What is the coldest temperature you've ever experienced?

about -20F, when I was a kid in Maine.

I can recall temps of 10 below. I may well have experienced 20 below, but I don't remember exactly when that would have been. And while I have poured liquid nitrogen on my hand, my hand was insulated by a layer of warmer gaseous nitrogen so I didn't actually experience that temperature. I have however given myself cold burns from touching other very cold objects; I think the coldest thing I've ever touched was between 100 and 150 Kelvins (or -280 and -190 Fahrenheit).

Somewhere around -30F, not counting wind chill. The coldest effective temperature (i.e. including wind chill) that I've experienced was around -55F and it didn't feel very cold.

Does wind chill count?

jjg - nope, as noted in the survey explanation. I was out skiing once when it was in the vicinity of 15 below, but the coldest I've ever experienced was another time skiing when with the wind chill it was somewhere around 80 below zero F or worse.

New England, January, 1979: 'And you'll be happy to know, this morning will be bright and sunny and a toasty 10 degrees below zero! Break out the swimming trunks, kids!'

It had been around -20F below for an entire week. I think the peak was at -28F.

-15F/-26.1C to -30F/-34.4C.
I think it was the winter of '79 which was short, but extremely cold.

30 below, wind chill factors aside...so 40 below if you add them in.

after about 20 below it all feels the same to me....

Total guess though...

Much colder then -45F. I live in ND.

During a ski trip temp. with wind chill had apparently gotten to -40 deg, and I was psyched to have experienced the temp. at which deg. C and deg. F scales meet.

When I grew up, it was fairly regularly -25°C during the winters, and I remember it being -35°C or so on several occasions. When we used the sauna, it was not usually that cold, though -- probably no colder than -15°C. (Using the sauna included running outside nude and rolling in the snow, then running back inside.)

I think it was either -104 or -109.

Sorry, that was wind chill. W/O wind chill, I think it was only -80 or so.

**Oscar: Where were you that -80 rates as "only -80"?

North Dakota

i don't know. the highest latitude i visited was experiencing summer. but i have strolled on glaciers.

robin: you are such a geek! (That's admiration speaking, in case it wasn't obvious).

fairly mild, maybe a few degrees below 0-F, not factoring in the wind chill

I don't know. Spending two weeks in Kiev, Ukraine in the middle of January was pretty damn cold. I'm just not sure how cold.

I like it _Cold_!

i've never felt anything lower than in the 30s. i live in southern california.

I lived in Alaska for five years and LOVED it!

I was one Christmas night in cold England. It was about 3am and me and my mate went to buy some cigarretes. It took us about 2 hours to get there and I have never been so cold in my life. At 6am, when a cafe opened, we just ran in there and sat next to the heater!

Wicksy: so it must have been, what, -15 Celsius?

DRDT: Probably....maybe colder

-31F, pretty damn cold

-40 C this winter

-64F in Fairbanks, Alaska

I Live in Toronto, Ontario, Canada so whatever the lowest temp. between 1979 and now would be the lowest temp. I have experineced.

The windchill factor was -80ºF and I'm not sure what the actual was but I think it was around -30ºF. It was incredible!

This is hard to read. I think I picked the right one. About 25 below Celsius, as far as I know. It was January in Prince George, B.C. Canada.