The coolest places in the world in September

Grytviken tops the list at -0.2 °C in September. Ranked from 1991–2020 climate normals across 50 destinations.

# Destination Country Avg high Avg high Rainfall
1 Grytviken South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands -0.2 °C -0.2 °C 130 mm
2 Longyearbyen Svalbard and Jan Mayen 2.4 °C 2.4 °C 46 mm
3 Port-aux-Français French Southern Territories 4.5 °C 4.5 °C 82 mm
4 Stanley Falkland Islands 6.6 °C 6.6 °C 38 mm
5 Nuuk Greenland 6.8 °C 6.8 °C 100 mm
6 Murmansk Russia 9.5 °C 9.5 °C 56 mm
7 Reykjavík Iceland 10 °C 10 °C 134 mm
8 Surgut Russia 10 °C 10 °C 62 mm
9 Nizhnevartovsk Russia 11 °C 11 °C 65 mm
10 Yakutsk Russia 11 °C 11 °C 37 mm
11 Tórshavn Faroe Islands 11 °C 11 °C 88 mm
12 Severodvinsk Russia 12 °C 12 °C 65 mm
13 Arkhangel’sk Russia 12 °C 12 °C 65 mm
14 Syktyvkar Russia 12 °C 12 °C 64 mm
15 Bratsk Russia 12 °C 12 °C 44 mm
16 Puerto Montt Chile 12 °C 12 °C 181 mm
17 Berezniki Russia 12 °C 12 °C 76 mm
18 Oulu Finland 12 °C 12 °C 58 mm
19 Anchorage United States 12 °C 12 °C 138 mm
20 Wellington New Zealand 13 °C 13 °C 78 mm
21 Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Russia 13 °C 13 °C 108 mm
22 Zlatoust Russia 13 °C 13 °C 59 mm
23 Petrozavodsk Russia 13 °C 13 °C 60 mm
24 Nizhny Tagil Russia 13 °C 13 °C 62 mm
25 Tomsk Russia 13 °C 13 °C 53 mm
26 Kirov Russia 13 °C 13 °C 57 mm
27 Perm Russia 13 °C 13 °C 65 mm
28 Cherepovets Russia 13 °C 13 °C 56 mm
29 Yekaterinburg Russia 13 °C 13 °C 51 mm
30 Vologda Russia 14 °C 14 °C 60 mm
31 La Paz Bolivia 14 °C 14 °C 39 mm
32 Tampere Finland 14 °C 14 °C 55 mm
33 Christchurch New Zealand 14 °C 14 °C 49 mm
34 Tyumen Russia 14 °C 14 °C 50 mm
35 Krasnoyarsk Russia 14 °C 14 °C 54 mm
36 Trondheim Norway 14 °C 14 °C 106 mm
37 Temuco Chile 14 °C 14 °C 111 mm
38 Hobart Australia 14 °C 14 °C 54 mm
39 Bergen Norway 14 °C 14 °C 245 mm
40 Kemerovo Russia 14 °C 14 °C 59 mm
41 Novosibirsk Russia 14 °C 14 °C 49 mm
42 Rybinsk Russia 14 °C 14 °C 61 mm
43 Miass Russia 14 °C 14 °C 43 mm
44 Mariehamn Aland Islands 14 °C 14 °C 47 mm
45 Kostroma Russia 14 °C 14 °C 65 mm
46 Kamensk-Ural’skiy Russia 14 °C 14 °C 48 mm
47 Aberdeen United Kingdom 14 °C 14 °C 61 mm
48 Saint Petersburg Russia 14 °C 14 °C 55 mm
49 Stavanger Norway 14 °C 14 °C 188 mm
50 Valparaíso Chile 14 °C 14 °C 25 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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