Commentary: Cool enough for the flannel to come back into rotation.
Latest reading10.0°C16:20 local · 29 min agoReports about every 30 minutes · 48 readings in the last 24 hours.Source: NOAA METARToday so far11.0°/7.0°High at 14:20 local · low at 01:20 localRange 4.0°C · from 31 observationsSource: NOAA METAR and SYNOPHighest we have recorded26.0°CWe recorded this on 30 September 2026. It is the highest reading this site has taken here.Source: Our own observations, 47 daysLowest we have recorded3.0°CWe recorded this on 26 October 2026. It is the lowest reading this site has taken here.Source: Our own observations, 47 days
The highest this site has recorded here. Source: Our own observations, 47 days.
Lowest we have recorded
3.0°C
Date
Monday, 26 October 2026
Time of day
05:20 local
Location
Buochs Arpt, Switzerland
Position
46.97°N 8.39°E · 445 m
The lowest this site has recorded here. Source: Our own observations, 47 days.
Where this station is
This station lies about 5,200 km north of the equator.
Where Buochs Arpt is
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46.97°N 8.39°E
Buochs 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.
These are not official records. They are the highest and lowest readings this site has stored for Buochs 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.
Buochs Arpt (LSZC) is a METAR weather station in Switzerland, 445 m above sea level, about 10 km from Kriens.
We have kept a daily record here since 22 September 2026, every one of the 47 days this site has existed. We have stored 2,155 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 Buochs Arpt, newest first, with the change from the reading before it and whether it was counted.
Time
Temp
Change
Status
10.0°C
0.0°C
Counted
10.0°C
0.0°C
Counted
10.0°C
0.0°C
Counted
10.0°C
−1.0°C
Counted
In summary
Over the last week we have readings for 7 days here, running from 4.0°C to 11.0°C, a spread of 7.0°C.
It reports about every 30 minutes, and sent 48 readings in the last 24 hours.
Its best placing today was 1,464th coldest of the 5,267 stations reporting.
It is currently within a degree of the median of the 6 reporting stations inside 150 km.
Recent highlights
Fell to 3.0°C, the lowest we have recorded here, beating 4.0°C on Fri 23 Oct 2026.
Fell to 9.0°C, its lowest of October, beating 10.0°C on Sun 4 Oct 2026.
By month, from our own record
Monthly highest, lowest and mean temperature recorded at Buochs Arpt by this site.
Month
High
Low
Mean
Days
Readings
November 2026
11.0°C
4.0°C
6.7°C
7
319
October 2026
23.0°C
3.0°C
12.1°C
31
1,453
September 2026
26.0°C
7.0°C
16.4°C
8 of 9
383
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.
By year, from our own record
2026
Highest 26.0°C, lowest 3.0°C, mean 12.1°C. 47 days recorded from 2,155 readings.
Recent days
A reading on every one of the last 30 days. Typically 48 readings a day.
Daily highest and lowest air temperature at Buochs Arpt, most recent first.
What is the highest temperature ever recorded in Buochs Arpt?
26.0°C (78.8°F) on Wednesday, 30 September 2026. That is the highest this site has recorded at this station. It is not an officially certified record unless a meteorological authority has recognised it.
Our own observations
What is the lowest temperature ever recorded in Buochs Arpt?
3.0°C (37.4°F) on Monday, 26 October 2026. That is the lowest this site has recorded at this station.
Our own observations
What is the temperature in Buochs Arpt right now?
10.0°C (50.0°F), measured at 16:20 local on Saturday 7 November.
Live reading from the station, after our quality checks
Is Buochs Arpt the coldest place on Earth?
Not right now: it is 4,415th of the 9,362 stations reporting to us. Its best position since we started watching is 367th 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 Buochs Arpt rank among the coldest places in Switzerland?
Right now it is 4th coldest of the 16 stations we track in Switzerland.
Our live rankings
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
Nearby stations and distances
Computed from station positions in our own database
Calculated
Download these readings
Every reading we hold for Buochs 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 March afternoon in Saint Peter Port.
Saint Peter Port, Guernsey, typically reaches 10.0°C in March, averaged over every March day its archive holds. Not a published climate normal: it is the mean of what we hold.
Colder right now than 163 of the 208 capital cities we can read.
It is colder here than in Saint Peter Port (12.0°C), Tokyo (12.0°C) and Bishkek (12.0°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 Buochs Arpt ranged from 7.0°C to 11.0°C, a spread of 4.0°C, from 48 readings. Times shown in local time.
Temperature readings at Buochs Arpt over the charted period, in local time.
Time
Temperature
16:50
8.0°C
17:20
7.0°C
17:50
7.0°C
18:20
7.0°C
18:50
7.0°C
19:20
7.0°C
19:50
7.0°C
20:20
7.0°C
20:50
7.0°C
21:20
7.0°C
21:50
7.0°C
22:20
7.0°C
22:50
7.0°C
23:20
7.0°C
23:50
7.0°C
00:20
7.0°C
00:50
7.0°C
01:20
7.0°C
01:50
7.0°C
02:20
7.0°C
02:50
7.0°C
03:20
7.0°C
03:50
7.0°C
04:20
7.0°C
04:50
7.0°C
05:20
8.0°C
05:50
7.0°C
06:20
8.0°C
06:50
8.0°C
07:20
8.0°C
07:50
8.0°C
08:20
8.0°C
08:50
8.0°C
09:20
8.0°C
09:50
9.0°C
10:20
9.0°C
10:50
9.0°C
11:20
10.0°C
11:50
10.0°C
12:20
10.0°C
12:50
10.0°C
13:20
10.0°C
13:50
11.0°C
14:20
11.0°C
14:50
10.0°C
15:20
10.0°C
15:50
10.0°C
16:20
10.0°C
highest to lowest
Mean
6.7°C
of the readings stored
The last 7 days we recorded: 7 days recorded, 319 readings. From the daily highs and lows we recorded.
Temperature over the last 30 days we recorded
Highest
21.0°C
Wed 14 Oct 2026
Lowest
3.0°C
Mon 26 Oct 2026
Range
18.0°C
highest to lowest
Mean
9.9°C
of the readings stored
The last 30 days we recorded: 30 days recorded, 1,406 readings. From the daily highs and lows we recorded.
Temperature over the last 12 months
Highest
26.0°C
Wed 30 Sep 2026
Lowest
3.0°C
Mon 26 Oct 2026
Range
23.0°C
highest to lowest
Mean
12.1°C
of the readings stored
The last 12 months: 47 days recorded, 2,155 readings. From our monthly totals.
Highs and lows for Sat 7 Nov 2026, against this station's own.
Readings stored, count not recorded
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.
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.