Extreme Kälte – Monat für Monat rund um die Welt
Die Wochen, in denen die Stadt nicht mehr vor die Tür geht – Dzud, Eisstürme, minus dreißig Grad.
Das ist eine Warnseite, keine Empfehlung. Extreme Kälte betrifft auf SeasonMap 52 Reiseziele; die Monate unten sind die, in denen das Risikofenster offen ist – die meisten Wochen darin bleiben ruhig, und der Score neben jedem Ort ist weiterhin der normale Klima-Score, Risiko inklusive.
Wann es so weit ist
Extreme Kälte im Januar
- Petra 🇯🇴 JordanienSnow and winter closures · 5. Jan. – 28. Feb. (meist)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
- Nuwara Eliya 🇱🇰 Sri LankaGround frost at night · 5. Jan. – 25. Feb. (meist)Six degrees of latitude off the equator and still frost on the tea in the small hours.76
- Amman 🇯🇴 JordanienThe cold snaps · 20. Dez. – 28. Feb. (meist)Amman sits high enough that a Mediterranean depression can put snow on the hills two or three times a winter.75
- Cradle Mountain 🇦🇺 AustralienAlpine weather in any month · 1. Jan. – 31. Dez.Snow falls on this plateau in every month of the year and the summit track can be a whiteout in January.74
- Ramallah 🇵🇸 PalästinaThe cold snaps · 20. Dez. – 28. Feb. (meist)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
- Salamanca 🇪🇸 SpanienMeseta winter · 1. Dez. – 28. Feb.Eight hundred metres up on an open plain, so frost most mornings and a wind that finds every arcade.66
- Sapa 🇻🇳 VietnamWinter frost on the ridge · 15. Dez. – 20. Feb. (meist)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
- Atlanta 🇺🇸 Vereinigte StaatenWinter ice storms · 1. Jan. – 28. Feb. (meist)Once or twice a winter freezing rain shuts the interstates, the airport and the schools for a day or two.62
- Raleigh 🇺🇸 Vereinigte StaatenIce storms · 1. Jan. – 28. Feb. (meist)Snow is rare, but a few times most winters freezing rain glazes roads and trees.62
- Washington, D.C. 🇺🇸 Vereinigte StaatenSnow and ice shutdowns · 5. Jan. – 28. Feb. (meist)A few inches closes the federal government, the schools and half the museums, and freezing rain does worse to the bridges.59
- Murree 🇵🇰 PakistanThe snow rush · 20. Dez. – 10. Feb. (meist)The first heavy fall brings hundreds of thousands of cars up from Islamabad and Lahore in one weekend.52
- Sokcho 🇰🇷 SüdkoreaYeongdong coast snow · 15. Dez. – 28. Feb. (meist)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
- St. Louis 🇺🇸 Vereinigte StaatenIce storms · 15. Dez. – 28. Feb. (meist)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
- Louisville 🇺🇸 Vereinigte StaatenWinter ice storms · 1. Jan. – 28. Feb. (meist)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
- Portland 🇺🇸 Vereinigte StaatenFreezing rain and ice storms · 15. Dez. – 20. Feb. (meist)East wind out of the Gorge meets valley cold and glazes the city in freezing rain most winters.49
- Van 🇹🇷 TürkeiExtreme cold and snow closures · 1. Dez. – 28. Feb. (meist)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
- Kabul 🇦🇫 AfghanistanWinter cold and smoke · 1. Dez. – 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
- Zion-Nationalpark 🇺🇸 Vereinigte StaatenIce on the high trails · 1. Dez. – 28. Feb. (meist)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
- Cleveland 🇺🇸 Vereinigte StaatenLake-effect snow season · 15. Nov. – 15. MärzCold 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
- Srinagar 🇮🇳 IndienChillai Kalan · 21. Dez. – 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
- Bozeman 🇺🇸 Vereinigte StaatenDeep cold snaps · 15. Dez. – 20. Feb. (meist)Arctic air spills over the divide a few times each winter and holds the valley below minus twenty for days.40
- Detroit 🇺🇸 Vereinigte StaatenDeep winter and lake-effect snow · 10. Dez. – 1. März (meist)Two months of grey, freezing days with the wind coming off the lakes and a snow event most weeks.39
- Milwaukee 🇺🇸 Vereinigte StaatenDeep-cold snaps · 5. Jan. – 28. Feb. (meist)Arctic outbreaks off the plains can freeze the lakefront for days, and in the worst ones schools shut and buses run late.39
- Kars 🇹🇷 TürkeiDeep winter on the plateau · 1. Dez. – 15. März (meist)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
- Shenandoah-Nationalpark 🇺🇸 Vereinigte StaatenSkyline Drive ice closures · 1. Dez. – 15. März (meist)The only road through the park sits on an exposed ridge and shuts in sections for ice and snow, sometimes for days.37
… und 22 weitere im Januar.
Extreme Kälte im Februar
- Nuwara Eliya 🇱🇰 Sri LankaGround frost at night · 5. Jan. – 25. Feb. (meist)Six degrees of latitude off the equator and still frost on the tea in the small hours.83
- Petra 🇯🇴 JordanienSnow and winter closures · 5. Jan. – 28. Feb. (meist)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
- Amman 🇯🇴 JordanienThe cold snaps · 20. Dez. – 28. Feb. (meist)Amman sits high enough that a Mediterranean depression can put snow on the hills two or three times a winter.80
- Salamanca 🇪🇸 SpanienMeseta winter · 1. Dez. – 28. Feb.Eight hundred metres up on an open plain, so frost most mornings and a wind that finds every arcade.73
- Ramallah 🇵🇸 PalästinaThe cold snaps · 20. Dez. – 28. Feb. (meist)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
- Sapa 🇻🇳 VietnamWinter frost on the ridge · 15. Dez. – 20. Feb. (meist)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
- Cradle Mountain 🇦🇺 AustralienAlpine weather in any month · 1. Jan. – 31. Dez.Snow falls on this plateau in every month of the year and the summit track can be a whiteout in January.71
- Atlanta 🇺🇸 Vereinigte StaatenWinter ice storms · 1. Jan. – 28. Feb. (meist)Once or twice a winter freezing rain shuts the interstates, the airport and the schools for a day or two.69
- Raleigh 🇺🇸 Vereinigte StaatenIce storms · 1. Jan. – 28. Feb. (meist)Snow is rare, but a few times most winters freezing rain glazes roads and trees.69
- Washington, D.C. 🇺🇸 Vereinigte StaatenSnow and ice shutdowns · 5. Jan. – 28. Feb. (meist)A few inches closes the federal government, the schools and half the museums, and freezing rain does worse to the bridges.63
- St. Louis 🇺🇸 Vereinigte StaatenIce storms · 15. Dez. – 28. Feb. (meist)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
- Louisville 🇺🇸 Vereinigte StaatenWinter ice storms · 1. Jan. – 28. Feb. (meist)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
- Sokcho 🇰🇷 SüdkoreaYeongdong coast snow · 15. Dez. – 28. Feb. (meist)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
- Murree 🇵🇰 PakistanThe snow rush · 20. Dez. – 10. Feb. (meist)The first heavy fall brings hundreds of thousands of cars up from Islamabad and Lahore in one weekend.57
- Portland 🇺🇸 Vereinigte StaatenFreezing rain and ice storms · 15. Dez. – 20. Feb. (meist)East wind out of the Gorge meets valley cold and glazes the city in freezing rain most winters.55
- Cleveland 🇺🇸 Vereinigte StaatenLake-effect snow season · 15. Nov. – 15. MärzCold 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
- Zion-Nationalpark 🇺🇸 Vereinigte StaatenIce on the high trails · 1. Dez. – 28. Feb. (meist)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
- Kabul 🇦🇫 AfghanistanWinter cold and smoke · 1. Dez. – 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
- Van 🇹🇷 TürkeiExtreme cold and snow closures · 1. Dez. – 28. Feb. (meist)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
- Detroit 🇺🇸 Vereinigte StaatenDeep winter and lake-effect snow · 10. Dez. – 1. März (meist)Two months of grey, freezing days with the wind coming off the lakes and a snow event most weeks.49
- Shenandoah-Nationalpark 🇺🇸 Vereinigte StaatenSkyline Drive ice closures · 1. Dez. – 15. März (meist)The only road through the park sits on an exposed ridge and shuts in sections for ice and snow, sometimes for days.47
- Milwaukee 🇺🇸 Vereinigte StaatenDeep-cold snaps · 5. Jan. – 28. Feb. (meist)Arctic outbreaks off the plains can freeze the lakefront for days, and in the worst ones schools shut and buses run late.47
- Kars 🇹🇷 TürkeiDeep winter on the plateau · 1. Dez. – 15. März (meist)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
- Bozeman 🇺🇸 Vereinigte StaatenDeep cold snaps · 15. Dez. – 20. Feb. (meist)Arctic air spills over the divide a few times each winter and holds the valley below minus twenty for days.45
- Soldeu 🇦🇩 AndorraPort d'Envalira snow closures · 1. Dez. – 31. MärzThe 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
… und 21 weitere im Februar.
Extreme Kälte im März
- Cradle Mountain 🇦🇺 AustralienAlpine weather in any month · 1. Jan. – 31. Dez.Snow falls on this plateau in every month of the year and the summit track can be a whiteout in January.65
- Cleveland 🇺🇸 Vereinigte StaatenLake-effect snow season · 15. Nov. – 15. MärzCold 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
- Detroit 🇺🇸 Vereinigte StaatenDeep winter and lake-effect snow · 10. Dez. – 1. März (meist)Two months of grey, freezing days with the wind coming off the lakes and a snow event most weeks.62
- Shenandoah-Nationalpark 🇺🇸 Vereinigte StaatenSkyline Drive ice closures · 1. Dez. – 15. März (meist)The only road through the park sits on an exposed ridge and shuts in sections for ice and snow, sometimes for days.57
- Kars 🇹🇷 TürkeiDeep winter on the plateau · 1. Dez. – 15. März (meist)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
- Traverse City 🇺🇸 Vereinigte StaatenLake-effect snow season · 15. Nov. – 31. März (meist)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
- Tschita 🇷🇺 RusslandExtreme cold season · 1. Nov. – 15. März (meist)Winters here are severely continental: January averages around -24.6°C and the mercury has fallen as low as -49.6°C.53
- Astana 🇰🇿 KasachstanBlizzards close the steppe roads · 1. Nov. – 31. März (meist)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
- Soldeu 🇦🇩 AndorraPort d'Envalira snow closures · 1. Dez. – 31. MärzThe 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
- Murmansk 🇷🇺 RusslandBlizzards and road closures · 15. Nov. – 15. Apr. (meist)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
- Jakutsk 🇷🇺 RusslandDeep winter · 20. Nov. – 5. März (meist)The coldest city of its size anywhere, built on permafrost with its buildings up on piles and its pipes above ground.40
- Magadan 🇷🇺 RusslandDeep winter · 1. Dez. – 5. März (meist)Coastal, so milder than the Kolyma interior behind it, but still months of hard frost with wind coming straight off the frozen sea.39
Extreme Kälte im April
- Murmansk 🇷🇺 RusslandBlizzards and road closures · 15. Nov. – 15. Apr. (meist)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
- Cradle Mountain 🇦🇺 AustralienAlpine weather in any month · 1. Jan. – 31. Dez.Snow falls on this plateau in every month of the year and the summit track can be a whiteout in January.54
Extreme Kälte im Mai
- Mount Tongariro 🇳🇿 NeuseelandCrossing in winter conditions · 1. Mai – 31. Okt. (meist)From May to October the Crossing is an alpine route: ice axe, crampons and the skills to use them, or a guide.51
- Cradle Mountain 🇦🇺 AustralienAlpine weather in any month · 1. Jan. – 31. Dez.Snow falls on this plateau in every month of the year and the summit track can be a whiteout in January.41
Extreme Kälte im Juni
- Puno 🇵🇪 PeruFreezing nights on the altiplano · 1. Juni – 15. Aug. (meist)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
- Potosí 🇧🇴 BolivienFreezing nights above 4,000 m · 1. Juni – 15. Aug. (meist)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
- Uyuni 🇧🇴 BolivienThe cold nights · 1. Juni – 31. Aug.Midwinter nights on the salt and at the lagoon refuges go far below freezing with no heating worth the name.77
- Uluṟu 🇦🇺 AustralienFreezing desert nights · 1. Juni – 15. Aug. (meist)The days that make winter the walking season come with nights below zero and frost on the spinifex before dawn.70
- Mount Tongariro 🇳🇿 NeuseelandCrossing in winter conditions · 1. Mai – 31. Okt. (meist)From May to October the Crossing is an alpine route: ice axe, crampons and the skills to use them, or a guide.49
- Cradle Mountain 🇦🇺 AustralienAlpine weather in any month · 1. Jan. – 31. Dez.Snow falls on this plateau in every month of the year and the summit track can be a whiteout in January.36
Extreme Kälte im Juli
- Puno 🇵🇪 PeruFreezing nights on the altiplano · 1. Juni – 15. Aug. (meist)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
- Potosí 🇧🇴 BolivienFreezing nights above 4,000 m · 1. Juni – 15. Aug. (meist)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
- Uyuni 🇧🇴 BolivienThe cold nights · 1. Juni – 31. Aug.Midwinter nights on the salt and at the lagoon refuges go far below freezing with no heating worth the name.78
- Uluṟu 🇦🇺 AustralienFreezing desert nights · 1. Juni – 15. Aug. (meist)The days that make winter the walking season come with nights below zero and frost on the spinifex before dawn.72
- Mount Tongariro 🇳🇿 NeuseelandCrossing in winter conditions · 1. Mai – 31. Okt. (meist)From May to October the Crossing is an alpine route: ice axe, crampons and the skills to use them, or a guide.42
- Cradle Mountain 🇦🇺 AustralienAlpine weather in any month · 1. Jan. – 31. Dez.Snow falls on this plateau in every month of the year and the summit track can be a whiteout in January.29
Extreme Kälte im August
- Puno 🇵🇪 PeruFreezing nights on the altiplano · 1. Juni – 15. Aug. (meist)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
- Potosí 🇧🇴 BolivienFreezing nights above 4,000 m · 1. Juni – 15. Aug. (meist)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
- Uyuni 🇧🇴 BolivienThe cold nights · 1. Juni – 31. Aug.Midwinter nights on the salt and at the lagoon refuges go far below freezing with no heating worth the name.79
- Uluṟu 🇦🇺 AustralienFreezing desert nights · 1. Juni – 15. Aug. (meist)The days that make winter the walking season come with nights below zero and frost on the spinifex before dawn.77
- Mount Tongariro 🇳🇿 NeuseelandCrossing in winter conditions · 1. Mai – 31. Okt. (meist)From May to October the Crossing is an alpine route: ice axe, crampons and the skills to use them, or a guide.46
- Cradle Mountain 🇦🇺 AustralienAlpine weather in any month · 1. Jan. – 31. Dez.Snow falls on this plateau in every month of the year and the summit track can be a whiteout in January.32
Extreme Kälte im September
- Mount Tongariro 🇳🇿 NeuseelandCrossing in winter conditions · 1. Mai – 31. Okt. (meist)From May to October the Crossing is an alpine route: ice axe, crampons and the skills to use them, or a guide.47
- Cradle Mountain 🇦🇺 AustralienAlpine weather in any month · 1. Jan. – 31. Dez.Snow falls on this plateau in every month of the year and the summit track can be a whiteout in January.39
Extreme Kälte im Oktober
- Mount Tongariro 🇳🇿 NeuseelandCrossing in winter conditions · 1. Mai – 31. Okt. (meist)From May to October the Crossing is an alpine route: ice axe, crampons and the skills to use them, or a guide.55
- Cradle Mountain 🇦🇺 AustralienAlpine weather in any month · 1. Jan. – 31. Dez.Snow falls on this plateau in every month of the year and the summit track can be a whiteout in January.49
Extreme Kälte im November
- Cleveland 🇺🇸 Vereinigte StaatenLake-effect snow season · 15. Nov. – 15. MärzCold 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
- Traverse City 🇺🇸 Vereinigte StaatenLake-effect snow season · 15. Nov. – 31. März (meist)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
- Cradle Mountain 🇦🇺 AustralienAlpine weather in any month · 1. Jan. – 31. Dez.Snow falls on this plateau in every month of the year and the summit track can be a whiteout in January.58
- Astana 🇰🇿 KasachstanBlizzards close the steppe roads · 1. Nov. – 31. März (meist)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
- Tschita 🇷🇺 RusslandExtreme cold season · 1. Nov. – 15. März (meist)Winters here are severely continental: January averages around -24.6°C and the mercury has fallen as low as -49.6°C.39
- Murmansk 🇷🇺 RusslandBlizzards and road closures · 15. Nov. – 15. Apr. (meist)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
- Jakutsk 🇷🇺 RusslandDeep winter · 20. Nov. – 5. März (meist)The coldest city of its size anywhere, built on permafrost with its buildings up on piles and its pipes above ground.31
Extreme Kälte im Dezember
- Amman 🇯🇴 JordanienThe cold snaps · 20. Dez. – 28. Feb. (meist)Amman sits high enough that a Mediterranean depression can put snow on the hills two or three times a winter.78
- Ramallah 🇵🇸 PalästinaThe cold snaps · 20. Dez. – 28. Feb. (meist)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
- Sapa 🇻🇳 VietnamWinter frost on the ridge · 15. Dez. – 20. Feb. (meist)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
- Salamanca 🇪🇸 SpanienMeseta winter · 1. Dez. – 28. Feb.Eight hundred metres up on an open plain, so frost most mornings and a wind that finds every arcade.65
- Kabul 🇦🇫 AfghanistanWinter cold and smoke · 1. Dez. – 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
- Murree 🇵🇰 PakistanThe snow rush · 20. Dez. – 10. Feb. (meist)The first heavy fall brings hundreds of thousands of cars up from Islamabad and Lahore in one weekend.64
- Cradle Mountain 🇦🇺 AustralienAlpine weather in any month · 1. Jan. – 31. Dez.Snow falls on this plateau in every month of the year and the summit track can be a whiteout in January.62
- St. Louis 🇺🇸 Vereinigte StaatenIce storms · 15. Dez. – 28. Feb. (meist)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
- Srinagar 🇮🇳 IndienChillai Kalan · 21. Dez. – 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
- Sokcho 🇰🇷 SüdkoreaYeongdong coast snow · 15. Dez. – 28. Feb. (meist)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
- Van 🇹🇷 TürkeiExtreme cold and snow closures · 1. Dez. – 28. Feb. (meist)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
- Cleveland 🇺🇸 Vereinigte StaatenLake-effect snow season · 15. Nov. – 15. MärzCold 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
- Zion-Nationalpark 🇺🇸 Vereinigte StaatenIce on the high trails · 1. Dez. – 28. Feb. (meist)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
- Detroit 🇺🇸 Vereinigte StaatenDeep winter and lake-effect snow · 10. Dez. – 1. März (meist)Two months of grey, freezing days with the wind coming off the lakes and a snow event most weeks.46
- Portland 🇺🇸 Vereinigte StaatenFreezing rain and ice storms · 15. Dez. – 20. Feb. (meist)East wind out of the Gorge meets valley cold and glazes the city in freezing rain most winters.45
- Toronto 🇨🇦 KanadaDeep freeze and ice storms · 15. Dez. – 28. Feb. (meist)The city issues extreme cold alerts most winters and the wind off the lake takes several degrees off whatever the thermometer says.44
- Shenandoah-Nationalpark 🇺🇸 Vereinigte StaatenSkyline Drive ice closures · 1. Dez. – 15. März (meist)The only road through the park sits on an exposed ridge and shuts in sections for ice and snow, sometimes for days.42
- Bozeman 🇺🇸 Vereinigte StaatenDeep cold snaps · 15. Dez. – 20. Feb. (meist)Arctic air spills over the divide a few times each winter and holds the valley below minus twenty for days.42
- Kars 🇹🇷 TürkeiDeep winter on the plateau · 1. Dez. – 15. März (meist)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
- Soldeu 🇦🇩 AndorraPort d'Envalira snow closures · 1. Dez. – 31. MärzThe 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
- Traverse City 🇺🇸 Vereinigte StaatenLake-effect snow season · 15. Nov. – 31. März (meist)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
- Theodore-Roosevelt-Nationalpark 🇺🇸 Vereinigte StaatenDeep winter cold · 1. Dez. – 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
- Ürümqi 🇨🇳 Volksrepublik ChinaThe deep cold · 1. Dez. – 20. Feb. (meist)One of the most continental cities on Earth, and it shows for about three months.36
- Edmonton 🇨🇦 KanadaDeep cold snaps · 1. Dez. – 28. Feb.Arctic air settles over the city for stretches of a week and extreme cold warnings become routine.31
- Winnipeg 🇨🇦 KanadaDeep cold · 15. Dez. – 20. Feb. (meist)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
… und 15 weitere im Dezember.