Most unique inhabited climates? (snow, warm, record, temperatures)

[Raysuxx]

I'm looking for places people live with weird/unusual climates. They don't necessarily need to be extreme, they could be crazy mild. Just places that you have found that have made you question how people live in those conditions.
At 5100m La Rinconada, Peru is one that stands out to me!

[jgtheone]

Originally Posted by Raysuxx

I'm looking for places people live with weird/unusual climates. They don't necessarily need to be extreme, they could be crazy mild. Just places that you have found that have made you question how people live in those conditions.
At 5100m La Rinconada, Peru is one that stands out to me!

Aside from the weather, they deal with terrible living conditions. It really makes me wonder how they do it.

[dallol1]

Not a city, but inhabited:

[dallol1]

Mid-winter temperatures:

[Ariete]

Originally Posted by dallol1

Not a city, but inhabited:

Dallol is not inhabited.

[dallol1]

Originally Posted by Ariete

Dallol is not inhabited.

Dallol is located north of this 'woreda' they call it:


That Dallol woreda^^ had a population of 83,930 in the 2007 census. The inhabited areas are therefore in the south of this woreda and:


Lake Karum for example 16 miles south east of Dallol:

Nearly a full degree hotter than Dallol going by this forecast.

[Ethereal]

Arica, Chile

One of the driest places in the world, but it is cloudier than wet places like Sydney, Brisbane, Miami and Buenos Ares...

[Donar]

Vladivostok. Very cold for its latitude, extreme lag in spring and summer, yet warm summer nights and on top of that July as the cloudiest month, even in absolute terms.

[Coldfront Factory]

Lima Peru. Same distance from the equator as Darwin and Bangkok but has Sydney's summers and the sunshine hours of Ushuaia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lima#Climate

Walvis Bay. Similar latitude to Port Hedland, Dubai and Hong Kong, but average summer highs colder than Vancouver and Sydney-like winters. Infact, the summers and the record high are colder than Yakutsk! Rainfall however is among the lowest on Earth for a population centre.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walvis_Bay#Climate

these are the most bizarre climates on Earth IMO

[Troms]

In addition to what others have said:
Eureka, California: extremely tempered mediterranean climate, where both snow and temps over 30°C are almost unheard of. The Farallon Islands may be even more tempered but there are no official data.
Cape Verde: rare instance of a warm (but not hot) and dry tropical climate.
Western Japan: the snowiest inhabited area on Earth has actually a subtropical climate.
Macquarie Island: a frost-free tundra climate. The island has no civilian settlements but there is a permanent research station. This climate can also be found in other uninhabited subantarctic islands such as the Kerguelen. The Faer Oer and the Aleutian Islands also have a similar climate, though slightly too warm to be classified as a tundra climate.
Labrador: the whole peninsula "enjoys" a rare combination of intense cold and high precipitation which can be found in very few other places in the world.
Eastern Greenland: wet coastal tundra climate with a "mediterranean" precipitation pattern. Some areas in the Kuril Islands have a somewhat similar climate, although warmer and wetter in all seasons.