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The Coldest Place on Earth

I'm shivering just thinking about it.

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Joey Held
Jan 23, 2026
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A chilly day in Oymyakon (Photo via Ilya Varlamov, CC BY-SA 4.0)

The coldest temperature for an inhabited place is in Oymyakon in the Sakha Republic, Russia. Daily mean temperatures are −45.7°C (−50.3°F), with a record low temperature of −67.7 °C (−89…

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