Lowest Temperatures Recorded on Each Continent
Key Findings
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Antarctica records the lowest in Record Low Temperature (Celsius) at -89.20.
About This Dataset
Lowest Temperatures Recorded on Each Continent
This chart shows the lowest air temperature ever reliably recorded on each of the seven continents, in degrees Celsius. Antarctica's Vostok Station holds the world record for the coldest place on Earth.
Analysis
Antarctica (-89.2), Asia (-67.8) and North America (-63) take the top three in Record Low Temperature (Celsius). Values run from -23 at the top to -89.2 at the bottom, a spread of 66.2. First and second are separated by 21.4, so the leader sits inside the field rather than apart from it. Below the top two the field is tightly packed: the remaining 5 run from -23 down to -63.
Data Insights
Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart
Methodology & source
- Data source
- WMO / Lowest temperature recorded on Earth
- Coverage
- 7 entities · 7 observations
- Measure
- Record Low Temperature (Celsius)
- Last updated
- 6 September 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
How the figures are calculated
- Values are shown as reported by the source. Nothing is rescaled, rebased or converted — the only changes are thousand separators and decimals shown to two places.
- Entities are ranked lowest-first, because on this measure a lower number is the better result.
Data Sources & References
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