Which part of the earth is the coldest?

Oymyakon is the coldest area on earth.

The coldest place on earth is not in the North Pole or the Arctic Circle, but in Oymyakon, East Siberia, an ultra-low temperature silvery white world. Oymyakon is a famous Russian village, located in eastern Siberia, which is the coldest area in the northern hemisphere. There is only one way to get here, and the village is covered with snow.

Oymyakon is a place that deviates from the normal track of the world. Common sense says that the human body will feel the temperature difference between spring, summer, autumn and winter, but in Oymyakon, which is about 750 meters above sea level, people feel extremely cold when they get up every day. Because the Siberian cold high has been entrenched here for a long time, and it is a basin terrain, so the village is so cold. The day and night temperature in winter is below -45℃, and the lowest temperature in history is -7 1.2℃.

The reason for the cold in Oymyakon

High latitude will lead to less solar radiation per unit area. The approximate location of Oymyakon is 63 north latitude and 0/43 east longitude, which belongs to a relatively northerly area. Every winter solstice, the daytime at this latitude is only 3.5 hours. At this time, it is also in the polar night period of the Arctic Circle. Because it is close to the Arctic Circle, the sunshine time in this area is not much longer than that in the Arctic.

But they also live inland, far away from any marine water body that has a moderate impact on the local weather. Besides, Oymyakon is located in the valley surrounded by Chersky Mountains and Vilho Yansk Mountains in the east, west and south, and has basin topography. Warm air from the south is blocked out, while cold air from the north can drive in directly, stagnate and accumulate in the valley, surrounded by mountains, and the cold air flows down the hillside to the basin bottom, making the basin bottom even colder.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia -Oymyakon