Between ca --40 and 17 °C tungsten trioxide, WO 3, has a pseudocubic triclinic crystal structure, space group Pi (C~), with a = 7.309 (2), b = 7.522 (2), c = 7.678 (2) A, a= 88.81 (2), fl = 90.92 (2), ~= 90.93 (2) °, V = 421.93 (9) A 3, and Z = 8. Intensity data for 2452 independent X-ray reflections from a single-domain crystal were measured on an automatic four-circle single-crystal diffractometer. From analogies with the crystal structure of the monoclinic room-temperature modification of WO3, the triclinic crystal structure was determined and refined to R = 0.050. It is characterized by corner-sharing, and distorted and tilted WO 6 octahedra with a tilting component around each of the coordination axes. The W atoms are off-centre in the O octahedra and close to an O triangle, giving three short and three long W-O bonding distances.