Highest temperature recorded on Earth

Quality:

Highest temperature recorded on Earth - World's highest temperature recorded ever. Article “Highest temperature recorded on Earth” in English Wikipedia has 45.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 40 references and 6 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

In June 2025 the article “Highest temperature recorded on Earth” was edited by 8 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 8 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Highest temperature recorded on Earth”, its content was written by 185 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 236 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 29 times in English Wikipedia and cited 98 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1671 in August 2020
• Global: #8031 in August 2020

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #3105 in July 2023
• Global: #5023 in July 2023

There are 9 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Highest temperature recorded on Earth		45.0833
2	Catalan (ca) Temperatura més alta registrada a la Terra		41.7471
3	Korean (ko) 지구 최고 기온 기록		35.0469
4	Persian (fa) بالاترین دمای ثبت‌شده روی زمین		29.9829
5	Japanese (ja) 世界の最高気温記録		26.2882
6	Romanian (ro) Cea mai mare temperatură înregistrată pe Pământ		24.1501
7	Estonian (et) Kõrgeim õhutemperatuur		21.3727
8	Arabic (ar) أعلى درجة حرارة مئوية مرصودة على كوكب الأرض		19.1226
9	Portuguese (pt) Temperatura mais alta registada na Terra		15.9213

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Highest temperature recorded on Earth		3 257 728
2	Arabic (ar) أعلى درجة حرارة مئوية مرصودة على كوكب الأرض		171 609
3	Japanese (ja) 世界の最高気温記録		164 419
4	Romanian (ro) Cea mai mare temperatură înregistrată pe Pământ		100 584
5	Persian (fa) بالاترین دمای ثبت‌شده روی زمین		51 715
6	Portuguese (pt) Temperatura mais alta registada na Terra		43 439
7	Estonian (et) Kõrgeim õhutemperatuur		26 734
8	Korean (ko) 지구 최고 기온 기록		10 707
9	Catalan (ca) Temperatura més alta registrada a la Terra		3 457

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Highest temperature recorded on Earth		56 134
2	Arabic (ar) أعلى درجة حرارة مئوية مرصودة على كوكب الأرض		3 786
3	Japanese (ja) 世界の最高気温記録		3 442
4	Portuguese (pt) Temperatura mais alta registada na Terra		667
5	Romanian (ro) Cea mai mare temperatură înregistrată pe Pământ		472
6	Korean (ko) 지구 최고 기온 기록		257
7	Estonian (et) Kõrgeim õhutemperatuur		177
8	Persian (fa) بالاترین دمای ثبت‌شده روی زمین		86
9	Catalan (ca) Temperatura més alta registrada a la Terra		53

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Highest temperature recorded on Earth		185
2	Estonian (et) Kõrgeim õhutemperatuur		10
3	Persian (fa) بالاترین دمای ثبت‌شده روی زمین		8
4	Arabic (ar) أعلى درجة حرارة مئوية مرصودة على كوكب الأرض		7
5	Portuguese (pt) Temperatura mais alta registada na Terra		7
6	Catalan (ca) Temperatura més alta registrada a la Terra		5
7	Korean (ko) 지구 최고 기온 기록		5
8	Romanian (ro) Cea mai mare temperatură înregistrată pe Pământ		5
9	Japanese (ja) 世界の最高気温記録		4

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Highest temperature recorded on Earth		8
2	Arabic (ar) أعلى درجة حرارة مئوية مرصودة على كوكب الأرض		0
3	Catalan (ca) Temperatura més alta registrada a la Terra		0
4	Estonian (et) Kõrgeim õhutemperatuur		0
5	Persian (fa) بالاترین دمای ثبت‌شده روی زمین		0
6	Japanese (ja) 世界の最高気温記録		0
7	Korean (ko) 지구 최고 기온 기록		0
8	Portuguese (pt) Temperatura mais alta registada na Terra		0
9	Romanian (ro) Cea mai mare temperatură înregistrată pe Pământ		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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