Calor extremo, mes a mes en todo el mundo
Las semanas en que la ciudad vive puertas adentro.
Esta es una página de aviso, no una recomendación. Calor extremo afecta a 183 destinos de SeasonMap; los meses de abajo son aquellos en los que la ventana de riesgo está abierta. La mayoría de sus semanas pasan sin incidentes, y la puntuación junto a cada lugar sigue siendo la puntuación climática normal, riesgo incluido.
Cuándo es
Calor extremo en enero
- Adelaida 🇦🇺 AustraliaHeat and fire danger season · 15 Nov – 15 Mar (normalmente)A run of hot northerlies can put the Hills and the Fleurieu on catastrophic fire danger and bring a total fire ban; the country fire service rates each district a day at a time.85
- Buenos Aires 🇦🇷 ArgentinaSummer heat and humidity · 1 Ene – 25 Feb (normalmente)River-plate humidity on top of the heat, and the porteños who can afford to have gone to the coast.79
- Real parque nacional de Hlane 🇸🇿 SuazilandiaLowveld summer heat · 1 Dic – 28 FebMidsummer on the flats can push into the high thirties, the grass is high and the game scatters away from the pans.61
- Asunción 🇵🇾 ParaguaySummer heat · 1 Dic – 28 Feb (normalmente)The met service runs heat warnings through most of the southern summer and the low-lying centre holds it after dark.57
- Alice Springs 🇦🇺 AustraliaThe heat closes the walking · 1 Dic – 28 FebFrom December the long trails are advised against, guided walks stand down, and the town runs on early mornings and waterholes.55
- Uluru 🇦🇺 AustraliaHeat closures on the walks · 1 Nov – 31 Mar (normalmente)Park rangers close the Valley of the Winds beyond the first lookout from eleven in the morning whenever the forecast hits the mid-thirties, and the same logic applies to the Uluru base walk.53
Calor extremo en febrero
- Adelaida 🇦🇺 AustraliaHeat and fire danger season · 15 Nov – 15 Mar (normalmente)A run of hot northerlies can put the Hills and the Fleurieu on catastrophic fire danger and bring a total fire ban; the country fire service rates each district a day at a time.89
- Buenos Aires 🇦🇷 ArgentinaSummer heat and humidity · 1 Ene – 25 Feb (normalmente)River-plate humidity on top of the heat, and the porteños who can afford to have gone to the coast.79
- Asunción 🇵🇾 ParaguaySummer heat · 1 Dic – 28 Feb (normalmente)The met service runs heat warnings through most of the southern summer and the low-lying centre holds it after dark.62
- Alice Springs 🇦🇺 AustraliaThe heat closes the walking · 1 Dic – 28 FebFrom December the long trails are advised against, guided walks stand down, and the town runs on early mornings and waterholes.62
- Real parque nacional de Hlane 🇸🇿 SuazilandiaLowveld summer heat · 1 Dic – 28 FebMidsummer on the flats can push into the high thirties, the grass is high and the game scatters away from the pans.59
- Uluru 🇦🇺 AustraliaHeat closures on the walks · 1 Nov – 31 Mar (normalmente)Park rangers close the Valley of the Winds beyond the first lookout from eleven in the morning whenever the forecast hits the mid-thirties, and the same logic applies to the Uluru base walk.57
Calor extremo en marzo
- Adelaida 🇦🇺 AustraliaHeat and fire danger season · 15 Nov – 15 Mar (normalmente)A run of hot northerlies can put the Hills and the Fleurieu on catastrophic fire danger and bring a total fire ban; the country fire service rates each district a day at a time.92
- Bangalore 🇮🇳 IndiaPre-monsoon heat and water cuts · 1 Mar – 25 May (normalmente)The weeks before the rains are the hottest of the Bengaluru year, and the borewells drop with them; tanker deliveries and apartment rationing make the news most Aprils.79
- Mandalay 🇲🇲 BirmaniaHot season on the dry plain · 1 Mar – 15 May (normalmente)Mandalay sits in the driest part of the country and the pre-monsoon weeks are the hardest in Myanmar.72
- Uluru 🇦🇺 AustraliaHeat closures on the walks · 1 Nov – 31 Mar (normalmente)Park rangers close the Valley of the Winds beyond the first lookout from eleven in the morning whenever the forecast hits the mid-thirties, and the same logic applies to the Uluru base walk.67
- Hampi 🇮🇳 IndiaDeccan pre-monsoon heat · 15 Mar – 31 May (normalmente)The granite holds everything it takes all day and there is no shade on the boulder ridges or in the bazaar.66
- Haidrābād 🇮🇳 IndiaDeccan summer heat · 20 Mar – 5 Jun (normalmente)Heat advisories start in late March and the middle of the day goes indoors until the rains break.62
- Rangún 🇲🇲 BirmaniaHot season · 1 Mar – 15 May (normalmente)The build-up before the rains is the hardest part of the Yangon year, and the city moves indoors between about eleven and four.59
- Bamako 🇲🇱 MaliThe hot months · 15 Mar – 31 May (normalmente)The stretch between the harmattan lifting and the first rains is the hardest of the year.50
- Uagadugú 🇧🇫 Burkina FasoThe hot season · 15 Mar – 31 May (normalmente)The weeks before the rains break are the hardest of the year here, and the city moves indoors or under a tree between eleven and four.45
- Yamena 🇹🇩 ChadThe hot months · 20 Mar – 10 Jun (normalmente)The weeks between the harmattan lifting and the first storms are punishing, and the power supply picks exactly then to fail.43
- Niamey 🇳🇪 NígerThe hot months · 15 Mar – 31 May (normalmente)The hardest stretch of the Sahelian year, when the nights stop cooling down and the afternoons are spent indoors.42
Calor extremo en abril
- Bangalore 🇮🇳 IndiaPre-monsoon heat and water cuts · 1 Mar – 25 May (normalmente)The weeks before the rains are the hottest of the Bengaluru year, and the borewells drop with them; tanker deliveries and apartment rationing make the news most Aprils.70
- Puducherry 🇮🇳 IndiaCoastal summer · 1 Abr – 15 Jun (normalmente)The hottest and stickiest stretch on this coast, with the sea breeze the only relief and afternoons written off.67
- Agra 🇮🇳 IndiaPre-monsoon heat · 20 Abr – 20 Jun (normalmente)The plains bake through May and the marble is too hot to walk on barefoot by mid-morning.59
- Daca 🇧🇩 BangladésPre-monsoon heat · 1 Abr – 25 May (normalmente)Heat warnings shut the schools in the worst weeks and the load-shedding follows the demand, so the air conditioning is not a guarantee.59
- Udaipur 🇮🇳 IndiaPre-monsoon heat · 25 Abr – 20 Jun (normalmente)The Aravallis hold the heat in the bowl the city sits in, and in a dry year the lakes are low enough to walk out on.58
- Pune 🇮🇳 IndiaDeccan pre-monsoon heat · 1 Abr – 31 May (normalmente)The city that sells itself as the cool alternative to Mumbai stops being one for two months.58
- Mérida 🇲🇽 MéxicoPre-rain heat · 1 Abr – 31 May (normalmente)The weeks before the rains break are the hardest of the Yucatán year, and the city shuts down between one and five.57
- Jaipur 🇮🇳 IndiaPre-monsoon heat · 25 Abr – 20 Jun (normalmente)Amber and Nahargarh are open sandstone with no shade on them, and the desert wind off the west makes the afternoons worse rather than better.55
- Hampi 🇮🇳 IndiaDeccan pre-monsoon heat · 15 Mar – 31 May (normalmente)The granite holds everything it takes all day and there is no shade on the boulder ridges or in the bazaar.52
- Benarés 🇮🇳 IndiaPlains summer · 15 Abr – 20 Jun (normalmente)The Gangetic plain at its worst: the ghats are empty between ten and five and the stone is too hot to sit on.51
- Rangún 🇲🇲 BirmaniaHot season · 1 Mar – 15 May (normalmente)The build-up before the rains is the hardest part of the Yangon year, and the city moves indoors between about eleven and four.51
- Mandalay 🇲🇲 BirmaniaHot season on the dry plain · 1 Mar – 15 May (normalmente)Mandalay sits in the driest part of the country and the pre-monsoon weeks are the hardest in Myanmar.51
- Khajuraho 🇮🇳 IndiaPre-monsoon heat · 15 Abr – 15 Jun (normalmente)The Bundelkhand plateau is one of the hotter corners of central India before the rains and the sandstone radiates it back at you.50
- Jodhpur 🇮🇳 IndiaPre-monsoon heat · 20 Abr – 25 Jun (normalmente)The edge of the Thar in May: no shade anywhere on the fort ramparts and a dry wind that makes the afternoon worse, not better.47
- Haidrābād 🇮🇳 IndiaDeccan summer heat · 20 Mar – 5 Jun (normalmente)Heat advisories start in late March and the middle of the day goes indoors until the rains break.44
- Bamako 🇲🇱 MaliThe hot months · 15 Mar – 31 May (normalmente)The stretch between the harmattan lifting and the first rains is the hardest of the year.42
- Uagadugú 🇧🇫 Burkina FasoThe hot season · 15 Mar – 31 May (normalmente)The weeks before the rains break are the hardest of the year here, and the city moves indoors or under a tree between eleven and four.39
- Niamey 🇳🇪 NígerThe hot months · 15 Mar – 31 May (normalmente)The hardest stretch of the Sahelian year, when the nights stop cooling down and the afternoons are spent indoors.31
- Yamena 🇹🇩 ChadThe hot months · 20 Mar – 10 Jun (normalmente)The weeks between the harmattan lifting and the first storms are punishing, and the power supply picks exactly then to fail.31
Calor extremo en mayo
- Parque nacional del Valle de la Muerte 🇺🇸 Estados UnidosSummer extreme heat · 15 May – 30 SepThe hottest reliably measured place on Earth, and the park closes its lower trails and warns people off walking after ten in the morning.84
- Parque nacional Saguaro 🇺🇸 Estados UnidosThe heat rule · 15 May – 15 SepThe park asks you to be off the trail by ten in the morning on a hot day, and not to start at all on the hottest ones.80
- Jericó 🇵🇸 PalestinaThe Jordan Valley summer · 20 May – 20 Sep (normalmente)Valley heat with the hills trapping it in; the ruins at Tell es-Sultan and Hisham's Palace have no shade worth the name.80
- Siwa 🇪🇬 EgiptoOasis summer · 15 May – 15 Sep (normalmente)Everything happens before nine and after six, and the shaded pools and the cold springs are the whole day in between.78
- Parque nacional Big Bend 🇺🇸 Estados UnidosDesert summer heat · 15 May – 15 Sep (normalmente)The desert floor along the Rio Grande is the hot part; the Chisos Basin sits high enough to be bearable.75
- Parque nacional del Gran Cañón 🇺🇸 Estados UnidosInner canyon heat · 15 May – 15 SepIt is routinely fifteen degrees hotter at the river than on the rim, and the park tells people not to hike below the rim between ten and four in summer.74
- Parque nacional de Árboles de Josué 🇺🇸 Estados UnidosDesert summer heat · 25 May – 20 Sep (normalmente)Afternoons over forty degrees, no shade to speak of and no water anywhere in the park.74
- Monterrey 🇲🇽 MéxicoSummer heat · 15 May – 5 Sep (normalmente)The city sits in a bowl of the Sierra Madre and holds its heat well into the night.74
- Tucson 🇺🇸 Estados UnidosDesert summer heat · 10 May – 20 SepTrailheads in Saguaro and the Tucson Mountains empty out by mid-morning, and the drive up Mount Lemmon exists precisely because it is twenty degrees cooler at the top.73
- Scottsdale 🇺🇸 Estados UnidosDesert summer heat · 15 May – 20 SepPreserve trailheads including Camelback are closed to dogs and sometimes to people during heat warnings, and the city runs on early mornings and air conditioning.72
- Houston 🇺🇸 Estados UnidosGulf coast heat and humidity · 20 May – 25 Sep (normalmente)Four months where the dew point does not drop and the heat index sits above forty most afternoons.68
- Phoenix 🇺🇸 Estados UnidosExtreme heat · 1 May – 5 Oct (normalmente)Five months over forty degrees with nights that no longer drop below thirty in July.67
- Bangalore 🇮🇳 IndiaPre-monsoon heat and water cuts · 1 Mar – 25 May (normalmente)The weeks before the rains are the hottest of the Bengaluru year, and the borewells drop with them; tanker deliveries and apartment rationing make the news most Aprils.64
- Manama 🇧🇭 BaréinHeat and humidity · 20 May – 30 Sep (normalmente)Low-lying, surrounded by shallow water and correspondingly sticky; the difference from the desert states is that here it is the damp that beats you.61
- Puerto Sudán 🇸🇩 SudánHeat and humidity · 20 May – 30 Sep (normalmente)One of the hottest and stickiest coasts anywhere; the sea is too warm to cool you down and the dive season stops for it.61
- Karachi 🇵🇰 PakistánHeat when the sea breeze drops · 1 May – 25 Jun (normalmente)The dangerous weeks are the ones the sea breeze fails and the humidity stays; the 2015 heatwave killed more than a thousand people in the city under exactly that pattern.59
- Abu Dabi 🇦🇪 Emiratos Árabes UnidosOutdoor season shuts · 15 May – 30 Sep (normalmente)Corniche life, the desert camps and the open-air festival grounds all stop; what is left is Louvre Abu Dhabi, the malls and the indoor parks on Yas.57
- Kish 🇮🇷 IránGulf heat and humidity · 20 May – 30 Sep (normalmente)Sticky rather than dry, and the sea gives no relief because it is as warm as the air.57
- Pune 🇮🇳 IndiaDeccan pre-monsoon heat · 1 Abr – 31 May (normalmente)The city that sells itself as the cool alternative to Mumbai stops being one for two months.56
- Hampi 🇮🇳 IndiaDeccan pre-monsoon heat · 15 Mar – 31 May (normalmente)The granite holds everything it takes all day and there is no shade on the boulder ridges or in the bazaar.54
- Puducherry 🇮🇳 IndiaCoastal summer · 1 Abr – 15 Jun (normalmente)The hottest and stickiest stretch on this coast, with the sea breeze the only relief and afternoons written off.54
- Mérida 🇲🇽 MéxicoPre-rain heat · 1 Abr – 31 May (normalmente)The weeks before the rains break are the hardest of the Yucatán year, and the city shuts down between one and five.50
- Mandalay 🇲🇲 BirmaniaHot season on the dry plain · 1 Mar – 15 May (normalmente)Mandalay sits in the driest part of the country and the pre-monsoon weeks are the hardest in Myanmar.50
- La Meca 🇸🇦 Arabia SauditaSummer heat in the valley · 15 May – 15 SepThe city sits in a bare rock valley with nothing to soften the afternoon.48
- Lahore 🇵🇰 PakistánPre-monsoon heat · 1 May – 25 Jun (normalmente)The plains bake before the rains and load-shedding tracks the demand, so the air conditioning is not a given.48
…y 21 más en mayo.
Calor extremo en junio
- Évora 🇵🇹 PortugalAlentejo summer heat · 20 Jun – 5 SepThe interior of southern Portugal runs hotter than the coast by a wide margin and the walled town has no shade to speak of at midday.91
- Ereván 🇦🇲 ArmeniaThe valley heat · 20 Jun – 31 Ago (normalmente)Yerevan sits in a bowl and holds the heat; the tuff buildings radiate it back after dark.88
- Osh 🇰🇬 KirguistánHigh-summer heat · 25 Jun – 20 Ago (normalmente)The Ferghana end of the country is a good deal hotter than Bishkek and the bazaar runs early and late around it.87
- Madaba 🇯🇴 JordaniaPlateau summer · 15 Jun – 5 Sep (normalmente)Madaba sits high enough to be a degree kinder than Amman and much kinder than the valley below, but the churches are stone boxes with no air moving and the afternoon walk between them is work.87
- Petra 🇯🇴 JordaniaBare rock in high summer · 1 Jun – 10 SepThere is almost no shade past the Siq, and the climbs to the Monastery and the High Place of Sacrifice are unmanageable after about ten in the morning.85
- Sacramento 🇺🇸 Estados UnidosValley heat · 20 Jun – 10 Sep (normalmente)Runs of triple-digit afternoons come through the valley several times a summer and the city moves indoors and underground until evening.85
- Ciudad del Vaticano Ciudad del VaticanoSummer queue on the wall · 15 Jun – 5 SepIn high summer the unbooked entrance queue runs along an unshaded wall for hours and the Sistine Chapel is packed shoulder to shoulder.85
- Samarcanda 🇺🇿 UzbekistánHigh-summer heat · 25 Jun – 25 Ago (normalmente)The tiled courtyards hold the heat and there is no shade in the Registan at any hour worth photographing it.83
- Córdoba 🇪🇸 EspañaThe summer heat · 20 Jun – 5 SepCordoba is routinely the hottest city in Spain and the old town is built for it: shuttered mornings, nothing outdoors until nine at night.83
- Trípoli 🇱🇾 LibiaThe coastal summer · 15 Jun – 15 Sep (normalmente)Humid rather than desert-dry because the sea is right there, and the middle of the day is dead.82
- El Aaiún Sahara OccidentalWhen the wind turns inland · 1 Jun – 15 Sep (normalmente)The cold current offshore keeps this coast mild until the wind swings round off the Sahara, and then the town goes from pleasant to furnace within a day.82
- Atenas 🇬🇷 GreciaMidday closures in the heat · 15 Jun – 31 Ago (normalmente)On the worst days the culture ministry shuts the open archaeological sites through the middle of the afternoon and the Red Cross hands out water at the gate.81
- Selçuk 🇹🇷 TurquíaNo shade at Ephesus · 25 Jun – 31 Ago (normalmente)The ruins are a kilometre of open marble with nothing to stand under, and the terrace houses are hotter still under their roof.81
- Podgorica 🇲🇪 MontenegroExtreme summer heat · 25 Jun – 1 Sep (normalmente)One of the hottest cities in Europe, sitting in a bowl of hills an hour from the sea with nothing to move the air.81
- Dusambé 🇹🇯 TayikistánHigh-summer heat · 25 Jun – 25 Ago (normalmente)The Hisor valley traps the heat and the city runs on the plane-tree shade along Rudaki and the tea houses.80
- Damasco 🇸🇾 SiriaThe dry heat · 15 Jun – 5 Sep (normalmente)Heat the city has always answered with courtyards and late nights.80
- Filadelfia 🇺🇸 Estados UnidosSummer heat and humidity · 25 Jun – 5 Sep (normalmente)Rowhouse blocks hold the heat overnight and the mid-Atlantic humidity does the rest.79
- Gerasa 🇯🇴 JordaniaHeat on the ruins · 15 Jun – 5 Sep (normalmente)Nothing at Gerasa has a roof, and the limestone throws the heat straight back at you the length of the colonnaded street.79
- Washington D. C. 🇺🇸 Estados UnidosSummer heat and humidity · 20 Jun – 5 Sep (normalmente)The city was built on a river flat and the summer behaves accordingly, with afternoon thunderstorms and heat advisories through July and August.78
- Parque nacional y reserva Grandes Dunas de Arena 🇺🇸 Estados UnidosScorching sand surface · 1 Jun – 31 Ago (normalmente)The sand surface gets far hotter than the air and burns bare feet and dogs' pads by mid-morning.78
- Pamukkale 🇹🇷 TurquíaHeat on the terraces · 25 Jun – 31 Ago (normalmente)The Denizli basin bakes and the white travertine throws it straight back up at you, barefoot, with no shade anywhere on the walk up.78
- Parque nacional Zion 🇺🇸 Estados UnidosCanyon heat · 1 Jun – 10 Sep (normalmente)The canyon floor sits above forty degrees on midsummer afternoons and the rock radiates it back.77
- Uadi Rum 🇯🇴 JordaniaThe unusable middle of the day · 1 Jun – 10 Sep (normalmente)Camps still run, but jeep trips go at dawn and after five and the scrambles are off entirely.77
- Parque nacional Pinnacles 🇺🇸 Estados UnidosSummer heat and fire danger · 1 Jun – 15 Sep (normalmente)The chaparral offers no shade and the High Peaks are exposed the whole way round.76
- Andijon 🇺🇿 UzbekistánHigh-summer heat · 25 Jun – 25 Ago (normalmente)The valley bakes for two months and the town works early and late around it.76
…y 93 más en junio.
Calor extremo en julio
- Coímbra 🇵🇹 PortugalMondego valley heat · 1 Jul – 31 AgoThe valley sits far enough from the sea to lose the Atlantic breeze, and the university hill is all stone stairs in full sun.88
- Salamanca 🇪🇸 EspañaMeseta summer heat · 1 Jul – 31 AgoHigh, dry and treeless: the Plaza Mayor is an oven from noon and the sandstone throws it back until late.87
- Pristina KosovoKosovo plain heat · 1 Jul – 20 AgoThe basin holds the heat and there is very little shade in the centre, so the cafes on Rruga UCK do their trade after eight.86
- Chitá 🇷🇺 RusiaSummer heat swing · 1 Jul – 15 Ago (normalmente)The same continental extremes that bring -49°C winters can push summer afternoons past 40°C, with a recorded high of 40.6°C in August.85
- Ronda 🇪🇸 EspañaInland Andalusian heat · 1 Jul – 25 AgoRonda sits high enough to cool off at night but not enough to escape the afternoon.85
- Lyon 🇫🇷 FranciaHeatwave weeks · 1 Jul – 20 Ago (normalmente)The city sits in a river corridor that traps the heat, and most summers bring a run of days when the Presqu'ile is unwalkable in the afternoon.84
- Toulouse 🇫🇷 FranciaGaronne valley heat · 5 Jul – 25 AgoThe brick that gives the city its colour also stores the heat, and August adds the French habit of closing for the month, so a good share of the restaurants are shut.84
- Siena 🇮🇹 ItaliaTuscan inland heat · 5 Jul – 25 AgoSiena is a hill town with brick that holds heat and a shadeless main square.84
- Évora 🇵🇹 PortugalAlentejo summer heat · 20 Jun – 5 SepThe interior of southern Portugal runs hotter than the coast by a wide margin and the walled town has no shade to speak of at midday.84
- Osh 🇰🇬 KirguistánHigh-summer heat · 25 Jun – 20 Ago (normalmente)The Ferghana end of the country is a good deal hotter than Bishkek and the bazaar runs early and late around it.83
- Montpellier 🇫🇷 FranciaLanguedoc heat · 1 Jul – 25 AgoThe old town's narrow streets stay usable but the tram platforms and the Antigone esplanade do not, and the coast at Palavas is where the city goes at four.83
- Aix-en-Provence 🇫🇷 FranciaHeatwave weeks · 1 Jul – 25 Ago (normalmente)Most summers bring stretches where the town moves indoors until six and the fountains are the only shade worth having.83
- Carcasona 🇫🇷 FranciaHeatwave weeks · 1 Jul – 25 Ago (normalmente)The Aude valley takes the worst of the southern summer, and the walled city has almost no shade in it.83
- Madaba 🇯🇴 JordaniaPlateau summer · 15 Jun – 5 Sep (normalmente)Madaba sits high enough to be a degree kinder than Amman and much kinder than the valley below, but the churches are stone boxes with no air moving and the afternoon walk between them is work.83
- Petra 🇯🇴 JordaniaBare rock in high summer · 1 Jun – 10 SepThere is almost no shade past the Siq, and the climbs to the Monastery and the High Place of Sacrifice are unmanageable after about ten in the morning.82
- Aviñón 🇫🇷 FranciaHeatwave weeks · 1 Jul – 25 Ago (normalmente)Avignon sits in one of the hottest corners of France and the festival plays straight through it: the stone courtyards hold the day until well past midnight.82
- Budapest 🇭🇺 HungríaSummer heat alerts · 1 Jul – 20 Ago (normalmente)The national weather service issues heat alerts most summers and the city holds it: stone, no sea and little shade on the Pest grid.81
- Göreme 🇹🇷 TurquíaHigh summer on the plateau · 1 Jul – 20 Ago (normalmente)The valleys are treeless and the tuff throws the heat back at you, so walking Rose or Pigeon valley is a dawn job.81
- Palermo 🇮🇹 ItaliaSirocco heat · 1 Jul – 31 AgoWhen the sirocco comes off North Africa the city sits under dust-hazed African air for days at a time and the markets close by noon.80
- Bolzano 🇮🇹 ItaliaValley-floor heat · 1 Jul – 20 Ago (normalmente)The city sits in a closed basin with mountains on three sides and regularly runs hotter than anywhere in Italy for a week at a time.80
- Niš 🇷🇸 SerbiaInland summer heat · 1 Jul – 25 Ago (normalmente)Nis sits in a basin well away from any sea and July and August afternoons are brutal in it, which is why nothing happens between two and six.80
- Matera 🇮🇹 ItaliaHeat in the ravine · 1 Jul – 25 AgoThe Sassi are cut into a south-facing tufa gorge with almost no shade and stone that holds the day's heat into the night.80
- Florencia 🇮🇹 ItaliaBasin heat · 1 Jul – 25 AgoThe city sits in a bowl in the Arno valley with no breeze and stone that holds the day's heat overnight.79
- Ereván 🇦🇲 ArmeniaThe valley heat · 20 Jun – 31 Ago (normalmente)Yerevan sits in a bowl and holds the heat; the tuff buildings radiate it back after dark.79
- Bucarest 🇷🇴 RumaniaHeatwave weeks · 1 Jul – 20 Ago (normalmente)The plain around the city bakes and the concrete holds it overnight; the met service issues red warnings most summers and the terraces do not fill until nine.79
…y 122 más en julio.
Calor extremo en agosto
- Chitá 🇷🇺 RusiaSummer heat swing · 1 Jul – 15 Ago (normalmente)The same continental extremes that bring -49°C winters can push summer afternoons past 40°C, with a recorded high of 40.6°C in August.90
- Osh 🇰🇬 KirguistánHigh-summer heat · 25 Jun – 20 Ago (normalmente)The Ferghana end of the country is a good deal hotter than Bishkek and the bazaar runs early and late around it.89
- Pristina KosovoKosovo plain heat · 1 Jul – 20 AgoThe basin holds the heat and there is very little shade in the centre, so the cafes on Rruga UCK do their trade after eight.89
- Coímbra 🇵🇹 PortugalMondego valley heat · 1 Jul – 31 AgoThe valley sits far enough from the sea to lose the Atlantic breeze, and the university hill is all stone stairs in full sun.87
- Salamanca 🇪🇸 EspañaMeseta summer heat · 1 Jul – 31 AgoHigh, dry and treeless: the Plaza Mayor is an oven from noon and the sandstone throws it back until late.86
- Samarcanda 🇺🇿 UzbekistánHigh-summer heat · 25 Jun – 25 Ago (normalmente)The tiled courtyards hold the heat and there is no shade in the Registan at any hour worth photographing it.84
- Bucarest 🇷🇴 RumaniaHeatwave weeks · 1 Jul – 20 Ago (normalmente)The plain around the city bakes and the concrete holds it overnight; the met service issues red warnings most summers and the terraces do not fill until nine.83
- Toulouse 🇫🇷 FranciaGaronne valley heat · 5 Jul – 25 AgoThe brick that gives the city its colour also stores the heat, and August adds the French habit of closing for the month, so a good share of the restaurants are shut.83
- Niš 🇷🇸 SerbiaInland summer heat · 1 Jul – 25 Ago (normalmente)Nis sits in a basin well away from any sea and July and August afternoons are brutal in it, which is why nothing happens between two and six.83
- Ronda 🇪🇸 EspañaInland Andalusian heat · 1 Jul – 25 AgoRonda sits high enough to cool off at night but not enough to escape the afternoon.83
- Évora 🇵🇹 PortugalAlentejo summer heat · 20 Jun – 5 SepThe interior of southern Portugal runs hotter than the coast by a wide margin and the walled town has no shade to speak of at midday.83
- Lyon 🇫🇷 FranciaHeatwave weeks · 1 Jul – 20 Ago (normalmente)The city sits in a river corridor that traps the heat, and most summers bring a run of days when the Presqu'ile is unwalkable in the afternoon.82
- Montpellier 🇫🇷 FranciaLanguedoc heat · 1 Jul – 25 AgoThe old town's narrow streets stay usable but the tram platforms and the Antigone esplanade do not, and the coast at Palavas is where the city goes at four.82
- Siena 🇮🇹 ItaliaTuscan inland heat · 5 Jul – 25 AgoSiena is a hill town with brick that holds heat and a shadeless main square.82
- Aix-en-Provence 🇫🇷 FranciaHeatwave weeks · 1 Jul – 25 Ago (normalmente)Most summers bring stretches where the town moves indoors until six and the fountains are the only shade worth having.82
- Carcasona 🇫🇷 FranciaHeatwave weeks · 1 Jul – 25 Ago (normalmente)The Aude valley takes the worst of the southern summer, and the walled city has almost no shade in it.82
- Madaba 🇯🇴 JordaniaPlateau summer · 15 Jun – 5 Sep (normalmente)Madaba sits high enough to be a degree kinder than Amman and much kinder than the valley below, but the churches are stone boxes with no air moving and the afternoon walk between them is work.82
- Madrid 🇪🇸 EspañaHeatwave weeks · 1 Jul – 31 AgoAEMET runs heat warnings for the Madrid region through most of high summer, and the city plans around them: sightseeing before noon, nothing outdoors between two and eight, terraces after dark.81
- Petra 🇯🇴 JordaniaBare rock in high summer · 1 Jun – 10 SepThere is almost no shade past the Siq, and the climbs to the Monastery and the High Place of Sacrifice are unmanageable after about ten in the morning.81
- Ereván 🇦🇲 ArmeniaThe valley heat · 20 Jun – 31 Ago (normalmente)Yerevan sits in a bowl and holds the heat; the tuff buildings radiate it back after dark.80
- Kasgar 🇨🇳 República Popular ChinaPeak summer heat · 1 Jul – 20 Ago (normalmente)The oasis follows the desert.80
- Aviñón 🇫🇷 FranciaHeatwave weeks · 1 Jul – 25 Ago (normalmente)Avignon sits in one of the hottest corners of France and the festival plays straight through it: the stone courtyards hold the day until well past midnight.80
- Budapest 🇭🇺 HungríaSummer heat alerts · 1 Jul – 20 Ago (normalmente)The national weather service issues heat alerts most summers and the city holds it: stone, no sea and little shade on the Pest grid.79
- Göreme 🇹🇷 TurquíaHigh summer on the plateau · 1 Jul – 20 Ago (normalmente)The valleys are treeless and the tuff throws the heat back at you, so walking Rose or Pigeon valley is a dawn job.79
- Parque nacional y reserva Grandes Dunas de Arena 🇺🇸 Estados UnidosScorching sand surface · 1 Jun – 31 Ago (normalmente)The sand surface gets far hotter than the air and burns bare feet and dogs' pads by mid-morning.79
…y 122 más en agosto.
Calor extremo en septiembre
- Évora 🇵🇹 PortugalAlentejo summer heat · 20 Jun – 5 SepThe interior of southern Portugal runs hotter than the coast by a wide margin and the walled town has no shade to speak of at midday.89
- Sacramento 🇺🇸 Estados UnidosValley heat · 20 Jun – 10 Sep (normalmente)Runs of triple-digit afternoons come through the valley several times a summer and the city moves indoors and underground until evening.87
- Madaba 🇯🇴 JordaniaPlateau summer · 15 Jun – 5 Sep (normalmente)Madaba sits high enough to be a degree kinder than Amman and much kinder than the valley below, but the churches are stone boxes with no air moving and the afternoon walk between them is work.87
- Petra 🇯🇴 JordaniaBare rock in high summer · 1 Jun – 10 SepThere is almost no shade past the Siq, and the climbs to the Monastery and the High Place of Sacrifice are unmanageable after about ten in the morning.86
- San Luis 🇺🇸 Estados UnidosSummer heat and humidity · 15 Jun – 5 Sep (normalmente)The river valley traps humidity and the heat index runs well above the thermometer for weeks.85
- Córdoba 🇪🇸 EspañaThe summer heat · 20 Jun – 5 SepCordoba is routinely the hottest city in Spain and the old town is built for it: shuttered mornings, nothing outdoors until nine at night.85
- Isfahán 🇮🇷 IránThe dry summer · 10 Jun – 5 Sep (normalmente)Dry rather than sticky, but the square is unshaded and unusable in the middle of the day.84
- Teherán 🇮🇷 IránThe dry summer · 15 Jun – 5 Sep (normalmente)Hot and dusty at street level, several degrees cooler in the northern suburbs against the mountain, which is where the city goes in the evening.83
- Ciudad del Vaticano Ciudad del VaticanoSummer queue on the wall · 15 Jun – 5 SepIn high summer the unbooked entrance queue runs along an unshaded wall for hours and the Sistine Chapel is packed shoulder to shoulder.83
- Sedona 🇺🇸 Estados UnidosSummer heat · 1 Jun – 10 Sep (normalmente)At 1,300 metres Sedona is cooler than Phoenix and still too hot to walk red rock after ten in the morning.82
- Podgorica 🇲🇪 MontenegroExtreme summer heat · 25 Jun – 1 Sep (normalmente)One of the hottest cities in Europe, sitting in a bowl of hills an hour from the sea with nothing to move the air.82
- Filadelfia 🇺🇸 Estados UnidosSummer heat and humidity · 25 Jun – 5 Sep (normalmente)Rowhouse blocks hold the heat overnight and the mid-Atlantic humidity does the rest.81
- Washington D. C. 🇺🇸 Estados UnidosSummer heat and humidity · 20 Jun – 5 Sep (normalmente)The city was built on a river flat and the summer behaves accordingly, with afternoon thunderstorms and heat advisories through July and August.80
- Parque nacional Zion 🇺🇸 Estados UnidosCanyon heat · 1 Jun – 10 Sep (normalmente)The canyon floor sits above forty degrees on midsummer afternoons and the rock radiates it back.80
- Atlanta 🇺🇸 Estados UnidosSummer heat and humidity · 10 Jun – 10 Sep (normalmente)Three months of humid thirty-plus afternoons with a thunderstorm most days around five.80
- Moab 🇺🇸 Estados UnidosSummer heat · 15 Jun – 5 Sep (normalmente)There is no shade on the slickrock and no water on the trails.80
- Parque nacional del Valle de la Muerte 🇺🇸 Estados UnidosSummer extreme heat · 15 May – 30 SepThe hottest reliably measured place on Earth, and the park closes its lower trails and warns people off walking after ten in the morning.79
- Damasco 🇸🇾 SiriaThe dry heat · 15 Jun – 5 Sep (normalmente)Heat the city has always answered with courtyards and late nights.79
- Shiraz 🇮🇷 IránThe dry summer · 10 Jun – 10 Sep (normalmente)Dry heat at altitude, which means the shaded gardens work and the middle of the day does not.78
- Parque nacional Tierra de Cañones 🇺🇸 Estados UnidosSummer heat · 10 Jun – 5 Sep (normalmente)No shade, no water and no phone signal below the rim, and the Maze district is a long way from any help.78
- Mardin 🇹🇷 TurquíaMesopotamian summer · 15 Jun – 10 Sep (normalmente)The plain below the ridge is one of the hottest places in Turkey and the stone lanes hold the heat into the night.78
- Gerasa 🇯🇴 JordaniaHeat on the ruins · 15 Jun – 5 Sep (normalmente)Nothing at Gerasa has a roof, and the limestone throws the heat straight back at you the length of the colonnaded street.78
- Uadi Rum 🇯🇴 JordaniaThe unusable middle of the day · 1 Jun – 10 Sep (normalmente)Camps still run, but jeep trips go at dawn and after five and the scrambles are off entirely.78
- Parque nacional Big Bend 🇺🇸 Estados UnidosDesert summer heat · 15 May – 15 Sep (normalmente)The desert floor along the Rio Grande is the hot part; the Chisos Basin sits high enough to be bearable.77
- Trípoli 🇱🇾 LibiaThe coastal summer · 15 Jun – 15 Sep (normalmente)Humid rather than desert-dry because the sea is right there, and the middle of the day is dead.77
…y 64 más en septiembre.
Calor extremo en octubre
- Gaborone 🇧🇼 BotsuanaThe build-up · 1 Oct – 20 Nov (normalmente)The weeks before the rains break are the hardest of the year: still air, dust off the bare ground and afternoons nobody walks anywhere in.82
- Sossusvlei 🇳🇦 NamibiaHeat before the rains · 1 Oct – 31 Dic (normalmente)From October the dunes are unclimbable much after nine in the morning and the walk into Deadvlei is a first-light job or nothing.75
- Phoenix 🇺🇸 Estados UnidosExtreme heat · 1 May – 5 Oct (normalmente)Five months over forty degrees with nights that no longer drop below thirty in July.74
- Darwin 🇦🇺 AustraliaThe build-up · 1 Oct – 15 Dic (normalmente)Locals call the weeks before the rains the build-up: still, heavy air and thunderheads that stack up every afternoon without delivering.65
- Cataratas Victoria 🇿🇼 ZimbabueSuicide month · 20 Sep – 10 Nov (normalmente)The local name for the weeks before the rains break, when the valley bakes and the bush is grey.62
- Parque nacional Etosha 🇳🇦 NamibiaThe heat before the rains · 1 Oct – 10 Dic (normalmente)October and November are the hard end of the dry season, when the heat builds until the rains break it.61
- Parque nacional Kakadu 🇦🇺 AustraliaThe build-up · 1 Oct – 15 Dic (normalmente)Locals call October to December the build-up: still, heavy air and thunderheads that stack up for weeks before they deliver.45
Calor extremo en noviembre
- Adelaida 🇦🇺 AustraliaHeat and fire danger season · 15 Nov – 15 Mar (normalmente)A run of hot northerlies can put the Hills and the Fleurieu on catastrophic fire danger and bring a total fire ban; the country fire service rates each district a day at a time.94
- Gaborone 🇧🇼 BotsuanaThe build-up · 1 Oct – 20 Nov (normalmente)The weeks before the rains break are the hardest of the year: still air, dust off the bare ground and afternoons nobody walks anywhere in.80
- Sossusvlei 🇳🇦 NamibiaHeat before the rains · 1 Oct – 31 Dic (normalmente)From October the dunes are unclimbable much after nine in the morning and the walk into Deadvlei is a first-light job or nothing.74
- Uluru 🇦🇺 AustraliaHeat closures on the walks · 1 Nov – 31 Mar (normalmente)Park rangers close the Valley of the Winds beyond the first lookout from eleven in the morning whenever the forecast hits the mid-thirties, and the same logic applies to the Uluru base walk.69
- Cataratas Victoria 🇿🇼 ZimbabueSuicide month · 20 Sep – 10 Nov (normalmente)The local name for the weeks before the rains break, when the valley bakes and the bush is grey.64
- Parque nacional Etosha 🇳🇦 NamibiaThe heat before the rains · 1 Oct – 10 Dic (normalmente)October and November are the hard end of the dry season, when the heat builds until the rains break it.64
- Darwin 🇦🇺 AustraliaThe build-up · 1 Oct – 15 Dic (normalmente)Locals call the weeks before the rains the build-up: still, heavy air and thunderheads that stack up every afternoon without delivering.55
- Parque nacional Kakadu 🇦🇺 AustraliaThe build-up · 1 Oct – 15 Dic (normalmente)Locals call October to December the build-up: still, heavy air and thunderheads that stack up for weeks before they deliver.39
Calor extremo en diciembre
- Adelaida 🇦🇺 AustraliaHeat and fire danger season · 15 Nov – 15 Mar (normalmente)A run of hot northerlies can put the Hills and the Fleurieu on catastrophic fire danger and bring a total fire ban; the country fire service rates each district a day at a time.91
- Sossusvlei 🇳🇦 NamibiaHeat before the rains · 1 Oct – 31 Dic (normalmente)From October the dunes are unclimbable much after nine in the morning and the walk into Deadvlei is a first-light job or nothing.73
- Asunción 🇵🇾 ParaguaySummer heat · 1 Dic – 28 Feb (normalmente)The met service runs heat warnings through most of the southern summer and the low-lying centre holds it after dark.64
- Parque nacional Etosha 🇳🇦 NamibiaThe heat before the rains · 1 Oct – 10 Dic (normalmente)October and November are the hard end of the dry season, when the heat builds until the rains break it.63
- Alice Springs 🇦🇺 AustraliaThe heat closes the walking · 1 Dic – 28 FebFrom December the long trails are advised against, guided walks stand down, and the town runs on early mornings and waterholes.61
- Real parque nacional de Hlane 🇸🇿 SuazilandiaLowveld summer heat · 1 Dic – 28 FebMidsummer on the flats can push into the high thirties, the grass is high and the game scatters away from the pans.60
- Uluru 🇦🇺 AustraliaHeat closures on the walks · 1 Nov – 31 Mar (normalmente)Park rangers close the Valley of the Winds beyond the first lookout from eleven in the morning whenever the forecast hits the mid-thirties, and the same logic applies to the Uluru base walk.59
- Darwin 🇦🇺 AustraliaThe build-up · 1 Oct – 15 Dic (normalmente)Locals call the weeks before the rains the build-up: still, heavy air and thunderheads that stack up every afternoon without delivering.49
- Parque nacional Kakadu 🇦🇺 AustraliaThe build-up · 1 Oct – 15 Dic (normalmente)Locals call October to December the build-up: still, heavy air and thunderheads that stack up for weeks before they deliver.37