Commentary: The plows have been out and the roads disagree.
Latest reading−6.0°C04:40 local · 10 min agoReports about every 54 minutes · 33 readings in the last 24 hours.Source: NOAA METARToday so far−6.0°/−8.0°High at 04:00 local · low at 20:11 localRange 2.0°C · from 17 observationsSource: NOAA METAR and SYNOPAll-time record high22.6°C11 August 2010. The highest daily maximum in the record for this station.Source: GHCN-Daily, 2008 to 2012All-time record low−47.4°C23 January 2011. The lowest daily minimum in the record for this station.Source: GHCN-Daily, 2008 to 2012
Today’s high −6.0°C against −0.7°C in 2010. A reading that beats it is flagged here automatically, once a second cycle confirms it.
All-time record high
22.6°C
Date
Wednesday, 11 August 2010
Time of day
Not recorded. The daily archive stores the day, not the hour.
Location
Hall Beach Arpt, Canada
Position
68.77°N 81.23°W · 8 m
The highest in available records since 2008. Source: GHCN-Daily, 2008 to 2012.
All-time record low
−47.4°C
Date
Sunday, 23 January 2011
Time of day
Not recorded. The daily archive stores the day, not the hour.
Location
Hall Beach Arpt, Canada
Position
68.77°N 81.23°W · 8 m
The lowest in available records since 2008. Source: GHCN-Daily, 2008 to 2012.
Highest and lowest we have recorded here
Highest
9.0°C
Tue 22 Sep 2026 at 15:00 local
Lowest
−19.0°C
Fri 6 Nov 2026 at 07:00 local
These are not official records. They are the highest and lowest readings this site has stored for Hall Beach 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.
By month, from our own record
Monthly highest, lowest and mean temperature recorded at Hall Beach Arpt by this site.
Month
High
Low
Mean
Days
Readings
November 2026
−3.0°C
−19.0°C
−9.0°C
7
274
October 2026
3.0°C
−14.0°C
−5.0°C
31
1,079
September 2026
9.0°C
−2.0°C
2.2°C
8 of 9
229
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.
What we have stored, day by day
We have readings for every one of the 47 days since we started storing this station on 22 September 2026.
Hall Beach Arpt (CYUX) is a METAR weather station in Canada, 8 m above sea level.
We have kept a daily record here since 22 September 2026, every one of the 47 days this site has existed. We have stored 1,582 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 Hall Beach Arpt, newest first, with the change from the reading before it and whether it was counted.
Time
Temp
Change
Status
−6.0°C
0.0°C
Counted
high
−6.0°C
0.0°C
Counted
−6.0°C
0.0°C
Counted
−6.0°C
+1.0°C
In summary
Over the last week we have readings for 7 days here, running from −19.0°C to −3.0°C, a spread of 16.0°C.
It reports about every 54 minutes, and sent 33 readings in the last 24 hours.
Its best placing today was 53rd coldest of the 5,267 stations reporting.
What stands out here
It has stayed below freezing on every one of the 7 days we have recorded here.
Its widest single day so far swung 16.0°C between low and high.
Recent highlights
Fell to −18.0°C, the lowest we have recorded here, beating −14.0°C on Sat 31 Oct 2026.
Entered the ten coldest reporting stations on Earth, reaching 10th of 5,301.
Entered the hundred coldest reporting stations on Earth, reaching 22nd of 5,316.
By year, from our own record
2026
Highest 9.0°C, lowest −19.0°C, mean −4.6°C. 47 days recorded from 1,582 readings.
Recent days
A reading on every one of the last 30 days. Typically 39 readings a day.
Daily highest and lowest air temperature at Hall Beach Arpt, most recent first.
This station lies about 7,600 km north of the equator. It is inside the Arctic Circle, about 200 km beyond it.
Where Hall Beach Arpt is
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68.77°N 81.23°W
Hall Beach 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 22.6°C (72.7°F) on Wednesday, 11 August 2010.
NOAA GHCN-Daily, highest reading recorded in each month
How cold does it get in Hall Beach Arpt?
The coldest month on record here is January, when the lowest reading has fallen to −47.4°C (−53.3°F) on Sunday, 23 January 2011.
NOAA GHCN-Daily, lowest reading recorded in each month
What is the highest temperature ever recorded in Hall Beach Arpt?
22.6°C (72.7°F) on Wednesday, 11 August 2010. That is the highest in the daily record we hold for this station, which runs since 2008. 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 Hall Beach Arpt?
−47.4°C (−53.3°F) on Sunday, 23 January 2011. That is the lowest in the daily record we hold, which runs since 2008.
NOAA GHCN-Daily
What is the temperature in Hall Beach Arpt right now?
−6.0°C (21.2°F), measured at 04:40 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), 2008 to 2012 at this site and its predecessors, and our own observations, 47 days, which hold the record shown above
Measured, station
Nearby stations and distances
Computed from station positions in our own database
Calculated
Download these readings
Every reading we hold for Hall Beach 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.
☀️ How −6.0°C comparesA typical April afternoon in Longyearbyen.Longyearbyen, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, typically reaches −6.2°C in April, averaged over every April day its archive holds. Not a published climate normal: it is the mean of what we hold.Colder right now than 194 of the 195 capital cities we can read.It is colder here than in Longyearbyen (−5.0°C), Nuuk (−2.0°C) and Moscow (0.0°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 Hall Beach Arpt ranged from −19.0°C to −6.0°C, a spread of 13.0°C, from 33 readings. Times shown in local time.
Temperature readings at Hall Beach Arpt over the charted period, in local time.
Time
Temperature
05:00
−17.0°C
06:00
−19.0°C
07:00
−19.0°C
08:00
−16.0°C
09:00
−18.0°C
10:00
−15.0°C
11:00
−17.0°C
12:00
−17.0°C
13:00
−15.0°C
13:28
−17.0°C
14:00
−15.0°C
15:00
−18.0°C
16:00
−15.0°C
17:00
−10.0°C
18:00
−9.0°C
18:49
−8.0°C
19:00
−8.0°C
20:11
−8.0°C
20:53
−7.0°C
21:07
−7.0°C
21:31
−7.0°C
22:00
−7.0°C
22:43
−7.0°C
23:00
−7.0°C
00:00
−7.0°C
00:33
−7.0°C
01:03
−7.0°C
01:21
−7.0°C
01:34
−7.0°C
02:00
−6.0°C
03:00
−6.0°C
04:00
−6.0°C
04:40
−6.0°C
Every year on record
NOAA GHCN-Daily
2008 to 2012
Annual average · °C
Trend over 3 years with data: +1.00 °C per decade
Annual average for each year, °C.
Year
Annual average
2008
no data
2009
-8.7°C
2010
-5.9°C
2011
-8.5°C
2012
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.
Tue 31 May 2011
−27.1°
Sun 1 May 2011
Jun
14.3°
Wed 30 Jun 2010
−8.7°
Fri 3 Jun 2011
Jul
20.7°
Sun 26 Jul 2009
−0.3°
Thu 16 Jul 2009
Aug
22.6°
Wed 11 Aug 2010
−0.1°
Sun 30 Aug 2009
Sep
12.4°
Tue 8 Sep 2009
−7.7°
Tue 29 Sep 2009
Oct ·
3.0°
Thu 1 Oct 2026
−25.0°
Fri 30 Oct 2009
Nov
0.6°
Mon 1 Nov 2010
−33.4°
Thu 24 Nov 2011
Dec
−2.1°
Mon 21 Dec 2009
−40.5°
Thu 25 Dec 2008
Source: NOAA GHCN-Daily and our own observations, whichever is more extreme. The upper figure is the highest held here in that month and the lower one is the lowest, each with the day it happened. The current month is outlined. A month marked with a dot is one this site recorded itself.
Readings stored, count not recorded
Far fewer readings than usual
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.
highest to lowest
Mean
−9.0°C
of the readings stored
The last 7 days we recorded: 7 days recorded, 274 readings. From the daily highs and lows we recorded.
Temperature over the last 30 days we recorded
Highest
0.0°C
Fri 23 Oct 2026
Lowest
−19.0°C
Fri 6 Nov 2026
Range
19.0°C
highest to lowest
Mean
−6.7°C
of the readings stored
The last 30 days we recorded: 30 days recorded, 1,097 readings. From the daily highs and lows we recorded.
Temperature over the last 12 months
Highest
9.0°C
Tue 22 Sep 2026
Lowest
−19.0°C
Fri 6 Nov 2026
Range
28.0°C
highest to lowest
Mean
−4.6°C
of the readings stored
The last 12 months: 47 days recorded, 1,582 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.
Is Hall Beach Arpt the coldest place on Earth?
Not right now: it is 379th of the 8,970 stations reporting to us. Its best position since we started watching is 5th of 9,009. We rank the stations that report to us, which is not the same as every place on Earth.
Our live rankings
Where does Hall Beach Arpt rank among the coldest places in Canada?
Right now it is 86th coldest of the 1,016 stations we track in Canada.
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.