Which non-stop passenger flight connects two cities with the largest temperature difference?

Which non-stop passenger flight connects two cities with the largest temperature difference?

12/23/2019 11:51:11 PM

I have done some more research and found a rather obscure one.

Pegas Fly operates a seasonal charter EO 2479 from Chita to Phuket, every two weeks, from January to May.

Full schedule can be found on the Pegas Touristik website.

In January, there is a staggering difference of 28.1-(-25.2) = 53.3°C.

It also appears that Nordwind Airlines, of which Pegas Fly is a subsidiary, operates a seasonal charter N4 2521 from Yakutsk (-38.6°C in January) to Pattaya (26.1°C in January).

At a difference of 64.7°C, we would have had the certain winner here. Unfortunately, according to FlightMapper, that flight stops in Irkutsk for an hour, which is about 20°C warmer than Yakutsk.

12/23/2019 10:25:52 AM

I will nominate my personal experience although this may count as an outlier case.
In February / March 2018, there was a storm called Beast from the East that hit quite a few parts of Europe.

I had to fly from Munich to Chennai during the end of Feb, via Frankfurt (LH 758) with a 2 hour halt.

  • Temperature in Munich = -18
  • Temperature in Frankfurt = -10
  • Temperature in Chennai = 34

Difference between Munich (-18) and Chennai (34) = 52 degrees

Difference between Frankfurt (-10) and Chennai (34) = 44 degrees

I was sitting with my multi layered jacket for a really long time after the flight took off from Frankfurt; I felt like I was melting when I landed in Chennai.

12/23/2019 2:17:56 AM

A comment noted that all answers to date have both cities in the northern hemisphere (winter in January), so here’s one with one end in the southern hemisphere (winter in July).

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(courtesy mapsofworld.com)

In general, the southern hemisphere has a lot less land mass than the north, and (AFAIK) not a single major city where daily mean winter temperatures go negative. The best I could find is Dubai to Buenos Aires, with 35.5 – 7.4 in July, for a comparatively puny temperature difference of 28.1°C.

For other temperature hunters, Riyadh is slightly hotter (36.8) but has less long-distance flights, while Doha and Abu Dhabi are very slightly cooler. On the cool side, Johannesburg hits 9.6 in June (10.0 in July) while Auckland clocks in at a balmy 10.9.

12/24/2019 10:09:56 AM

Bangkok to Ulaanbaatar in January: 27.0 °C – (–21.6 °C) = 48.6 °C.

Nonstop flights are operated by MIAT Mongolian Airlines, twice weekly (Wednesday and Saturday) from November to March. Timetable.

12/24/2019 10:10:30 AM

I nominate S7 6330 Phuket–Irkutsk in January. 28,1 – (–17,8) = 45,9 °C.

12/24/2019 10:11:14 AM

I nominate Harbin-Singapore, operated by Scoot (TR 155). The mean temperature in Harbin is -17.6°C in January, while in Singapore it’s 26.5°C, for a total difference of 44.1°C. The flight time is 7.5 hours. Yakutsk is significantly colder with a daily mean of -38.6° in January, but there aren’t direct flights to any warm cities from Yakutsk airport during the winter.

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