Climate and average weather in Kamyshin

In Kamyshin, the summers are hot, fairly dry, and mostly clear and the winters are very cold, snowy, and mostly cloudy.

Best: late April to late June

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Kamyshin typically varies from -10°C to 29°C, and is rarely below -21°C or above 36°C. July is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Kamyshin for warm-weather activities are from late April to late June and early August to late September.

Hottest
Jul
29°
Coldest
Jan
-10°
Wettest
May
36 mm
Driest
Aug
19 mm
Rain / yr
368 mm
78 wet days
Daylight
7.8–16.2 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
18 m
50.1°N
Clearest
Aug
42% cloud

Kamyshin is city in Kamyshin Urban Okrug, Volgograd Oblast, Russia.

Density
1,588/km²
people per km²
Founded
1668

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

Kamyshin 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 late April to late June.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 4.1 months, from May 12 to September 14, with daily high temperatures above 21°C. The hottest month of the year in Kamyshin is July, with an average high of 29°C and low of 18°C.

The cool season lasts 3.7 months, from November 19 to March 12, with daily high temperatures below 2°C. The coldest month of the year in Kamyshin is January, with an average low of -10°C and high of -4°C.

Days typically run about 9°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 12°C) in August.

-20°-10°10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan-4-10
Feb-4-10
Mar3-4
Apr144
May2211
Jun2716
Jul2918
Aug2817
Sep2111
Oct134
Nov3-2
Dec-3-8

How hot and cold Kamyshin 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 -18°C (around February 1), with roughly 174 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C) 111 of them bitterly cold — worst in February.

-20°-10°10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan-4-4-16-10
Feb-4-4-17-10
Mar33-10-4
Apr141414
May22221111
Jun27271616
Jul29291818
Aug28281717
Sep21211011
Oct121314
Nov33-7-2
Dec-3-3-14-8

Average hourly temperature in Kamyshin

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 29°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near -10°C.

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

Kamyshin 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-4° / -10°338.38.38.30.0
Feb-4° / -10°276.86.29.70.0
Mar / -4°316.9411.50.2
Apr14° / 326.50.713.54.5
May22° / 11°366.7015.27.2
Jun27° / 16°326.5016.17.0
Jul29° / 18°326015.75.9
Aug28° / 17°194.2014.36.9
Sep21° / 11°355.6012.47.2
Oct13° / 336.80.310.53.7
Nov / -2°276.22.88.80.1
Dec-3° / -8°327.86.67.90.0

Chance of rain

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

Kamyshin gets about 368 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 4.3 months, from around Nov 22 to Apr 2, peaking in January at about 28% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Aug 15.

May is the wettest month by volume, with 36 mm over about 7 wet days; August is the driest, with 19 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetJan 31 · 28%Aug 15 · 13%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan278
Feb257
Mar227
Apr217
May217
Jun227
Jul196
Aug144
Sep196
Oct217
Nov216
Dec268

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Kamyshin collects about 368 mm of rain across 78 wet days — roughly 31 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. May is the wettest month with 36 mm, while August is the driest at just 19 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 28% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

02550JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec332731323632321935332732
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan3388
Feb2776
Mar3174
Apr3271
May3670
Jun3270
Jul3260
Aug1940
Sep3560
Oct3370
Nov2763
Dec3287

Snow in Kamyshin

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.

Kamyshin averages about 29 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Oct 26 to Apr 15 — about 5.7 months.

January is snowiest, with roughly 8 days of snow and an estimated 29 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 111 cm of snow.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonJan 28
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan829
Feb625
Mar414
Apr11
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct01
Nov314
Dec728

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

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

The clearer part of the year begins around April 5 and lasts for 6.1 months, ending around October 8. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 69% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 9 and lasts for 5.8 months, ending around April 4. The cloudiest month is January, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 87% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecAug 9 · 72%Jan 1 · 12%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan1387
Feb1981
Mar3169
Apr4357
May4951
Jun5941
Jul6832
Aug6931
Sep5446
Oct3664
Nov2377
Dec1486

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 19, brings about 16 h 12 min of light; the shortest, around December 18, 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)
Jan8.37:594:16
Feb9.77:215:05
Mar11.56:225:54
Apr13.55:136:44
May15.24:197:30
Jun16.13:558:02
Jul15.74:117:57
Aug14.34:547:11
Sep12.45:426:04
Oct10.56:304:57
Nov8.87:214:06
Dec7.97:593:50

Sunny days

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

Kamyshin averages about 9 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 2 and 17 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 6.1 months, from around Apr 9 to Oct 10. The sunniest month is August, with roughly 16 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is December, down near 3 sunny days — about 84% fewer than the August peak.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightAug 717 daysDec 232 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan3Gloomy
Feb3Gloomy
Mar6Gloomy
Apr9Mixed
May10Mixed
Jun12Mixed
Jul15Mixed
Aug16Bright
Sep12Mixed
Oct8Gloomy
Nov4Gloomy
Dec3Gloomy

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 Kamyshin, how humid it feels changes noticeably over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 2.8 months, from around June 2 to August 25. 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 26 to June 1, and April is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 100% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecApr 17 · 100%Jul 26 · 81%humidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan100000
Feb100000
Mar100000
Apr100000
May93610
Jun672580
Jul4835161
Aug682480
Sep93600
Oct99100
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 Kamyshin is typically light breeze, near 14 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 5.8 months, from around Oct 24 to Apr 18. The windiest month is February, averaging about 16 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Apr 19 to Oct 23, with July the calmest month at about 12 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeFeb 3 · 16 km/hJul 26 · 12 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan15light breeze
Feb16light breeze
Mar15light breeze
Apr14light breeze
May13light breeze
Jun13light breeze
Jul12light breeze
Aug12light breeze
Sep13light breeze
Oct14light breeze
Nov14light breeze
Dec15light breeze

Best time to visit Kamyshin

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late June, Kamyshin 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 times of year to visit Kamyshin for general outdoor tourist activities run from late April to late June and again from early August to late September, with a peak score in the first week of September.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 1 · 7.8

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
Mar0.3poor
Apr4.4fair
May7.2good
Jun7.0good
Jul6.0good
Aug6.9good
Sep7.1good
Oct3.7fair
Nov0.2poor
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 Kamyshin for hot-weather activities is from late May to early September, with a peak score in the second week of August.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 12 · 8.2

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 Kamyshin, 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 29°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near -4°C), pack a warm layer, a heavy coat and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Kamyshin sees daytime highs around 29°C and nights near 18°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. About 6 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Kamyshin 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 Kamyshin peaks around July 15 at about 7 (very high) — sunscreen and a hat are worth it in the middle of the day. It bottoms out near December 18 at about 1 (low).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecLowModerateHighHighModerateLowJul 15UV 7Dec 18UV 1
UV index (midday)Level
Jan1Low
Feb1Low
Mar3Moderate
Apr4Moderate
May5Moderate
Jun6High
Jul7Very high
Aug5High
Sep5Moderate
Oct2Moderate
Nov1Low
Dec1Low

Average hourly UV index in Kamyshin

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 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 3.5 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
May60
Jun70
Jul83.5
Aug60
Sep4.50
Oct00
Nov00
Dec00

Air quality in Kamyshin 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 Kamyshin is worst in March — around 15 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 2.5× the cleanest month (June, 6 µg/m³).

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

01020JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModerateGoodMar 1715 µg/m³Jun 146 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan8Good
Feb10Good
Mar15Moderate
Apr11Good
May8Good
Jun6Good
Jul8Good
Aug7Good
Sep7Good
Oct9Good
Nov9Good
Dec7Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

The growing season in Kamyshin typically lasts about 218 days, from around April 2 to November 5 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from April 18 to October 13.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonFeb 1810%Apr 250%Apr 1890%Oct 1390%Nov 550%Jan 1210%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan931
Feb1028
Mar2231
Apr8115
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct8417
Nov3530
Dec1331

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. Kamyshin banks about 1,579 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around July.

05001,0001,500JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr20
May208
Jun348
Jul431
Aug386
Sep175
Oct11
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.

Kamyshin receives about 3.5 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — moderate — with a clear seasonal swing between 0.7 and 6.3 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.0 months, from around Mar 21 to Sep 19. The brightest month is June, averaging about 6.2 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 0.7 kWh/m² — roughly 88% less than the June peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 156.3 kWhDec 180.7 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan1.0Dim
Feb1.9Dim
Mar3.2Moderate
Apr4.6Bright
May5.7Bright
Jun6.2Intense
Jul6.1Intense
Aug5.3Bright
Sep3.7Moderate
Oct2.0Moderate
Nov1.0Dim
Dec0.7Dim

Where is Kamyshin?

Kamyshin sits at 50.1°N, 45.4°E, 18 m above sea level, in Russia. The nearest listed city is Nikolayevsk, 8.0 km away.

Topography around Kamyshin

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Kamyshin has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 106 m around an average of 41 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 218 m; within 80 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 348 m.

The land around Kamyshin is covered by artificial surfaces (38%) and water (38%) within 3 km, grassland (49%) within 16 km, and grassland (53%) and cropland (37%) within 80 km.

3 km
106 m
16 km
218 m
80 km
348 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswaterwetland
Nearby: Nikolayevsk 8.0 km · Kotovo 50 km · Pallasovka 105 km · Krasnoarmeysk 106 km · Zhirnovsk 109 km · Dubovka 122 km · Frolovo 131 km · Volzhsky 152 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 Kamyshin (50.0885°, 45.4128°, elevation 18 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).