Calima (Saharan sand)

Calima - meteorological phenomenon. Article “Calima (Saharan sand)” in English Wikipedia has 30.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 12 references and 3 sections.

This article has the best quality in Estonian Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Since the creation of article “Calima (Saharan sand)”, its content was written by 6 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 164 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 5 times in English Wikipedia and cited 55 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #150759 in April 2024
• Global: #54091 in January 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #132004 in April 2024
• Global: #35131 in February 2020

There are 11 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Estonian (et) Kaliima		45.8714
2	English (en) Calima (Saharan sand)		30.7596
3	German (de) Calima		27.8584
4	Arabic (ar) رهج (رمل)		22.8272
5	French (fr) Calima (vent)		21.8225
6	Norwegian (no) Calima		20.6889
7	Finnish (fi) Calima		20.2531
8	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Calima		11.3317
9	Polish (pl) Kalima (piasek)		11.2727
10	Swedish (sv) Calima		9.0687

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Calima (Saharan sand)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	German (de) Calima		474 079
2	Italian (it) Calima		105 543
3	Polish (pl) Kalima (piasek)		76 057
4	French (fr) Calima (vent)		65 522
5	Norwegian (no) Calima		62 190
6	English (en) Calima (Saharan sand)		61 088
7	Swedish (sv) Calima		59 762
8	Finnish (fi) Calima		29 154
9	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Calima		3 478
10	Estonian (et) Kaliima		398

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Calima (Saharan sand)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Calima (Saharan sand)		1 455
2	German (de) Calima		1 287
3	Italian (it) Calima		432
4	French (fr) Calima (vent)		258
5	Polish (pl) Kalima (piasek)		203
6	Norwegian (no) Calima		96
7	Swedish (sv) Calima		85
8	Finnish (fi) Calima		31
9	Arabic (ar) رهج (رمل)		19
10	Estonian (et) Kaliima		10

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Calima (Saharan sand)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Calima		63
2	French (fr) Calima (vent)		23
3	Norwegian (no) Calima		17
4	Swedish (sv) Calima		16
5	Italian (it) Calima		12
6	Polish (pl) Kalima (piasek)		11
7	Finnish (fi) Calima		8
8	English (en) Calima (Saharan sand)		6
9	Estonian (et) Kaliima		6
10	Arabic (ar) رهج (رمل)		1

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Calima (Saharan sand)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) رهج (رمل)		0
2	German (de) Calima		0
3	English (en) Calima (Saharan sand)		0
4	Estonian (et) Kaliima		0
5	Finnish (fi) Calima		0
6	French (fr) Calima (vent)		0
7	Italian (it) Calima		0
8	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Calima		0
9	Norwegian (no) Calima		0
10	Polish (pl) Kalima (piasek)		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Calima (Saharan sand)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	German (de) Calima		21
2	French (fr) Calima (vent)		8
3	English (en) Calima (Saharan sand)		5
4	Norwegian (no) Calima		5
5	Swedish (sv) Calima		4
6	Finnish (fi) Calima		3
7	Polish (pl) Kalima (piasek)		3
8	Estonian (et) Kaliima		2
9	Italian (it) Calima		2
10	Arabic (ar) رهج (رمل)		1

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic رهج (رمل)
de	German Calima
en	English Calima (Saharan sand)
et	Estonian Kaliima
fi	Finnish Calima
fr	French Calima (vent)
it	Italian Calima
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Calima
no	Norwegian Calima
pl	Polish Kalima (piasek)
sv	Swedish Calima

Best Rank

English: #132004 04.2024

Global: #35131 02.2020

Best Rank

English: #150759 04.2024

Global: #54091 01.2005

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