13 Coldest Places in The World

From the cute towns of Idaho, to the most inhospitable parts of Antarctica, these are 13 COLDEST Places in the World !

7. Oymyakon, Russia
This little town in Russia has been officially identified as one of the two coldest places on Earth that are regularly inhabited with the other one being the previously mentioned town of Verkhoyansk. There’s only around 500 citizens that are crazy enough to endure such harsh winter temperatures. Because of where the village is positioned, a day will only get 21 hours in June while a day in December only gets 3 hours. The lowest temperature that ever occurred here was back in 1924 when the temperature dropped to a frigid negative 71.2 degrees Celsius or negative 96 degrees Fahrenheit.

6. Denali, Alaska
This mountain in Alaska, formerly known as Mount McKinley, happens to be the highest mountain peak in all of North America thanks to its summit elevation of 6,190 meters or 20,310 feet above sea level. The reason that the mountain range was formerly called McKinley was because a gold prospector named it after the presidential candidate William McKinley as part of his support. It was changed in 2015 to Denali which is what the native people refer to it as. It’s also considered to be the coldest mountain on earth. The air temperature here usually falls to be around negative 40 degrees Celsius which is also the same in Fahrenheit.

5. Yakutsk, Russia
This Russian city happens to be the capital of the Sakha Republic where an estimated population of around 300,000 people live. Here, the weather gets drastically cold enough to where the average temperature for the city’s winters is around negative 34 degrees Celsius or negative 29.2 degrees Fahrenheit. This is considered to be the coldest city of its size or greater in the entire world. In the following image, we see just how bundled the citizens have to be in order to just walk outside as this woman walks across a snow covered bridge.

4. The Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station
This United States South Pole station was first established back in 1956 and was named after Roald Amundsen and Robert F. Scott who were both led expeditions to the Antarctic region. That was way back when the original station was constructed but over the years the station has been destroyed, rebuilt, expanded, and even upgraded throughout the years. Around 200 people lived here during the summer season and the number dwindles down to 50 come winter time. The coldest temperature drop that this area has ever experienced was when the air was at a freezing negative 73 degrees Celsius or negative 99 degrees Fahrenheit.

3. The Dome Argus, Antarctic Plateau
The Dome Argus is a plateau that is located in East Antarctica and lies 4,091 meters or 13,421 feet above sea level. The lowest temperature that was ever recorded here in this icy wasteland happened back in July of 2005. It got so cold here that the temperature dropped down to negative 82.5 degrees Celsius or -116.5 degrees Fahrenheit. This area also happens to be the “highest point of an ice sheet in the Antarctic region,” along with being one of the driest areas on Earth as well.

2. The Vostok Station, Antarctica
This Russian weather monitoring station can be found in the icy tundra of the Antarctic where it lies at 3,488 meters or 11,443.6 feet above sea level. This makes the area have low oxygen levels and there’s almost no moisture in the air. Temperatures here can reach anywhere from negative 32.1 degrees Celsius or negative 25.8 degrees Fahrenheit, which is the warmest it gets, to, well, even colder than that. Vostok station broke the record for the lowest temperature ever recorded on Earth which it set back on January 21, 1983.

1. Dome Fuji Ridge, East Antarctic Plateau
Finally. Here we are. We’ve reached the end of our list and now we’re at what is considered to be the coldest area in the known world. Located on the East Antarctic Plateau is the Dome Fuji Ridge which is located in between Dome Argus and Dome Fuji. It’s here that the lowest temperature on earth was seen and picked up by a NASA satellite. It was back in August of 2010 that the temperature reached a mind-numbing negative 93.2 degrees Celsius or negative 135.8 degrees Fahrenheit and stole the record from the Vostok Station, however, it’s not official as it wasn’t declared by Guinness so technically Vostok remains the coldest. Yeah, it’s a weird situation.

[mikip.]

This is madness! I complain about the cold NY winters! I'd never survive these places! God bless the folks who do!!

[Radarfilms]

My ex girlfriends heart isn't on this list, why? :0

[vissarion]

In Yakutsk it usually gets to -50C in the winter and +35C in the summer. And Tiksi with temperatures -37C and 48 meters per second wind (about 180 km/h) is an absolute insane.

[K-Maylis]

What about Norway, Kautokeino it gets around -40 degrees celsius each winter

[Hopesend]

Lol, i read people's comments complaining about -4°C. Here in Canada that is a nice warm spring day, lmao!

[isaacbakan]

Imagine being homeless in one of these places

[joannesabourin]

Living in Quebec city, we sometimes have days during the winter when the temp goes down to -40 with windchill factor, after seeing this, I'll never complain again :)

[nouseforaname]

Im glad stanley made it on this list. It puts in some of the coldest temperatures in the lower 48 every year yet nobody seems to recognize that. I've got a cabin up here so that's how no all that😊

[billd]

Congratulations on your pronunciation! SO many videos like this have narrators who don't know how to pronounce certain words. You not only do these Russian names correctly, but add the authentic accent. So much more enjoyable and professional.

[heidrunsearles]

I remember -60 F in Watertown, NY in 1994 a very cold year.

[AlterEgoXIII]

i don't like hot weather, i wanna know how it's feel cold, so i need to go to those places.

[kuntalknandy]

Siachin Glaciers near indo china border also gets to -50℃ to -60℃.

[maaz_amjad]

So basically Antarctica, Siberia and North America are the coldest regions on earth.

[reiair]

Woah!..i live in a tropical country, my first time to experienced winter abroad is very extremly cold, very chilling, my heart chilled so much...every part of my body is chilling and my lips are hurting :( Snow is only good to look experience, but in realty its too extreme to endure always..im glad i lived in a warm weather..not too hot, not too cold...:) but i think those who has been born there already in those cold countries are already immune to the weather there..

[sinojmoonjely]

Where is Dras, place in Himalayan vally.. why its not in list

[ScottieMacF]

This list seems to be a bit arbitrary. First it's coldest inhabited places, then it's just random locations like mountains and such. Plus there are places that get even colder than these.

[entei]

It's 60 degrees where I live in Texas right now and I'm freezing my butt off hahaha

[miap]

and i'm freezing my a$$ off at -4°😂

The coldest temp ever recorded in north america is minus 63 celsius in snag, Yukon, Canada

[BlackPattis]

Im glad I live in the more deserty area of canada and it gets up to 40 Celsius or 104 Fahrenheit. But in 2016 we got like 3 feet of snow, some snow got in are house 😂