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Verkhoyansk has an extremely cold subarctic climate.
Short, cool summers and long, cold winters — here's what that means in plain terms.
What this climate feels like
The four things a regular visitor actually wants to know:
Highs near 23°C in July. About 2 days a year above 32 °C.
Lows near −48°C in January. About 254 freezing nights a year.
About 186 mm of rain a year. Wettest in July.
A roughly even mix of sun and cloud.
What "extremely cold subarctic" means
Climate scientists sort every place on Earth into about 30 climate types, based on how hot, cold, wet and dry it is across the year. Verkhoyansk's type — extremely cold subarctic — sits in the broad family of four-season continental climates.
Researchers write climate types as a short letter code. Here is what each letter means:
Verkhoyansk sits near a climate boundary
This city sits right on the line between extremely cold subarctic and the next type along. Different climate maps file it on different sides of that line; the lived weather doesn't change at the line — it's a naming boundary, not a wall.
Has Verkhoyansk's climate type changed?
Stable — Verkhoyansk's climate has held the same type between the 1971–2000 and 1991–2020 normals. The label is steady; the climate beneath it is still warming.
What this climate means for you
Marginal — only the very hardiest crops in greenhouses during the brief summer.
A specialty winter destination (extreme cold tourism) or a brief, midge-heavy summer.
One of the coldest inhabited climates on Earth. Heating dominates everything; outdoor time in winter is measured in minutes.
Where these numbers come from
The climate type and the month-by-month figures on this page are computed from Verkhoyansk's measured 30-year climate normals (1991–2020) — the same official records behind Verkhoyansk's main climate page, so the two always agree.
Long-range climate maps measure things slightly differently and can place a city in a neighbouring category. Where they differ, this page uses the measured station record as the climate today.
Methodology & sources
Temperature & precipitation — 1991–2020 normals computed from 30 years of daily observations at Verhojansk, a weather station, about 1 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.