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The coolest places in the world in October

Longyearbyen tops the list at -4.0 °C in October. Ranked from 1991–2020 climate normals across 50 destinations.

# Destination Country Avg high Avg high Rainfall
1 Longyearbyen Svalbard and Jan Mayen -4.0 °C -4.0 °C 42 mm
2 Yakutsk Russia -3.2 °C -3.2 °C 17 mm
3 Nuuk Greenland 0.2 °C 0.2 °C 82 mm
4 Grytviken South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands 1.1 °C 1.1 °C 121 mm
5 Nizhnevartovsk Russia 1.9 °C 1.9 °C 51 mm
6 Surgut Russia 1.9 °C 1.9 °C 49 mm
7 Murmansk Russia 2.4 °C 2.4 °C 56 mm
8 Bratsk Russia 3.3 °C 3.3 °C 28 mm
9 Syktyvkar Russia 3.9 °C 3.9 °C 60 mm
10 Berezniki Russia 4.2 °C 4.2 °C 75 mm
11 Arkhangel’sk Russia 4.4 °C 4.4 °C 60 mm
12 Severodvinsk Russia 4.5 °C 4.5 °C 58 mm
13 Tomsk Russia 4.7 °C 4.7 °C 54 mm
14 Daxing’anling China 5.0 °C 5.0 °C 31 mm
15 Oulu Finland 5.0 °C 5.0 °C 52 mm
16 Anchorage United States 5.0 °C 5.0 °C 105 mm
17 Zlatoust Russia 5.1 °C 5.1 °C 55 mm
18 Nizhny Tagil Russia 5.2 °C 5.2 °C 44 mm
19 Kirov Russia 5.3 °C 5.3 °C 68 mm
20 Perm Russia 5.4 °C 5.4 °C 63 mm
21 Chita Russia 5.5 °C 5.5 °C 12 mm
22 Yekaterinburg Russia 5.5 °C 5.5 °C 43 mm
23 Krasnoyarsk Russia 5.6 °C 5.6 °C 41 mm
24 Petrozavodsk Russia 5.7 °C 5.7 °C 56 mm
25 Port-aux-Français French Southern Territories 5.7 °C 5.7 °C 73 mm
26 Kemerovo Russia 5.8 °C 5.8 °C 55 mm
27 Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Russia 5.9 °C 5.9 °C 138 mm
28 Cherepovets Russia 6.0 °C 6.0 °C 60 mm
29 Novosibirsk Russia 6.0 °C 6.0 °C 49 mm
30 Reykjavík Iceland 6.0 °C 6.0 °C 121 mm
31 Tyumen Russia 6.0 °C 6.0 °C 37 mm
32 Vologda Russia 6.0 °C 6.0 °C 58 mm
33 Ulan-Ude Russia 6.2 °C 6.2 °C 14 mm
34 Izhevsk Russia 6.4 °C 6.4 °C 59 mm
35 Ulan Bator Mongolia 6.4 °C 6.4 °C 15 mm
36 Miass Russia 6.4 °C 6.4 °C 41 mm
37 Kamensk-Ural’skiy Russia 6.5 °C 6.5 °C 41 mm
38 Prokop’yevsk Russia 6.5 °C 6.5 °C 50 mm
39 Angarsk Russia 6.6 °C 6.6 °C 18 mm
40 Tampere Finland 6.7 °C 6.7 °C 61 mm
41 Hulunbuir China 6.7 °C 6.7 °C 23 mm
42 Petropavl Kazakhstan 6.7 °C 6.7 °C 35 mm
43 Irkutsk Russia 6.8 °C 6.8 °C 23 mm
44 Omsk Russia 6.8 °C 6.8 °C 33 mm
45 Kostroma Russia 6.8 °C 6.8 °C 65 mm
46 Rybinsk Russia 6.9 °C 6.9 °C 64 mm
47 Yaroslavl Russia 7.0 °C 7.0 °C 61 mm
48 Komsomolsk-on-Amur Russia 7.1 °C 7.1 °C 55 mm
49 Kurgan Russia 7.1 °C 7.1 °C 37 mm
50 Chelyabinsk Russia 7.2 °C 7.2 °C 39 mm

Only destinations with a published page for that month are ranked. The ranking is ours; the underlying values are reproduced from the source.

Data sources and method

Normal period
1991–2020
Dataset version
era5-1991-2020-scores1.1
Last processed

Measured values come from ERA5 reanalysis and are reproduced unchanged. Calculated by us: ranking order, beach and comfort scores. Full formulas are on the methodology page.

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