Lowest Temperature
The lowest temperature ever recorded on earth is -89.2 °C (-128.5 °F) at Vostok, Antarctica on July 21, 1983.
Record-Setting Weather in Antarctica
Coldest Place
With its annual average temperature of -58.3 °C (-72.9 °F), Dome A, Antarctica is the coldest place in the world.
Hottest Spot
The temperature reached a balmy, record-breaking high for Antarctica of 18.3 °C (64.9 °F) at Argentina's Esperanza Research Station on February 6, 2020. That beat the previous record high of 17.5 °C (63.5 °F) set at the same location on March 3, 2015.
Wettest Location
The east and west coasts of Antarctica, as well as the Antarctica Peninsula, all average 800 millimetres (31.5 inches) of precipitation a year, making these areas the wettest on the South Pole's continent.
Driest Place
The Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station gets the least amount of rain or snow anywhere in Antarctica, amounting to just 2 millimetres (0.08 inches) in an average year.
Windiest Site
The wind at Port Martin, Antarctica averages more than 64 kph (kilometres per hour) (40 miles per hour) on at least one hundred days each year, making it overall the windiest place on earth.