the highest air temperature ever reliably recorded.
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Wadi Halfa, SudanA Nile-side town in northern Sudan known for scorching, nearly rainless desert summers.
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Kebili, TunisiaAn oasis town on the edge of the Sahara that has recorded some of Africa's highest temperatures.
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Marble Bar, AustraliaA remote Pilbara mining town famed for a record-breaking stretch of extreme heat.
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Dallol, EthiopiaA sulfur-crusted settlement in the Danakil Depression regarded as the hottest inhabited place on Earth.