Switzerland’s ‘Siberia’ registers winter temperature of -25°C

© Keystone/ Valentin Flauraud

The Swiss town of La Brévine has registered the lowest temperature this winter.

Friday night was the coldest of this winter in Switzerland, according to a post on X (formerly Twitter) by the weather service of public broadcaster SRF Meteo. The thermometer recorded -25°C at La Brévine in canton Neuchâtel. In Samedan in canton Graubünden, the mercury registered -22.8 °C.

Es war die kälteste Nacht bisher in diesem #WinterExternal link. In La Brévine/NE wurden – 25 °C gemessen. In Samedan/GR gab es 22.8 °C. An den extremen Messstandorten vom Portal https://t.co/nNJD9bkyd7External link war es nochmals deutlich kälter. Im Sägistal/BE wurden -34.6 °C erreicht. pic.twitter.com/LIpQGmcFZoExternal link

— SRF Meteo (@srfmeteo) January 13, 2024External link

Even lower temperatures were recorded over the last 24 hours in Switzerland in places where the cold air accumulates because it cannot escape due to the topography, according to the online site kaltluftseen.ch. For example, at Lake Sägistal in canton Bern the temperature was -34.6 °C.

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