Hottest Major Cities Right Now

Phoenix is the hottest major city in the world right now, at about 39°C.

Updated hourly. Last updated Sep 2, 2026, 10:05:16 PM UTC.

Cities with at least 200,000 residents; 100 cities shown.

Top Cities Ranked by Temperature

#	City	Country	Conditions	Feels like	Temperature
🥇	Phoenix	United States	Partly Cloudy	38°C	39°C
🥈	San Antonio	United States	Partly Cloudy	39°C	38°C
🥉	Ciudad Juárez	Mexico	Sunny	36°C	37°C
=4	Kuwait City	Kuwait	Sandstorm	31°C	36°C
=4	Chicago	United States	Sunny	36°C	36°C
=5	Manaus	Brazil	Overcast	34°C	35°C
=5	Casablanca	Morocco	Overcast	29°C	35°C
=5	Basrah	Iraq	Sandstorm	29°C	35°C
=6	Baghdad	Iraq	Clear	30°C	34°C
=6	Dammam	Saudi Arabia	Haze	33°C	34°C
=6	Dallas	United States	Patchy rain nearby	37°C	34°C
=6	Al Mawşil al Jadīdah	Iraq	Clear	32°C	34°C
=6	Mosul	Iraq	Clear	32°C	34°C
=6	Medina	Saudi Arabia	Clear	31°C	34°C
=6	Mecca	Saudi Arabia	Clear	33°C	34°C
=6	Riyadh	Saudi Arabia	Severe sandstorm	31°C	34°C
=7	Multan	Pakistan	Clear	31°C	33°C
=7	Abu Dhabi	United Arab Emirates	Clear	39°C	33°C
=7	Jeddah	Saudi Arabia	Overcast	32°C	33°C
=7	Erbil	Iraq	Clear	31°C	33°C
=7	Karbala	Iraq	Clear	29°C	33°C
=7	Khartoum	Sudan	Patchy rain nearby	29°C	33°C
=8	Faisalabad	Pakistan	Clear	33°C	32°C
=8	Dubai	United Arab Emirates	Clear	40°C	32°C
=8	Doha	Qatar	Clear	34°C	32°C
=9	Los Angeles	United States	Sunny	32°C	31°C
=9	Mbuji-Mayi	Democratic Republic of Congo	Smoky haze	30°C	31°C
=9	Sharjah	United Arab Emirates	Clear	36°C	31°C
=10	Santa Cruz de la Sierra	Bolivia	Sunny	29°C	30°C
=10	Damascus	Syria	Clear	29°C	30°C
=10	Guayaquil	Ecuador	Cloudy	32°C	30°C
=10	Maracaibo	Venezuela	Patchy light rain in area with thunder	34°C	30°C
=10	Havana	Cuba	Overcast	35°C	30°C
=10	Madrid	Spain	Clear	27°C	30°C
=10	Muscat	Oman	Cloudy	32°C	30°C
=11	N'Djamena	Chad	Overcast	32°C	29°C
=11	N'Djamena	Chad	Overcast	31°C	29°C
=11	Diyarbakır	Türkiye	Clear	26°C	29°C
=11	Kinshasa	Democratic Republic of Congo	Overcast	29°C	29°C
=11	Lahore	Pakistan	Clear	31°C	29°C
=11	Santo Domingo	Dominican Republic	Moderate rain at times	32°C	29°C
=11	Aleppo	Syria	Clear	29°C	29°C
=12	Kananga	Democratic Republic of Congo	Clear	28°C	28°C
=12	Brazzaville	Congo	Overcast	29°C	28°C
=12	Algiers	Algeria	Clear	30°C	28°C
=12	Houston	United States	Moderate rain	32°C	28°C
=12	Najafgarh	India	Partly Cloudy	30°C	28°C
=12	Niamey	Niger	Overcast	29°C	28°C
=12	Peshawar	Pakistan	Patchy rain nearby	29°C	28°C
=12	Xiamen	China	Light rain shower	35°C	28°C
=12	Quanzhou	China	Light rain shower	35°C	28°C
=12	Singapore	Singapore	Overcast	31°C	28°C
=12	Singapore	Singapore	Cloudy	30°C	28°C
=12	Jinjiang	China	Light rain shower	34°C	28°C
=12	Antalya	Türkiye	Clear	27°C	28°C
=12	Saitama	Japan	Patchy rain nearby	31°C	28°C
=12	Cairo	Egypt	Clear	28°C	28°C
=12	Tokyo	Japan	Overcast	31°C	28°C
=12	Mumbai	India	Patchy rain nearby	31°C	28°C
=12	Giza	Egypt	Clear	28°C	28°C
=12	Tijuana	Mexico	Sunny	29°C	28°C
=12	Kallakurichi	India	Overcast	30°C	28°C
=12	Gujranwala	Pakistan	Smoky haze	30°C	28°C
=12	Amman	Jordan	Clear	28°C	28°C
=12	Chennai	India	Overcast	30°C	28°C
=13	Bamako	Mali	Light rain	30°C	27°C
=13	Hyderabad	Pakistan	Overcast	29°C	27°C
=13	Ahmedabad	India	Overcast	29°C	27°C
=13	Belém	Brazil	Cloudy	29°C	27°C
=13	Manila	Philippines	Light rain shower	30°C	27°C
=13	San Diego	United States	Sunny	28°C	27°C
=13	Taipei	Taiwan	Light rain	33°C	27°C
=13	Kaohsiung	Taiwan	Light rain shower	31°C	27°C
=13	Tirunelveli	India	Overcast	29°C	27°C
=13	Osaka	Japan	Overcast	30°C	27°C
=13	Nagoya	Japan	Patchy rain nearby	29°C	27°C
=13	Alexandria	Egypt	Clear	28°C	27°C
=13	Kolkata	India	Patchy rain nearby	30°C	27°C
=13	Brasilia	Brazil	Overcast	26°C	27°C
=13	Kawasaki	Japan	Overcast	30°C	27°C
=13	Madurai	India	Overcast	28°C	27°C
=13	Karachi	Pakistan	Patchy rain nearby	29°C	27°C
=13	Yokohama	Japan	Overcast	30°C	27°C
=13	Vadodara	India	Overcast	28°C	27°C
=13	Goiânia	Brazil	Patchy rain nearby	25°C	27°C
=13	Bangkok	Thailand	Partly Cloudy	28°C	27°C
=13	Fortaleza	Brazil	Partly Cloudy	28°C	27°C
=14	Phnom Penh	Cambodia	Overcast	29°C	26°C
=14	Gaziantep	Türkiye	Clear	24°C	26°C
=14	Busan	South Korea	Overcast	28°C	26°C
=14	Ho Chi Minh City	Vietnam	Overcast	29°C	26°C
=14	Navi Mumbai	India	Light rain shower	29°C	26°C
=14	Beirut	Lebanon	Clear	28°C	26°C
=14	Ra’s Bayrūt	Lebanon	Clear	28°C	26°C
=14	Delhi	India	Cloudy	29°C	26°C
=14	Caloocan City	Philippines	Light rain shower	27°C	26°C
=14	Faridabad	India	Cloudy	29°C	26°C
=14	Surat	India	Patchy rain nearby	28°C	26°C
=14	Quezon City	Philippines	Light rain shower	27°C	26°C
=14	Dhaka	Bangladesh	Overcast	29°C	26°C

Methodology: Current conditions are sampled from WeatherAPI for up to 400 of the largest cities with at least 200,000 residents.

What Makes These the Hottest Cities Right Now?

Temperature at any moment depends on latitude, season, time of day, altitude and local weather. The hottest cities right now are usually those where it is summer and the middle of the day, especially in deserts and the tropics. This list samples live conditions across hundreds of the world's largest cities and updates through the day.

Because it tracks the real-time clock and weather, the ranking shifts as the Sun moves around the globe and weather systems come and go. Right now the hottest major city is Phoenix, at about 39°C.

Frequently Asked Questions: Hottest Major Cities Right Now

Which city is hottest right now?

Among the major cities we track, Phoenix is the hottest right now at about 39°C (as of September 2, 2026). The leader changes through the day as the Sun moves.

How often is this updated?

It samples live weather for hundreds of large cities and refreshes regularly through the day, so the ranking reflects current conditions rather than averages.

Why isn't the world's hottest desert town listed?

This ranking covers larger cities with live weather data, so remote desert outposts that may be even hotter are not included.

Hottest Major Cities Right Now

Top Cities Ranked by Temperature

What Makes These the Hottest Cities Right Now?

Frequently Asked Questions: Hottest Major Cities Right Now

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