- Record watch5.0°C from a recordThe November record here is 10.0°C, set on Sunday, 1 November 2026.The whole record book →
- The opposite of here54.5°C colderAmundsen-Scott South Pole Station, Antarctica is at −49.5°C at this same moment.Go to Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station →
Other conditions at this reading
- Dew point
- 4.0°C
- Humidity
- 93%
- derived from the temperature and dew point
- Wind
- E 100°, 4 km/h
- Pressure
- 1025.1 hPa
- altimeter setting, QNH
- Visibility
- 9.7 km or more
Where Sørvágur/Vágar Arpt stands
Its highest placing today was 1,383rd of 5,130, reached at 06:00 UTC.
- Best global cold placing in 44 days recorded: 307th of 8,859.
- Was the coldest reporting station in Faroe Islands on 44 of those 44 days.
Ranking as of 09:45 UTC.
☀️ How 5.0°C comparesA typical January afternoon in Brussels.Brussels, Belgium, typically reaches 5.0°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 177 of the 195 capital cities we can read.
The last 24 hours
Local timeThe record book, month by month
Highest and lowest ever recorded here · with the day it happenedWe hold a record for 3 months here so far, September and October and November. The rest of the year fills in as this station reports through it.
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Between its coldest night and its hottest day, this place has swung 31.0°C.
From our dataRecord high 23.0°C against record low −8.0°C. - 2
At 00:20 it was 6.0°C. By 05:20 it was 4.0°C. The heat did not hold.
From our dataToday so far at this station, in local time.
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All-time record high
23.0°C
- Date
- Sunday, 28 July 2019
- Time of day
- Not recorded. The daily archive stores the day, not the hour.
- Location
- Sørvágur/Vágar Arpt, Faroe Islands
- Position
- 62.06°N 7.28°W · 89 m
The highest in available records since 1997. Source: GHCN-Daily, 1997 to 2026.
All-time record low
−8.0°C
- Date
- Friday, 7 January 2011
- Time of day
- Not recorded. The daily archive stores the day, not the hour.
- Location
- Sørvágur/Vágar Arpt, Faroe Islands
- Position
- 62.06°N 7.28°W · 89 m
The lowest in available records since 1997. Source: GHCN-Daily, 1997 to 2026.
In summary
Over the last week we have readings for 7 days here, running from 4.0°C to 10.0°C, a spread of 6.0°C.
It reports about every 30 minutes, and sent 47 readings in the last 24 hours.
Its best placing today was 1,383rd coldest of the 5,130 stations reporting.
By month, from our own record
For the long record, see Sørvágur/Vágar Arpt’s average and record temperature for every month.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Days | Readings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2026 | 10.0°C | 4.0°C | 8.3°C | 7 | 307 |
| October 2026 | 13.0°C | 2.0°C | 8.7°C | 31 | 1,454 |
| September 2026 | 14.0°C | 9.0°C | 10.6°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.
Sørvágur/Vágar Arpt (EKVG) is a METAR weather station in Faroe Islands, 89 m above sea level, about 27 km from Tórshavn.
We have kept a daily record here since 22 September 2026, every one of the 47 days this site has existed. We have stored 2,144 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.
| Time | Temp | Change | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5.0°C | +1.0°C | Counted | |
| 4.0°C | −1.0°C | Counted | |
| 5.0°C | 0.0°C | Counted | |
| 5.0°C | 0.0°C | Counted | |
Highest and lowest we have recorded here
Highest
14.0°C
Wed 30 Sep 2026 at 23:20 local
Lowest
2.0°C
Fri 23 Oct 2026 at 06:50 local
These are not official records. They are the highest and lowest readings this site has stored for Sørvágur/Vágar 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 year, from our own record
2026
Highest 14.0°C, lowest 2.0°C, mean 9.0°C. 47 days recorded from 2,144 readings.
Recent days
A reading on every one of the last 30 days. Typically 48 readings a day.
| Day | High | At | Low | At |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-07 | 6.0°C | 00:20 UTC | 4.0°C | 05:20 UTC |
| 2026-11-06 | 9.0°C | 13:20 UTC | 6.0°C | 08:20 UTC |
| 2026-11-05 | 9.0°C | 09:50 UTC | 6.0°C | 01:20 UTC |
| 2026-11-04 | 10.0°C | 00:20 UTC |
Nearby, and the opposite
- Nearest stationSumburgh Arpt9.0°C405.2 km away, today's high
- Warmest nearbyWick Arpt9.0°C463.7 km away
- Coldest nearbyKirkwall Arpt5.0°C421.3 km away, today's low
- The opposite of hereAmundsen-Scott South Pole Station−49.5°CAntarctica
The nearest other station is 392.9 km away. Quality control compares a reading against stations within 150 km, so there is nothing close enough to cross-check this one against.
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.
Tracking history
It has reported on every day since Tue 22 Sep 2026.
- First reading stored11.0°C on our first day here
- 100 readings storedfired late: 1 earlier day(s) carry no reading count
- 1,000 readings storedfired late: 1 earlier day(s) carry no reading count
- 30 days reporting without a gap
Where this station is
This station lies about 6,900 km north of the equator. It lies about 500 km short of the Arctic Circle.
Where Sørvágur/Vágar Arpt is
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62.06°N 7.28°W
Sørvágur/Vágar 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.
View more on Google Maps62.0650°N, 7.2820°W
Sørvágur/Vágar Arpt, answered from the data
What is the highest temperature ever recorded in Sørvágur/Vágar Arpt?
23.0°C (73.4°F) on Sunday, 28 July 2019. That is the highest in the daily record we hold for this station, which runs since 1997. 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 Sørvágur/Vágar Arpt?
−8.0°C (17.6°F) on Friday, 7 January 2011. That is the lowest in the daily record we hold, which runs since 1997.
NOAA GHCN-Daily
What is the temperature in Sørvágur/Vágar Arpt right now?
5.0°C (41.0°F), measured at 09:20 local on Saturday 7 November.
Live reading from the station, after our quality checks
Is Sørvágur/Vágar Arpt the coldest place on Earth?
Not right now: it is 2,839th of the 8,970 stations reporting to us. Its best position since we started watching is 307th of 8,859. We rank the stations that report to us, which is not the same as every place on Earth.
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.
| 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), 1997 to 2026 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 |
How these readings are checked
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.
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Inside the range of measured temperature