The temperatures humans live in

Every hour of 2024, how many people were experiencing each air temperature — combining hourly ERA5 temperature with gridded population, worldwide.

Weight distribution by
Map shows
Continents

Where on the globe

Mean temperature

Drag on the map to restrict to a box. Hover a bar in the chart below to see where that temperature is felt.

Distribution of person-hours by temperature

Percentile band

Daily swing — overnight low vs daytime high

Each place-day plotted by its daily low (horizontal) and daily high (vertical), shaded by people-days. Points far above the diagonal have big daily swings (deserts); points hugging it barely change (humid tropics, oceans' influence).

People-days
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