Climate and average weather in Borzya

In Borzya, the summers are warm, showery, and partly cloudy and the winters are frigid, snowy, and partly cloudy.

Best: mid May to mid September

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Borzya typically varies from -29°C to 25°C, and is rarely below -37°C or above 31°C. July is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Borzya for warm-weather activities is from mid May to mid September.

Hottest
Jul
25°
Coldest
Jan
-29°
Wettest
Jul
89 mm
Driest
Jan
2 mm
Rain / yr
346 mm
59 wet days
Daylight
7.8–16.2 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
696 m
50.4°N
Clearest
Oct
45% cloud

Borzya is town in Russia.

Density
165/km²
people per km²
Founded
1899

Air quality: WHO Ambient Air Quality Database. Density & description: Wikidata (CC0), GeoNames.

Borzya weather by month, at a glance

The whole year in one picture — sky, rain, humidity, temperature and travel score. Click any band to jump to its full chart.

Each stripe is one measure across the whole year, stacked so a single day reads top to bottom. The sky band runs overcast grey on top down to clear blue at the base — more blue means sunnier — followed by the rainfall curve, the humidity band, a temperature strip that tints each stretch of the year by how warm its average high is, and the travel-score line at the foot. Scan straight down any date to read that day across every measure at once; the score climbs highest around mid May to mid September.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Borzya, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

The hot season lasts 4.7 months, from May 5 to September 23, with daily high temperatures above 14°C. The hottest month of the year in Borzya is July, with an average high of 25°C and low of 13°C.

The cool season lasts 3.0 months, from November 23 to February 21, with daily high temperatures below -11°C. The coldest month of the year in Borzya is January, with an average low of -29°C and high of -19°C.

Days typically run about 12°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 14°C) in May.

-40°-20°20°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan-19-29
Feb-13-25
Mar-2-15
Apr8-5
May173
Jun2310
Jul2513
Aug2311
Sep163
Oct6-6
Nov-7-17
Dec-17-26

How hot and cold Borzya really feels

Feels-like highFeels-like lowactual air temp

The felt-temperature range through the year — heat index on the day's high (summer humidity), wind chill on the night's low (winter wind). The dashed lines are the plain thermometer; the gap is how much hotter or colder it really feels.

On the coldest nights, wind chill pulls the feels-like down to about -39°C (around January 18), with roughly 243 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C) 183 of them bitterly cold — worst in January.

-40°-20°20°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan-19-19-38-29
Feb-13-13-34-25
Mar-3-2-23-15
Apr88-10-5
May1717-13
Jun2323910
Jul25251313
Aug23231011
Sep161603
Oct66-11-6
Nov-7-7-25-17
Dec-17-17-34-26

Average hourly temperature in Borzya

A compact picture of the whole year, hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled average temperature. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

Read left to right for the day of the year and top to bottom for the hour of the day; the color is the modeled temperature, cool blues through to hot reds on the same scale as the other charts. A vertical slice is a single day's swing — coolest just before dawn, warmest in the mid-afternoon — while a horizontal slice follows one hour across the seasons. The darker overlay marks night and the lighter one the twilight around sunrise and sunset. Colors run warmest on July afternoons, near 25°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near -29°C.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM

Borzya weather by month

Every month at a glance. Click a month for its detailed page.

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysSnow daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan-19° / -29°20.60.88.30.0
Feb-13° / -25°20.70.99.70.0
Mar-3° / -15°51.31.811.50.0
Apr / -5°1743.213.51.7
May17° / 3470.715.25.7
Jun23° / 10°609.20.116.16.8
Jul25° / 13°8911.6015.86.5
Aug23° / 11°7410.9014.36.6
Sep16° / 4270.212.45.3
Oct / -6°153.62.310.51.1
Nov-7° / -17°61.72.48.80.0
Dec-17° / -26°30.91.57.90.0

Chance of rain

How likely it is to rain on a typical day, and how that shifts across the wetter and drier seasons.

Borzya gets about 346 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is some rain, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 5.3 months, from around Apr 23 to Sep 29, peaking in August at about 39% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jan 26.

July is the wettest month by volume, with 89 mm over about 12 wet days; January is the driest, with 2 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetAug 3 · 39%Jan 26 · 1%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan21
Feb31
Mar41
Apr134
May237
Jun319
Jul3712
Aug3511
Sep237
Oct114
Nov62
Dec31

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Borzya collects about 346 mm of rain across 59 wet days — roughly 29 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. July is the wettest month with 89 mm, while January is the driest at just 2 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 64% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075100125JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec2251734608974421563
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan211
Feb211
Mar512
Apr1743
May3471
Jun6090
Jul89120
Aug74110
Sep4270
Oct1542
Nov622
Dec312

Snow in Borzya

Average snowy days through the year, the snow-season span, and estimated snowfall — for ski trips and the perennial 'will there be snow at Christmas?' question.

Borzya averages about 14 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Sep 23 to May 17 — about 7.8 months.

April is snowiest, with roughly 3 days of snow and an estimated 13 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 48 cm of snow.

0246JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonApr 20
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan13
Feb13
Mar26
Apr313
May12
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep01
Oct29
Nov28
Dec25

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

How often the daytime sky is clear, partly cloudy or overcast.

In Borzya, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows moderate seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around September 15 and lasts for 6.6 months, ending around April 4. The clearest month is October, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 63% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around April 5 and lasts for 5.4 months, ending around September 14. The cloudiest month is May, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 54% of the time.

0%100%10%90%20%80%30%70%40%60%50%50%60%40%70%30%80%20%90%10%100%0%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecOct 16 · 64%May 18 · 45%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan5842
Feb6040
Mar6040
Apr5050
May4654
Jun4951
Jul4753
Aug4951
Sep5644
Oct6337
Nov6139
Dec6139

Daylight, sunrise and sunset

DaylightNight

Hours of daylight through the year, with sunrise and sunset times.

The gold band is daylight — sunrise runs along its lower edge, sunset along the upper — so it widens toward summer and pinches toward winter, with night the dark area above and below. The longest day, around June 14, brings about 16 h 12 min of light; the shortest, around December 13, only 7 h 48 min — a swing of roughly 8 h 24 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan8.38:164:31
Feb9.77:375:20
Mar11.56:386:09
Apr13.55:287:00
May15.24:337:47
Jun16.14:098:20
Jul15.84:258:13
Aug14.35:097:27
Sep12.45:576:19
Oct10.56:465:12
Nov8.87:384:20
Dec7.98:164:04

Sunny days

How many genuinely sunny days each month brings — days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — banded into plain-language zones.

Borzya averages about 11 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 8 and 14 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.9 months, from around Sep 15 to Mar 13. The sunniest month is December, with roughly 14 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is July, down near 8 sunny days — about 42% fewer than the December peak.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightDec 1114 daysJul 168 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan13Mixed
Feb12Mixed
Mar11Mixed
Apr9Mixed
May9Mixed
Jun8Mixed
Jul8Mixed
Aug10Mixed
Sep11Mixed
Oct14Mixed
Nov14Mixed
Dec14Mixed

Humidity comfort

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Share of days at each humidity comfort level, based on the dew point — the measure that tracks how muggy it actually feels.

Humidity comfort is graded by the dew point — the temperature at which the air would be fully saturated — because it tracks how muggy it actually feels far better than relative humidity does. A low dew point feels dry and crisp; a high one feels sticky and oppressive no matter the reading on a humidity gauge.

In Borzya, how humid it feels changes noticeably over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 2.0 months, from around June 24 to August 23. The muggiest month is July, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 17% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around August 24 to June 23, and June is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 99% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJun 5 · 100%Jul 22 · 78%humidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan100000
Feb100000
Mar100000
Apr100000
May100000
Jun881010
Jul4934161
Aug682480
Sep98200
Oct100000
Nov100000
Dec100000

Wind

Average wind speed through the year, banded into plain-language speed zones so a number reads as 'breezy' or 'calm' without knowing the scale.

This is the average sustained wind speed at the standard 10 metres above open ground — the steady flow a weather station reports, not the sharper gusts that come and go, which can run half again as fast. It's the number that says whether a place is generally breezy or calm.

Across the year, average wind speed in Borzya is typically calm, near 12 km/h, and varies moderately with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 3.3 months, from around Mar 4 to Jun 11. The windiest month is April, averaging about 15 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Nov 8 to Mar 3, with January the calmest month at about 9 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezeApr 20 · 15 km/hJan 10 · 9 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan9calm
Feb11calm
Mar13light breeze
Apr15light breeze
May14light breeze
Jun11calm
Jul10calm
Aug11calm
Sep12light breeze
Oct12light breeze
Nov11calm
Dec10calm

Best time to visit Borzya

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

To characterize how pleasant the weather is in Borzya throughout the year, we compute two travel scores — one for general sightseeing, one for beach and pool weather.

Around early September, Borzya is still near the tail of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds already thinning.

Inferred from the travel-score curve; month-by-month visitor numbers are a planned addition.

The travel score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 18°C and 28°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Borzya for general outdoor tourist activities is from mid May to mid September, with a peak score in the third week of June.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJun 20 · 7.0

The travel score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

Travel score (0–10)Rating
Jan0.0poor
Feb0.0poor
Mar0.0poor
Apr1.8poor
May5.6good
Jun6.8good
Jul6.6good
Aug6.6good
Sep5.3fair
Oct1.2poor
Nov0.0poor
Dec0.0poor

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Borzya for hot-weather activities is from mid June to mid August, with a peak score in the last week of June.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJun 28 · 6.1

The beach/pool score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

What to pack for Borzya, by month

EssentialRecommendedOptional

Month by month, what's worth putting in the bag — from the temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind. Tap a month for a quick packing note.

For a warm-season trip around July (highs near 25°C), the essentials are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near -19°C), pack a warm layer and a heavy coat.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Borzya sees daytime highs around 25°C and nights near 13°C. Worth packing: light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. About 12 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Borzya by month

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV index through the year, shaded by the WHO exposure levels — how much sun protection each month calls for.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Borzya peaks around July 18 at about 8 (very high) — sunscreen and a hat are worth it in the middle of the day. It bottoms out near December 20 at about 1 (low).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — in 6 months of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecLowModerateHighVery highHighModerateLowJul 18UV 8Dec 20UV 1
UV index (midday)Level
Jan1Low
Feb1Low
Mar3Moderate
Apr4Moderate
May6High
Jun6High
Jul8Very high
Aug7High
Sep4Moderate
Oct2Moderate
Nov1Low
Dec1Low

Average hourly UV index in Borzya

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Modeled clear-sky UV for every hour of every day — when in the day sun protection actually matters.

The whole year hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled clear-sky UV index — the midday peak scaled down as the sun sits lower in the sky. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

UV falls off far faster than brightness as the sun drops, so even in July the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8.5 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 4.5 hours reach 6 or more. Mornings and late afternoons stay comparatively gentle year round.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM
UV ≥ 3 (h/day)UV ≥ 6 (h/day)
Jan00
Feb00
Mar00
Apr4.50
May70
Jun7.52
Jul8.54.5
Aug73
Sep40
Oct00
Nov00
Dec00

Air quality in Borzya by month

GoodModeratePoorUnhealthyVery unhealthy

Average fine-particle pollution (PM2.5) through the year — so you can see which months the air is worst, not just the yearly average.

Air quality in Borzya is worst in April — around 32 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 17.0× the cleanest month (December, 2 µg/m³).

Modeled monthly averages (CAMS reanalysis, 2015–2024).

010203040JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModerateModerateGoodApr 1731 µg/m³Dec 182 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan4Good
Feb5Good
Mar20Moderate
Apr32Moderate
May22Moderate
Jun10Good
Jul14Moderate
Aug9Good
Sep6Good
Oct11Good
Nov4Good
Dec2Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayTypical season (≥50%)

The growing season in Borzya typically lasts about 147 days, from around May 4 to September 27 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from May 23 to September 10.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonApr 1610%May 450%May 2390%Sep 1090%Sep 2750%Oct 1310%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan031
Feb028
Mar131
Apr1530
May7721
Jun990
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep7719
Oct1231
Nov030
Dec031

Growing degree days

Degree days (base 10°C)Frost-free shaded

Growing degree days tally heat above 10°C: each day adds however many degrees its average temperature runs over that threshold, and cold days add nothing. Borzya banks about 741 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around July.

0200400600800JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr0
May29
Jun190
Jul287
Aug210
Sep26
Oct0
Nov0
Dec0

Solar energy

Average daily shortwave solar energy reaching the ground, banded into brightness zones so the number means something at a glance.

Solar energy is how much sunlight actually reaches the ground each day, measured in kilowatt-hours per square metre (kWh/m²) — the combined effect of how long the sun is up, how high it climbs, and how much cloud gets in the way. It's the raw fuel a solar panel has to work with: for scale, 1 kWh/m² a day is dim and wintry, while 7+ is desert-bright.

Borzya receives about 3.9 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — moderate — with a clear seasonal swing between 1.2 and 6.4 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.3 months, from around Mar 10 to Sep 17. The brightest month is June, averaging about 6.3 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 1.2 kWh/m² — roughly 81% less than the June peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 36.4 kWhDec 201.2 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan1.5Dim
Feb2.7Moderate
Mar4.2Bright
Apr5.4Bright
May6.3Intense
Jun6.4Intense
Jul5.7Bright
Aug4.9Bright
Sep3.9Moderate
Oct2.8Moderate
Nov1.7Dim
Dec1.2Dim

Where is Borzya?

Borzya sits at 50.4°N, 116.5°E, 696 m above sea level, in Russia. The nearest listed city is Krasnokamensk, 112 km away.

Topography around Borzya

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 3, 16 and 80 km of Borzya.

Within 3 km, the terrain around Borzya has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 90 m around an average of 687 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 291 m; within 80 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 820 m.

The land around Borzya is covered by grassland (66%) and artificial surfaces (29%) within 3 km, grassland (96%) within 16 km, and grassland (91%) within 80 km.

3 km
90 m
16 km
291 m
80 km
820 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwaterwetland
Nearby: Krasnokamensk 112 km · Aginskoye 161 km · Nerchinsk 177 km · Chita 280 km · Choibalsan 296 km · Baruun-Urt 477 km · Petrovsk-Zabaykal’skiy 548 km · Öndörkhaan 549 km

Russia travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 4
Do Not Travel
Power plugs
Type C / F
230 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 32% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$17,547
2025
Happiness
5.8 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
76%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
6.8
per 100k, 2021
Road deaths
12
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
High
World Bank
English
Moderate
EF EPI 521
Religion
other Christian 2%

Sources: World Bank, US State Department, World Happiness Report, WHO/UNICEF, EF EPI, CIA World Factbook.

Data sources

Temperature, precipitation, cloud, humidity, wind and solar figures are a 1991–2020 climatology for Borzya (50.3914°, 116.5336°, elevation 696 m), computed from hourly ERA5 reanalysis — contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. Sun figures are astronomical calculations, not observations. City data © GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Map outlines from Natural Earth (public domain); interactive map © Google. UV index is derived from CAMS (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service) clear-sky UV data — contains modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information. Monthly air-quality (PM2.5) seasonality is from the CAMS EAC4 reanalysis (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service), scaled to the WHO annual mean where available. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).