Climate and average weather in Leninsk

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

Best: late April to mid June

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Leninsk typically varies from -8°C to 31°C, and is rarely below -21°C or above 38°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 Leninsk for warm-weather activities are from late April to mid June and late August to early October.

Hottest
Jul
31°
Coldest
Jan
-8°
Wettest
May
37 mm
Driest
Aug
19 mm
Rain / yr
334 mm
75 wet days
Daylight
8.1–15.9 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
-1 m
48.7°N
Clearest
Aug
39% cloud

Leninsk is city in Volgograd Oblast, Russia.

Founded
1802

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

Leninsk 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 mid June.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Leninsk, 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 14 to September 15, with daily high temperatures above 23°C. The hottest month of the year in Leninsk is July, with an average high of 31°C and low of 20°C.

The cool season lasts 3.6 months, from November 19 to March 9, with daily high temperatures below 3°C. The coldest month of the year in Leninsk is January, with an average low of -8°C and high of -3°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-3-8
Feb-2-8
Mar5-3
Apr165
May2312
Jun2817
Jul3120
Aug3018
Sep2312
Oct145
Nov5-2
Dec-1-6

How hot and cold Leninsk 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 -16°C (around February 2), with roughly 168 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C) 99 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-3-3-15-8
Feb-2-2-15-8
Mar55-8-3
Apr161625
May23231212
Jun28281717
Jul31312020
Aug30301818
Sep23231112
Oct141425
Nov45-6-2
Dec-1-1-12-6

Average hourly temperature in Leninsk

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 31°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near -8°C.

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

Leninsk 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-3° / -8°297.86.48.50.0
Feb-2° / -8°256.34.89.80.0
Mar / -3°2973.711.60.6
Apr16° / 296.20.313.45.2
May23° / 12°3770157.3
Jun28° / 17°316.1015.96.4
Jul31° / 20°255015.55.2
Aug30° / 18°193.7014.26.0
Sep23° / 12°285.3012.47.5
Oct14° / 306.50.310.54.5
Nov / -2°236.11.890.4
Dec-1° / -6°317.55.28.10.0

Chance of rain

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

Leninsk gets about 334 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 5.2 months, from around Nov 19 to Apr 24, peaking in December at about 26% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Aug 16.

May is the wettest month by volume, with 37 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 wetDec 21 · 26%Aug 16 · 11%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan258
Feb236
Mar227
Apr216
May227
Jun216
Jul165
Aug124
Sep175
Oct207
Nov216
Dec248

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Leninsk collects about 334 mm of rain across 75 wet days — roughly 28 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. May is the wettest month with 37 mm, while August is the driest at just 19 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 29% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

02550JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec292529293731251928302331
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan2986
Feb2565
Mar2974
Apr2960
May3770
Jun3160
Jul2550
Aug1940
Sep2850
Oct3070
Nov2362
Dec3185

Snow in Leninsk

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.

Leninsk averages about 23 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Oct 25 to Apr 11 — about 5.6 months.

January is snowiest, with roughly 6 days of snow and an estimated 21 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 81 cm of snow.

02468JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonJan 26
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan621
Feb519
Mar411
Apr01
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct01
Nov27
Dec522

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Leninsk, 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 15 and lasts for 6.0 months, ending around October 13. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 71% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 14 and lasts for 6.0 months, ending around April 14. The cloudiest month is December, 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 7 · 74%Dec 21 · 11%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan1585
Feb2080
Mar3268
Apr4357
May5248
Jun6337
Jul7129
Aug7129
Sep5941
Oct4060
Nov2575
Dec1387

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 12, brings about 15 h 54 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 8 h 06 min — a swing of roughly 7 h 48 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan8.57:544:23
Feb9.87:185:09
Mar11.66:225:56
Apr13.45:166:43
May15.04:257:26
Jun15.94:027:57
Jul15.54:187:52
Aug14.24:587:09
Sep12.45:436:04
Oct10.56:285:00
Nov9.07:174:12
Dec8.17:533:58

Sunny days

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

Leninsk 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 18 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.7 months, from around Apr 23 to Oct 13. The sunniest month is August, with roughly 17 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is December, down near 3 sunny days — about 85% fewer than the August peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantAug 718 daysDec 222 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan3Gloomy
Feb3Gloomy
Mar6Gloomy
Apr9Mixed
May11Mixed
Jun13Mixed
Jul16Bright
Aug17Bright
Sep12Mixed
Oct9Mixed
Nov5Gloomy
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 Leninsk, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in July, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 13% of the time — humidity is not something you need to plan around here.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecApr 26 · 100%Jul 23 · 86%humidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan100000
Feb100000
Mar100000
Apr100000
May92710
Jun702280
Jul5829121
Aug751960
Sep93710
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 Leninsk is typically light breeze, near 14 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 5.5 months, from around Nov 14 to Apr 29. The windiest month is February, averaging about 16 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Apr 30 to Nov 13, with July the calmest month at about 12 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeFeb 6 · 16 km/hJul 23 · 12 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan15light breeze
Feb16light breeze
Mar16light breeze
Apr15light breeze
May14light breeze
Jun13light breeze
Jul12light breeze
Aug13light breeze
Sep14light breeze
Oct14light breeze
Nov14light breeze
Dec15light breeze

Best time to visit Leninsk

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid June, Leninsk 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 Leninsk for general outdoor tourist activities run from late April to mid June and again from late August to early October, with a peak score in the second week of September.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 9 · 7.7

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
Mar0.7poor
Apr5.1fair
May7.2good
Jun6.4good
Jul5.2fair
Aug6.0good
Sep7.4good
Oct4.5fair
Nov0.5poor
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 Leninsk for hot-weather activities is from late May to mid September, with a peak score in the third week of August.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 20 · 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 Leninsk, 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 31°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near -3°C), pack a warm layer and a heavy coat.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Leninsk sees daytime highs around 31°C and nights near 20°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. About 5 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Leninsk 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 Leninsk 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
Feb2Low
Mar2Moderate
Apr4Moderate
May5Moderate
Jun6High
Jul8Very high
Aug5High
Sep5Moderate
Oct3Moderate
Nov1Low
Dec1Low

Average hourly UV index in Leninsk

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 4 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
Jun7.50.5
Jul84
Aug6.50
Sep50
Oct00
Nov00
Dec00

Air quality in Leninsk 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 Leninsk is worst in March — around 20 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 2.4× the cleanest month (June, 8 µg/m³).

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

0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModerateGoodMar 1719 µg/m³Jun 159 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan11Good
Feb13Moderate
Mar20Moderate
Apr14Moderate
May10Good
Jun8Good
Jul11Good
Aug10Good
Sep9Good
Oct11Good
Nov12Good
Dec10Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

The growing season in Leninsk typically lasts about 225 days, from around March 29 to November 8 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from April 14 to October 15.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonMar 2950%Apr 1490%Oct 1590%Nov 850%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan1331
Feb1328
Mar3031
Apr8711
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct8716
Nov4130
Dec1731

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. Leninsk banks about 1,802 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around July.

05001,0001,5002,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr37
May237
Jun381
Jul473
Aug431
Sep215
Oct27
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.

Leninsk receives about 3.6 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — moderate — with a clear seasonal swing between 0.8 and 6.4 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.0 months, from around Mar 22 to Sep 20. The brightest month is July, averaging about 6.3 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 0.8 kWh/m² — roughly 87% less than the July peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJul 16.4 kWhDec 160.8 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan1.1Dim
Feb2.0Dim
Mar3.3Moderate
Apr4.7Bright
May5.7Bright
Jun6.4Intense
Jul6.3Intense
Aug5.5Bright
Sep3.8Moderate
Oct2.2Moderate
Nov1.1Dim
Dec0.8Dim

Where is Leninsk?

Leninsk sits at 48.7°N, 45.2°E, -1 m above sea level, in Russia. The nearest listed city is Volzhsky, 32 km away.

Topography around Leninsk

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Leninsk has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 41 m around an average of 1 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 51 m; within 80 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 194 m.

The land around Leninsk is covered by grassland (39%) and wetland (20%) within 3 km, grassland (49%) and wetland (35%) within 16 km, and grassland (68%) within 80 km.

3 km
41 m
16 km
51 m
80 km
194 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswaterwetland
Nearby: Volzhsky 32 km · Znamensk 42 km · Dubovka 48 km · Volgograd 51 km · Gorodishche 54 km · Akhtubinsk 85 km · Kalach-na-Donu 123 km · Nikolayevsk 149 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 Leninsk (48.7031°, 45.1961°, elevation -1 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).