Major cities with the coldest modelled January mean
Montreal, Canada has the lowest january mean temperature (modelled) of the 30 cities compared: -11.25 °C (NASA POWER 20-year meteorological and solar climatology, 2001-2020).
The same NASA POWER 2001–2020 coordinate-grid layer ranked from the lowest January mean. Exact station and neighbourhood conditions can differ.
- Items compared
- 30
- Countries represented
- 14
- Last checked
- 2026-07-16
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| Original rank | City or place | Source and scope | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Montreal, Canada | -11.25 °C | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 2 | Tampere, Finland | -7.91 °C | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 3 | Calgary, Canada | -7.2 °C | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 4 | Oslo, Norway | -5.94 °C | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 5 | Rīga, Latvia | -4.88 °C | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 6 | Tallinn, Estonia | -3.91 °C | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 7 | Trondheim, Norway | -3.66 °C | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 8 | Iași, Romania | -3.57 °C | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 9 | Linz, Austria | -3.26 °C | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 10 | Espoo, Finland | -3.25 °C | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 11 | Stockholm, Sweden | -3.08 °C | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 12 | Cluj-Napoca, Romania | -2.95 °C | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 13 | Helsinki, Finland | -2.92 °C | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 14 | Toronto, Canada | -2.69 °C | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 15 | Chicago, United States | -2.52 °C | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 16 | Wrocław, Poland | -2.33 °C | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 17 | Sofia, Bulgaria | -2.27 °C | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 18 | Bergen, Norway | -1.96 °C | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 19 | Bucharest, Romania | -1.58 °C | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 20 | Munich, Germany | -1.57 °C | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 21 | Gorzów Wielkopolski, Poland | -1.41 °C | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 22 | Graz, Austria | -1.26 °C | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 23 | Berlin, Germany | -0.73 °C | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 24 | Plovdiv, Bulgaria | 0.46 °C | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 25 | Göteborg, Sweden | 0.48 °C | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 26 | Hamburg, Germany | 0.53 °C | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 27 | New York, United States | 1.06 °C | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 28 | Saint-Étienne, France | 1.1 °C | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 29 | Malmö, Sweden | 1.18 °C | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 30 | Torino, Italy | 1.21 °C | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
What the numbers say
- Montreal, Canada leads at -11.25 °C.
- Torino, Italy sits at the other end with 1.21 °C.
- The middle of this ranking is -2.33 °C, across 30 places that publish the metric.
- The spread between first and last is 12.46 °C.
Quick answer
What does Major cities with the coldest modelled January mean show?
Montreal, Canada has the lowest january mean temperature (modelled) of the 30 cities compared: -11.25 °C (NASA POWER 20-year meteorological and solar climatology, 2001-2020).
How this list is built
Every row is a published january mean temperature (modelled) observation measured in °C, ranked lowest first. The values were observed in 2001. A place appears only when it publishes this exact metric, so an absent place means missing data rather than a low value. Only published cities with at least 100,000 residents and city-level observations qualify.
- Compare the displayed value, unit, source date and geographic grain together.
- A city label does not change a regional observation into a city measurement.
- Rows
- 30 places
- Geographic grain
- city coordinate grid
- Observation period
- 2001-2020
- Last checked
- 2026-07-16
- With an official source link
- 30 of 30
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ImmigrationDB. (2026, October 16). Major cities with the coldest modelled January mean [ImmigrationDB compilation; version fff13974a6024f9ec30d738ff4596779]. ImmigrationDB. https://immigrationdb.com/reports/major-cities-coldest-modelled-january/ Retrieved 2026-10-16. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/BibTeX citation
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title = {Major cities with the coldest modelled January mean},
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year = {2026},
date = {2026-10-16},
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