Frost days (min ≤ −10 °C): ranking of world cities

Order: highest value first. Lower is better.

Frost days (min ≤ −10 °C): ranking of world cities: Beijing ranks first (26 days per year) and Sydney last (0 days per year). The median across 42 world cities is 0 days per year. Observation period: 2016-2025. Source: NOAA NCEI, GHCN-Daily.

Average number of days per year when the nightly minimum fell to −10 °C or lower.

Data quality: measured at a single station, often at an airport; not an average for the metro area; years with incomplete data are excluded.

#CityValue
1Beijing26 days per year
2Toronto25 days per year
3Minsk19 days per year
4Helsinki17 days per year
5Vilnius15 days per year
6Tallinn13 days per year
7Oslo11 days per year
8Bucharest8 days per year
9Warsaw6 days per year
10Stockholm5 days per year
11Berlin2 days per year
12Copenhagen2 days per year
13Vienna1 days per year
14Budapest0 days per year
15Amsterdam0 days per year
16Bangkok0 days per year
17Barcelona0 days per year
18Bogotá0 days per year
19Buenos Aires0 days per year
20Cape Town0 days per year
21Casablanca0 days per year
22Delhi0 days per year
23Doha0 days per year
24Dubai0 days per year
25Dublin0 days per year
26Guangzhou0 days per year
27Jakarta0 days per year
28Kuala Lumpur0 days per year
29Lima0 days per year
30London0 days per year
31Madrid0 days per year
32Manila0 days per year
33Melbourne0 days per year
34Mumbai0 days per year
35Paris0 days per year
36Rio de Janeiro0 days per year
37Riyadh0 days per year
38Rome0 days per year
39Santiago0 days per year
40São Paulo0 days per year
41Singapore0 days per year
42Sydney0 days per year

Only places with a value for the indicator are ranked; a gap is not a zero. A ranking on one indicator is not an assessment of a place to live.

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