Longyearbyentemperature
It is 12.2°F at Longyearbyen/Svalbard Arpt, 13:20 local on Friday. Longyearbyen is the 230th hottest of 230 capitals by annual mean, and the 216th hottest of the 216 capitals reporting right now.
48 readings held for the last 24 hours, every one of them checked before it appeared.
Source: METAR reports from the aerodrome
Normal for 31 October here is a high of 24.4°F.
Source: METAR reports from the aerodrome · normals from NOAA GHCN-Daily
25 July 2020. The highest daily maximum in the record for this station.
Source: GHCN-Daily, 1975 to 2026
4 March 1986. The lowest daily minimum in the record for this station.
Source: GHCN-Daily, 1975 to 2026
Where Longyearbyen stands
Longyearbyen by month
Normal high · record high with its day · record low with its day- Jan16.9°FHigh 45.9°F · 16 Jan 2006Low −37.8°F · 16 Jan 1981
- Feb16.2°FHigh 44.6°F · 8 Feb 2012Low −46.7°F · 25 Feb 1979
- Mar15.3°FHigh 43.3°F · 2 Mar 1983Low −51.3°F · 4 Mar 1986
- Apr20.8°FHigh 45.5°F · 25 Apr 2006Low −38.4°F · 8 Apr 1988
- May31.6°FHigh 55.2°F · 28 May 2022Low −7.1°F · 4 May 1978
- Jun41.9°FHigh 60.3°F · 21 Jun 2001Low 16.9°F · 3 Jun 1979
- Jul · warmest
Nearby, hottest and coldest
Within 877 km · 5 stations reporting51 Julys at Longyearbyen/Svalbard Arpt
Full trend →Capitals with a similar climate
The capitals immediately warmer and cooler than Longyearbyen by annual mean.
- Grytviken 42.3°F
- Ulan Bator 42.1°F
- Nuuk 35.2°F
How Longyearbyen’s temperature has been recorded
How hot does it get in Longyearbyen?
July is the warmest month at Longyearbyen/Svalbard Arpt, averaging a daily high of 48.9°F. That is an average of every July day in the archive, not a record: the highest single reading is below.
How cold does it get in Longyearbyen?
March is the coolest month, averaging a daily high of 15.3°F. The gap between the warmest and coolest month is 65.7°F, which is what the ranking of capitals by annual swing is built on.
What is the highest temperature ever recorded in Longyearbyen?
71.1°F, on 25 July 2020, in the record held for Longyearbyen/Svalbard Arpt. That is the highest daily maximum in the archive for this station, not a national record and not an official figure: those are set by national meteorological services.
What is the lowest temperature ever recorded in Longyearbyen?
−51.3°F, on 4 March 1986, in the same archive. Like the high, it is the lowest daily minimum this station has recorded rather than an official national figure.
Sources and checks for this page
Live readings come from METAR reports from the aerodrome at Longyearbyen/Svalbard Arpt. Monthly means and every record on this page are computed from NOAA GHCN-Daily observations stored per station, per year, per month, and the capital list is GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Nothing here is modelled, interpolated or estimated, and a month the archive never covered is left out rather than filled in. See how this is built.
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