Guinness Book of World Records . The hottest temperature on Earth ever recorded most likely occurred in Death Valley, California during 43 consecutive days between July 6 and August 17, 1917. The date reported there was July 10, 1913. The temperature of a certain area depends upon a set of conditions that are called climate controls. All these factors added up together created the circumstance to reach such a high temperature.
Death Valley lies mostly in eastern-central California.
It was named Death Valley by one of eighteen survivors of a party of thirty attempting in 1849 to find a shortcut to the California gold fields. In terms of latitude is it located at about 35 degrees North, so it is in a good location for large amounts of sunlight. It is considered a middle latitude region. In terms of altitude, the lowest elevation in the Western Hemisphere is in Death Valley. Generally, the lower the elevation, the higher the temperature.