Russia Climatic Classifications

CodeDescriptionGroupNumber of states/regionsStates/regions
DfbHumid continental, no dry season, warm summerCold (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'
DfcSubartic, severe winter, no dry season, cool summerCold (continental)14 Altay Arkhangel'sk Chukotka Kamchatka Kareliya Khanty-Mansi Komi Krasnoyarsk Magadan Murmansk Nenets Sakhalin Tyva Yamalo-Nenets
CfaHumid subtropical, no dry seasonTemperate5 Adygeya Chechnya Krasnodar North Ossetia Stavropol'
DfaHumid continental, no dry season, hot summerCold (continental)4 Ingushetiya Orenburg Saratov Volgograd
DwbHumid continental, severe dry winter, warm summerCold (continental)3 Irkutsk Khabarovsk Yevrey
DwcSubartic, dry winter, cool summerCold (continental)3 Amur Buryatiya Zabaykal'skiy
BskMid-latitude steppeArid2 Astrakhan' Kalmykiya
CfbMarine west coast, warm summerTemperate1 Kaliningrad
DfdSubartic, severe very cold winter, no dry season, cool summerCold (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

MonthJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepNovOctDecYear
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)10.669.3211.7111.8713.9314.014.5212.310.9710.9710.410.9311.8
Average relative humidity (%)92.3992.1488.7677.368.2167.6667.9768.5973.7178.0984.8290.2579.16
Mean monthly sunshine hours3.915.477.8311.3314.1814.9915.0313.410.486.945.083.769.37

Russia Climate Graph

Russia’s Cities by Temperature

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

Krasnodar
15.37°C | 59.67°F
Adygeya
14.31°C | 57.76°F
Chechnya
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
Samara
6.68°C | 44.02°F
Novgorod
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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