What's the hottest and coldest temperature you've ever been in?

Coldest was -44°C when I was working as a northern lights guide in Norway. We'd always take our tour groups to areas with a high likelihood of polar activity, and once the whole coast was widely overcast so that we had to drive almost to the Finnish border. Camped out along the road towards Kilpisjärvi coming from Skibotn (company was based in Tromso).

Hottest was +45°C in Lagos, Nigeria. Used to work there as well for a good while.

I've been outside working in -34° C, and likewise 54.4° C. That's -30° F and 130° F for those of us who use imperial.

The negative temp was Alaska, and the high positive was the Arabian Gulf. Good times.

47.5° (117.5 F) in Phoenix AZ USA summer.

-11.6° (11 F) in Flagstaff AZ USA winter.

Hottest would be 41°C, in 2003 and last year (France)

Coldest, -35°C, Québec Carnaval in 2016. I stayed about two hours in that temperature, I started to have cold burn in my fingers and my toes.

Would take -35 over 41 all day.

Coldest was about -45°C, hottest was about +45°C. We've got quite the range where I live, though usually it's closer to -30 and +30, those were just extreme cases lol.

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I know you said indoor temperatures don’t count, but my low is kinda fun: -110c for three minutes (cryotherapy). Outdoor was 48c (local thermometer said higher) in northern Western Australia.

-45°C in central Alberta in the 90’s, +45° C in California in the 80’s.

Hottest was 115 F (46C) in Phoenix, Arizona. Coolest was -55 F (-48C) in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. I think the wind chill was around -85 F.

-47C skiing in Banff, +42C hiking on Vancouver Island.

Coldest would be -60C, warmest about 40C. Funnily enough, these were in the same place (Canada).

-40C and +40C. Both in the same place and in the same year. Fuckin save me.

-43c / +46c

Probably going to be more hotter seasons and never going to experience the -40s again with the way climate change is going…

Hottest was just under 54° (128.6°F) in Kuwait. I went for a run just to say I was the only person to go for a run in the hottest day in human history so far.

I think it got down to -29 (-20) in Albany NY one year but I'm looking for colder experiences soon.

Hottest 43°C. Coldest somewhere around -20°C.

118F -42F. Both extremes experienced in northern Nevada.

Hottest? Somewhere around 50C. Coldest? -25C.

Coldest was probably -20 °C, hottest around 40 °C.

My comfort temperature is right around 15 °C. Anything higher than 20 °C and I start sweating.

My girlfriend wants to go to Egypt for vacation this year. That's going to be fun...

Hottest: 37°C

Coldest: -25°C (-40°C with windchill)

Both in Toronto

Hottest 48°C (52°C Apparent temperature) Chaco region, Paraguay

Coldest 0°C Paraguay (it doesn't get extremely cold here)

The hottest I've been in was 117°F (47.2°C) when I lived in Las Vegas. Was actually slated for a 10 mile run that day, but it was mercifully cut down to 4 miles.

Coldest without windchill would be -35°F (-37°C), just a couple of winters ago. I'm surprised it's not lower, not too far from here a city set the state record at -60°F (-51°C) not too long ago.

I suppose you've never seen snow then? Definitely try if you get some chance. I wish it snowed more often where I live.

I have no idea what the coolest temp has been for me, but probably around -10C?

Coldest: -30°C.

Hottest: 52°C.

I think coldest was -18°C during the coldest winter we've had, curiously it didn't even feel that cold when walking outside but that might be because there was no wind and you started feeling the coldness inside you instead of outside.

Hottest is I believe around 40°C but that one's not as crazy so I'm not really sure of the actual figure, probably higher or lower by a small amount of degrees.

50C and -40C. Within 1 week of each other on different continents.

Coldest is probably around 20°C (but it feels a lot colder due to fog and wind).

Hottest is roughly 35°C (feels a lot hotter due to humidity and lack of wind).

I haven't traveled far though, and never outside the country.

Bout -40C (that's thermometer, not "feels like") and +40C. We have temperature swings.

I’ve slept outside in a very basic shelter I made with branches and snow at -44°C. I’ve biked long distances over many days during a heat wave when the temperature was 38°C average and highs of 40°C.

Hottest was somewhere between 115F and 120F (46.2C and 48.9C)

Coldest was -30F with a windchill of -55F (-34.4C with windchill of -48.3C)

Loved for a little in Lapland, Finland. What’s that. Like -20c in winter?

Hottest would be where I line now, Australia. Mid 40’s C is common where I am.

Hottest was easily over 50°C. I live in a hot and humid place, so it is even hotter than your typical 50°C. And it's hell. Really good if you're on the beach (assuming you manage to avoid insolation), but being home and having to work is the absolute worst I don't wish to anyone.

Coldest was maybe 15-18°C? I was travelling to a not so cold neighboring state and it was quite good, actually. I prefer the weather like this.

Coldest: -10F - Camping trip to the lava beds in Oregon when I was a Boy Scout.

Hottest: 112F - Just going out to get the mail. Yesterday.

Hottest is about 115F (45C) and coldest is -2 or 3F (-20C). Both were in Dallas, Texas.

Hottest was in Iraq at like 120 F

Hottest:42C
Coldest:0C with rain

Im hoping to experience snow for the first time in my life this winter tho

Hottest was about 56C when I ran the Badwater race through Death Valley. Coldest was about -27 when I was in Idaho…tried to jog that day too but couldn’t take the burn in my lungs.

Hottest, in the early '90s I worked for a technical trade school as a lab instructor in Phoenix, AZ. My commute was by motorcycle from Tempe, AZ. In the heat of one summer it got to near 120F outside one day, and wearing motorcycle gear plus the heat from the motor made me feel like I was going to pass out from extreme heat exhaustion (but luckily, I didn't).

I slept in a tent in 2°F(-16.6°C) weather, I've probably been in slightly colder but not while sleeping.

Hottest was 117°F(47.2°C, last year in my home town it was +110°F for over two weeks straight.

Coldest: -20º Vilnius Hottest: 47º Sevilla

-25F (-31C) in Steamboat Springs, Colorado 110F (43C) in Las Vegas, Nevada

At a certain point, cold is just cold

116 °F (47 °C) during the 2021 Western North America heat wave
7 °F (-14 °C) in Mammoth Lakes, CA

-40, 50 I think (Celsius)

Hottest was 122°F (50°C), a record heat day in Mesa, AZ.

Coldest was in Indiana during the polar vortex of 2019, -45°F (-42°C).

The world is a crazy fucking place.

40ish C and -30ish. Neither extreme is very fun.

Hottest was around 50°C, which was surprisingly bearable but I do like warmth, so there's that.

Coldest around -10°C, and hated every second of it. Cold is my arch nemesis.

Hottest: +40C

Coldest: -40C

I think that's exactly it, which is nice and round. The 40 above was in the US, the 40 below was the coldest it's ever been at night here. Without windchill, mind you. Windchill is cheating. With windchill it can get close to -100C on those same days.

German here.

hottest: 42°C in summer 2003. there have probably been warmer days by now, but I'm not aware of any.

coldest: -14°C in winter 2009/2010, while waiting for an absolute asshole of a bus driver to stop reading his news paper and finally open the door to let us in. I get that you want to enjoy your break in silence, but ffs. Leaving us waiting in such cold temperatures for around 10 minutes was just inhumane.

Hottest was 45c in Agra, India - coldest was probably -2 in Canberra, Australia.

-43°C was the coldest. We typically get around a week of -30ish here every winter and it didn't feel much different

41°C was the hottest. I was at Disneyland and walking anywhere outside was torture.

Hottest? Last summer, driving home, Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex area. The A/C in the car I was driving was busted, it had zero window tint and a plexiglas roof panel so there was no shade whatsoever. The area was getting that extremely dry late-summer heat that area gets during made worse by the heat dome effect over the city. The actual temp was likely 108°-110°F, but the "feels like" was somewhere in the upper 120°s. Add to that the fact that the wind itself was literally hot, and there I was driving down the highway with my windows down cooking in what basically amounted to a convection oven. I ended up finding that I was actually cooler if I rolled the windows up. When I got home my shirt was totally soaked and as a result, it has the shadow of a seatbelt burned into it.

Coldest? Around -20°F in central Utah during winter at about 3AM during an impromptu snowball fight in the apartment complex I lived in. Zero wind and about a foot of snow on the ground. Again, surprisingly dry, so it was legitimately PLEASANT with a ski jacket, long johns and jeans, when compared to a humid, windy winter as warm as 32°F anywhere else in the same gear, but definitely the coldest temperature I've seen by the numbers.

Hottest would be 49°C in Marrakech, in the middle of August. I remember Moroccans talking about how hot it was, and a big thunderstorm broke that evening with torrential rain.

Coldest would be at home in the UK. Probably the coldest I've experienced would be about -7°C, that's pretty extreme where I am though and it would be the night time temperature. I remember a few years ago going clubbing in winter and someone robbed my coat, I had to walk home at 3am in about -3°C with my friends trying to keep me warm. Not fun.