🥵Hottest Temperature Ever Recorded!! Which country has recorded the highest temperature in the world? You’ll be shocked to know how hot our planet can actually get! Let’s begin with Antarctica, the coldest continent on Earth. Yet, even here, at Esperanza Base on the Antarctic Peninsula, the temperature unexpectedly soared to 18.3°C on February 6, 2020, breaking all cold stereotypes. In Europe, the record high was in Sicily, Italy, where temperatures spiked to 48.8°C on August 10, 1999 — nearly