Coldest Places on Earth | Top 10
If you’re wondering which are the coldest places on Earth, you’re in the right place!
Earth is full of extreme climates, making it difficult for human habitation.
Of course, you will think that some of these places are in Antarctica and Russia, but some of them aren’t. And you can get to some of these only by boat or plane.
The lowest recorded temperature was -135.8 degrees Fahrenheit, placing it at #1, and the other 9 are frighteningly close to it.
So without no further questions, we present the 10 coldest places on Earth. Let’s get started!
10Rogers Pass, Montana, US : -70 degrees Fahrenheit
We begin our top 10 of the coldest places on Earth with Rogers Pass.
Located on the Continental Divide, Montana, at 1.710 meters above sea level, Rogers Pass has one of the coldest weather on the entire planet.
And as you can see in the image below, the coldest temperature was recorded on January 20, 1954.
-70 degrees Fahrenheit. That’s -57 degrees Celsius. And if you think that’s cold, we’re just at the beginning of this top list.
The next place has no road access and it can be reached only by plane or boat.
9Fort Selkirk, Yukon, Canada : -74 degrees Fahrenheit
Next on our top list is Fort Selkirk, located in the coldest areas of Canada.
If you wish to travel to Fort Selkirk, never visit it in January, as it’s the coldest month in Fort Selkirk.
It’s a little hard to get here, given the fact that there is no road access. Most visitors arrive in Fort Selkirk by plane or by boat.
The lowest temperature recorded in this location was -74 degrees Fahrenheit .
That’s equivalent to -58.9 degrees Celsius and it’s unbearable for those who are used to the equatorial temperature.
These extreme cold conditions made this place a desolated one (in 1950).
Alaska is one of the coldest places on Earth, especially this small settlement called Prospect Creek.
8Prospect Creek, Alaska, US : -80 degrees Fahrenheit
Prospect Creek is a small settlement located 55 km North of the center of Alaska, above the Arctic Circle.
And today it is the location of Pump Station 5 of the TAPS.
The minimum temperature in Prospect Creek was recorded in January 1971, -80 degrees Fahrenheit (or -62 degrees Celsius).
The place has a subarctic climate, as the summers are very short and winters last for a long time.
This top couldn’t be complete without Canada.
7Snag, Yukon, Canada : -83.0 degrees Fahrenheit
Another location on the territory of Yukon, Canada.
The village of Snag is positioned in the bowl-shaped valley of the White River and Snag Creek.
At first, Snag was settled during the Klondike Gold Rush, and now this village is filled with meteorologists, radio operators and aircraft maintenance men, all living at the airport barracks.
The record? On February 3, 1947, the lowest temperature for North America was recorded here, in the village of Snag : -83.0 degrees Fahrenheit ( or -63.9 degrees Celsius).
Despire its cruel weather, Eismitte looks mindblowing! And the image will convince you!
6Eismitte, Greenland : -85 degrees Fahrenheit
Eismitte (in English : ‘mid-ice’) is one of the coldest places on Earth. It’s desolated completely.
Eismitte means ‘Ice-Center’ in German, and this place is located on the interior Arctic side of Greenland, surrounded by ice. So is it rightfully called Mid-Ice.
The coldest temperature recorded in this place was -85 degrees Fahrenheit (that’s -64.9 degrees Celsius), and the warmest was 27 degrees Fahrenheit (or -2.8 degrees Celsius).
But you have to admit. The place looks awesome!
5North Ice, Greenland : -87 degrees Fahrenheit
Another location in Greenland. Between 1952 and 1954, North Ice was a research station for the British North Greenland Expedition, led by Commander James Simpson RN.
Located at an attitude of 2.341 meters above sea level, North Ice features one cold weather, as the lowest temperature was -87 degrees Fahrenheit (-66.1 degrees Celsius) and it was recorded on January 9, 1954.
Don’t you think that this picture looks like it was taken from a movie set?
We didn’t forget about Russia, one of the coldest places in the world.
4Oymyakon, Russia : -90 degrees Fahrenheit
Oymyakon is a rural locality in Russia, located along the Indigirka River.
It was named after the Oymyakon River, meaning ‘unfrozen patch of water, place where fish spend the winter’.
Oymyakon has an extreme subarctic climate, where the ground is permanently frozen.
The lowest temperature here was registered by the Russian scientist Sergey Obrychev, in 1933, and it’s -90 degrees Fahrenheit. That’s the equivalent to -67.7 degrees Celsius.
Something that you should know is that Oymyakon is one of the candidates for the Northern Pole of Cold.
Another candidate is Verkhoyansk, also located in Russia. And we will talk about this place on the following page.
Verkhoyansk features pretty hot summers. The irony.
3Verkhoyansk, Russia : -93.6 degrees Fahrenheit
The town located in Verkhoyansky District of the Sakha Republic, Russia, is well known for its impressive low winter temperatures and for some of the outstanding temperature differences on the planet between summer and winter.
The population of this town is about 1.311 residents, and apparently, they are not afraid of frost.
The lowest temperature recorded in Verkhoyansk was -93.6 degrees Fahrenheit, the equivalent to -69.8 degrees Celsius.
But the funny part is that in Verkhoyansk summers are pretty hot. The irony.
And our journey brought us to Antarctica.
2Vostok Station, Antarctica : -129 degrees Fahrenheit
Vostok Station is a Russian research station (research includes magnetometry and ice core drilling), located in Princess Elizabeth Land, Antarctica.
With very short and very cold summers and long winters, Vostok Station features an ice cap, very dry climate, with an average of 2.6 millimeters of precipitation per year.
Vostok is at the southern Pole of Cold, and the lowest temperature here was -128.6 degrees Fahrenheit (-89.2 degrees Celsius), recorded on August.
Are you ready for #1?
1East Antarctica : – 135.8 degrees Fahrenheit
Here we are, ladies and gentlemen. The climate of Antarctica is the coldest on the entire planet.
And East Antarctica is colder than West Antarctica.
The lowest recorded temperature here was -135.8 degrees Fahrenheit, the equivalent to -93.2 degrees Celsius, a temperature which was deduced from radiance measured by the Landsat 8 satellite.
And if you’re wondering how hot it can get in Antarctica, the highest temperature recorded was 58.2 degrees Fahrenheit (14.5 degrees Celsius), in Vanda Stadion and Hope Bay.
These were the Coldest Places on Earth!
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