Commentary: The outdoors has become noticeably less welcoming.
Latest reading0.0°C12:30 local · 35 min agoReports about every 30 minutes · 43 readings in the last 24 hours.Source: NOAA METARToday so far0.0°/−2.0°High at 12:30 local · low at 04:00 localRange 2.0°C · from 17 observationsSource: NOAA METAR and SYNOPAll-time record high36.2°C6 August 2010. The highest daily maximum in the record for this station.Source: GHCN-Daily, 1955 to 2025All-time record low−42.0°C31 December 1978. The lowest daily minimum in the record for this station.Source: GHCN-Daily, 1955 to 2025
Highest and lowest ever recorded here · with the day it happened
Jan
5.4°
Wed 10 Jan 2007
−40.6°
Tue 13 Jan 1987
Feb
6.1°
Sat 24 Feb 1990
−39.0°
Thu 4 Feb 1999
Mar
16.0°
Fri 30 Mar 2007
−32.8°
Tue 5 Mar 2013
Apr
26.0°
Tue 25 Apr 2000
−23.0°
Sun 5 Apr 1998
May
32.2°
On this day · Saturday 7 November
Record high
8.1°C
Sat 7 Nov 2020
Record low
−14.6°C
Sun 7 Nov 1999
Average high
1.1°C
all years on record
1
Botovo/Cherepovets Arpt has dropped below freezing on 6119 nights since 1955. The desert remembers every one of them.
From our dataNights with a minimum below 0°C since 1955.
2
Right now Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station is 49.5°C colder than Botovo/Cherepovets Arpt. Same planet. Same afternoon.
From our dataBoth readings are live and ranked on this site now.
3
The coldest night Botovo/Cherepovets Arpt has ever recorded, −42.0°C, would pass for a warm spell at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, which is −49.5°C right now.
From our dataThis station's record low against the current live reading at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station.
Today’s high 0.0°C against 8.1°C in 2020. A reading that beats it is flagged here automatically, once a second cycle confirms it.
All-time record high
36.2°C
Date
Friday, 6 August 2010
Time of day
Not recorded. The daily archive stores the day, not the hour.
Location
Botovo/Cherepovets Arpt, Russia
Position
59.28°N 38.02°E · 113 m
The highest in available records since 1955. Source: GHCN-Daily, 1955 to 2025.
All-time record low
−42.0°C
Date
Sunday, 31 December 1978
Time of day
Not recorded. The daily archive stores the day, not the hour.
Location
Botovo/Cherepovets Arpt, Russia
Position
59.28°N 38.02°E · 113 m
The lowest in available records since 1955. Source: GHCN-Daily, 1955 to 2025.
By year, from our own record
2026
Highest 24.0°C, lowest −5.0°C, mean 6.6°C. 47 days recorded from 1,966 readings.
By month, from our own record
Monthly highest, lowest and mean temperature recorded at Botovo/Cherepovets Arpt by this site.
Month
High
Low
Mean
Days
Readings
November 2026
7.0°C
−2.0°C
2.2°C
7
276
October 2026
13.0°C
−5.0°C
6.0°C
31
1,345
September 2026
24.0°C
2.0°C
12.4°C
8 of 9
345
Means are of the readings we stored, weighted by how often this station reported, so they are not daily averages and not climate normals. Some days were recorded before we began counting observations and contribute their high and low but not the mean.
Highest and lowest we have recorded here
Highest
24.0°C
Thu 24 Sep 2026 at 14:30 local
Lowest
−5.0°C
Wed 21 Oct 2026 at 06:00 local
These are not official records. They are the highest and lowest readings this site has stored for Botovo/Cherepovets Arpt since September 2026, across 47 days we hold a reading for. Official climatological records are adjudicated by national meteorological services and by the WMO.
Botovo/Cherepovets Arpt (ULWC) is a METAR weather station in Russia, 113 m above sea level, about 18 km from Cherepovets.
We have kept a daily record here since 22 September 2026, every one of the 47 days this site has existed. We have stored 1,966 observations across the 46 of those days for which we also recorded a count.
Recent temperature history
The same record at three widths, picking up where the last 24 hours above leaves off. Each period is summarised from the grain that suits it, so nothing here is one reading repeated thousands of times into the page.
Recent readings
Each reading as it arrived, newest first, with what our quality checks did with it. A reading we did not count is shown struck through with the reason.
The most recent readings from Botovo/Cherepovets Arpt, newest first, with the change from the reading before it and whether it was counted.
Time
Temp
Change
Status
high
0.0°C
+1.0°C
Counted
−1.0°C
0.0°C
Counted
−1.0°C
0.0°C
Counted
−1.0°C
0.0°C
In summary
Over the last week we have readings for 7 days here, running from −2.0°C to 7.0°C, a spread of 9.0°C.
It reports about every 30 minutes, and sent 43 readings in the last 24 hours.
Its best placing today was 260th coldest of the 5,130 stations reporting.
What stands out here
It has dropped below freezing on 1 of the 7 days we have recorded here.
Recent highlights
Fell to −5.0°C, the lowest we have recorded here, beating −4.0°C on Tue 20 Oct 2026.
and the 1 days before it
Entered the hundred coldest reporting stations on Earth, reaching 59th of 5,261, on each of 2 days running.
Recent days
A reading on every one of the last 30 days. Typically 43 readings a day.
Daily highest and lowest air temperature at Botovo/Cherepovets Arpt, most recent first.
This station lies about 6,600 km north of the equator. It lies about 800 km short of the Arctic Circle.
Where Botovo/Cherepovets Arpt is
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59.28°N 38.02°E
Botovo/Cherepovets Arpt
Ground · satellite
Land surface temperature for 2026-11-06, from NASA GIBS. This is the temperature of the ground seen from orbit, not the air, and it is never ranked against air readings. Cloud hides the ground, so gaps are unread rather than guessed.
The warmest month on record here is August, when the highest reading has reached 36.2°C (97.2°F) on Friday, 6 August 2010.
NOAA GHCN-Daily, highest reading recorded in each month
How cold does it get in Botovo/Cherepovets Arpt?
The coldest month on record here is December, when the lowest reading has fallen to −42.0°C (−43.6°F) on Sunday, 31 December 1978.
NOAA GHCN-Daily, lowest reading recorded in each month
What is the highest temperature ever recorded in Botovo/Cherepovets Arpt?
36.2°C (97.2°F) on Friday, 6 August 2010. That is the highest in the daily record we hold for this station, which runs since 1955. It is not an officially certified record unless a meteorological authority has recognised it.
NOAA GHCN-Daily
What is the lowest temperature ever recorded in Botovo/Cherepovets Arpt?
−42.0°C (−43.6°F) on Sunday, 31 December 1978. That is the lowest in the daily record we hold, which runs since 1955.
NOAA GHCN-Daily
What is the temperature in Botovo/Cherepovets Arpt right now?
0.0°C (32.0°F), measured at 12:30 local on Saturday 7 November.
Live reading from the station, after our quality checks
Data sources for this page
Readings here arrive through NOAA METAR. METAR is the routine aerodrome weather report, issued for aviation, typically every 30 or 60 minutes and more often when conditions change. It updates far more frequently than a synoptic report, which is why these pages have a usable chart.
Where each figure on this page comes from.
Figure
Source
Type
Latest reading, today so far
NOAA Aviation Weather Center (METAR) and NOAA NWS WMO bulletins (SYNOP)
Measured, station
All-time, monthly and on-this-day records
NOAA NCEI Global Historical Climatology Network daily (GHCN-Daily), 1955 to 2025 at this site and its predecessors, and our own observations, 47 days
Measured, station
Nearby stations and distances
Computed from station positions in our own database
Calculated
Download these readings
Every reading we hold for Botovo/Cherepovets Arpt that passed the checks above, as a file. The source networks are public domain and the file carries its own attribution.
Every reading on this page has passed the checks below. A reading that fails any of them is stored as refused and can never be ranked, shown as a record, or counted in a daily high or low.
No reading from this station has been refused in the last 14 days.
01
Has a real position
A reading with no usable latitude and longitude is discarded. It cannot be ranked, mapped, or compared with its neighbours, and a temperature with no place is not an answer to which place is hottest.
02
Position is not a placeholder
Some feeds fill an unknown position with a stand-in value such as 99.99 degrees or an elevation of 9999 m. Those are not coordinates. They are caught separately from a missing position because a station placed at a fake point has no neighbours, so the neighbour check below can never see anything wrong with it.
03
The bulletin itself is current
SYNOP arrives as files that are only re-read when they change. A file that has stopped being updated is set aside whole, before any reading inside it is considered.
04
The reading is recent enough for its network
Different networks get different windows, because they report at different rates: 2 hours for METAR, which transmits continuously, and 9 hours for SYNOP, which reports at 00, 06, 12 and 18 UTC. A single rule would have discarded the entire synoptic network, including every station in Antarctica.
05
Inside the range of measured temperature
A typical January afternoon in Mariehamn.
Mariehamn, Aland Islands, typically reaches 0.0°C in January, averaged over every January day its archive holds. Not a published climate normal: it is the mean of what we hold.
Colder right now than 183 of the 187 capital cities we can read.
It is colder here than in Prague (1.0°C), Vilnius (1.0°C) and Sofia (2.0°C) at this moment. Those are the coldest capitals still warmer than here, so every other one on the list is further behind.
Live capital readings, same observations as this page
Over the last 24 hours, temperatures observed at Botovo/Cherepovets Arpt ranged from −2.0°C to 2.0°C, a spread of 4.0°C, from 43 readings. Times shown in local time.
Temperature readings at Botovo/Cherepovets Arpt over the charted period, in local time.
Time
Temperature
13:30
2.0°C
14:00
2.0°C
14:20
1.0°C
14:30
1.0°C
15:00
1.0°C
15:30
1.0°C
16:00
1.0°C
16:30
1.0°C
17:00
1.0°C
17:30
1.0°C
18:00
1.0°C
18:30
1.0°C
19:10
1.0°C
19:25
0.0°C
19:30
0.0°C
20:00
0.0°C
20:30
0.0°C
21:00
0.0°C
21:30
1.0°C
22:00
1.0°C
22:30
0.0°C
23:00
0.0°C
23:30
0.0°C
00:00
0.0°C
01:00
0.0°C
02:00
0.0°C
03:00
−1.0°C
04:00
−2.0°C
05:00
−2.0°C
06:00
−2.0°C
06:30
−2.0°C
07:00
−2.0°C
07:30
−2.0°C
08:00
−2.0°C
08:30
−2.0°C
09:00
−2.0°C
09:30
−1.0°C
10:00
−1.0°C
10:30
−1.0°C
11:00
−1.0°C
11:30
−1.0°C
12:00
−1.0°C
12:30
0.0°C
Every year on record
NOAA GHCN-Daily
1955 to 2025
Annual average · °C
Trend over 14 years with data: +0.52 °C per decade
Annual average for each year, °C.
Year
Annual average
1955
no data
1956
no data
1957
no data
1958
no data
1959
no data
1960
no data
1961
no data
1962
no data
1963
no data
1964
no data
1965
no data
1966
7.0°C
1967
8.7°C
1968
7.7°C
1969
no data
1970
no data
1971
no data
1973
no data
1974
no data
1975
no data
1976
no data
1977
no data
1978
no data
1979
no data
1980
no data
1981
9.4°C
1982
no data
1983
no data
1984
no data
1985
no data
1986
no data
1987
no data
1988
no data
1989
no data
1990
no data
1991
no data
1992
no data
1993
no data
1994
no data
1995
no data
1996
no data
1997
no data
1998
no data
1999
no data
2000
10.2°C
2001
no data
2002
no data
2003
no data
2004
9.6°C
2005
10.2°C
2006
8.9°C
2007
10.7°C
2008
10.9°C
2009
10.1°C
2010
10.8°C
2011
10.4°C
2012
8.8°C
2013
no data
2014
no data
2015
no data
2016
no data
2017
no data
2018
no data
2019
no data
2020
no data
2021
no data
2022
no data
2023
no data
2024
no data
2025
no data
Source: NOAA GHCN-Daily. Years the station did not cover are left as gaps, never joined across. The dashed line is a least squares trend through the years that have data.
Wed 30 May 2007
−6.6°
Thu 5 May 2005
Jun
35.0°
Thu 24 Jun 2021
−2.8°
Sat 8 Jun 1985
Jul
35.7°
Thu 29 Jul 2010
0.7°
Fri 4 Jul 1986
Aug
36.2°
Fri 6 Aug 2010
−1.5°
Wed 29 Aug 1984
Sep
28.2°
Mon 2 Sep 2024
−9.5°
Mon 30 Sep 1996
Oct
22.5°
Wed 6 Oct 1999
−21.6°
Sun 25 Oct 1992
Nov
19.0°
Mon 20 Nov 1978
−30.9°
Tue 30 Nov 2010
Dec
8.5°
Thu 7 Dec 2006
−42.0°
Sun 31 Dec 1978
Source: NOAA GHCN-Daily. The upper figure is the highest ever recorded here in that month and the lower one is the lowest, each with the day it happened. The current month is outlined.
highest to lowest
Mean
2.2°C
of the readings stored
The last 7 days we recorded: 7 days recorded, 276 readings. From the daily highs and lows we recorded.
Temperature over the last 30 days we recorded
Highest
13.0°C
Fri 9 Oct 2026
Lowest
−5.0°C
Wed 21 Oct 2026
Range
18.0°C
highest to lowest
Mean
4.9°C
of the readings stored
The last 30 days we recorded: 30 days recorded, 1,275 readings. From the daily highs and lows we recorded.
Temperature over the last 12 months
Highest
24.0°C
Thu 24 Sep 2026
Lowest
−5.0°C
Wed 21 Oct 2026
Range
29.0°C
highest to lowest
Mean
6.6°C
of the readings stored
The last 12 months: 47 days recorded, 1,966 readings. From our monthly totals.
Highs and lows for Sat 7 Nov 2026, against this station's own. 4 of the 6 filed nothing for this day.
Readings stored, count not recorded
Fewer readings than usual
Slightly fewer readings than usual
A full day of readings
Observations stored by HottestAndColdest. A day we were not yet tracking is shown as an empty square, and says nothing about whether the station reported.
Is Botovo/Cherepovets Arpt the coldest place on Earth?
Not right now: it is 1,250th of the 8,970 stations reporting to us. Its best position since we started watching is 59th of 8,859. We rank the stations that report to us, which is not the same as every place on Earth.
Our live rankings
Where does Botovo/Cherepovets Arpt rank among the coldest places in Russia?
Right now it is 354th coldest of the 641 stations we track in Russia.
Anything above 56.8 °C or below -95 °C is refused. The ceiling sits just above the highest reading WMO accepts, so a genuine new world record would be refused here too: a record needs adjudicating, not a live tile on a home page. The floor is deliberately further from its record, because the Antarctic plateau is thinly instrumented and a real extreme there has far less around it to corroborate it.
06
Not a jump too large to be weather
A change of more than 15 °C from this station's previous reading within 60 minutes is treated as a failing sensor. The limit is set from measured data: real weather reaches about 12 °C in an hour at desert sunrise or under a thunderstorm outflow, and the faults found were 20 °C and more.
07
Agrees with the stations around it
A reading more than 12 °C from the median of other stations within 150 km is refused. It needs at least 3 neighbours to run at all, so it protects dense networks and can say nothing about an isolated station, which is why the other checks above have to stand on their own.