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VOSTOK STATION, ANTARCTICA Located almost 800 miles from the South Pole in the dead center of the East Antarctic Plateau, Vostok Station is home to around 25 to 30 people during the continent's summer. Only a brave dozen or so are willing to endure the winter months. The lowest recorded temperature at Vostok Station is -128.6°.
VERKHOYANSK, RUSSIA 1,311 people live in Verkhoyansk, Russia, deep in the Siberian wilderness. While the town's official all-time low is minus 90 degrees, recorded in February 1892, residents reported even colder temperatures, down to -93.6° that same month.
OYMYAKON, RUSSIA Located 390 miles away in northeast Russia, Oymyakon is neck and neck with Verkhoyansk for the coldest climate. Oymyakon recorded its lowest ever temperature of -90° on February 6, 1933. The two towns are officially tied for the Guinness World Record for the lowest temperature in an inhabited place in the Northern Hemisphere.
SNAG, CANADA The title of coldest city in Canada belongs to Snag, a village in the Yukon Territory. On February 3, 1947, Snag recorded a temperature of -81° — the lowest temperature ever recorded in continental North America.
UTQIAGVIK, ALASKA Utqiaġvik—known prior to 2016 as Barrow—is the northernmost city in the U.S., located 1,300 miles south of the North Pole and 320 miles north of the Arctic Circle. The sun sets at the end of November and doesn't reappear until the end of January. The mean temperature doesn't break out of freezing until June and, even then, it remains chilly.