Ekstrem kulde, måned for måned rundt om i verden

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Ekstrem kulde i januar

  1. Petra 🇯🇴 JordanSnow and winter closures · 5. jan. – 28. feb. (normalt)Wadi Musa sits high enough to take snow in some winters, most recently in February 2024, which can shut the site for a day or two while the Siq and the Monastery steps are icy.79
  2. Nuwara Eliya 🇱🇰 Sri LankaGround frost at night · 5. jan. – 25. feb. (normalt)Six degrees of latitude off the equator and still frost on the tea in the small hours.76
  3. Amman 🇯🇴 JordanThe cold snaps · 20. dec. – 28. feb. (normalt)Amman sits high enough that a Mediterranean depression can put snow on the hills two or three times a winter.75
  4. Cradle Mountain 🇦🇺 AustralienAlpine weather in any month · 1. jan. – 31. dec.Snow falls on this plateau in every month of the year and the summit track can be a whiteout in January.74
  5. Ramallah 🇵🇸 PalæstinaThe cold snaps · 20. dec. – 28. feb. (normalt)A Mediterranean depression can put snow on these hills once or twice a winter, and the steep streets and the roads out are closed for it.69
  6. Salamanca 🇪🇸 SpanienMeseta winter · 1. dec. – 28. feb.Eight hundred metres up on an open plain, so frost most mornings and a wind that finds every arcade.66
  7. Sapa 🇻🇳 VietnamWinter frost on the ridge · 15. dec. – 20. feb. (normalt)Frost on the terraces above town most weeks and a dusting of snow on Fansipan in some years, which brings Vietnamese visitors up specifically to see it.66
  8. Atlanta 🇺🇸 USAWinter ice storms · 1. jan. – 28. feb. (normalt)Once or twice a winter freezing rain shuts the interstates, the airport and the schools for a day or two.62
  9. Raleigh 🇺🇸 USAIce storms · 1. jan. – 28. feb. (normalt)Snow is rare, but a few times most winters freezing rain glazes roads and trees.62
  10. Washington D.C. 🇺🇸 USASnow and ice shutdowns · 5. jan. – 28. feb. (normalt)A few inches closes the federal government, the schools and half the museums, and freezing rain does worse to the bridges.59
  11. Murree 🇵🇰 PakistanThe snow rush · 20. dec. – 10. feb. (normalt)The first heavy fall brings hundreds of thousands of cars up from Islamabad and Lahore in one weekend.52
  12. Sokcho 🇰🇷 SydkoreaYeongdong coast snow · 15. dec. – 28. feb. (normalt)Cold air crossing the East Sea dumps on this narrow coastal strip in a way the rest of Korea never sees — a metre in a bad week.51
  13. St. Louis 🇺🇸 USAIce storms · 15. dec. – 28. feb. (normalt)The city sits on the freezing-rain line most winters, and an ice event does more damage here than snow: power out for days, the interstates closed and flights cancelled at Lambert.50
  14. Louisville 🇺🇸 USAWinter ice storms · 1. jan. – 28. feb. (normalt)The Ohio valley sits on the line where southern moisture meets cold air, so the winter problem here is freezing rain rather than snow.50
  15. Portland 🇺🇸 USAFreezing rain and ice storms · 15. dec. – 20. feb. (normalt)East wind out of the Gorge meets valley cold and glazes the city in freezing rain most winters.49
  16. Van 🇹🇷 TyrkietExtreme cold and snow closures · 1. dec. – 28. feb. (normalt)January and February lows regularly fall below -20C, and a single storm can bury mountain roads: heavy snow in January 2026 cut off roughly ninety village roads around Van alone.46
  17. Kabul 🇦🇫 AfghanistanWinter cold and smoke · 1. dec. – 28. feb.Winters are severe by South Asian standards and the city heats itself with whatever will burn, so the cold and the air arrive together.45
  18. Zion National Park 🇺🇸 USAIce on the high trails · 1. dec. – 28. feb. (normalt)The shaded switchbacks up to Angels Landing and the East Rim glaze over for weeks and the park closes sections outright after a storm.43
  19. Cleveland 🇺🇸 USALake-effect snow season · 15. nov. – 15. mar.Cold air crossing an unfrozen Lake Erie dumps bands of snow on the eastern suburbs while downtown stays dry, and the split can be thirty centimetres over fifteen miles.43
  20. Srinagar 🇮🇳 IndienChillai Kalan · 21. dec. – 31. jan.The forty days the valley counts as the real winter: pipes freeze, parts of the Dal ice over, and heavy snow shuts the Jawahar tunnel and grounds flights for a day at a time.42
  21. Bozeman 🇺🇸 USADeep cold snaps · 15. dec. – 20. feb. (normalt)Arctic air spills over the divide a few times each winter and holds the valley below minus twenty for days.40
  22. Detroit 🇺🇸 USADeep winter and lake-effect snow · 10. dec. – 1. mar. (normalt)Two months of grey, freezing days with the wind coming off the lakes and a snow event most weeks.39
  23. Milwaukee 🇺🇸 USADeep-cold snaps · 5. jan. – 28. feb. (normalt)Arctic outbreaks off the plains can freeze the lakefront for days, and in the worst ones schools shut and buses run late.39
  24. Kars 🇹🇷 TyrkietDeep winter on the plateau · 1. dec. – 15. mar. (normalt)Four months of lying snow on average at 1,800 m, and the town takes it seriously: double doors, stoves going all day, and roads out to Ani and the Georgian border that close without much warning.38
  25. Shenandoah National Park 🇺🇸 USASkyline Drive ice closures · 1. dec. – 15. mar. (normalt)The only road through the park sits on an exposed ridge and shuts in sections for ice and snow, sometimes for days.37

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Ekstrem kulde i februar

  1. Nuwara Eliya 🇱🇰 Sri LankaGround frost at night · 5. jan. – 25. feb. (normalt)Six degrees of latitude off the equator and still frost on the tea in the small hours.83
  2. Petra 🇯🇴 JordanSnow and winter closures · 5. jan. – 28. feb. (normalt)Wadi Musa sits high enough to take snow in some winters, most recently in February 2024, which can shut the site for a day or two while the Siq and the Monastery steps are icy.82
  3. Amman 🇯🇴 JordanThe cold snaps · 20. dec. – 28. feb. (normalt)Amman sits high enough that a Mediterranean depression can put snow on the hills two or three times a winter.80
  4. Salamanca 🇪🇸 SpanienMeseta winter · 1. dec. – 28. feb.Eight hundred metres up on an open plain, so frost most mornings and a wind that finds every arcade.73
  5. Ramallah 🇵🇸 PalæstinaThe cold snaps · 20. dec. – 28. feb. (normalt)A Mediterranean depression can put snow on these hills once or twice a winter, and the steep streets and the roads out are closed for it.73
  6. Sapa 🇻🇳 VietnamWinter frost on the ridge · 15. dec. – 20. feb. (normalt)Frost on the terraces above town most weeks and a dusting of snow on Fansipan in some years, which brings Vietnamese visitors up specifically to see it.71
  7. Cradle Mountain 🇦🇺 AustralienAlpine weather in any month · 1. jan. – 31. dec.Snow falls on this plateau in every month of the year and the summit track can be a whiteout in January.71
  8. Atlanta 🇺🇸 USAWinter ice storms · 1. jan. – 28. feb. (normalt)Once or twice a winter freezing rain shuts the interstates, the airport and the schools for a day or two.69
  9. Raleigh 🇺🇸 USAIce storms · 1. jan. – 28. feb. (normalt)Snow is rare, but a few times most winters freezing rain glazes roads and trees.69
  10. Washington D.C. 🇺🇸 USASnow and ice shutdowns · 5. jan. – 28. feb. (normalt)A few inches closes the federal government, the schools and half the museums, and freezing rain does worse to the bridges.63
  11. St. Louis 🇺🇸 USAIce storms · 15. dec. – 28. feb. (normalt)The city sits on the freezing-rain line most winters, and an ice event does more damage here than snow: power out for days, the interstates closed and flights cancelled at Lambert.62
  12. Louisville 🇺🇸 USAWinter ice storms · 1. jan. – 28. feb. (normalt)The Ohio valley sits on the line where southern moisture meets cold air, so the winter problem here is freezing rain rather than snow.59
  13. Sokcho 🇰🇷 SydkoreaYeongdong coast snow · 15. dec. – 28. feb. (normalt)Cold air crossing the East Sea dumps on this narrow coastal strip in a way the rest of Korea never sees — a metre in a bad week.57
  14. Murree 🇵🇰 PakistanThe snow rush · 20. dec. – 10. feb. (normalt)The first heavy fall brings hundreds of thousands of cars up from Islamabad and Lahore in one weekend.57
  15. Portland 🇺🇸 USAFreezing rain and ice storms · 15. dec. – 20. feb. (normalt)East wind out of the Gorge meets valley cold and glazes the city in freezing rain most winters.55
  16. Cleveland 🇺🇸 USALake-effect snow season · 15. nov. – 15. mar.Cold air crossing an unfrozen Lake Erie dumps bands of snow on the eastern suburbs while downtown stays dry, and the split can be thirty centimetres over fifteen miles.54
  17. Zion National Park 🇺🇸 USAIce on the high trails · 1. dec. – 28. feb. (normalt)The shaded switchbacks up to Angels Landing and the East Rim glaze over for weeks and the park closes sections outright after a storm.52
  18. Kabul 🇦🇫 AfghanistanWinter cold and smoke · 1. dec. – 28. feb.Winters are severe by South Asian standards and the city heats itself with whatever will burn, so the cold and the air arrive together.51
  19. Van 🇹🇷 TyrkietExtreme cold and snow closures · 1. dec. – 28. feb. (normalt)January and February lows regularly fall below -20C, and a single storm can bury mountain roads: heavy snow in January 2026 cut off roughly ninety village roads around Van alone.50
  20. Detroit 🇺🇸 USADeep winter and lake-effect snow · 10. dec. – 1. mar. (normalt)Two months of grey, freezing days with the wind coming off the lakes and a snow event most weeks.49
  21. Shenandoah National Park 🇺🇸 USASkyline Drive ice closures · 1. dec. – 15. mar. (normalt)The only road through the park sits on an exposed ridge and shuts in sections for ice and snow, sometimes for days.47
  22. Milwaukee 🇺🇸 USADeep-cold snaps · 5. jan. – 28. feb. (normalt)Arctic outbreaks off the plains can freeze the lakefront for days, and in the worst ones schools shut and buses run late.47
  23. Kars 🇹🇷 TyrkietDeep winter on the plateau · 1. dec. – 15. mar. (normalt)Four months of lying snow on average at 1,800 m, and the town takes it seriously: double doors, stoves going all day, and roads out to Ani and the Georgian border that close without much warning.46
  24. Bozeman 🇺🇸 USADeep cold snaps · 15. dec. – 20. feb. (normalt)Arctic air spills over the divide a few times each winter and holds the valley below minus twenty for days.45
  25. Soldeu 🇦🇩 AndorraPort d'Envalira snow closures · 1. dec. – 31. mar.The pass above the resort is the highest paved road in the Pyrenees and the French approach shuts or goes to chains in heavy snow.45

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Ekstrem kulde i marts

  1. Cradle Mountain 🇦🇺 AustralienAlpine weather in any month · 1. jan. – 31. dec.Snow falls on this plateau in every month of the year and the summit track can be a whiteout in January.65
  2. Cleveland 🇺🇸 USALake-effect snow season · 15. nov. – 15. mar.Cold air crossing an unfrozen Lake Erie dumps bands of snow on the eastern suburbs while downtown stays dry, and the split can be thirty centimetres over fifteen miles.63
  3. Detroit 🇺🇸 USADeep winter and lake-effect snow · 10. dec. – 1. mar. (normalt)Two months of grey, freezing days with the wind coming off the lakes and a snow event most weeks.62
  4. Shenandoah National Park 🇺🇸 USASkyline Drive ice closures · 1. dec. – 15. mar. (normalt)The only road through the park sits on an exposed ridge and shuts in sections for ice and snow, sometimes for days.57
  5. Kars 🇹🇷 TyrkietDeep winter on the plateau · 1. dec. – 15. mar. (normalt)Four months of lying snow on average at 1,800 m, and the town takes it seriously: double doors, stoves going all day, and roads out to Ani and the Georgian border that close without much warning.56
  6. Traverse City 🇺🇸 USALake-effect snow season · 15. nov. – 31. mar. (normalt)Bands of lake-effect snow off Lake Michigan can drop several inches an hour onto the peninsulas and the roads around the bay, and the region's seasonal total of well over a hundred inches mostly falls between late November and March.54
  7. Tjita 🇷🇺 RuslandExtreme cold season · 1. nov. – 15. mar. (normalt)Winters here are severely continental: January averages around -24.6°C and the mercury has fallen as low as -49.6°C.53
  8. Astana 🇰🇿 KasakhstanBlizzards close the steppe roads · 1. nov. – 31. mar. (normalt)Ground blizzards on the open steppe regularly shut the highways out of the city, including the road to Karaganda, sometimes for a day or more.48
  9. Soldeu 🇦🇩 AndorraPort d'Envalira snow closures · 1. dec. – 31. mar.The pass above the resort is the highest paved road in the Pyrenees and the French approach shuts or goes to chains in heavy snow.48
  10. Murmansk 🇷🇺 RuslandBlizzards and road closures · 15. nov. – 15. apr. (normalt)The wind off the Barents drifts the roads shut faster than the cold does; the Teriberka road and the Kola highway close for hours or days at a time in a storm.45
  11. Jakutsk 🇷🇺 RuslandDeep winter · 20. nov. – 5. mar. (normalt)The coldest city of its size anywhere, built on permafrost with its buildings up on piles and its pipes above ground.40
  12. Magadan 🇷🇺 RuslandDeep winter · 1. dec. – 5. mar. (normalt)Coastal, so milder than the Kolyma interior behind it, but still months of hard frost with wind coming straight off the frozen sea.39

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Ekstrem kulde i april

  1. Murmansk 🇷🇺 RuslandBlizzards and road closures · 15. nov. – 15. apr. (normalt)The wind off the Barents drifts the roads shut faster than the cold does; the Teriberka road and the Kola highway close for hours or days at a time in a storm.57
  2. Cradle Mountain 🇦🇺 AustralienAlpine weather in any month · 1. jan. – 31. dec.Snow falls on this plateau in every month of the year and the summit track can be a whiteout in January.54

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Ekstrem kulde i maj

  1. Tongariro 🇳🇿 New ZealandCrossing in winter conditions · 1. maj – 31. okt. (normalt)From May to October the Crossing is an alpine route: ice axe, crampons and the skills to use them, or a guide.51
  2. Cradle Mountain 🇦🇺 AustralienAlpine weather in any month · 1. jan. – 31. dec.Snow falls on this plateau in every month of the year and the summit track can be a whiteout in January.41

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Ekstrem kulde i juni

  1. Puno 🇵🇪 PeruFreezing nights on the altiplano · 1. jun. – 15. aug. (normalt)At 3,800 m the dry-season nights drop below freezing in rooms with no heating, while the midday sun burns hard enough that the hospital treats sunburn off the slow boats most days of July and August.82
  2. Potosí 🇧🇴 BoliviaFreezing nights above 4,000 m · 1. jun. – 15. aug. (normalt)Potosí is one of the highest cities in the world and the dry-season nights go well below zero in buildings that are almost never heated.80
  3. Uyuni 🇧🇴 BoliviaThe cold nights · 1. jun. – 31. aug.Midwinter nights on the salt and at the lagoon refuges go far below freezing with no heating worth the name.77
  4. Uluru 🇦🇺 AustralienFreezing desert nights · 1. jun. – 15. aug. (normalt)The days that make winter the walking season come with nights below zero and frost on the spinifex before dawn.70
  5. Tongariro 🇳🇿 New ZealandCrossing in winter conditions · 1. maj – 31. okt. (normalt)From May to October the Crossing is an alpine route: ice axe, crampons and the skills to use them, or a guide.49
  6. Cradle Mountain 🇦🇺 AustralienAlpine weather in any month · 1. jan. – 31. dec.Snow falls on this plateau in every month of the year and the summit track can be a whiteout in January.36

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Ekstrem kulde i juli

  1. Puno 🇵🇪 PeruFreezing nights on the altiplano · 1. jun. – 15. aug. (normalt)At 3,800 m the dry-season nights drop below freezing in rooms with no heating, while the midday sun burns hard enough that the hospital treats sunburn off the slow boats most days of July and August.82
  2. Potosí 🇧🇴 BoliviaFreezing nights above 4,000 m · 1. jun. – 15. aug. (normalt)Potosí is one of the highest cities in the world and the dry-season nights go well below zero in buildings that are almost never heated.81
  3. Uyuni 🇧🇴 BoliviaThe cold nights · 1. jun. – 31. aug.Midwinter nights on the salt and at the lagoon refuges go far below freezing with no heating worth the name.78
  4. Uluru 🇦🇺 AustralienFreezing desert nights · 1. jun. – 15. aug. (normalt)The days that make winter the walking season come with nights below zero and frost on the spinifex before dawn.72
  5. Tongariro 🇳🇿 New ZealandCrossing in winter conditions · 1. maj – 31. okt. (normalt)From May to October the Crossing is an alpine route: ice axe, crampons and the skills to use them, or a guide.42
  6. Cradle Mountain 🇦🇺 AustralienAlpine weather in any month · 1. jan. – 31. dec.Snow falls on this plateau in every month of the year and the summit track can be a whiteout in January.29

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Ekstrem kulde i august

  1. Puno 🇵🇪 PeruFreezing nights on the altiplano · 1. jun. – 15. aug. (normalt)At 3,800 m the dry-season nights drop below freezing in rooms with no heating, while the midday sun burns hard enough that the hospital treats sunburn off the slow boats most days of July and August.83
  2. Potosí 🇧🇴 BoliviaFreezing nights above 4,000 m · 1. jun. – 15. aug. (normalt)Potosí is one of the highest cities in the world and the dry-season nights go well below zero in buildings that are almost never heated.81
  3. Uyuni 🇧🇴 BoliviaThe cold nights · 1. jun. – 31. aug.Midwinter nights on the salt and at the lagoon refuges go far below freezing with no heating worth the name.79
  4. Uluru 🇦🇺 AustralienFreezing desert nights · 1. jun. – 15. aug. (normalt)The days that make winter the walking season come with nights below zero and frost on the spinifex before dawn.77
  5. Tongariro 🇳🇿 New ZealandCrossing in winter conditions · 1. maj – 31. okt. (normalt)From May to October the Crossing is an alpine route: ice axe, crampons and the skills to use them, or a guide.46
  6. Cradle Mountain 🇦🇺 AustralienAlpine weather in any month · 1. jan. – 31. dec.Snow falls on this plateau in every month of the year and the summit track can be a whiteout in January.32

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Ekstrem kulde i september

  1. Tongariro 🇳🇿 New ZealandCrossing in winter conditions · 1. maj – 31. okt. (normalt)From May to October the Crossing is an alpine route: ice axe, crampons and the skills to use them, or a guide.47
  2. Cradle Mountain 🇦🇺 AustralienAlpine weather in any month · 1. jan. – 31. dec.Snow falls on this plateau in every month of the year and the summit track can be a whiteout in January.39

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Ekstrem kulde i oktober

  1. Tongariro 🇳🇿 New ZealandCrossing in winter conditions · 1. maj – 31. okt. (normalt)From May to October the Crossing is an alpine route: ice axe, crampons and the skills to use them, or a guide.55
  2. Cradle Mountain 🇦🇺 AustralienAlpine weather in any month · 1. jan. – 31. dec.Snow falls on this plateau in every month of the year and the summit track can be a whiteout in January.49

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Ekstrem kulde i november

  1. Cleveland 🇺🇸 USALake-effect snow season · 15. nov. – 15. mar.Cold air crossing an unfrozen Lake Erie dumps bands of snow on the eastern suburbs while downtown stays dry, and the split can be thirty centimetres over fifteen miles.65
  2. Traverse City 🇺🇸 USALake-effect snow season · 15. nov. – 31. mar. (normalt)Bands of lake-effect snow off Lake Michigan can drop several inches an hour onto the peninsulas and the roads around the bay, and the region's seasonal total of well over a hundred inches mostly falls between late November and March.59
  3. Cradle Mountain 🇦🇺 AustralienAlpine weather in any month · 1. jan. – 31. dec.Snow falls on this plateau in every month of the year and the summit track can be a whiteout in January.58
  4. Astana 🇰🇿 KasakhstanBlizzards close the steppe roads · 1. nov. – 31. mar. (normalt)Ground blizzards on the open steppe regularly shut the highways out of the city, including the road to Karaganda, sometimes for a day or more.39
  5. Tjita 🇷🇺 RuslandExtreme cold season · 1. nov. – 15. mar. (normalt)Winters here are severely continental: January averages around -24.6°C and the mercury has fallen as low as -49.6°C.39
  6. Murmansk 🇷🇺 RuslandBlizzards and road closures · 15. nov. – 15. apr. (normalt)The wind off the Barents drifts the roads shut faster than the cold does; the Teriberka road and the Kola highway close for hours or days at a time in a storm.35
  7. Jakutsk 🇷🇺 RuslandDeep winter · 20. nov. – 5. mar. (normalt)The coldest city of its size anywhere, built on permafrost with its buildings up on piles and its pipes above ground.31

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Ekstrem kulde i december

  1. Amman 🇯🇴 JordanThe cold snaps · 20. dec. – 28. feb. (normalt)Amman sits high enough that a Mediterranean depression can put snow on the hills two or three times a winter.78
  2. Ramallah 🇵🇸 PalæstinaThe cold snaps · 20. dec. – 28. feb. (normalt)A Mediterranean depression can put snow on these hills once or twice a winter, and the steep streets and the roads out are closed for it.72
  3. Sapa 🇻🇳 VietnamWinter frost on the ridge · 15. dec. – 20. feb. (normalt)Frost on the terraces above town most weeks and a dusting of snow on Fansipan in some years, which brings Vietnamese visitors up specifically to see it.70
  4. Salamanca 🇪🇸 SpanienMeseta winter · 1. dec. – 28. feb.Eight hundred metres up on an open plain, so frost most mornings and a wind that finds every arcade.65
  5. Kabul 🇦🇫 AfghanistanWinter cold and smoke · 1. dec. – 28. feb.Winters are severe by South Asian standards and the city heats itself with whatever will burn, so the cold and the air arrive together.64
  6. Murree 🇵🇰 PakistanThe snow rush · 20. dec. – 10. feb. (normalt)The first heavy fall brings hundreds of thousands of cars up from Islamabad and Lahore in one weekend.64
  7. Cradle Mountain 🇦🇺 AustralienAlpine weather in any month · 1. jan. – 31. dec.Snow falls on this plateau in every month of the year and the summit track can be a whiteout in January.62
  8. St. Louis 🇺🇸 USAIce storms · 15. dec. – 28. feb. (normalt)The city sits on the freezing-rain line most winters, and an ice event does more damage here than snow: power out for days, the interstates closed and flights cancelled at Lambert.59
  9. Srinagar 🇮🇳 IndienChillai Kalan · 21. dec. – 31. jan.The forty days the valley counts as the real winter: pipes freeze, parts of the Dal ice over, and heavy snow shuts the Jawahar tunnel and grounds flights for a day at a time.57
  10. Sokcho 🇰🇷 SydkoreaYeongdong coast snow · 15. dec. – 28. feb. (normalt)Cold air crossing the East Sea dumps on this narrow coastal strip in a way the rest of Korea never sees — a metre in a bad week.56
  11. Van 🇹🇷 TyrkietExtreme cold and snow closures · 1. dec. – 28. feb. (normalt)January and February lows regularly fall below -20C, and a single storm can bury mountain roads: heavy snow in January 2026 cut off roughly ninety village roads around Van alone.54
  12. Cleveland 🇺🇸 USALake-effect snow season · 15. nov. – 15. mar.Cold air crossing an unfrozen Lake Erie dumps bands of snow on the eastern suburbs while downtown stays dry, and the split can be thirty centimetres over fifteen miles.51
  13. Zion National Park 🇺🇸 USAIce on the high trails · 1. dec. – 28. feb. (normalt)The shaded switchbacks up to Angels Landing and the East Rim glaze over for weeks and the park closes sections outright after a storm.50
  14. Detroit 🇺🇸 USADeep winter and lake-effect snow · 10. dec. – 1. mar. (normalt)Two months of grey, freezing days with the wind coming off the lakes and a snow event most weeks.46
  15. Portland 🇺🇸 USAFreezing rain and ice storms · 15. dec. – 20. feb. (normalt)East wind out of the Gorge meets valley cold and glazes the city in freezing rain most winters.45
  16. Toronto 🇨🇦 CanadaDeep freeze and ice storms · 15. dec. – 28. feb. (normalt)The city issues extreme cold alerts most winters and the wind off the lake takes several degrees off whatever the thermometer says.44
  17. Shenandoah National Park 🇺🇸 USASkyline Drive ice closures · 1. dec. – 15. mar. (normalt)The only road through the park sits on an exposed ridge and shuts in sections for ice and snow, sometimes for days.42
  18. Bozeman 🇺🇸 USADeep cold snaps · 15. dec. – 20. feb. (normalt)Arctic air spills over the divide a few times each winter and holds the valley below minus twenty for days.42
  19. Kars 🇹🇷 TyrkietDeep winter on the plateau · 1. dec. – 15. mar. (normalt)Four months of lying snow on average at 1,800 m, and the town takes it seriously: double doors, stoves going all day, and roads out to Ani and the Georgian border that close without much warning.42
  20. Soldeu 🇦🇩 AndorraPort d'Envalira snow closures · 1. dec. – 31. mar.The pass above the resort is the highest paved road in the Pyrenees and the French approach shuts or goes to chains in heavy snow.41
  21. Traverse City 🇺🇸 USALake-effect snow season · 15. nov. – 31. mar. (normalt)Bands of lake-effect snow off Lake Michigan can drop several inches an hour onto the peninsulas and the roads around the bay, and the region's seasonal total of well over a hundred inches mostly falls between late November and March.41
  22. Theodore Roosevelt National Park 🇺🇸 USADeep winter cold · 1. dec. – 28. feb.The northern plains do minus thirty with wind behind it, sections of the park roads go unplowed, and a breakdown out here is a serious problem.36
  23. Ürümqi 🇨🇳 KinaThe deep cold · 1. dec. – 20. feb. (normalt)One of the most continental cities on Earth, and it shows for about three months.36
  24. Edmonton 🇨🇦 CanadaDeep cold snaps · 1. dec. – 28. feb.Arctic air settles over the city for stretches of a week and extreme cold warnings become routine.31
  25. Winnipeg 🇨🇦 CanadaDeep cold · 15. dec. – 20. feb. (normalt)Weeks at a time below minus twenty with a wind off the prairie behind it, which is why downtown is connected by tunnels and skywalks.31

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