Furnace Creek
Mojave Desert
The hottest reliably measured air temperature on Earth: 134°F, July 1913.
117°FJuly mean high
42°FJanuary mean low
2.2″Annual precipitation
49.4°FAnnual range
Source station: DEATH VALLEY NP, CA US (USC00042319), -194 ft, in Furnace Creek. NOAA/NCEI 1991–2020 monthly normals.
36.462°N, 116.867°W in Mojave Desert.
36.462°N, 116.867°W. In Mojave Desert.
The next three days
NATIONAL BLEND OF MODELSDRAWN ON REQUESTThe year, in one picture
NOAA/NCEI 1991–2020 NORMALSThe interactive monthly temperature and precipitation chart loads with JavaScript; the values are tabulated below.
Mean daily high
Mean daily low
Monthly precipitation
Month by month
JANUARY AND JULY ARE FREE| Month | Mean high | Mean low | Mean | Precip | Snow | Share of year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 67° | 42° | 54.9° | 0.37″ | — | 17% |
| Jul | 117° | 91° | 104.2° | 0.10″ | — | 5% |
| Year | 117° | 41° | 78.8° | 2.20″ | — | 100% |
Where it sits among the fifty-seven
RANKED AGAINST EVERY OTHER PLACE ON THE SITE57th of 572.2 inches a year.WETTEST1st of 57A mean high of 117°F.HOTTEST JULY39th of 57A mean low of 42°F.COLDEST JANUARY NIGHTS57th of 57-190 feet.HIGHEST1st of 5749.4°F between July and January.WIDEST ANNUAL RANGE
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