Russia Climatic Classifications

Code Description Group Number of states/regions States/regions
Dfb Humid continental, no dry season, warm summer Cold (continental) 48 Bashkortostan Belgorod Bryansk Chelyabinsk Chuvashiya Dagestan Ivanovo Kabardino-Balkariya Kaluga Karachayevo-Cherkesiya Kemerovo Khakasiya Kirov Kostroma Kurgan Kursk Leningrad Lipetsk Mariy-El Mordoviya Moscow Nizhniy Novgorod Novgorod Novosibirsk Omsk Orel Penza Perm' Primorsk Pskov Rostov Ryazan' Saint Petersburg Samara Smolensk Sverdlovsk Tambov Tatarstan Tomsk Tula Tver' Tyumen' Udmurtiya Ul'yanovsk Vladimir Vologda Voronezh Yaroslavl'
Dfc Subartic, severe winter, no dry season, cool summer Cold (continental) 14 Altay Arkhangel'sk Chukotka Kamchatka Kareliya Khanty-Mansi Komi Krasnoyarsk Magadan Murmansk Nenets Sakhalin Tyva Yamalo-Nenets
Cfa Humid subtropical, no dry season Temperate 5 Adygeya Chechnya Krasnodar North Ossetia Stavropol'
Dfa Humid continental, no dry season, hot summer Cold (continental) 4 Ingushetiya Orenburg Saratov Volgograd
Dwb Humid continental, severe dry winter, warm summer Cold (continental) 3 Irkutsk Khabarovsk Yevrey
Dwc Subartic, dry winter, cool summer Cold (continental) 3 Amur Buryatiya Zabaykal'skiy
Bsk Mid-latitude steppe Arid 2 Astrakhan' Kalmykiya
Cfb Marine west coast, warm summer Temperate 1 Kaliningrad
Dfd Subartic, severe very cold winter, no dry season, cool summer Cold (continental) 1 Sakha

Summary: Most regions (48) in Russia lie in the Humid continental, no dry season, warm summer climate zone (Köppen: Dfb). The mean average of annual temperatures range from a high of 15.37°C (59.67°F) in Krasnodar to a low of -8.95°C (15.89°F) in Sakha.

Climate Russia: Weather By Month

Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Nov Oct Dec Year
Record high °C (°F) 4.65(40.37) 6.57(43.83) 11.37(52.47) 17.62(63.72) 25.63(78.13) 31.24(88.23) 33.75(92.75) 32.55(90.59) 26.45(79.61) 18.75(65.75) 12.1(53.78) 7.18(44.92) 33.75(92.75)
Average high °C (°F) -9.08(15.66) -6.68(19.98) -0.79(30.58) 8.11(46.6) 16.79(62.22) 21.98(71.56) 24.63(76.33) 23.13(73.63) 16.35(61.43) 7.61(45.7) -0.61(30.9) -6.14(20.95) 7.94(46.29)
Daily mean °C (°F) -11.33(11.61) -9.28(15.3) -3.37(25.93) 5.38(41.68) 13.81(56.86) 19.03(66.25) 21.51(70.72) 19.71(67.48) 13.11(55.6) 5.13(41.23) -2.5(27.5) -8.0(17.6) 5.27(41.49)
Average low °C (°F) -14.91(5.16) -13.52(7.66) -8.11(17.4) -0.1(31.82) 6.68(44.02) 11.09(51.96) 13.62(56.52) 12.51(54.52) 7.6(45.68) 1.41(34.54) -5.45(22.19) -10.99(12.22) -0.01(31.98)
Record low °C (°F) -37.21(-34.98) -35.7(-32.26) -25.55(-13.99) -17.33(0.81) -5.65(21.83) 1.25(34.25) 4.52(40.14) 3.36(38.05) -1.2(29.84) -11.28(11.7) -28.43(-19.17) -37.06(-34.71) -37.21(-34.98)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 47.23(1.86) 42.1(1.66) 56.21(2.21) 65.02(2.56) 99.63(3.92) 105.66(4.16) 108.31(4.26) 91.29(3.59) 73.93(2.91) 67.43(2.65) 56.25(2.21) 52.01(2.05) 72.09(2.84)
Average precipitation days (≥ 1.0 mm) 10.66 9.32 11.71 11.87 13.93 14.0 14.52 12.3 10.97 10.97 10.4 10.93 11.8
Average relative humidity (%) 92.39 92.14 88.76 77.3 68.21 67.66 67.97 68.59 73.71 78.09 84.82 90.25 79.16
Mean monthly sunshine hours 3.91 5.47 7.83 11.33 14.18 14.99 15.03 13.4 10.48 6.94 5.08 3.76 9.37

Russia Climate Graph

Russia’s Cities by Temperature

Russia’s states/regions ranking by average yearly temperature:

Krasnodar
15.37°C | 59.67°F
Chechnya
14.31°C | 57.76°F
Adygeya
14.31°C | 57.76°F
Kalmykiya
13.87°C | 56.97°F
Astrakhan'
13.77°C | 56.79°F
Dagestan
12.14°C | 53.85°F
North Ossetia
11.79°C | 53.22°F
Ingushetiya
11.67°C | 53.01°F
Kabardino-Balkariya
11.57°C | 52.83°F
Stavropol'
11.55°C | 52.79°F
Volgograd
11.41°C | 52.54°F
Kaliningrad
9.43°C | 48.97°F
Belgorod
9.22°C | 48.6°F
Voronezh
9.02°C | 48.24°F
Saratov
8.55°C | 47.39°F
Kursk
8.29°C | 46.92°F
Lipetsk
7.86°C | 46.15°F
Bryansk
7.79°C | 46.02°F
Orel
7.78°C | 46.0°F
Tambov
7.66°C | 45.79°F
Moscow
7.44°C | 45.39°F
Penza
7.18°C | 44.92°F
Tula
7.16°C | 44.89°F
Orenburg
7.07°C | 44.73°F
Ryazan'
7.04°C | 44.67°F
Pskov
6.99°C | 44.58°F
Kaluga
6.9°C | 44.42°F
Smolensk
6.75°C | 44.15°F
Mordoviya
6.75°C | 44.15°F
Novgorod
6.68°C | 44.02°F
Samara
6.68°C | 44.02°F
Tver'
6.67°C | 44.01°F
Vladimir
6.65°C | 43.97°F
Karachayevo-Cherkesiya
6.6°C | 43.88°F
Leningrad
6.47°C | 43.65°F
Saint Petersburg
6.47°C | 43.65°F
Primorsk
6.17°C | 43.11°F
Nizhniy Novgorod
6.02°C | 42.84°F
Ul'yanovsk
5.97°C | 42.75°F
Chuvashiya
5.93°C | 42.67°F
Rostov
5.78°C | 42.4°F
Yaroslavl'
5.63°C | 42.13°F
Mariy-El
5.6°C | 42.08°F
Tatarstan
5.53°C | 41.95°F
Ivanovo
5.43°C | 41.77°F
Kostroma
5.34°C | 41.61°F
Vologda
4.99°C | 40.98°F
Bashkortostan
4.93°C | 40.87°F
Udmurtiya
4.7°C | 40.46°F
Chelyabinsk
4.69°C | 40.44°F
Kirov
4.15°C | 39.47°F
Kurgan
4.09°C | 39.36°F
Sverdlovsk
3.93°C | 39.07°F
Omsk
3.86°C | 38.95°F
Perm'
3.82°C | 38.88°F
Kareliya
3.77°C | 38.79°F
Tyumen'
3.58°C | 38.44°F
Arkhangel'sk
3.35°C | 38.03°F
Khabarovsk
3.29°C | 37.92°F
Novosibirsk
3.05°C | 37.49°F
Khakasiya
2.85°C | 37.13°F
Krasnoyarsk
2.75°C | 36.95°F
Irkutsk
2.55°C | 36.59°F
Kemerovo
2.3°C | 36.14°F
Tomsk
2.15°C | 35.87°F
Yevrey
1.68°C | 35.02°F
Komi
1.37°C | 34.47°F
Sakhalin
1.21°C | 34.18°F
Murmansk
1.05°C | 33.89°F
Tyva
0.69°C | 33.24°F
Altay
0.62°C | 33.12°F
Khanty-Mansi
0.26°C | 32.47°F
Nenets
-1.97°C | 28.45°F
Magadan
-2.07°C | 28.27°F
Zabaykal'skiy
-2.19°C | 28.06°F
Amur
-2.56°C | 27.39°F
Kamchatka
-2.72°C | 27.1°F
Yamalo-Nenets
-3.41°C | 25.86°F
Buryatiya
-4.05°C | 24.71°F
Chukotka
-5.48°C | 22.14°F
Sakha
-8.95°C | 15.89°F

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