- Who
- Verkhoyansk
- What
- 106 degree(s) Celsius
- Where
- Russian Federation (Verkhoyansk)
- When
The greatest recorded temperature range for a single location have been recorded around the Siberian "cold pole" in the east of Russia. Since historical weather station records began in 1885, temperatures in the town of Verkhoyansk (67.55° N, 133.38° E), in the region of the Sakha Republic/Yakutia, have ranged 106°C (190.4°F), from a low of -67.7°C (-90°F) in February 1892 to a high of 38°C (100.4°F) on 20 June 2020.
The latter represents the highest ever temperature recorded within the Arctic Circle and was ratified by the World Meteorological Organization in Dec 2021.
