I realize that Rangoon and Naypyidaw are different places... was just trying to cut you guys some slack.
To make this quiz I tried finding a comprehensive list of capital cities ordered by average temperature or average highs, but could find none. So I had to actually look it up for every individual city. It's quite possible I missed something or made a mistake so feel free to point it out if you find any.
I think I looked up all of them. At one point this was a top-50 or top-70 cities quiz.. I was trying to keep on at least one of the three capitals of South Africa, but I kept finding new cities that were hotter including most of the tiny Pacific island nation capitals that nobody knows, which tend to hover around 30 degrees Celsius.. so I just reduced it to top 30 which required deleting most of the SubSaharan ones. Thanks for double-checking. ;-)
The South American capitals that are close to the tropics (Quito, La Paz) tend to be up in the mountains. The high elevations mitigates the high temperatures from surrounding areas. Others like Buenos Aires are too far south. Paramaribo comes very close with an average annual high of 31 degrees Celsius (88 Fahrenheit), just a tenth of a degree Celsius off of Vientiane.
I took it a second time and was one again a bit owned, though my 19/30 still beats 94% of takers... hard, deceitful and thus nice quiz ;). That's right, many south american capitals, as well as some african ones are set in altitude (which is finally logical since it's easier to live up there where it's cool...). And what about Baghdad and some other middle east capitals? I thought they would be hot too.
Baghdad is excruciatingly hot in the summer... but being in the middle of the desert means large rapid temperature fluctuations. The winters can be quite cold, and this lowers the year-round average.
If I had used a different standard for "hottest"... for example... the highest temperature each city sees in an entire year (on average), rather than the average high over the whole year, then some cities like Baghdad and Manama would have no doubt made it on while some other humid cities near the tropics with more steady temperatures would have fallen off.
Santo Domingo's year round average high is 30.4 degrees. According to Wikipedia, heat and humidity are both mitigated by tropical trade winds, which I guess Port-au-Prince is more shielded from given the geography of Hispaniola.
Where are you getting that from? The climate of Brasilia is much more mild than that. 31.2 is close to an all-time record high for them, and at any rate certainly much higher than the average annual daily high of 26.6 the is recorded on Wikipedia.
wow, Kuwait City, Doha, Riyadh and Abu Dhabi but not Manama. That's interesting. Personally I felt like Manama was way hotter than all of these but statistics probably don't lie.
The temperature in manama is more stable and somewhat mitigated by being surrounded by sea on all sides. In the winter it often is hotter than Riyadh. In the summer it's definitely not... but sometimes can feel that way due to extreme humidity.
Great quiz. This might be some stupid questions but I'm just a kid, is Juba the capital of South Sudan? Phnom Penh not on it and Vientiane is, is Phnom Penh not far off from Vientiane?
It might seem small on a globe but it is a whole other country... on the other hand, I just checked and the information I find now conflicts with what I saw before. On Wikipedia the average annual high for Phnom Penh is 32.9 C, which would not only put it in the top 30 but actually the top 15.
If Quizmaster ever decides to feature this one again maybe we can update it. If not it's probably not worth upsetting everyone's points to put in the correction. And as this data was from 3 years ago... it's possible that there have been many changes. I'd have to go through the whole list of countries again and double check everything.
25/30. Missed Ouagadougou (Didn't allow the common abbrev. Ouaga here), Abu Dhabi, Kingston, Port-au-Prince, and Managua.I'm surprised cities like Tunis, Manama and Baghdad didn't appear.
It's at the end of a peninsula that juts out into the sea, almost completely surrounded by water. Being surrounded by water usually mitigates high temperatures even while it adds to humidity. That's my best uneducated guess.
I typed in Ouaga expecting it to work as it does in the world capitals list. To be fair, I probably could have had a go at spelling it but figured it must not be on there, because it wasn't accepted
Basically just list the capitals of Saharan Africa and the Arabian Peninsula and you'll get the bulk of the top part of the list and then just list tropical capitals more or less at random.
The coldest ones are all northern countries, mostly in Europe which people on this site seem to know about. The hottest ones are clustered around the equator- lots of African cities that visitors to this site don't care about as much.
For some reason, Muscat didn’t work for me. Also no Rabat, Algiers, Tunis, Tripoli, Cairo, Nouakchott, Dakar, Brazzaville, Asmara, Mogadishu, Addis Ababa, Windhoek, Baku, Damascus, Beirut, Amman, Jerusalem, Sana’a, Tehran, Baghdad, Manama, Vientiane, Hanoi, Jakarta, Singapore, Dili, Canberra, Brasília, Asunción, Montevideo, Buenos Aires, Georgetown, Paramaribo, or Havana?
Hey uh, so I did some digging in somewhere for like 2 hours? And I still can’t seem to find some girls, but instead some girls was looking weirdly at me or was going away, their face seemed disgusted? Yeah, I think there not gonna like me any time soon. :(. Guess I won’t be finding any girls any time soon?
I mean that I thought about the rankings seriously, but, they're not based on anything other than my own opinions/feelings/experiences, and beauty and "hotness" is subjective anyway. Why aren't you commenting on that quiz?
Only 16. The cities seems to be totally random across all the globe with no shared characteristic, the would made them easy to guess - different regions, different climats.
I am surprised, there is so few from Africa - no Dakar, Porto-Novo, Lome...
Also it seems, equator is not that hot in fact? There is no Kampala, Nairobi, Libreville or even Quito in South America.
I guessed it very easily, but crazy that famous tourism places like Doha, Dubai, Abu-Dhabi and Riyadh are hotter than freaking Baghdad, Kabul, Cairo, Tehran etc. Apparently you just need some big skyscrapers, fast cars and big swimming pools to bring northerners to a literal wasteland that’s like a microwave.
To make this quiz I tried finding a comprehensive list of capital cities ordered by average temperature or average highs, but could find none. So I had to actually look it up for every individual city. It's quite possible I missed something or made a mistake so feel free to point it out if you find any.
Like Ouagadou or something
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If Quizmaster ever decides to feature this one again maybe we can update it. If not it's probably not worth upsetting everyone's points to put in the correction. And as this data was from 3 years ago... it's possible that there have been many changes. I'd have to go through the whole list of countries again and double check everything.
Any chance of fixing?
I am surprised, there is so few from Africa - no Dakar, Porto-Novo, Lome...
Also it seems, equator is not that hot in fact? There is no Kampala, Nairobi, Libreville or even Quito in South America.