Longyearbyen
It is 41.0°F at Longyearbyen/Svalbard Arpt, 14:50 local on Monday. Longyearbyen is the 139th hottest of 139 capitals by annual mean, and the 210th hottest capital right now.
14:50 local · Monday 28 September 2026
Source: METAR reports from the aerodrome
Normal for this date here is a high of 35.2°F.
Saturday, 25 July 2020
Source: GHCN-Daily
Tuesday, 4 March 1986
Source: GHCN-Daily
The record for 28 September here is 52.0°F, set in 2017. Today reached 41.0°F.
The whole record bookKuwait City, at 114.8°F. The two ends of the capitals table right now.
See Kuwait CityWhere Longyearbyen stands
- Among capitals, annual mean
- #139
- of 139
- Among capitals, right now
- #210
- of 213 reporting
- Hottest month
- July
- 48.9°F
- Widest annual swing
- #47
- of 139
Longyearbyen by month
Normal high · record high · record low- 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
5 of 8 nearby stations reported today.
Capitals with a similar climate
The capitals immediately warmer and cooler than Longyearbyen by annual mean.
- Reykjavík 45.7°F
- Ulan Bator 42.1°F
- Nuuk 35.2°F
How Longyearbyen’s temperature has been recorded
When did temperature records begin in Longyearbyen?
The archive held here for Longyearbyen, Svalbard and Jan Mayen starts in 1975, which is 51 years of record, across 37,318 days with a stored reading.
Which station measures Longyearbyen's temperature?
Longyearbyen/Svalbard Arpt (ENSB), 30 m above sea level. Every figure on this page comes from that one station rather than from a city-wide average, so it is a measurement at a known place rather than an estimate for an area.
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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