All 50 hottest cities in the world today are in India. List here

Key points

• All 50 of the world’s hottest cities on Friday morning were in India, as a brutal heatwave tightened its grip across north, central and eastern parts of the country, pushing temperatures well above 40 degrees Celsius even before noon.
• According to air quality and weather tracker AQI.in, the entire global top-50 hottest cities list at 10:50 am IST was dominated by Indian cities, with Balangir in Odisha emerging as the hottest location at 45°C.
• Read Full Story Close behind were Chandrapur and Prayagraj at 44°C, alongside multiple cities in Chhattisgarh, Bihar, Telangana, Haryana and Madhya Pradesh.
• The rankings painted a startling picture of the scale of the ongoing heatwave.
• More than half the cities in the list were from Uttar Pradesh alone, with places such as Varanasi, Banda, Bareilly and Ayodhya recording temperatures between 42°C and 43°C before midday.