Extreme kou, maand voor maand over de hele wereld

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Dit is een waarschuwingspagina, geen aanbeveling. Extreme kou betreft 52 bestemmingen op SeasonMap; de maanden hieronder zijn die waarin het risicovenster open staat — de meeste weken daarin verlopen rustig, en de score naast elke plek is nog steeds de gewone klimaatscore, risico en al.

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Wanneer het speelt

Aantal bestemmingen waar extreme kou die maand speelt. De periodes schuiven elk jaar een beetje.

Extreme kou in januari

  1. Petra 🇯🇴 JordaniëSnow and winter closures · 5 jan – 28 feb (meestal)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 (meestal)Six degrees of latitude off the equator and still frost on the tea in the small hours.76
  3. Amman 🇯🇴 JordaniëThe cold snaps · 20 dec – 28 feb (meestal)Amman sits high enough that a Mediterranean depression can put snow on the hills two or three times a winter.75
  4. Cradle Mountain 🇦🇺 AustraliëAlpine weather in any month · 1 jan – 31 decSnow falls on this plateau in every month of the year and the summit track can be a whiteout in January.74
  5. Ramallah 🇵🇸 PalestinaThe cold snaps · 20 dec – 28 feb (meestal)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 🇪🇸 SpanjeMeseta winter · 1 dec – 28 febEight hundred metres up on an open plain, so frost most mornings and a wind that finds every arcade.66
  7. Sa Pa 🇻🇳 VietnamWinter frost on the ridge · 15 dec – 20 feb (meestal)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 🇺🇸 Verenigde StatenWinter ice storms · 1 jan – 28 feb (meestal)Once or twice a winter freezing rain shuts the interstates, the airport and the schools for a day or two.62
  9. Raleigh 🇺🇸 Verenigde StatenIce storms · 1 jan – 28 feb (meestal)Snow is rare, but a few times most winters freezing rain glazes roads and trees.62
  10. Washington D.C. 🇺🇸 Verenigde StatenSnow and ice shutdowns · 5 jan – 28 feb (meestal)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 (meestal)The first heavy fall brings hundreds of thousands of cars up from Islamabad and Lahore in one weekend.52
  12. Sokcho 🇰🇷 Zuid-KoreaYeongdong coast snow · 15 dec – 28 feb (meestal)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. Saint Louis 🇺🇸 Verenigde StatenIce storms · 15 dec – 28 feb (meestal)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 🇺🇸 Verenigde StatenWinter ice storms · 1 jan – 28 feb (meestal)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 🇺🇸 Verenigde StatenFreezing rain and ice storms · 15 dec – 20 feb (meestal)East wind out of the Gorge meets valley cold and glazes the city in freezing rain most winters.49
  16. Van 🇹🇷 TurkijeExtreme cold and snow closures · 1 dec – 28 feb (meestal)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. Kaboel 🇦🇫 AfghanistanWinter cold and smoke · 1 dec – 28 febWinters 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 🇺🇸 Verenigde StatenIce on the high trails · 1 dec – 28 feb (meestal)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 🇺🇸 Verenigde StatenLake-effect snow season · 15 nov – 15 mrtCold 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 🇮🇳 IndiaChillai Kalan · 21 dec – 31 janThe 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 🇺🇸 Verenigde StatenDeep cold snaps · 15 dec – 20 feb (meestal)Arctic air spills over the divide a few times each winter and holds the valley below minus twenty for days.40
  22. Detroit 🇺🇸 Verenigde StatenDeep winter and lake-effect snow · 10 dec – 1 mrt (meestal)Two months of grey, freezing days with the wind coming off the lakes and a snow event most weeks.39
  23. Milwaukee 🇺🇸 Verenigde StatenDeep-cold snaps · 5 jan – 28 feb (meestal)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 🇹🇷 TurkijeDeep winter on the plateau · 1 dec – 15 mrt (meestal)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 🇺🇸 Verenigde StatenSkyline Drive ice closures · 1 dec – 15 mrt (meestal)The only road through the park sits on an exposed ridge and shuts in sections for ice and snow, sometimes for days.37

…en nog 22 in januari.

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Extreme kou in februari

  1. Nuwara Eliya 🇱🇰 Sri LankaGround frost at night · 5 jan – 25 feb (meestal)Six degrees of latitude off the equator and still frost on the tea in the small hours.83
  2. Petra 🇯🇴 JordaniëSnow and winter closures · 5 jan – 28 feb (meestal)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 🇯🇴 JordaniëThe cold snaps · 20 dec – 28 feb (meestal)Amman sits high enough that a Mediterranean depression can put snow on the hills two or three times a winter.80
  4. Salamanca 🇪🇸 SpanjeMeseta winter · 1 dec – 28 febEight hundred metres up on an open plain, so frost most mornings and a wind that finds every arcade.73
  5. Ramallah 🇵🇸 PalestinaThe cold snaps · 20 dec – 28 feb (meestal)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. Sa Pa 🇻🇳 VietnamWinter frost on the ridge · 15 dec – 20 feb (meestal)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 🇦🇺 AustraliëAlpine weather in any month · 1 jan – 31 decSnow falls on this plateau in every month of the year and the summit track can be a whiteout in January.71
  8. Atlanta 🇺🇸 Verenigde StatenWinter ice storms · 1 jan – 28 feb (meestal)Once or twice a winter freezing rain shuts the interstates, the airport and the schools for a day or two.69
  9. Raleigh 🇺🇸 Verenigde StatenIce storms · 1 jan – 28 feb (meestal)Snow is rare, but a few times most winters freezing rain glazes roads and trees.69
  10. Washington D.C. 🇺🇸 Verenigde StatenSnow and ice shutdowns · 5 jan – 28 feb (meestal)A few inches closes the federal government, the schools and half the museums, and freezing rain does worse to the bridges.63
  11. Saint Louis 🇺🇸 Verenigde StatenIce storms · 15 dec – 28 feb (meestal)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 🇺🇸 Verenigde StatenWinter ice storms · 1 jan – 28 feb (meestal)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 🇰🇷 Zuid-KoreaYeongdong coast snow · 15 dec – 28 feb (meestal)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 (meestal)The first heavy fall brings hundreds of thousands of cars up from Islamabad and Lahore in one weekend.57
  15. Portland 🇺🇸 Verenigde StatenFreezing rain and ice storms · 15 dec – 20 feb (meestal)East wind out of the Gorge meets valley cold and glazes the city in freezing rain most winters.55
  16. Cleveland 🇺🇸 Verenigde StatenLake-effect snow season · 15 nov – 15 mrtCold 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 🇺🇸 Verenigde StatenIce on the high trails · 1 dec – 28 feb (meestal)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. Kaboel 🇦🇫 AfghanistanWinter cold and smoke · 1 dec – 28 febWinters 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 🇹🇷 TurkijeExtreme cold and snow closures · 1 dec – 28 feb (meestal)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 🇺🇸 Verenigde StatenDeep winter and lake-effect snow · 10 dec – 1 mrt (meestal)Two months of grey, freezing days with the wind coming off the lakes and a snow event most weeks.49
  21. Shenandoah National Park 🇺🇸 Verenigde StatenSkyline Drive ice closures · 1 dec – 15 mrt (meestal)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 🇺🇸 Verenigde StatenDeep-cold snaps · 5 jan – 28 feb (meestal)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 🇹🇷 TurkijeDeep winter on the plateau · 1 dec – 15 mrt (meestal)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 🇺🇸 Verenigde StatenDeep cold snaps · 15 dec – 20 feb (meestal)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 mrtThe 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

…en nog 21 in februari.

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Extreme kou in maart

  1. Cradle Mountain 🇦🇺 AustraliëAlpine weather in any month · 1 jan – 31 decSnow falls on this plateau in every month of the year and the summit track can be a whiteout in January.65
  2. Cleveland 🇺🇸 Verenigde StatenLake-effect snow season · 15 nov – 15 mrtCold 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 🇺🇸 Verenigde StatenDeep winter and lake-effect snow · 10 dec – 1 mrt (meestal)Two months of grey, freezing days with the wind coming off the lakes and a snow event most weeks.62
  4. Shenandoah National Park 🇺🇸 Verenigde StatenSkyline Drive ice closures · 1 dec – 15 mrt (meestal)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 🇹🇷 TurkijeDeep winter on the plateau · 1 dec – 15 mrt (meestal)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 🇺🇸 Verenigde StatenLake-effect snow season · 15 nov – 31 mrt (meestal)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. Tsjita 🇷🇺 RuslandExtreme cold season · 1 nov – 15 mrt (meestal)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 🇰🇿 KazachstanBlizzards close the steppe roads · 1 nov – 31 mrt (meestal)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 mrtThe 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. Moermansk 🇷🇺 RuslandBlizzards and road closures · 15 nov – 15 apr (meestal)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. Jakoetsk 🇷🇺 RuslandDeep winter · 20 nov – 5 mrt (meestal)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 mrt (meestal)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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Extreme kou in april

  1. Moermansk 🇷🇺 RuslandBlizzards and road closures · 15 nov – 15 apr (meestal)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 🇦🇺 AustraliëAlpine weather in any month · 1 jan – 31 decSnow 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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Extreme kou in mei

  1. Mount Tongariro 🇳🇿 Nieuw-ZeelandCrossing in winter conditions · 1 mei – 31 okt (meestal)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 🇦🇺 AustraliëAlpine weather in any month · 1 jan – 31 decSnow 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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Extreme kou in juni

  1. Puno 🇵🇪 PeruFreezing nights on the altiplano · 1 jun – 15 aug (meestal)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 (meestal)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 augMidwinter nights on the salt and at the lagoon refuges go far below freezing with no heating worth the name.77
  4. Uluṟu 🇦🇺 AustraliëFreezing desert nights · 1 jun – 15 aug (meestal)The days that make winter the walking season come with nights below zero and frost on the spinifex before dawn.70
  5. Mount Tongariro 🇳🇿 Nieuw-ZeelandCrossing in winter conditions · 1 mei – 31 okt (meestal)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 🇦🇺 AustraliëAlpine weather in any month · 1 jan – 31 decSnow 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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Extreme kou in juli

  1. Puno 🇵🇪 PeruFreezing nights on the altiplano · 1 jun – 15 aug (meestal)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 (meestal)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 augMidwinter nights on the salt and at the lagoon refuges go far below freezing with no heating worth the name.78
  4. Uluṟu 🇦🇺 AustraliëFreezing desert nights · 1 jun – 15 aug (meestal)The days that make winter the walking season come with nights below zero and frost on the spinifex before dawn.72
  5. Mount Tongariro 🇳🇿 Nieuw-ZeelandCrossing in winter conditions · 1 mei – 31 okt (meestal)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 🇦🇺 AustraliëAlpine weather in any month · 1 jan – 31 decSnow 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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Extreme kou in augustus

  1. Puno 🇵🇪 PeruFreezing nights on the altiplano · 1 jun – 15 aug (meestal)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 (meestal)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 augMidwinter nights on the salt and at the lagoon refuges go far below freezing with no heating worth the name.79
  4. Uluṟu 🇦🇺 AustraliëFreezing desert nights · 1 jun – 15 aug (meestal)The days that make winter the walking season come with nights below zero and frost on the spinifex before dawn.77
  5. Mount Tongariro 🇳🇿 Nieuw-ZeelandCrossing in winter conditions · 1 mei – 31 okt (meestal)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 🇦🇺 AustraliëAlpine weather in any month · 1 jan – 31 decSnow 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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Extreme kou in september

  1. Mount Tongariro 🇳🇿 Nieuw-ZeelandCrossing in winter conditions · 1 mei – 31 okt (meestal)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 🇦🇺 AustraliëAlpine weather in any month · 1 jan – 31 decSnow 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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Extreme kou in oktober

  1. Mount Tongariro 🇳🇿 Nieuw-ZeelandCrossing in winter conditions · 1 mei – 31 okt (meestal)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 🇦🇺 AustraliëAlpine weather in any month · 1 jan – 31 decSnow 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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Extreme kou in november

  1. Cleveland 🇺🇸 Verenigde StatenLake-effect snow season · 15 nov – 15 mrtCold 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 🇺🇸 Verenigde StatenLake-effect snow season · 15 nov – 31 mrt (meestal)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 🇦🇺 AustraliëAlpine weather in any month · 1 jan – 31 decSnow falls on this plateau in every month of the year and the summit track can be a whiteout in January.58
  4. Astana 🇰🇿 KazachstanBlizzards close the steppe roads · 1 nov – 31 mrt (meestal)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. Tsjita 🇷🇺 RuslandExtreme cold season · 1 nov – 15 mrt (meestal)Winters here are severely continental: January averages around -24.6°C and the mercury has fallen as low as -49.6°C.39
  6. Moermansk 🇷🇺 RuslandBlizzards and road closures · 15 nov – 15 apr (meestal)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. Jakoetsk 🇷🇺 RuslandDeep winter · 20 nov – 5 mrt (meestal)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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Extreme kou in december

  1. Amman 🇯🇴 JordaniëThe cold snaps · 20 dec – 28 feb (meestal)Amman sits high enough that a Mediterranean depression can put snow on the hills two or three times a winter.78
  2. Ramallah 🇵🇸 PalestinaThe cold snaps · 20 dec – 28 feb (meestal)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. Sa Pa 🇻🇳 VietnamWinter frost on the ridge · 15 dec – 20 feb (meestal)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 🇪🇸 SpanjeMeseta winter · 1 dec – 28 febEight hundred metres up on an open plain, so frost most mornings and a wind that finds every arcade.65
  5. Kaboel 🇦🇫 AfghanistanWinter cold and smoke · 1 dec – 28 febWinters 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 (meestal)The first heavy fall brings hundreds of thousands of cars up from Islamabad and Lahore in one weekend.64
  7. Cradle Mountain 🇦🇺 AustraliëAlpine weather in any month · 1 jan – 31 decSnow falls on this plateau in every month of the year and the summit track can be a whiteout in January.62
  8. Saint Louis 🇺🇸 Verenigde StatenIce storms · 15 dec – 28 feb (meestal)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 🇮🇳 IndiaChillai Kalan · 21 dec – 31 janThe 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 🇰🇷 Zuid-KoreaYeongdong coast snow · 15 dec – 28 feb (meestal)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 🇹🇷 TurkijeExtreme cold and snow closures · 1 dec – 28 feb (meestal)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 🇺🇸 Verenigde StatenLake-effect snow season · 15 nov – 15 mrtCold 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 🇺🇸 Verenigde StatenIce on the high trails · 1 dec – 28 feb (meestal)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 🇺🇸 Verenigde StatenDeep winter and lake-effect snow · 10 dec – 1 mrt (meestal)Two months of grey, freezing days with the wind coming off the lakes and a snow event most weeks.46
  15. Portland 🇺🇸 Verenigde StatenFreezing rain and ice storms · 15 dec – 20 feb (meestal)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 (meestal)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 🇺🇸 Verenigde StatenSkyline Drive ice closures · 1 dec – 15 mrt (meestal)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 🇺🇸 Verenigde StatenDeep cold snaps · 15 dec – 20 feb (meestal)Arctic air spills over the divide a few times each winter and holds the valley below minus twenty for days.42
  19. Kars 🇹🇷 TurkijeDeep winter on the plateau · 1 dec – 15 mrt (meestal)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 mrtThe 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 🇺🇸 Verenigde StatenLake-effect snow season · 15 nov – 31 mrt (meestal)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 🇺🇸 Verenigde StatenDeep winter cold · 1 dec – 28 febThe 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 🇨🇳 Volksrepubliek ChinaThe deep cold · 1 dec – 20 feb (meestal)One of the most continental cities on Earth, and it shows for about three months.36
  24. Edmonton 🇨🇦 CanadaDeep cold snaps · 1 dec – 28 febArctic 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 (meestal)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

…en nog 15 in december.

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