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The coolest places in the world in October: ranked by average high temperature

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

Top three in October: Longyearbyen (-4.0 °C) , Yakutsk (-3.2 °C) , Nuuk (0.2 °C) . Between first and 50th place the avg high differs by 11 °C.

# Destination Country Avg high Avg high Avg low Rainfall Wet days Sunshine Sea temp
1 Longyearbyen Svalbard and Jan Mayen -4.0 °C -4.0 °C -8.1 °C 42 mm 9 24 h –
2 Yakutsk Russia -3.2 °C -3.2 °C -9.8 °C 17 mm 5 156 h –
3 Nuuk Greenland 0.2 °C 0.2 °C -5.4 °C 82 mm 11 161 h 2.6 °C
4 Grytviken South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands 1.1 °C 1.1 °C -2.1 °C 121 mm 19 280 h 0.7 °C
5 Nizhnevartovsk Russia 1.9 °C 1.9 °C -3.1 °C 51 mm 12 86 h –
6 Surgut Russia 1.9 °C 1.9 °C -3.2 °C 49 mm 12 88 h –
7 Murmansk Russia 2.4 °C 2.4 °C -1.1 °C 56 mm 12 95 h –
8 Bratsk Russia 3.3 °C 3.3 °C -1.6 °C 28 mm 8 179 h –
9 Syktyvkar Russia 3.9 °C 3.9 °C -0.5 °C 60 mm 13 89 h –
10 Berezniki Russia 4.2 °C 4.2 °C -0.4 °C 75 mm 14 97 h –
11 Arkhangel’sk Russia 4.4 °C 4.4 °C 0.5 °C 60 mm 13 100 h –
12 Severodvinsk Russia 4.5 °C 4.5 °C 1.3 °C 58 mm 13 105 h 6.2 °C
13 Tomsk Russia 4.7 °C 4.7 °C -1.8 °C 54 mm 12 129 h –
14 Daxing’anling China 5.0 °C 5.0 °C -3.8 °C 31 mm 6 237 h –
15 Oulu Finland 5.0 °C 5.0 °C 1.4 °C 52 mm 10 117 h 7.6 °C
16 Anchorage United States 5.0 °C 5.0 °C -0.2 °C 105 mm 14 170 h 8.2 °C
17 Zlatoust Russia 5.1 °C 5.1 °C -0.7 °C 55 mm 11 136 h –
18 Nizhny Tagil Russia 5.2 °C 5.2 °C -0.07 °C 44 mm 10 123 h –
19 Kirov Russia 5.3 °C 5.3 °C 0.6 °C 68 mm 13 109 h –
20 Perm Russia 5.4 °C 5.4 °C 0.6 °C 63 mm 12 106 h –
21 Chita Russia 5.5 °C 5.5 °C -4.2 °C 12 mm 3 263 h –
22 Yekaterinburg Russia 5.5 °C 5.5 °C 0.10 °C 43 mm 9 128 h –
23 Krasnoyarsk Russia 5.6 °C 5.6 °C -1.6 °C 41 mm 11 160 h –
24 Petrozavodsk Russia 5.7 °C 5.7 °C 2.3 °C 56 mm 11 111 h –
25 Port-aux-Français French Southern Territories 5.7 °C 5.7 °C -0.00 °C 73 mm 14 278 h 3.1 °C
26 Kemerovo Russia 5.8 °C 5.8 °C -1.0 °C 55 mm 12 145 h –
27 Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Russia 5.9 °C 5.9 °C 0.4 °C 138 mm 12 217 h 8.0 °C
28 Cherepovets Russia 6.0 °C 6.0 °C 2.3 °C 60 mm 12 106 h –
29 Novosibirsk Russia 6.0 °C 6.0 °C -0.6 °C 49 mm 11 145 h –
30 Reykjavík Iceland 6.0 °C 6.0 °C 2.0 °C 121 mm 15 158 h 8.3 °C
31 Tyumen Russia 6.0 °C 6.0 °C 0.08 °C 37 mm 8 134 h –
32 Vologda Russia 6.0 °C 6.0 °C 1.5 °C 58 mm 12 102 h –
33 Ulan-Ude Russia 6.2 °C 6.2 °C -3.2 °C 14 mm 4 251 h –
34 Izhevsk Russia 6.4 °C 6.4 °C 1.2 °C 59 mm 12 121 h –
35 Ulan Bator Mongolia 6.4 °C 6.4 °C -4.4 °C 15 mm 4 284 h –
36 Miass Russia 6.4 °C 6.4 °C 0.08 °C 41 mm 9 150 h –
37 Kamensk-Ural’skiy Russia 6.5 °C 6.5 °C 0.8 °C 41 mm 9 137 h –
38 Prokop’yevsk Russia 6.5 °C 6.5 °C -1.1 °C 50 mm 12 159 h –
39 Angarsk Russia 6.6 °C 6.6 °C -2.8 °C 18 mm 5 238 h –
40 Tampere Finland 6.7 °C 6.7 °C 3.3 °C 61 mm 10 119 h –
41 Hulunbuir China 6.7 °C 6.7 °C -3.3 °C 23 mm 5 259 h –
42 Petropavl Kazakhstan 6.7 °C 6.7 °C 0.4 °C 35 mm 8 137 h –
43 Irkutsk Russia 6.8 °C 6.8 °C -2.2 °C 23 mm 6 238 h –
44 Omsk Russia 6.8 °C 6.8 °C -0.1 °C 33 mm 8 136 h –
45 Kostroma Russia 6.8 °C 6.8 °C 2.0 °C 65 mm 12 117 h –
46 Rybinsk Russia 6.9 °C 6.9 °C 2.6 °C 64 mm 12 116 h –
47 Yaroslavl Russia 7.0 °C 7.0 °C 2.1 °C 61 mm 12 115 h –
48 Komsomolsk-on-Amur Russia 7.1 °C 7.1 °C -0.2 °C 55 mm 8 222 h –
49 Kurgan Russia 7.1 °C 7.1 °C 0.6 °C 37 mm 8 143 h –
50 Chelyabinsk Russia 7.2 °C 7.2 °C 0.9 °C 39 mm 9 153 h –

Monthly values for the month named in the ranking; only destinations with a published climate page are ranked. Download this ranking as CSV.

The same ranking one month earlier and later

September: top 5

  1. Grytviken -0.2 °C
  2. Longyearbyen 2.4 °C
  3. Port-aux-Français 4.5 °C
  4. Stanley 6.6 °C
  5. Nuuk 6.8 °C

Full ranking for September

November: top 5

  1. Singa 37 °C
  2. Wad Medani 37 °C
  3. Kayes 37 °C
  4. Al Qadarif 37 °C
  5. Kosti 36 °C

Full ranking for November

How this ranking is built

What is ranked
The average daily high temperature, in °C, in October, lowest first.
Period
1991–2020 climate normals: the same 30 years for every destination, so the list compares like with like.
Who is included
50 destinations in the world with a published climate page. Neighbouring places that share a climate series are shown once.
Ties
Equal values are ordered by population.
Sources
ERA5 / ERA5-Land reanalysis via Open-Meteo; sea temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1. Measured values are reproduced unchanged; only the ordering is ours.

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.

Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.