I doubt anyone here can name 2 of the 10 coldest cities in the World.

Minneapolis/St. Paul is the coldest major city in the US going on average temp Dec. through Feb.

Peter Sinks, UT hit -42f in October of this year....that is not an error.

Gunnison, CO

Record low -60 F

January average low -6 F

Yakutsk, Russia

Omyakon, Russia

Did not look at the link

Depends on how big to qualify as a city.

Yakutsk, and Longyearbyen if it qualifies. If not, Murmansk, Arkhangelsk.

Partylizard wrote:

Yakutsk, Russia

Omyakon, Russia

Did not look at the link

Ok my guess Yakutsk made the list.

Omyakon is not a city, but it is considered the coldest Permanently inhabited settlement on Earth.

ok, so, quick fact check shows author is completely full of crap and probably a hockey-losing Canadian. Ottawa with January average of 13.6F at number 1? Murmansk has a January mean of 13.8F and is nowhere near the coldest in Russia. Arkhangelsk is 9F.

Yakutsk is well known for the cold-temperature record of the northern hemisphere, and the daily mean in January is -37F.

Please share some better crap than this next time.

Clickbaiting wrote:

This appears to me more of a clickbait article, my guess is there is no real methodology being used, the author just picked 10 random cold cities.

Exactly right!!! The article writer is a jackass!!! BTW, this is from "The Discoverer" website that came into existence via Instagram as an influencer driven collective with a sole purpose to generate clicks, likes, subscriptions and $$$... So, please, take this random social media influencer word for what it really is: $$$ generating clickbait dressed up as an entertaining travel article...

Jeez, smh... People are really gullible nowadays...

I swear on my life I did not cheat.

Coldest “city” in the world is Yakutsk. The coldest inhabited place however, is Oymyakon, Russia though it is barely a town with maybe 500 people.

Some other really f***g cold places

-Alert, Nunavut Canada- though this isn’t permanently inhabited I don’t think, just for research

-Verkoyansk Russia- actually further north from oymyakon, but not as cold (colder than Yakutsk though)

-Longyearbyen, Svalbard- northernmost inhabitanted place, although has much warmer winters than Siberia due to maritime influence

-Churchill, MB (Canada)- Hudson Bay makes it cold here in both summer (maritime influence) and winter (it freezes)

As far as larger actual “cities,” Fairbanks, Ulanbatar (Mongolia), Yellowknife and Norilsk come to mind.

Idk hopefully some of those made the list lol

Prudhoe Bay, Alaska is colder than Fairbanks, although it probably doesn't qualify as a city.

malmo wrote:

Lurker wrote:

Lol, I just loved playing Risk as a teen. I'm actually German.

I guessed only 1 city right (Vladivostok), my second guess was Anchorage instead of Fairbanks.

Anchorage is on the water, Fairbanks is in the middle of nowhere.

I lived in Fairbanks for a decade. It's near the geographic center of Alaska, surrounded by mountains, and 400 miles from any coast. The town is in a valley at 450 - 500 feet elevation and -30s F is common in the winter, and cold snaps into the -40s F happen every year. every few years you get -50s. But in the nearby surrounding hills it can be 20-30 degrees warmer due to inversions. The temperature can change 10-15 degrees in just a few meters.

At the time I did look up some cities that were colder but don't remember the name. I think there is a city on Lake Baikal that is as cold or colder.

I got Yurkuts . Said Tomsk, not on it but Novosibersk is and that is close . I’m surprised Ottawa is on.

Cool to see Harbin, China on the list. A few summers ago we had an intern from Harbin. She was excited to show us that it was the Ice City. She loved it here in the south. Said the winters back home were intolerable.

Harbin, China, and Astana, Kazakhstan are the two of the ten coldest cities in the world.

Sally Vix wrote:

Not sure I believe this list. Murmansk is above the Arctic Circle - why is it not one of the coldest. Little America is the capital of Antarctica - seems like it should be on the list. More Russian cities should be on the list.

Sorry. What?

And I thought I'd heard of peak American-centric thinking when I found out you call your baseball league the World League....

There's not capital of Antarctica.

There are no cities in Antarctica.

There are no permanent residents in Antarctica.

Hi Sally, I was in Irkutsk for my birthday in ‘89. Proving once again I know more about Russia than you.

The answer to this one depends on what you mean by the word "is" … :-)

There is actually no single, universal way to define "coldest." You could mean the coldest mean annual temperature. You could mean something else, like the coldest single day low temperature. These two criteria will give you different ranked lists, and you can come up with many others.

I have lived in two places on the list. My spouse and I both lived on one as babies, and gave birth to our child in the other. Conception happened elsewhere, further north in a city I know to be colder (in most ways) than both of them. Our child then also passed away in the one where we (my spouse and I) both lived as babies. So this particular question (and the list in the answer) had particular significance for me.

I've been to Yakutsk so that one was easy. I was there in the summer though when IIRC it is quite warm, they told us it has the biggest annual temperature range of any city.

Geography wiz and D3 XC wrote:

I swear on my life I did not cheat.

Coldest “city” in the world is Yakutsk. The coldest inhabited place however, is Oymyakon, Russia though it is barely a town with maybe 500 people.

Some other really f***g cold places

-Alert, Nunavut Canada- though this isn’t permanently inhabited I don’t think, just for research

-Verkoyansk Russia- actually further north from oymyakon, but not as cold (colder than Yakutsk though)

-Longyearbyen, Svalbard- northernmost inhabitanted place, although has much warmer winters than Siberia due to maritime influence

-Churchill, MB (Canada)- Hudson Bay makes it cold here in both summer (maritime influence) and winter (it freezes)

As far as larger actual “cities,” Fairbanks, Ulanbatar (Mongolia), Yellowknife and Norilsk come to mind.

Idk hopefully some of those made the list lol

Oymyakon is crazy cold in winter, but warm in summer, but Verkhoyansk is even crazier

Sally Vix wrote:

Please prove me wrong because these are not easy ones.

https://www.thediscoverer.com/blog/10-coldest-cities-in-the-world/?utm_source=FL&utm_medium=FL01&utm_campaign=1055583422&utm_content=7004689&utm_term=1003906520&w=&h=&q=&c=&f=

It is a not a list of the ten coldest cities in the world: "Here are the 10 coldest cities in the world where you'll be able to have some freezing winter fun."