Coldest big cities in the world (windchill, West, summers, heat)

[BMI]

Originally Posted by Jesse44

I just looked at Moscow's average lows, which are nowhere near as low as I thought. I think Toronto actually has worse winters.

Not quite Jesse. Here's a comparison in degrees C

Moscow
Dec -3/-8
Jan -4/-9
Feb -4/-10

Toronto (Lester B. Pearson Int'l Airport)
Dec 1/-6
Jan -2/-9
Feb -1/-9

Moscow is still colder, when compared with Toronto airport, closer to downtown even warmer...

Toronto (Annex)
Dec 2/-3
Jan -1/-7
Feb 0/-6

Also November can be considered to be a winter month in Moscow

Moscow November average high 1c and low -3c

Toronto November still fallish...

Toronto November average high 8c and low 0c (2c downtown)

[Tall Traveler]

I worked in Moscow for a winter and it's not as cold as I anticipated, certainly not as cold as Ulan bator where I worked 1 year. Moscow does have very short days in the winter and very little sunshine.

[StuffDuff]

[quote=;19314201]Seoul's winter is roughly as cold as New York City, Philadelphia, and Boston.


Actually, Philly and Boston can, and every winter, usually do drop below -5 Fº. NYC can easily drop to 0Fº, but NYC gets wind chills 20-25 degrees below zero whenever we get into the single digits.

[kronan123]

Rekyjavik
Murmansk
Norlisk

All located in the tundra or in the tundra/taiga ecotone.

[Acajack]

Originally Posted by kronan123

Rekyjavik
Murmansk
Norlisk

All located in the tundra or in the tundra/taiga ecotone.

Reykjavik is interesting.

It has the same annual average temperature as where I live at just under +5C.

But their average max in winter is about +2C. Ours is about -5C.

But our average mid summer max is about +28C. Theirs is +13C.

[Tom Lennox 70]

I'm guessing

- Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Edmonton, Canada
- Winnipeg, Canada
- Calgary, Canada
- Novosibirsk, Russia
- Moscow, Russia
- Helsinkin, Finland
- Stockholm, Sweden
- Oslo, Norway

Toronto and Minneapolis's downtown are connected with a massive underground network of tunnels so people are less exposed to the cold. it also makes sense that Edmonton and Minneapolis have two of the largest indoor malls in the world.

[Tom Lennox 70]

[quote=StuffDuff;32914455]

Originally Posted by

Seoul's winter is roughly as cold as New York City, Philadelphia, and Boston.


Actually, Philly and Boston can, and every winter, usually do drop below -5 Fº. NYC can easily drop to 0Fº, but NYC gets wind chills 20-25 degrees below zero whenever we get into the single digits.

I had no idea NYC got into the single digits that often. I used to live not that far south in Baltimore and it rarely dipped below 23 degrees. It was -2 in Charleston WV last night but that's the coldest in over 30 years.

[mordy]

The coldest North American city is really the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul which border each other (hence the baseball team "Minnesota Twins." The Twin Cities metropolitan area is about 3 million people.

[musiqum]

Speaking of coldness endurance and frost resistance, russian people can easily eat ice-cream on the streets in the middle of the winter. And this is not a joke! So, -15C - 25C is not a big deal for citizens of Norilsk, Murmansk or Yakutsk.

[The Postman]

Originally Posted by Tom Lennox 70

I'm guessing

- Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Edmonton, Canada
- Winnipeg, Canada
- Calgary, Canada
- Novosibirsk, Russia
- Moscow, Russia
- Helsinkin, Finland
- Stockholm, Sweden
- Oslo, Norway

Toronto and Minneapolis's downtown are connected with a massive underground network of tunnels so people are less exposed to the cold. it also makes sense that Edmonton and Minneapolis have two of the largest indoor malls in the world.

You can take Milwaukee, Stockholm, Oslo and Helsinki off the list.

Harbin, China, has to be mentioned again. Winters as cold as Winnipeg with 5 million people.

Montreal obviously too. Winters as cold as MPLS and Moscow and snowier. Quebec City.

Winnipeg
Regina
Quebec City
Montreal
Minneapolis