What is the Hottest Weather Temperature Ever Recorded in London?

Do you know what the hottest weather temperature ever recorded in London is? The answer to this weather trivia question may surprise some people and it should be of great interest to Americans who have traveled to London or are thinking of visiting London.

London is a tremendous tourist destination visited by tens of millions of people a year. Many of those tourists and visitors come from the United States and because of that the answer to the hottest weather temperature ever recorded in London is given in Fahrenheit degrees (with Celsius in parenthesis). 

What is the Hottest Weather Temperature Ever Recorded in London?

• Hottest Temperature Ever Recorded in London is 100.6 Degrees

The hottest weather temperature ever recorded in London, England is 100.6 degrees (38.11 Celsius) which occurred on August 10, 2003, at the Kew Royal Botanic Gardens in the London borough of Richmond. 

On the same day it was also 100.3 degrees at London's Heathrow Airport and 100 degrees exactly in the London borough of Enfield.

Those are the only three times in London history when the temperature reached and surpassed the 100 degree mark. In four other places in London on August 10, 2003, the temperature almost reached 100 degrees.

It was 99.9 degrees in Northolt, 99.7 degrees in both St. James Park and the Met Office London and 99.5 degrees at the Greenwich Observatory.

• Hottest Weather Temperature Ever Recorded in the UK is 101.3 Degrees

The record hottest weather temperature ever recorded in the UK is 101.3 degrees (38.5 Celsius) which also occurred on August 10, 2003, in Brogdale near Faversham, Kent, England. Faversham is located about 48 miles east of London. 

So the record hottest weather temperature ever recorded in the UK is just .7 degrees hotter than London's all-time record hottest weather temperature. Not much of a difference there showing that London basically gets as a hot as anywhere in England. 

Not that either record hottest temperature is all that hot compared to most cities in the United States. Which is good information for tourists and visitors to London from the United States to know.

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