Severe frost (min ≤ −20 °C): ranking of world cities

Order: highest value first. Lower is better.

Severe frost (min ≤ −20 °C): ranking of world cities: Minsk ranks first (2.4 days per year) and Vienna last (0.0 days per year). The median across 42 world cities is 0.0 days per year. Observation period: 2016-2025. Source: NOAA NCEI, GHCN-Daily.

Average number of days per year when the nightly minimum fell to −20 °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
1Minsk2.4 days per year
2Toronto2.0 days per year
3Vilnius1.7 days per year
4Helsinki1.0 days per year
5Tallinn0.4 days per year
6Beijing0.3 days per year
7Bucharest0.3 days per year
8Oslo0.1 days per year
9Warsaw0.1 days per year
10Amsterdam0.0 days per year
11Bangkok0.0 days per year
12Barcelona0.0 days per year
13Berlin0.0 days per year
14Bogotá0.0 days per year
15Budapest0.0 days per year
16Buenos Aires0.0 days per year
17Cape Town0.0 days per year
18Casablanca0.0 days per year
19Copenhagen0.0 days per year
20Delhi0.0 days per year
21Doha0.0 days per year
22Dubai0.0 days per year
23Dublin0.0 days per year
24Guangzhou0.0 days per year
25Jakarta0.0 days per year
26Kuala Lumpur0.0 days per year
27Lima0.0 days per year
28London0.0 days per year
29Madrid0.0 days per year
30Manila0.0 days per year
31Melbourne0.0 days per year
32Mumbai0.0 days per year
33Paris0.0 days per year
34Rio de Janeiro0.0 days per year
35Riyadh0.0 days per year
36Rome0.0 days per year
37Santiago0.0 days per year
38São Paulo0.0 days per year
39Singapore0.0 days per year
40Stockholm0.0 days per year
41Sydney0.0 days per year
42Vienna0.0 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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