Which is the hottest place you have been to?

@maximax8 (31053)
United Kingdom
August 18, 2009 10:14am CST
I have been to Israel and Jordan in an August. It was about over 40 degrees in Eilat and Aqaba on the Red Sea. It was even hotter in Petra out in the desert like landscape. It was a dry sort of heat. Another very hot place I went to was Darwin in Australia in a January. It was the wet season. It was incredibly hot and humid. It was a sticky sort of heat and it made me sweat. Which is the hottest place that you have been to? What was it like there?
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@urbandekay (18278)
18 Aug 09
Kenya, hot enough to boil a monkey's bum! all the best urban
@urbandekay (18278)
18 Aug 09
Even hotter over by Lake Victoria, thinks I all the best urban
@urbandekay (18278)
18 Aug 09
Though Japan felt hotter because it is so humid all the best urban
@maximax8 (31053)
• United Kingdom
18 Aug 09
Hi there Urban. I have been to Kenya and I remember that tropical heat on the Indian Ocean. It was a little cooler in Nairobi and no where near as hot in the Masai Mara. Best wishes, Maxi.
• United States
18 Aug 09
The hottest place I have ever been is where I live in Arizona. It is regularly in the 100s/110s F (38-44 C) as early as May and as late as September. It is pretty much a dry heat here, which is pretty tolerable compared to humid areas that even only get to 80. It can be nice, though, when we get monsoon storms in July/August, but we have not really got any this year.
• United States
18 Aug 09
Arizona is the hottest I've ever experienced. 113F in July of 2004. I prefer Ohio's Fall and Winter Months, so it was a little too much for me to handle, I couldn't imagine living there.
@maximax8 (31053)
• United Kingdom
18 Aug 09
Arizona sounds incredibly hot and you actually live there. You must be used to the heat. I think a dry heat is easier to cope with than a humid heat. I imagine it hardly ever rains there. I don't if you wanted to have monsoon storm this summer.
@maximax8 (31053)
• United Kingdom
18 Aug 09
Yes, I think it would be difficult to handle living there. A visit is memorable and just about bearable.
• United States
19 Aug 09
The hottest places I've ever been to are Florida & Arizona. The longest I spend in Florida when I was a kid and that was during more moderate temps not full fledge summer heat.
• Hong Kong
19 Aug 09
The hottest place I have been to is Hongkong,the west side of the Pacific.I went there on October. It is one of the shopping centers in the world.
@thea09 (18305)
• Greece
18 Aug 09
Hi Maximax, right here at home has been the hottest place I've ever felt for the last month or so, it is not just the 40 + heat some days but the humidity that comes with it. Stepping outside is like walking into something physical as the heat hits one like an actual wall. When it is relentless as it has been here, with no breeze and no escape it does feel like the hottest place ever.
@maximax8 (31053)
• United Kingdom
18 Aug 09
Hi there my friend Theo. That does sound incredibly hot. It can be challenging when it is humid but there is no breeze. The temperature is incredibly hot. I went to Spetse Island and Athens in June when I was a teenager. It was the first hot country that I visited. I remember coming home with sunburned shoulders.
@thea09 (18305)
• Greece
18 Aug 09
June Maximax, you felt it a bit hot in JUNE. Try August, and believe me I've seen much much worse than burnt shoulders.
@Jennlk84 (4206)
• United States
18 Aug 09
The hottest place I've been is Florida in the summer. The heat and humidity there can be killer in the mid summer! My husband and I went there this year for our honeymoon and I went there a few years ago to Disney world. Both times the humidity was just unbearable! And the temps were pretty darn hot in the mid 90s too!
• India
18 Aug 09
the hottest place i have been to is goa....its very beautuful.everything there is just awsome..all the sea beaches are so good that one can have great pleasure over there with a mixture of 3 S formulas i.e sand, sea and sun.and the people there are very good in terms of nature and goa is a complete holiday utilisation place..
@maximax8 (31053)
• United Kingdom
18 Aug 09
I would love to visit beautiful Goa. I can handle that kind of heat in a pretty coastal location. I have heard Kerala is also a stunning place to visit in wonderful India.
@SViswan (12051)
• India
13 Mar 10
I grew up in a very very hot country. There were days int eh summer when it would be over 50 degrees. The government rule says that it should be a holiday for the workers if the temperature goes about 50 degrees...but it has never happened even when the temperature has gone beyond. We were relatively safer in air conditioned homes and schools...but I would feel sorry for the people working outside. When I started working and would wait at a bus stop, I couldn't stand the heat...imagine people working outside!
• United States
20 Aug 09
phoenix,arizona on a high ozone alert day. my lighter blew up in my pocket and set my butt on fire. yea,it's funny now,but at the moment it wasn't. but anyway,it was somewhere between 120/125 that day.
@Raven1 (577)
• Australia
1 Sep 09
I live in South Australia - which is officially the driest state in the driest country on Earth. In summer the temperatures regularly reach 42-45 degrees Celcius (110-115 F) and our city isn't far away from the Nullabor desert. I love it here. I couldn't stand to be anywhere that was so cold you needed to wear more than one layer of clothing.
@sblossom (2168)
18 Aug 09
The hottest place I have visited was Tu Lu Fan in Xinjiang province of China. The day high degree was over 50 degree. I felt I was almost melted. The hot sun and the white desert made me feeling burn as fire. After the trip I decided not go there anymore. It’s not pleasant, in fact it was a torture. I was curious to go there. Now I know curiosity kills the cat.
@maximax8 (31053)
• United Kingdom
18 Aug 09
Oh my! Over 50 degrees was really hot so 'torture' is a superb description. It is great to be curious. When I was in Jerusalem people said I would be mad to go to Eilat. I guess China can have some extreme temperatures in some of its regions.
• India
26 Aug 09
In May I had been to PURI and the place was incredibly hot. Not only hot being a Beach, the humidity factor was very very high and I was sweating like hell. Even the AC was of very little relief. I must have drank at least 10 litres of water and still I was feeling thirsty every alternate minute. I swore that day, that I will never ever visit a Beach in the Peak of Summer, at least not PURI!!!!!!
@RawBill1 (8531)
• Gold Coast, Australia
20 Aug 09
I live in Australia, so I have been in temperatures ove 40 degrees many times! Where I live now, it rarely gets near 40 degrees but we have high humidity which makes it feel hotter than it is! Not as humid as Darwin though! :-) The hottest I have ever felt was when I visited Hong Kong. I am not sure what the temperature was, but the humidity was so bad!!! At the Great Wall Of China, I remember being extremely hot also, but it was a drier heat there!
@suesan35 (478)
• Sri Lanka
20 Aug 09
You don't know what 'hot' is until you live in the Middle East and experience the Summer months from around May to August, July and August being the worse. I lived and worked in the UAE for about 6 years when the place was not as developed as now, and used to dread this period. I remember one summer, it was around 45F with 98 percent humidty and the power went off! It was unbelievable. Without A/C or fan, we thought we were dying. We felt limp and strung up with no strength even to get up to drink a glass of water. My friend who couldn't bear it bought ice from a shop that had a generator and kept blocks of ice on her body. We were without power for 2 whole days and when I think of it now, I cannot imagine how we survived.
• Sri Lanka
18 Aug 09
For me that is our commercial capital Colombo-Sri Lanka.Sometimes it is around 37 degrees of Celsius.But i didn't stay for a long period of time because of that and security reasons but we are free from terrorism we go there happily.
@maximax8 (31053)
• United Kingdom
18 Aug 09
That sounds really hot in the city. The beaches to the south of Colombo look really inviting in photos. I would love to visit Sri Lanka one day. I am so sorry to hear about any terrorist threats. Good luck.
• India
19 Aug 09
my country place it self is very hot all the time, in my place it is very wonderful climate, in time of rain it is too hot and in case of summer hoildays it is raining time, i do not know the nature some times goes so crazy it is takes away all the calculations all the time sometimes the farmeers have to bear a huge loss there over
@kykidd (6812)
• United States
19 Aug 09
The hottest place that I have ever been to was Boston Massachusetts on the 4th of July. I know that Boston does not normally seem like a place that gets exceptionally hot, but that year it was 108 degrees while we were vacationing there. We walked for I don't know how many blocks, but it seemed like miles. It was a lot of fun though. Boston is a great city. I would recommend it to anyone traveling in the United States.
• United States
19 Aug 09
The hottest place I've ever been to was Japan. It was so hot, I couldn't wait to go into any department so I could feel the air conditioning. I almost didn't want to travel and stay in the hotel but we paid for the tour already...
• Philippines
19 Aug 09
For me it was Bahrain. Part of the Middle East that we visited since my dad was working there. And my mom stays with my dad. It was summer that time and without AC, it would be impossible to live inside the house because it was way too hot like an oven, and your being toasted inside.
• India
19 Aug 09
i am in india and the place i been to is hyderabad where the temp is close to 45
• Belgium
19 Aug 09
The hottest place I have ever been to was Corsica. The island under France. We were there for 4 weeks and the average temperature was 46 degrees.