Which country has the highest Average Temperature (°C)?

Mali has the highest Average Temperature (°C) in 2023, at 29.6°C, followed by Senegal (29.5°C) and Burkina Faso (29.4°C).

Which country has the lowest Average Temperature (°C)?

Greenland has the lowest Average Temperature (°C) in 2023, at -17.5°C.

What is the median Average Temperature (°C) across countries?

The median is 24.1°C across the 221 countries with data in 2023.

Where does this coldest countries in the world data come from?

Rankodex compiles it from World Population Review and the primary sources it cites: Average Temperature By Country - Trading Economics; Temperature Change on Land - FAOSTAT; Average Mean Temperature - WorldBank; Download Data - Climate Knowledge Portal World Bank.

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Coldest Countries in the World

Name: Coldest Countries in the World
Creator: Rankodex

Mali has the highest Average Temperature (°C) in 2023 (29.6°C), followed by Senegal (29.5°C) and Burkina Faso (29.4°C). Greenland has the lowest (-17.5°C).

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Average Temperature (°C), 2023

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Ranking

Highest first: the first 15 and last 5 of 221 countries.

Distribution Median and middle halfThe median is the middle value: half of places are above it, half below. The middle half is the range holding the central 50% of places.More in the glossary →

Each dot is one country; the lines mark the median and the middle half.

Median

24.1°C

Middle half 13.6°C – 26.7°C

Average

20.4°C

221 countries

Highest

29.6°C

Mali

Lowest

-17.5°C

Greenland

Over time · 1950–2023

The top 5 in 2023, against the median.

Median of all countries
Mali
Senegal
Burkina Faso
Djibouti
South Sudan

Data

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231 countries · # = rank by Average Temperature (°C)

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1	Mali	29.6°C	85.2°F
2	Senegal	29.5°C	85.0°F
3	Burkina Faso	29.4°C	84.8°F
3	Djibouti	29.4°C	84.8°F
5	South Sudan	29.2°C	84.6°F
6	United Arab Emirates	29.0°C	84.2°F
7	Oman	28.6°C	83.5°F
7	Mauritania	28.6°C	83.4°F
9	Gambia	28.5°C	83.2°F
10	Sudan	28.4°C	83.1°F
10	Niger	28.4°C	83.1°F
10	Qatar	28.4°C	83.2°F
13	Chad	28.3°C	82.9°F
13	Benin	28.3°C	82.9°F
15	Ghana	28.0°C	82.3°F
15	Eritrea	28.0°C	82.4°F
15	Guinea-Bissau	28.0°C	82.4°F
18	Tuvalu	27.9°C	82.2°F
19	Cambodia	27.7°C	81.9°F
19	Tokelau	27.7°C	81.8°F
21	Nigeria	27.6°C	81.8°F
21	Togo	27.6°C	81.6°F
21	Maldives	27.6°C	81.6°F
21	Cayman Islands	27.6°C	81.8°F
21	Nauru	27.6°C	81.6°F
26	Micronesia	27.5°C	81.4°F
26	Palau	27.5°C	81.5°F
28	Singapore	27.4°C	81.4°F
28	Guam	27.4°C	81.4°F
28	Northern Mariana Islands	27.4°C	81.2°F
28	Marshall Islands	27.4°C	81.3°F
32	Kiribati	27.3°C	81.2°F
32	Aruba	27.3°C	81.1°F
32	Wallis and Futuna	27.3°C	81.1°F
35	Curacao	27.2°C	81.0°F
36	Thailand	27.1°C	80.7°F
36	Bahrain	27.1°C	80.7°F
36	Saint Lucia	27.1°C	80.7°F
36	Grenada	27.1°C	80.7°F
40	Saudi Arabia	27.0°C	80.6°F
40	Ivory Coast	27.0°C	80.7°F
40	Somalia	27.0°C	80.6°F
40	El Salvador	27.0°C	80.7°F
40	Kuwait	27.0°C	80.7°F
40	Brunei	27.0°C	80.5°F
40	American Samoa	27.0°C	80.7°F
47	Sri Lanka	26.9°C	80.4°F
47	Barbados	26.9°C	80.5°F
47	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	26.9°C	80.5°F
47	Turks and Caicos Islands	26.9°C	80.3°F
51	Trinidad and Tobago	26.8°C	80.3°F
51	Sint Maarten	26.8°C	80.2°F
51	Saint Martin	26.8°C	80.2°F
51	Anguilla	26.8°C	80.2°F
51	Saint Barthelemy	26.8°C	80.2°F
56	Central African Republic	26.7°C	80.1°F
56	Jamaica	26.7°C	80.1°F
56	Suriname	26.7°C	80.0°F
56	Seychelles	26.7°C	80.0°F
56	Antigua and Barbuda	26.7°C	80.1°F
56	Saint Kitts and Nevis	26.7°C	80.1°F
56	Montserrat	26.7°C	80.1°F
63	Yemen	26.6°C	79.9°F
63	Guinea	26.6°C	79.9°F
63	Solomon Islands	26.6°C	79.9°F
63	Belize	26.6°C	79.8°F
67	Philippines	26.4°C	79.6°F
67	Sierra Leone	26.4°C	79.5°F
67	Guadeloupe	26.4°C	79.6°F
70	Cuba	26.3°C	79.4°F
70	Bahamas	26.3°C	79.3°F
72	Venezuela	26.2°C	79.1°F
72	Sao Tome and Principe	26.2°C	79.1°F
72	Dominica	26.2°C	79.2°F
75	Bangladesh	26.1°C	79.0°F
75	Malaysia	26.1°C	79.0°F
75	Nicaragua	26.1°C	79.0°F
78	Haiti	26.0°C	78.8°F
78	Puerto Rico	26.0°C	78.9°F
78	Guyana	26.0°C	78.9°F
81	Liberia	25.9°C	78.6°F
81	Comoros	25.9°C	78.5°F
81	French Polynesia	25.9°C	78.7°F
84	Indonesia	25.8°C	78.4°F
84	Samoa	25.8°C	78.4°F
86	Kenya	25.7°C	78.2°F
86	Panama	25.7°C	78.2°F
88	Brazil	25.6°C	78.0°F
89	Niue	25.4°C	77.6°F
90	Paraguay	25.3°C	77.6°F
90	Republic of the Congo	25.3°C	77.5°F
90	Vanuatu	25.3°C	77.5°F
93	Cameroon	25.2°C	77.3°F
93	Gabon	25.2°C	77.3°F
95	Dominican Republic	25.1°C	77.1°F
96	Tonga	25.0°C	76.9°F
97	DR Congo	24.9°C	76.8°F
97	Algeria	24.9°C	76.9°F
97	Cook Islands	24.9°C	76.8°F
100	Timor-Leste	24.8°C	76.7°F
100	Fiji	24.8°C	76.6°F
102	Colombia	24.7°C	76.4°F
102	Honduras	24.7°C	76.4°F
104	Vietnam	24.6°C	76.2°F
104	Equatorial Guinea	24.6°C	76.2°F
106	India	24.5°C	76.1°F
106	Mozambique	24.5°C	76.1°F
108	Myanmar	24.3°C	75.7°F
108	Mauritius	24.3°C	75.7°F
110	Ethiopia	24.1°C	75.3°F
110	Iraq	24.1°C	75.3°F
110	Guatemala	24.1°C	75.4°F
110	Cape Verde	24.1°C	75.4°F
114	Uganda	24.0°C	75.1°F
115	Egypt	23.9°C	74.9°F
115	Papua New Guinea	23.9°C	75.1°F
115	Laos	23.9°C	75.0°F
118	Costa Rica	23.8°C	74.8°F
119	Tanzania	23.3°C	74.0°F
120	Madagascar	23.2°C	73.8°F
121	Libya	23.1°C	73.5°F
122	Angola	22.8°C	73.0°F
122	Botswana	22.8°C	73.0°F
124	Malawi	22.7°C	72.9°F
124	Zambia	22.7°C	72.9°F
126	Australia	22.4°C	72.3°F
126	New Caledonia	22.4°C	72.3°F
128	Zimbabwe	22.3°C	72.2°F
129	Namibia	22.2°C	71.9°F
129	Bermuda	22.2°C	72.0°F
131	Mexico	21.7°C	71.0°F
131	Ecuador	21.7°C	71.1°F
133	Bolivia	21.5°C	70.7°F
133	Israel	21.5°C	70.6°F
135	Palestine	21.4°C	70.5°F
136	Burundi	21.2°C	70.2°F
136	Tunisia	21.2°C	70.2°F
138	Pakistan	21.0°C	69.8°F
139	Jordan	20.7°C	69.2°F
140	Rwanda	20.4°C	68.7°F
140	Cyprus	20.4°C	68.6°F
142	Syria	20.3°C	68.5°F
143	Malta	20.2°C	68.4°F
144	Eswatini	20.1°C	68.2°F
145	Morocco	20.0°C	67.9°F
146	Iran	19.8°C	67.6°F
147	Peru	19.6°C	67.4°F
148	Gibraltar	18.6°C	65.6°F
149	Turkmenistan	18.5°C	65.2°F
150	South Africa	18.2°C	64.8°F
151	Uruguay	18.1°C	64.6°F
152	Vatican City	17.1°C	62.7°F
153	Lebanon	16.8°C	62.2°F
154	Portugal	16.3°C	61.3°F
155	Monaco	16.1°C	61.0°F
156	Greece	16.0°C	60.7°F
156	San Marino	16.0°C	60.7°F
158	Argentina	15.7°C	60.2°F
159	Spain	15.3°C	59.5°F
159	Uzbekistan	15.3°C	59.5°F
161	Italy	14.4°C	57.8°F
162	Afghanistan	13.8°C	56.9°F
162	Azerbaijan	13.8°C	56.8°F
162	Croatia	13.8°C	56.8°F
165	Albania	13.7°C	56.7°F
166	South Korea	13.6°C	56.5°F
167	Japan	13.5°C	56.3°F
168	Nepal	13.2°C	55.7°F
169	Turkey	13.0°C	55.3°F
169	Bulgaria	13.0°C	55.3°F
171	France	12.8°C	55.0°F
171	Hungary	12.8°C	55.1°F
173	Serbia	12.6°C	54.6°F
174	Moldova	12.4°C	54.4°F
174	North Macedonia	12.4°C	54.3°F
176	Bosnia and Herzegovina	11.9°C	53.4°F
177	Romania	11.7°C	53.0°F
177	Netherlands	11.7°C	53.0°F
177	Lesotho	11.7°C	53.0°F
180	Belgium	11.5°C	52.7°F
181	Slovenia	11.4°C	52.5°F
182	Isle of Man	11.3°C	52.3°F
183	New Zealand	11.1°C	52.0°F
184	Ukraine	10.9°C	51.6°F
184	Ireland	10.9°C	51.6°F
184	Montenegro	10.9°C	51.6°F
187	Germany	10.8°C	51.4°F
188	Luxembourg	10.7°C	51.3°F
189	United States	10.5°C	50.8°F
190	United Kingdom	10.3°C	50.5°F
190	Bhutan	10.3°C	50.5°F
192	Poland	10.2°C	50.3°F
192	Slovakia	10.2°C	50.3°F
194	Czechia	10.1°C	50.1°F
195	Denmark	9.6°C	49.2°F
196	Chile	9.5°C	49.1°F
197	Georgia	9.4°C	48.8°F
198	Kazakhstan	8.8°C	47.8°F
198	Belarus	8.8°C	47.9°F
200	Lithuania	8.7°C	47.6°F
201	North Korea	8.6°C	47.4°F
202	Austria	8.4°C	47.0°F
203	Armenia	8.3°C	46.9°F
204	China	8.0°C	46.4°F
205	Latvia	7.8°C	46.1°F
206	Liechtenstein	7.6°C	45.7°F
207	Andorra	7.3°C	45.1°F
207	Faroe Islands	7.3°C	45.1°F
209	Switzerland	7.1°C	44.8°F
209	Estonia	7.1°C	44.8°F
211	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	6.9°C	44.3°F
212	Sweden	3.8°C	38.8°F
213	Finland	3.2°C	37.8°F
214	Norway	2.5°C	36.5°F
215	Mongolia	2.1°C	35.8°F
216	Kyrgyzstan	1.8°C	35.2°F
217	Tajikistan	1.6°C	34.8°F
217	Iceland	1.6°C	34.9°F
219	Canada	-1.8°C	28.8°F
220	Russia	-2.5°C	27.5°F
221	Greenland	-17.5°C	0.5°F
—	Taiwan	—	32.0°F
—	Hong Kong	—	32.0°F
—	Reunion	—	32.0°F
—	Macau	—	32.0°F
—	Western Sahara	—	32.0°F
—	Mayotte	—	32.0°F
—	Martinique	—	32.0°F
—	French Guiana	—	32.0°F
—	United States Virgin Islands	—	32.0°F
—	Falkland Islands	—	32.0°F

What correlates with Average Temperature (°C) (2023)?

Pearson r against 1,295 other country metrics sharing at least 133 countries, 2 near-identical series hidden. Ranks are read by standing: a better rank counts as higher, whether rank 1 is the best place on a list or the worst. Correlation is not causation.

Higher together

Places that have a higher Average Temperature (°C) tend to score higher on these (or rank better)

Avg Winter TempBest Weather by Country
r = +0.87 · very strong · n = 218
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% Mild BlindnessBlind Population by Country
r = +0.71 · very strong · n = 202
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Lower IntervalAverage Birth Weight by Country
r = +0.66 · strong · n = 158
Plot
Gender Inequality Index ScoreGender Inequality Index by Country
r = +0.66 · strong · n = 165
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Low Birth Weight (LBW) EstimateAverage Birth Weight by Country
r = +0.65 · strong · n = 158
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RichAds 2024Tier 1 Countries
r = +0.65 · strong · n = 135
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Opposite directions

Places that have a higher Average Temperature (°C) tend to score lower on these (or rank worse)

LP EducationLegatum Prosperity IndexA rank: rank 1 is the best
r = +0.68 · strong · n = 165
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RankNorthernmost Point by CountryA rank: rank 1 is the best
r = +0.67 · strong · n = 213
Plot
Average Women's Shoe Size (US sizes)Shoe Size by Country
r = −0.67 · strong · n = 160
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Lung Cancer Rate, Crude (Both Sexes)Lung Cancer Rates by Country
r = −0.67 · strong · n = 181
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Lung Cancer Rate, Crude (Males)Lung Cancer Rates by Country
r = −0.65 · strong · n = 181
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Osteoporosis RateOsteoporosis Rates by Country
r = −0.65 · strong · n = 201
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Quick answers

Which country has the highest Average Temperature (°C)?: Mali has the highest Average Temperature (°C) in 2023, at 29.6°C, followed by Senegal (29.5°C) and Burkina Faso (29.4°C).
Which country has the lowest Average Temperature (°C)?: Greenland has the lowest Average Temperature (°C) in 2023, at -17.5°C.
What is the median Average Temperature (°C) across countries?: The median is 24.1°C across the 221 countries with data in 2023.
Where does this coldest countries in the world data come from?: Rankodex compiles it from World Population Review and the primary sources it cites: Average Temperature By Country - Trading Economics; Temperature Change on Land - FAOSTAT; Average Mean Temperature - WorldBank; Download Data - Climate Knowledge Portal World Bank.