Hottest temperature created by humans
The current hottest temperature created by humans record is 5,500 billion K, held by ALICE collaboration, Large Hadron Collider, set on August 13, 2012. Last checked October 14, 2026.
5,500
billion K
ALICE collaboration, Large Hadron Collider
- Holder
- ALICE collaboration, Large Hadron Collider
- Record
- 5,500 billion K
- Exact figure
- About 5.5 trillion K
- Location
- CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
- Date set
- August 13, 2012
- Recognized by
- Guinness World Records
- Last checked
- October 14, 2026
Sources
- guinnessworldrecords.com Highest man made temperature
- newscientist.com Dn22173 lhc primordial matter is hottest stuff ever made
- blogs.nature.com Hot stuff cern physicists create record breaking subatomic soup
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