East Antarctica has the coldest place on Earth. Satellites tell us that the air there can get as cold as -94°C. The air is very dry, which might make it even colder.
Vostok is a cold place in the south where scientists study. It was -89.2°C there in 1983, the coldest ever. It barely snows, only 20 millimetres a year.
People study the South Pole at the Amundsen-Scott Station.The warmest day was -12.3°C on Christmas. The coldest day was -82.8°C in June.
Denali is the old name of Mount McKinley.It is the tallest mountain in North America. It is over 6000 metres high. A weather place there measured -73°C once. The wind can make it feel like -83.4°C.
Klinck weather station is the Arctic Circle’s coldest place.It was -69.6°C in December 1991, 2 degrees colder than Oymyakon
Oymyakon is the world’s coldest place where people live.It was -67.7°C there in 1933. Less than 500 people live there. Schools close only if it is colder than -55°C. That is the normal winter temperature there.
– The British North Greenland Expedition set up this research station in the 1950s. It had the coldest temperature in North America then. It was -66.1°C there in 1954.
Yakutsk is a very cold city on frozen ground. It has short hot summers and long very cold winters. It was -64.4°C there in 1891. The Lena river freezes in winter and people can drive on it.
Snag is a small village in northwest Canada.It was -62.8°C there once.
People made the village for a big pipe project in the 1970s. Now it is almost empty. It was -62.1°C there in 1971. It is one of the USA’s coldest places in winter.