 The highest air temperature ever measured on Earth was 56 @.@ 7 ° C ( 134 @.@ 1 ° F ) in Furnace Creek , California , in Death Valley , in 1913 . The lowest air temperature ever directly measured on Earth was − 89 @.@ 2 ° C ( − 128 @.@ 6 ° F ) at Vostok Station in 1983 , but satellites have used remote sensing to measure temperatures as low as − 94 @.@ 7 ° C ( − 138 @.@ 5 ° F ) in East Antarctica . These temperature records are only measurements made with modern instruments from the 20th century onwards and likely do not reflect the full range of temperature on Earth . 
