Top 10 Countries with the Worst Weather

Our weather isn't actually that bad, but it's so varied. If you're going away, you never know what to pack! Always take a raincoat, even in the midst of a heatwave, and pack summer clothes even in mid-winter, especially if you're going to a different part of the country.

I recall many times when I've been at home, sitting in the garden sweltering in Somerset, yet speaking to friends and family in Devon, the Midlands, London, and the north, where they've got torrential rain with flooding, snow, or gale-force winds. It kind of makes our weather interesting... and frustrating!

The stereotype is that it's always cold in Russia. However, as a California resident who grew up by the Black Sea north coast in Krasnodar, I can confirm that summers in my hometown are warmer and nastier due to high humidity. It's basically like Florida but worse during the summer.

Russia's winter can kill anyone unless you wear tons of clothes. In the summer, it can also kill because it's too dry, given that most of Russia is a desert. More than half of the country is frozen all year long.

I love Canada, but even though Russia is generally colder, Canada has many areas that humans can't even live in due to the cold and snow. Canada might have warm weather like the US or Mexico, but northern Canada is a freezing hell where nobody can live.

Guaranteed extremely cold weather that reaches -40 degrees Celsius every winter. Cold weather starts in early October and ends in mid-May.

Summers are unpredictable year after year. It's not uncommon to see cool, rainy days last for five days in a row. Heat waves occur once every summer and are so unbearably humid that you stay indoors with air conditioning. All in all, if it weren't for incentives like free healthcare and other social programs, no one would come to live here. It's not as amazing as it's advertised to be. Depression is at an all-time high due to the weather.

The Philippines experiences "bad weather" primarily because of its geographical location directly within the Pacific typhoon belt. This means it is frequently hit by tropical cyclones (typhoons), combined with its mountainous terrain, which can exacerbate rainfall and flooding.

These factors make it one of the most disaster-prone countries in the world.

The strongest typhoon to make landfall in the Philippines during this time period was Typhoon Goni (Rolly) in early November 2020, with 1-minute sustained winds of 315 km/h (195 mph).

Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) is the most deadly Philippine typhoon during this period, killing more than 6,300 people.

I live in the southern part of the US. We have scorching hot summers with high humidity. It feels like a sauna for around half the year. Where I live, we do get below freezing temperatures in the winter, but for the most part, winter is just mild or cold and wet. Hurricanes threaten part of the southern US, earthquakes and fires in the west, blizzards in the north and Midwest, intense storms everywhere, and temperatures above 100 degrees in the southwest. The United States surely has the most diverse weather in the world, I think. The only safe state is Hawaii.

The area I live in had 70-degree weather one day, then two days later a wintry icy mix that was a mess. It's bad for the sinuses too!

I like India, but the weather is like a burning oven! There is no AC, and traffic is all over the roads. The pollution doesn't help with the heat either.

Temperatures can reach up to 40 degrees in the summer, and it's wet and dirty in the rains. Winter is not cold at all. It's cold in the morning and hot throughout the day.

Way too hot, a lot of storms, floods, way too many people. Overcrowded and smelly.

If you're looking for cold summers, a combination of rain and wind that slaps your face in a way you've never experienced before, rendering umbrellas completely useless (seriously, most people don't even own one), dark winters, one of the richest vocabularies for snow and wind, and dry air, Iceland is the country for you. Not to mention the expensive gas, pricey beer, and overwhelmingly difficult grammar.

I don't understand why Iceland is not at the top of this list. Summer never comes and winter doesn't have any sun.

Legend says that someday the temperature will rise above -273.15 degrees. I keep a bathing suit and sunscreen in my house just in case.

Super high depression rate and suicide because there is no sun in winter. Very sad, only 50,000 people (that's basically a town), and it's owned by Denmark.

Kaffeklubben is so cold that the ocean surrounding it is completely uninhabitable.

How is this not higher on the list? The weather here is terrible! It's totally dark in winter, with masses of snow from October to May. Then the rain sets in, and there's no real summer to speak of, with the additional torture of the midnight sun. It is currently June, and it has been snowing every day for the past four days. No respite is in sight, and temperatures are around the 5-degree mark. No, that's not a typo. It's close to freezing in June. I'm moving back to the UK where the weather is a treat compared to this.

Norway should be number one, but isn't, likely due to the low population. This is probably a result of the intensely bad climate. Additionally, most of the country is either mountainous, marshy, densely forested, or hilly, or a combination of all these biospheres. Expect disappointing summers and winters that make you wish you were born in the Central African Republic instead.

It rains almost every day. The heat will literally cook you alive.

Stormy severe weather and too much rainfall lead to flooding. Tornadoes can touch down, and cyclones are very stormy.

Where I come from, it can reach 30 degrees one day and drop to 13 degrees the next. In the summer, it gets extremely hot, reaching up to 40 degrees every year, with an average of around 30 degrees. Winter is worse. It always goes below zero, but it doesn't even snow! Later in the day, it can reach 26 degrees. Here's a hint: it's the place where "Four Seasons in One Day" was set.

It's not the hot weather, the cold, the wind, or the rain that's terrible. It's the fact that the weather changes are sometimes so extreme that they make you sick. If you want to live in Australia just for the weather, I suggest you move to Brisbane or some other subtropical/Mediterranean place. The northern parts get too hot in the early/late summer, and then winter, or should I say mid-summer, is a bit too hot for August. For example, Darwin, and the southern parts are much more temperate, like Melbourne. Brisbane, Adelaide, or Perth might be the only places in Australia with decent weather.

No foreigner has survived here more than two years. If you survive winter, then comes summer, which may be even harder to survive.

Iran, along with Saudi Arabia, is one of the hottest countries in the world!

Ireland's year-round cold, rain, and darkness are well-known. What they don't tell you about is the near-constant wind. There's always a breeze or gust blowing, getting down your neck and up your cuffs. It keeps the chill against you day and night.

When I visited Ireland, it rained every day, and the locals said it had rained every day for a year.

Been all over the world and this is the worst I've ever seen. Rain, wind, and cold.

It is too hot and humid here. You would drench yourself in sweat if you dared to go out for just five minutes. This is exacerbated by the fact that it is an extremely built-up place that absorbs a ton of heat. Additionally, being a city-state means there is no escaping the hellish climate other than emigration.

Hot, humid hell. Do not go here unless you want to bask yourself in nasty sweat.

The weather here is a joke. It is June and feels like November.

Despite the relatively high wages, you need to dedicate a decent amount to fly south for your periodic vitamin D therapy.

Do you like windy, rainy, autumn-type weather for about nine months a year? Do you enjoy a lot of wind almost every day? Cloudy, rainy days are something you love, right? Did I mention the wind already. Yes, it's always windy.

It's either the most predictable autumn-like weather for weeks or you have days where every weather type of all seasons combines during one day. It starts off hot and sunny in the morning, turns cold and rainy at noon, becomes snowy and windy in the evening, and might even include some thunder at night as a bonus.

Highs of 45 degrees Celsius in summer make the heat unbearable and very humid. The air is dry, and the constant dust makes it even more difficult to breathe. Winters are cold at night, especially indoors, as buildings are poorly constructed with no insulation in the walls.

Everyone is complaining about the coldness, which is why Norway, the UK, Sweden, Finland, and Iceland are so high up on this list, but no one's complaining about the heat. Summers in Egypt are steaming hot! I don't know how anyone could survive them.

Cold and rainy summer, rainy autumn, warm and rainy winter, rainy spring. Yes, here it rains almost every day.

It's always strikingly burning and you might get sun-cooked. Did I mention that it's always dusty?

There is sand and dust everywhere! You can melt just by taking one step outside.

I am a Saudi, and the weather in my country is way too hot. You could burn.