The 13 hottest places on the planet, from Death Valley to Kuwait's Mitribah

From Kebili in Tunisia to Ethiopia’s Dallol, here are the 13 hottest places on the planet. Although some scientists debate the reliability of historic readings, Death Valley reportedly also topped 54.4°C in the summer of 2020, so there's little doubt that it's one of the hottest places on Earth. Dallol, EthiopiaThis town in northern Ethiopia has some of the world's highest average readings for an inhabited place. And at Wadi Halfa, a trade outpost along the Nile River, the hottest temperature ever registered was 53°C. Getty ImagesUninhabited and one of the hottest places on the planet, the Dasht-e Lut salt desert in Iran had a sweltering 70.7°C recording back in 2005.