# Average World Temperature
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/average-world-temperature/495340
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [May 4, 2009, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/average-world-temperature/495340 "2009-05-04T21:04:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2009, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/average-world-temperature/495340/1 "2009-05-04T21:04:40Z")
If I could get a temperature reading from, say, every 100 square miles of the earth’s surface, each hour of the day, and then average all the readings, would it be basically the same number each day?
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### Author:  [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2009, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/average-world-temperature/495340/2 "2009-05-04T21:08:18Z")
We answered this last time you asked:
> **[Average World Temperature](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=516244)**
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> If I could get a temperature reading, for, say, every 100 square miles of earth, and then average them out, would it be about the same every day? (I’m assuming we would measure the temp above bodies of water as well as on land.)
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### Author:  [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2009, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/average-world-temperature/495340/3 "2009-05-06T16:05:02Z")
Sorry about that! From my end that hung up when I hit [submit], and I didn’t think it had entered at all.
thank you!