The globe · human heat exposure, by country

Heat isn't latitude.

It's the humid lowland tropics that cook — while altitude and cool currents spare cities on the same parallel. Hover a country to see its exposure; switch to the 40-year rise to see where it's climbing.

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Countries shaded from data are represented by their major cities (~48 countries, 92 cities). Faint countries are outside this sample. Metric: days per resident per year with apparent temperature (heat + humidity + wind) ≥ 32 °C.