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How do I get the CPU temperature?

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Install lm-sensors Install lm-sensors

sudo apt-get install lm-sensors 

After installation type the following in terminal

sudo sensors-detect

You may also need to run

sudo service kmod start

It will ask you few questions. Answer Yes for all of them. Finally to get your CPU temperature type sensors in your terminal.

sensors

Output:

$ sensors
coretemp-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
Core 0:      +41.0°C  (high = +78.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)  

coretemp-isa-0001
Adapter: ISA adapter
Core 1:      +41.0°C  (high = +78.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)  

w83627dhg-isa-0290
Adapter: ISA adapter
Vcore:       +1.10 V  (min =  +0.00 V, max =  +1.74 V)   
in1:         +1.60 V  (min =  +1.68 V, max =  +1.44 V)   ALARM
AVCC:        +3.30 V  (min =  +2.98 V, max =  +3.63 V)   
VCC:         +3.28 V  (min =  +2.98 V, max =  +3.63 V)   
in4:         +1.85 V  (min =  +1.66 V, max =  +1.11 V)   ALARM
in5:         +1.26 V  (min =  +1.72 V, max =  +0.43 V)   ALARM
in6:         +0.09 V  (min =  +1.75 V, max =  +0.62 V)   ALARM
3VSB:        +3.30 V  (min =  +2.98 V, max =  +3.63 V)   
Vbat:        +3.18 V  (min =  +2.70 V, max =  +3.30 V)   
fan1:          0 RPM  (min = 10546 RPM, div = 128)  ALARM
fan2:        892 RPM  (min = 2136 RPM, div = 8)  ALARM
fan3:          0 RPM  (min = 10546 RPM, div = 128)  ALARM
fan4:          0 RPM  (min = 10546 RPM, div = 128)  ALARM
fan5:          0 RPM  (min = 10546 RPM, div = 128)  ALARM
temp1:       +36.0°C  (high = +63.0°C, hyst = +55.0°C)  sensor = diode
temp2:       +39.5°C  (high = +80.0°C, hyst = +75.0°C)  sensor = diode
temp3:      +119.0°C  (high = +80.0°C, hyst = +75.0°C)  ALARM  sensor = thermistor
cpu0_vid:   +2.050 V

To see HDD temperature Install hddtemp Install hddtemp

sudo apt-get install hddtemp

Output:

$ sudo hddtemp /dev/sda        
/dev/sda: ST3160813AS: 34°C
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    This doesn't work on all hardware. On my system, sensors always shows a temperature of +40.0°C. Sep 6, 2012 at 18:53
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    On my 13.04 system, it's sudo service kmod start instead of sudo service module-init-tools start
    – knb
    Jul 10, 2013 at 6:51
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    You can run watch sensors to see temperature values updating each second. Aug 3, 2013 at 21:09
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    It gives warnings about being risky. Are you sure you should answer "yes" to everything? I don't think they have put those messages there for fun...
    – jobukkit
    Sep 28, 2013 at 10:50
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    to answer yes to all sensors-detect questions, run yes yes | sensors-detect
    – hanshenrik
    Jan 5, 2018 at 21:59
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Quick command-line solution; shows temperature in millidegrees Celsius (m°C)

cat /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone*/temp

Applet

If you are looking for a easier-to-access version, add a Hardware Sensors Monitor to Gnome-Panel:

  1. sudo apt-get install sensors-applet - this will install the sensors-applet Install sensors-applet package
  2. Right-click the panel, select Add to panel..., then select this: alt text

  3. You're done. You can configure which sensors are displayed by right-clicking the applet and selecting Preferences->Sensors.

    alt text

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    Your command-line solution may not work for all.Because the path will be different for every kernel version.
    – karthick87
    Dec 2, 2010 at 10:02
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    Yeah it didn't work for me.
    – 8128
    Jun 1, 2012 at 14:17
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    My Ubuntu 12.04 system has no /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/temperature; in fact there's nothing under /proc named temperature. Sep 6, 2012 at 18:56
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    Thats because '/proc' is deprecated; try '/sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp'
    – mathepic
    Jul 15, 2013 at 19:03
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    what units for cat /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp? Can you convert it to C/F? ... Looks like the first two digits are the first two digits preceding the decimal place and the next are those following the decimal place for Celsius.
    – dylnmc
    Feb 24, 2016 at 12:33
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A good indicator for monitoring temperature, fan speeds and voltage is psensor. It shows output of all sensors, draws graphs. Also selected outputs can be placed in indicator panel.

psensor in action

It can be installed from Ubuntu repositories by typing:

sudo apt-get install psensor

Newer versions of psensor can be installed from ppa:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jfi/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install psensor

It can also draw graphs when you tick the boxes in the graph column:

Screenshot

Here is some information with more pictures.

Another useful link

In some cases not all sensors are displayed. Then you can run

sudo sensors-detect

and answer "yes" to all questions. But is not quite safe in some cases, but I never had any real problems with that. A safer way is to take default answers.

Some additional sensors may appear.

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    On my Ubuntu 16.04, psensor will sometimes use 30% cpu, driving the temperature up.
    – dirkjot
    Nov 24, 2017 at 19:17
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    The problem still persists. App is unusable.
    – Yevgen
    Feb 25, 2018 at 15:31
  • @raaj - is this bug reported somewhere? Jun 21, 2018 at 11:57
  • @Eugene - is this bug reported somewhere? Jun 21, 2018 at 11:57
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    After installing this my touch pad stops working at periodic times Dec 16, 2018 at 13:15
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Temperature without third-party apps

At the time of writing, all the answers involve use of third-party utilities. If you want to find out the temperature without installing anything, use:

$ cat /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone*/temp
20000
53000
50000
53000
56000
68000
49000
50000

To see what zones the temperatures are referring to use:

$ paste <(cat /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone*/type) <(cat /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone*/temp) | column -s $'\t' -t | sed 's/\(.\)..$/.\1°C/'
INT3400 Thermal  20.0°C
SEN1             45.0°C
SEN2             51.0°C
SEN3             57.0°C
SEN4             59.0°C
pch_skylake      77.5°C
B0D4             50.0°C
x86_pkg_temp     51.0°C

The temperatures are stored in Celsius with 3 implied decimal places. sed is used to "prettify" output.

The last temperature is x86_pkg_temp reported at 54.0°C. For the Skylake i7 6700HQ CPU, I used this temperature for Conky display below.

Temperature with Conky

If you don't mind third-party utilities I like to use Conky--a light weight system monitor.

Conky commands

Within conky the system variable I used to monitor an Ivy Bridge CPU is:

${hwmon 2 temp 1}°C

To monitor a Skylake CPU I used:

${hwmon 0 temp 1}°C

Conky display

The conky display looks like this:

enter image description here

The temperature starts at 72°C with a single CPU running at 100% in turbo mode of 3200 MHz. Then turbo is switched off and temp drops 10°C to 62°C with a non-turbo speed of 2600 MHz. 10 seconds later turbo is turned back on and temperatures immediately spike back up to 72°C.


Controlling Temperature

After knowing your temperature you probably want to control it better. tlp works wonders for keeping system under control. It works with thermald, Intel Powerclamp, Battery vs AC for USB power, etc. Although highly configurable I've never had to change the configuration settings for a pleasant Out-Of-The-Box experience. Prior to using it I had all kinds of problems with an IvyBridge laptop overheating all the time. I have it on my new Skylake laptop and the fans NEVER run except when doing Ubuntu 16.04 LTS to 18.04 upgrade.

You can get a very detailed write-up with installation instructions here: Stop cpu from overheating

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    what unit is this? apples? 1/1000th of °C? 59/29402th of °F?
    – phil294
    Sep 3, 2017 at 22:53
  • your quote says 48000 but your text says this is 57 degrees Celsius? I'm confused.
    – Sun
    Jun 13, 2018 at 7:32
  • @Sun I had regenerated the one-liner using a newer processor and didn't revise the explanation properly. Fixed! Jun 13, 2018 at 10:35
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    Thanks! And this is a bit off-topic, but how do you create a (such high-quality) GIF capturing a portion of the screen like that?
    – Jim Raynor
    Mar 26, 2021 at 9:22
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    @JimRaynor The area is called screen recording and there is a Q&A about that here: askubuntu.com/questions/4428/how-can-i-record-my-screen I'm using peek which you will find instructions for on the link. Mar 26, 2021 at 11:19
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hardinfo Install hardinfo is very useful tools to get all hardware information.

Install hard info by sudo apt-get install hardinfo. Then you can get temperature by sensors.

sensor

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    Good looking tool, except every single page populates except Sensors (e.g. is blank)...
    – frumbert
    Mar 29, 2015 at 13:07
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    not working for Sensors Apr 14, 2015 at 17:00
  • @frumbert I think it depends on lm-sensors!
    – Pandya
    Aug 21, 2016 at 11:49
  • I also like the ARP table. Pretty handy to verify what is connected to my subnet.
    – SDsolar
    Jul 11, 2017 at 8:51
  • Benchmarks are quite outdated in this program though. Mar 6, 2018 at 15:04
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After you install lm-sensors:

sudo apt install lm-sensors

run:

sudo sensors-detect

you can run the following command to view hardware temps:

watch -n 1 sensors

Also, the fan is usually controled by BIOS.


Another good tool is i7z for Intel Core processors:

sudo apt install i7z
sudo i7z

and because i7z runs like top, there is no need to use watch.

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    i like the tip about using watch, it's one of my favorites. i also recommend adding the -d option to watch to highlight the differences.
    – Joshua K
    Dec 25, 2015 at 20:05
  • This gave me 4 core temp reading on my i7-3770 on Ubuntu 16.0.4 LTS running 100% CPU (~77 degrees Celsius)
    – Sun
    Jun 13, 2018 at 7:35
  • Good answer till you got to i7z. Maybe it's okay, but it has ruby dependencies. "The following NEW packages will be installed: fonts-lato i7z javascript-common libjs-jquery libruby libruby3.1 libyaml-0-2 msr-tools rake ruby ruby-net-telnet ruby-rubygems ruby-sdbm ruby-webrick ruby-xmlrpc ruby3.1 rubygems-integration" No Thanks.
    – B. Shea
    Dec 24, 2023 at 2:24
  • @B.Shea What do you have against ruby?
    – mchid
    Dec 28, 2023 at 14:51
  • I personally hate it, but my point was that just to get the cpu temp, it seems a overkill to install a prog that needs extras like this. I looked at the single ruby file i7z_rw_registers.rb. There was no reason I can see to use ruby for this file. (And add more dependencies and files to install). Shell, perl, python could have been used easily and are already installed. I also don't see why someone would need a gui (i see js & jquery - another big lump of code). i7z (cli) and the i7z-gui should be separate installs IMO if they have to have a gui.
    – B. Shea
    Dec 28, 2023 at 15:17
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  1. install the small package of acpi Install acpi by this command

    sudo apt-get install acpi
    
  2. You will need to press Y for confirmation for the first time. Now to find temperature type this command

    acpi -t
    
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    This is simpler than the answers about lm-sensors. Could you explain the difference between acpi and lm-sensors?
    – fikr4n
    Jan 23, 2014 at 23:24
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    On Ubuntu 16.04, Skylake Laptop, acpi -t outputs nothing. It's a valid option, just doesn't work--version: acpi 1.7. May 25, 2018 at 22:50
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    I successfully used acpi -t on grml live CD system to monitor the temperature of each die of an Core i3 processor. lm-sensors isn't preinstalled on grml and I can't install other packages there. grml.org Apr 8, 2019 at 21:35
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    acpi just fails with No support for device type: power_supply for me.
    – Steven Lu
    Dec 14, 2020 at 20:00
  • Does not work on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, return an empty result.
    – momo2047
    Oct 11, 2022 at 4:28
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XSensors

XSensors reads data from the libsensors library regarding hardware health such as temperature, voltage and fan speed and displays the information in a digital read-out.

Open the terminal and type:

sudo apt-get install xsensors lm-sensors

Then detect your computer's hardware sensors by opening the terminal and running the command:

sudo sensors-detect

Then you will get asked a lot of questions about what hardware you want the program to detect. It is generally safe and recommended to accept the default answers to all questions, unless you know what you're doing.

XSensors Screenshot

Xsensors vs. Psensor

XSensors and Psensor both monitor the computer's temperature and the fan speeds. The difference between the two applications is in the level of detail of the information that is displayed and how the information is displayed.

XSensors displays a little bit more specific information than Psensor. Psensor is smaller and more unobtrusive than XSensors and it displays itself on the desktop as a little thermometer icon in the notification area in the upper right corner of the desktop. You can right-click the thermometer icon at any time to display the hardware temperatures.

Setting up Psensor to detect your computer's hardware is done the same way as Xsensors, by installing lm-sensors to detect your computer's hardware sensors. Then detect your computer's hardware sensors running the command:

sudo sensors-detect  

and as with Xsensors, accept the default answers to all questions.

In Ubuntu 16.04 and later Psensor detects your computer's hardware sensors automatically without running sudo sensors-detect

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    Psensor seems to be more advanced Jan 13, 2017 at 17:03
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    I agree, @Serge. psensor is the one I am going to use.
    – SDsolar
    Jul 11, 2017 at 8:48
  • I also use Psensor.
    – karel
    Jul 11, 2017 at 8:50
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On Raspberry Pi, you can retrieve the temperatureusing vcgencmd:

vcgencmd measure_temp

Output:

temp=39.0'C
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    No, that will give you the frequency. Use vcgencmd measure_temp
    – MrD
    Dec 19, 2016 at 13:44
  • Sorry, a very painful copy & paste mistake :)
    – Ercksen
    Apr 25, 2018 at 17:43
  • Is there a way to install this on other distros besides Raspbian? For example, Ubuntu Server 19.10 is available for Raspberry Pi, but I'm not aware of how make this command available.
    – jocull
    Jan 12, 2020 at 23:45
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Just so you guys know, none of this install junk like sensors are needed. Just do an acpi -V and BOOM, you got everything. Example:

Battery 0: Charging, 91%, 00:17:25 until charged
Battery 0: design capacity 3310 mAh, last full capacity 3309 mAh = 99%
Adapter 0: on-line
Thermal 0: ok, 40.0 degrees C
Thermal 0: trip point 0 switches to mode critical at temperature 127.0 degrees C
Thermal 0: trip point 1 switches to mode hot at temperature 127.0 degrees C
Cooling 0: pkg-temp-0 no state information available
Cooling 1: LCD 0 of 100
Cooling 2: Processor 0 of 10
Cooling 3: Processor 0 of 10
Cooling 4: Processor 0 of 10
Cooling 5: Processor 0 of 10

WAY easier than installing all of this and kmod... Just do acpi -V.

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    Right… because you don’t have to install that one? Wrong! The program 'acpi' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing: sudo apt-get install acpi
    – e-sushi
    Oct 1, 2014 at 20:32
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    And, it also doesn't always give the same information. On my machine, sensors provides the temperature whereas acpi -V doesn't show anything about it, unfortunately. Oct 16, 2015 at 21:36
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    acpi -V is broken for Skylake laptop, Ubuntu 16.04, acpi version 1.7 May 25, 2018 at 22:54
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If you like Python, you can use psutil.

>>> import psutil
>>> psutil.sensors_temperatures()['coretemp']
[shwtemp(label='Physical id 0', current=67.0, high=100.0, critical=100.0), shwtemp(label='Core 0', current=67.0, high=100.0, critical=100.0), shwtemp(label='Core 1', current=65.0, high=100.0, critical=100.0)]

... will do the job. With a little coding, you can for example obtain the Temp vs CPU of your system.

enter image description here

It's convenient to update psutil by issuing sudo pip3 install psutil --upgrade.

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  • I have it on Python 2 but it doesn't have a sensors_temperatures attribute, and I don't have it on Python 3. I'm using Ubuntu 14.04. So how do I get it?
    – wjandrea
    Feb 16, 2018 at 0:16
  • what version of psutil are you using? mine is 5.4.3. Try upgrading you version: sudo pip2 install psutil --upgrade. Feb 16, 2018 at 0:22
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    I'm using 1.2.1 on Python 2, and the upgrade fails (but Python 2 on 14.04 is really outdated, so I'm not concerned). I just installed 5.4.3 on Python 3 with sudo pip3 install psutil --upgrade. Could you add that to your answer?
    – wjandrea
    Feb 16, 2018 at 0:27
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    great answer (+1) - psutil is a gem. It is ashame it does not cover the HDD temperature
    – WoJ
    Jul 26, 2019 at 15:04
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    The only answer that worked. (Ubuntu 20.04) And almost the only one that didn't require installing anything.
    – Íhor Mé
    Oct 7, 2020 at 18:39
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All bash:

getTemp () {
  for zone in `ls /sys/class/thermal/ | grep thermal_zone`
  do
    echo -n "`cat /sys/class/thermal/$zone/type`: "
    echo `cat /sys/class/thermal/$zone/temp | sed 's/\(.\)..$/.\1°C/'`
  done
}

getProcesses() {
  top -b -n 1 | head -n 12  | tail -n 6
}

update () {
  while :
  do
    clear
    getTemp
    echo -e "\nTop 5 CPU hogs:"
    getProcesses
    sleep 5
  done
}


update
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    It's actually a pretty good script. Apr 5, 2019 at 14:56
  • This worked very well! Aug 6, 2021 at 5:56
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/sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp

this file holds cpu temperature. So, you can make a script named temp and move it to /bin then in terminal enter temp.

My temp file looks like -

 #!/bin/bash
 cpu_temp=$(< /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp)
 cpu_temp=$(($cpu_temp/1000))
 echo $cpu_temp°C

my answer is modified of www.cyberciti.biz

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    I've tried 4 machines in different locations and they all give the same reading = 27800. Do you know why this could be? They can't all have the same cpu temp.
    – Katu
    Mar 10, 2017 at 14:08
  • @Katu I think that might mean 27.8 degrees. I used another program and found my Core 0 was 49 C. Then I did the above command and got 49000. Apr 20, 2017 at 18:06
  • In Ubuntu 22.04 using Ryzen 7 says: No data available.
    – momo2047
    Oct 11, 2022 at 4:29
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And here's my 2-cents on this matter. There's tmon, a very simple tool that reads the temperature while running another process, just like time, watch, timeout, etc... tmon is a thin wrapper around /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone*/temp, and can be useful when monitoring the temperature of your Linux computer/server while running CPU intensive processes: simulation, gaming, etc...

You can download the .AppImage "binary" from here: https://github.com/gmagno/tmon/releases and run it immediately and conveniently, that is:

Install

wget https://github.com/gmagno/tmon/releases/download/v0.3.7/tmon-a461481-x86_64.AppImage
chmod +x tmon*.AppImage
# optional: you may put it somewhere convenient in your file system and add a symlink in /usr/local/bin/tmon

or if you prefer:

pip install tmonpy

Usage

./tmon*.AppImage -h

Examples

./tmon*.AppImage echo "Quick programs return a single value of temperature"
Quick programs return a single value of temperature


===================
Temp Monitor Report:

   Temp (°C) for a period of 0:00:00
   >> 58.0 °C <<

   /tmp/[email protected]
===================
./tmon*.AppImage bash -c 'echo not so quick ones will show a chart; sleep 6'
not so quick ones will show a chart


===================
Temp Monitor Report:

   Temp (°C) for a period of 0:00:06
   60.00  ┤
   59.86  ┤
   59.71  ┤
   59.57  ┤
   59.43  ┤
   59.29  ┤
   59.14  ┤
   59.00  ┼╮   ╭─
   58.86  ┤│   │
   58.71  ┤│   │
   58.57  ┤│   │
   58.43  ┤│   │
   58.29  ┤│   │
   58.14  ┤│   │
   58.00  ┤╰───╯

   >> min: 58.0 °C <<
   >> avg: 58.4 °C <<
   >> max: 59.0 °C <<

   /tmp/[email protected]
===================

you may also just run tmon without any arguments and it will run as you'd expect. Press Ctrl-C to terminate the process and get a temperature report

./tmon*.AppImage  # and wait a few seconds before pressing Ctrl-C
^C

===================
Temp Monitor Report:

   Temp (°C) for a period of 0:00:08
   60.00  ┤
   59.71  ┤
   59.43  ┤
   59.14  ┤
   58.86  ┤  ╭╮
   58.57  ┤  ││
   58.29  ┤  ││
   58.00  ┼╮╭╯│
   57.71  ┤││ │
   57.43  ┤││ │
   57.14  ┤││ │
   56.86  ┤╰╯ │
   56.57  ┤   │
   56.29  ┤   │
   56.00  ┤   ╰────

   >> min: 56.0 °C <<
   >> avg: 56.9 °C <<
   >> max: 59.0 °C <<

   /tmp/[email protected]
===================
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One can also use bpytop. Install with:

sudo snap install bpytop

A more powerful version than htop, with CPU temperature and much more.

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  • Wow, you were NOT kidding! I thought I was going into hyperspace when I first saw that loading screen :) Feb 2, 2022 at 22:54
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For Intel CPUs only You can use i7z.

i7z - A better i7 (and now i3, i5) reporting tool for Linux.

Install it :

sudo apt install i7z 

Then run it (it has to be run with sudo):

sudo i7z

Example output (see Temp column - scroll right...):

Real Current Frequency 4883.47 MHz [99.98 x 48.85] (Max of below)
    Core [core-id]  :Actual Freq (Mult.)      C0%   Halt(C1)%  C3 %   C6 %  Temp      VCore
    Core 1 [0]:       4883.47 (48.85x)      10.4    73.7    1.45    12.8    47      1.3547
    Core 2 [1]:       4871.56 (48.73x)      8.65    76.8     1.5    11.7    45      1.3547
    Core 3 [2]:       4877.61 (48.79x)      12.2    75.1       1    9.72    52      1.3547
    Core 4 [3]:       4880.70 (48.82x)      7.57    79.7       1    10.5    47      1.3547
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computertemp Install computertemp is a simple applet that shows your current CPU temperature + it has some additional features like alarms. Unfortunately it's not possible (or at least I don't know how) to change its background color, so it doesn't look very nice with the standard Ubuntu theme.

It can be installed the same way as the sensors-applet described in evgeny's answer.


Alt text

computertemp is not available in the newer Ubuntu repositories.

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    in Ubuntu 15.04 sudo apt-get install computertemp results in the error "Unable to locate package computertemp" ... Jun 22, 2015 at 14:32
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If you are using Ubuntu with MATE Desktop Environment, you can use MATE Sensors Applet:

  1. Install the package:

    sudo apt-get install mate-sensors-applet
    

    And if you have Nvidia graphics card you can also install mate-sensors-applet-nvidia package.

  2. Make right click on MATE Panel and click Add to Panel then choose Hardware Sensors Monitor

    Hardware Sensors Monitor

  3. After adding you can setup it by doing right click on any sensor and selecting Preferences

    Preferences Hardware Sensors Monitor

    Here you can customize the list of sensors: CPU, Motherboard and GPU temperature, main voltages (Vcore, 3.3V, 5V, 12V, etc) and fan speeds. The full list depends on hardware (image above is for desktop with Nvidia graphics card).

  4. The result will look like

    Sensors

Of course you can move this applet to the best location.

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There are a lot of different places you might find the temperature listed in millidegrees. I finally found mine here:

/sys/devices/platform/coretemp.0/temp*_input

Here are some other places users have reported to have found their temperature

/proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/temperature
/sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone*/temp
/sys/class/thermal/cooling_device*/temp
/sys/devices/platform/f71882fg.1152/temp*_input
/sys/devices/platform/coretemp.0/hwmon/hwmon*/temp*_input

Some of these are just symbolic links to the others. You may have to look carefully to find it

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    it was at /sys/devices/platform/coretemp.0/hwmon/hwmon*/temp*_input on my Dell Precision M4800
    – igagis
    Jun 26, 2020 at 11:27
  • Neither path works for an AMD Ryzen CPU.
    – momo2047
    Oct 11, 2022 at 4:57
  • @momo2047 If you find it, let me know where, and I will add it to my answer.
    – Nacht
    Oct 11, 2022 at 5:03
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GUI alternatives for sensors command are Psensor and XSensors:

sudo apt install xsensors
sudo apt install psensor

For better detection of your hardware's sensors, you can also run following:

sudo apt install lm-sensors
sudo sensors-detect
sensors
watch -d -n 1 sensors
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printf '%d°\n' $(sensors | grep 'id 0:' | awk '{ print $4 }') 2>/dev/null
55°

printf '%d\n' Will convert the value to integer in case you need it as a round number


Sources: Linuxhacks.org
Disclosure: I am the owner of Linuxhacks.org

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    Why echo $(printf ..) and not just printf '%d°\n' $(sensors | grep 'id 0:' | awk '{ print $4 }') 2>/dev/null? ... Or even just sensors 2>/dev/null | awk '/id 0:/{printf "%d°\n", $4}'
    – muru
    Apr 8, 2018 at 1:08
  • Yes, a lot of possibility, i just posted the one i was using
    – intika
    Apr 8, 2018 at 2:28

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