The globe's coldest March temperature ever recorded on this continent
The coldest March temperature ever recorded globally was set on this continent on Tuesday, March 24--and it was downright chilly
Winter in the Northern Hemisphere showed up this year.
Three of the coldest locations in the Northern Hemisphere pushed it to a new level this winter, with one spot in Greenland dropping to about as cold as it gets.
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Here in Canada, the community of Braeburn, Yukon, saw readings fall to -55.7°C on Dec. 23, 2025, marking the country’s coldest temperature since 1999.
Two days later, temperatures fell to -58.8°C in Delyankir, Russia, in the midst of a stretch when readings failed to rise above -50°C for more than three days.
While Siberia and the Canadian Arctic have dabbled with the -50s a few more times since the start of the new year, Greenland just took it to a whole new level.
Summit Camp, which is located in the middle of Greenland at an elevation of 3,200 metres, dropped to -65.3°C on the morning of Wednesday, Feb. 25.
Greenland is no stranger to the deepest Arctic chills. A weather station on the world’s largest island recorded an astonishing low of -69.6°C on Dec. 22, 1991, standing tall today as the coldest temperature ever observed in the Northern Hemisphere.
But we have a new contender for the coldest temperature observed so far in 2026, and the coldest temperature ever recorded in March, globally.
Vostok, Antarctica, recorded -76.3°C on March 24, 2026. That has beat out the previous March record, which was -75.7°C in Dome Fuji, Antarctica, in 2013.
Interestingly enough, Vostok still holds the all-time record for the coldest temperature ever recorded, a bone-chilling -89.2°C on Jul 21, 1983.