The "cold pole" is a region of Siberia that is considered the coldest place on Earth outside Antarctica. Temperatures in this part of Siberia are generally much lower than in the North Pole itself about 2,400 kilometers away, partly due to the high altitude of this region.
Temperatures at the North Pole are probably not below minus 52 °C (-61.6 °F).
But in Verkhoyansk, a settlement near the "cold pole," the temperature often drops below -62.2 °C (-79.6 °F). The temperature once reached a minimum of -67.8 °C (-90.04 °F)!
Interestingly, in summer the temperatures around the cold pole can be quite hot. Once a temperature of 37 °C (98.6 °F) was recorded in Verkhoyansk, giving this place a temperature range of 105 °C (221 °F), the highest on Earth!
A few hundred kilometers from Verkhoyansk is the village of Oymyakon, the coldest place on Earth that is permanently inhabited. The lowest temperature recorded in Oymyakon (though not considered official) has been -71.2 °C (-96.16 °F) below zero.
But undoubtedly the coldest place on the planet (and the other "coldest pole"), is in Antarctica, specifically in the Antarctic station of Vostok, which recorded on July 21, 1983 a temperature of -89.2 °C (-128.56 °F)!
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