| Vígľaš | |
| Settlement Type: | Municipality |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | Region |
| Subdivision Type2: | District |
| Subdivision Name2: | Detva District |
| Pushpin Map: | Slovakia Banská Bystrica Region#Slovakia |
| Pushpin Relief: | 1 |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Vígľaš in the Banská Bystrica Region##Location of Vígľaš in Slovakia |
| Coordinates: | 48.57°N 19.3°W |
| Established Title: | First mentioned |
| Established Date: | 1393 |
| Area Footnotes: | [1] |
| Area Total Km2: | 31.98 |
| Elevation Footnotes: | [2] |
| Elevation M: | 352 |
| Population Footnotes: | [3] |
| Population Total: | 1512 |
| Timezone1: | CET |
| Utc Offset1: | +1 |
| Timezone1 Dst: | CEST |
| Utc Offset1 Dst: | +2 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
| Postal Code: | 962 02 |
| Area Code: | +421 45 |
| Blank Name: | Car plate |
| Blank Info: | DT |
Vígľaš is a village and municipality in Detva District, in the Banská Bystrica Region of central Slovakia.
The name is of Hungarian origin: vég les (Weegles 1395), free translation "at the end", "a tree stand at the edge". The name was motivated by a royal hunting ground.[4]
Lowest ever temperature recorded in Slovakia was recorded in Vígľaš in Pštrusa neighbourhood. During early morning of 11 February 1929, the temperature of -41,0 °C was recorded here. The record remains in place to this day. The temperature, however, was not the lowest in then-Czechoslovakia, beaten by 1,2 °C recorded in Litvínovice.[5] [6]