Coldest Major Cities Right Now

Novosibirsk is the coldest major city in the world right now, at about 8°C.

Updated hourly. Last updated Sep 3, 2026, 2:05:08 AM UTC.

Cities with at least 200,000 residents; 100 cities shown.

Top Cities Ranked by Temperature

#	City	Country	Conditions	Feels like	Temperature
🥇	Novosibirsk	Russia	Partly Cloudy	7°C	8°C
=2	La Paz	Bolivia	Clear	8°C	9°C
=2	Antananarivo	Madagascar	Mist	8°C	9°C
=3	São Paulo	Brazil	Cloudy	9°C	11°C
=3	Quito	Ecuador	Clear	10°C	11°C
=3	Yekaterinburg	Russia	Mist	11°C	11°C
=4	Santiago	Chile	Smoky haze	11°C	12°C
=4	Cape Town	South Africa	Clear	11°C	12°C
=4	Melbourne	Australia	Light rain shower	10°C	12°C
=4	Addis Ababa	Ethiopia	Patchy rain nearby	12°C	12°C
=4	Nairobi	Kenya	Clear	12°C	12°C
=4	Saint Petersburg	Russia	Mist	11°C	12°C
=4	Minsk	Belarus	Overcast	11°C	12°C
=4	Curitiba	Brazil	Overcast	11°C	12°C
=5	Almaty	Kazakhstan	Overcast	10°C	13°C
=5	Iztapalapa	Mexico	Light rain shower	12°C	13°C
=5	Ürümqi	China	Overcast	10°C	13°C
=5	Ürümqi	China	Overcast	10°C	13°C
=6	Nizhniy Novgorod	Russia	Cloudy	12°C	14°C
=6	Bogota	Colombia	Overcast	13°C	14°C
=6	Moscow	Russia	Partly Cloudy	12°C	14°C
=6	Medellín	Colombia	Fog	14°C	14°C
=6	Mexico City	Mexico	Light rain shower	12°C	14°C
=6	Hamburg	Germany	Light rain shower	13°C	14°C
=6	Adelaide	Australia	Patchy rain nearby	12°C	14°C
=7	Ecatepec de Morelos	Mexico	Light rain shower	15°C	15°C
=7	Santiago de Querétaro	Mexico	Moderate or heavy rain shower	14°C	15°C
=7	Porto Alegre	Brazil	Overcast	14°C	15°C
=7	Kakamega	Kenya	Overcast	13°C	15°C
=7	Jilin	China	Partly Cloudy	15°C	15°C
=7	Xining	China	Overcast	13°C	15°C
=7	Harare	Zimbabwe	Clear	12°C	15°C
=7	Montevideo	Uruguay	Overcast	12°C	15°C
=8	Kazan	Russia	Cloudy	12°C	16°C
=8	Soweto	South Africa	Clear	10°C	16°C
=8	Warsaw	Poland	Cloudy	15°C	16°C
=8	Tabriz	Iran	Clear	11°C	16°C
=8	Mashhad	Iran	Smoky haze	13°C	16°C
=8	Perth	Australia	Patchy rain nearby	14°C	16°C
=8	Harbin	China	Sunny	15°C	16°C
=8	Changchun	China	Sunny	15°C	16°C
=8	Prague	Czechia	Overcast	15°C	16°C
=8	Berlin	Germany	Overcast	14°C	16°C
=8	Johannesburg	South Africa	Clear	12°C	16°C
=9	Munich	Germany	Overcast	16°C	17°C
=9	Guatemala City	Guatemala	Light rain shower	19°C	17°C
=9	Kyiv	Ukraine	Overcast	15°C	17°C
=9	Buenos Aires	Argentina	Partly Cloudy	15°C	17°C
=9	Ankara	Türkiye	Clear	15°C	17°C
=9	Belo Horizonte	Brazil	Clear	17°C	17°C
=9	Lubumbashi	Democratic Republic of Congo	Clear	15°C	17°C
=10	Yaounde	Cameroon	Mist	19°C	18°C
=10	Zapopan	Mexico	Light rain shower	19°C	18°C
=10	Kharkiv	Ukraine	Overcast	16°C	18°C
=10	Guadalajara	Mexico	Light rain shower	19°C	18°C
=10	Puebla	Mexico	Patchy rain nearby	16°C	18°C
=10	Daqing	China	Sunny	16°C	18°C
=10	Konya	Türkiye	Clear	15°C	18°C
=10	London	United Kingdom	Patchy rain nearby	17°C	18°C
=10	Vienna	Austria	Cloudy	17°C	18°C
=10	Yiyang	China	Light drizzle	18°C	18°C
=10	Bursa	Türkiye	Clear	17°C	18°C
=10	Changsha	China	Patchy rain nearby	16°C	18°C
=10	Tashkent	Uzbekistan	Sunny	14°C	18°C
=10	Guankou	China	Light rain	20°C	18°C
=10	Lima	Peru	Clear	18°C	18°C
=10	Durban	South Africa	Clear	19°C	18°C
=10	Montréal	Canada	Heavy rain	18°C	18°C
=10	Liupanshui	China	Sunny	17°C	18°C
=10	Kabul	Afghanistan	Sunny	16°C	18°C
=10	León de los Aldama	Mexico	Light rain	18°C	18°C
=11	Lusaka	Zambia	Clear	14°C	19°C
=11	Jinzhong	China	Sunny	15°C	19°C
=11	Lanzhou	China	Overcast	18°C	19°C
=11	Pimpri	India	Patchy rain nearby	20°C	19°C
=11	Pune	India	Patchy rain nearby	20°C	19°C
=11	Nashik	India	Patchy rain nearby	20°C	19°C
=11	Paris	France	Clear	17°C	19°C
=11	Taiyuan	China	Sunny	17°C	19°C
=11	Changde	China	Patchy rain nearby	18°C	19°C
=11	Karaj	Iran	Clear	14°C	19°C
=11	Qujing	China	Sunny	19°C	19°C
=11	Sapporo	Japan	Light rain shower	21°C	19°C
=11	Callao	Peru	Patchy rain nearby	17°C	19°C
=12	Baoji	China	Sunny	17°C	20°C
=12	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil	Patchy rain nearby	21°C	20°C
=12	Sana'a	Yemen	Overcast	13°C	20°C
=12	Sanaa	Yemen	Overcast	13°C	20°C
=12	Luanda	Angola	Overcast	20°C	20°C
=12	Nowrangapur	India	Overcast	20°C	20°C
=12	Caracas	Venezuela	Cloudy	21°C	20°C
=12	İzmir	Türkiye	Clear	18°C	20°C
=12	Indore	India	Partly Cloudy	19°C	20°C
=12	Xinyang	China	Patchy rain nearby	19°C	20°C
=13	Ganzhou	China	Moderate rain	22°C	21°C
=13	Kathmandu	Nepal	Partly Cloudy	23°C	21°C
=13	Sofia	Bulgaria	Patchy rain nearby	21°C	21°C
=13	Kunming	China	Patchy rain nearby	20°C	21°C
=13	The Bronx	United States	Patchy rain nearby	22°C	21°C
=13	Manhattan	United States	Patchy rain nearby	22°C	21°C

Methodology: Current conditions are sampled from WeatherAPI for up to 400 of the largest cities with at least 200,000 residents.

What Makes These the Coldest Cities Right Now?

The coldest cities at any moment are usually those deep in winter, at high latitude or high altitude, and in the dark hours before dawn. Continental interiors far from the moderating ocean can plunge especially low. This list samples live conditions across hundreds of the world's largest cities and updates through the day.

As the Earth turns and night sweeps across the globe, the ranking changes hour by hour. Right now the coldest major city is Novosibirsk, at about 8°C.

Frequently Asked Questions: Coldest Major Cities Right Now

Which city is coldest right now?

Among the major cities we track, Novosibirsk is the coldest right now at about 8°C (as of September 3, 2026).

Why are some cities so much colder than others?

High latitude, high altitude, winter, night-time and distance from the sea all push temperatures down. Cities deep in continental interiors get the coldest of all.

Does this show wind chill?

No, it shows the measured air temperature. The 'feels like' temperature in wind can be considerably lower.

Coldest Major Cities Right Now

Top Cities Ranked by Temperature

What Makes These the Coldest Cities Right Now?

Frequently Asked Questions: Coldest Major Cities Right Now

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