Climate and average weather in Mirny

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

Best: early June to late August

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Mirny typically varies from -33°C to 22°C, and is rarely below -46°C or above 29°C. July is the hottest month of the year, while December is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Mirny for warm-weather activities is from early June to late August.

Hottest
Jul
22°
Coldest
Dec
-33°
Wettest
Aug
51 mm
Driest
Feb
4 mm
Rain / yr
294 mm
69 wet days
Daylight
4.5–19.5 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
352 m
62.5°N
Clearest
Jul
65% cloud

Mirny is town and the administrative center of Mirninsky District of the Sakha Republic, Russia.

Density
328/km²
people per km²
Founded
1955

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

Mirny 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 early June to late August.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 3.9 months, from May 18 to September 12, with daily high temperatures above 10°C. The hottest month of the year in Mirny is July, with an average high of 22°C and low of 12°C.

The cool season lasts 3.4 months, from November 15 to February 26, with daily high temperatures below -18°C. The coldest month of the year in Mirny is December, with an average low of -33°C and high of -27°C.

Days typically run about 9°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 11°C) in March.

-40°-20°20°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan-26-33
Feb-22-30
Mar-10-21
Apr1-10
May100
Jun209
Jul2212
Aug198
Sep91
Oct-3-10
Nov-18-25
Dec-27-33

How hot and cold Mirny 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 -44°C (around January 10), with roughly 261 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C) 205 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-27-26-43-33
Feb-22-22-40-30
Mar-10-10-29-21
Apr11-16-10
May1010-40
Jun202089
Jul22221212
Aug191968
Sep99-21
Oct-3-3-16-10
Nov-18-18-34-25
Dec-27-27-43-33

Average hourly temperature in Mirny

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 22°C, and coldest before dawn in December, near -33°C.

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

Mirny 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-27° / -33°51.63.75.60.0
Feb-22° / -30°41.42.78.20.0
Mar-10° / -22°83.34.911.30.0
Apr / -11°165.15.714.40.0
May10° / -1°338.2317.42.2
Jun20° / 509.60.219.36.1
Jul22° / 12°488.7018.56.8
Aug19° / 518.7015.85.9
Sep / 358.32.612.61.8
Oct-3° / -10°257.68.59.50.0
Nov-18° / -25°134.66.66.50.0
Dec-27° / -33°624.24.70.0

Chance of rain

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

Mirny gets about 294 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 6.6 months, from around Apr 22 to Nov 8, peaking in June at about 33% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Feb 9.

August is the wettest month by volume, with 51 mm over about 9 wet days; February is the driest, with 4 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetJun 20 · 33%Feb 9 · 4%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan52
Feb51
Mar103
Apr185
May268
Jun3210
Jul299
Aug279
Sep278
Oct258
Nov155
Dec72

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Mirny collects about 294 mm of rain across 69 wet days — roughly 25 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. August is the wettest month with 51 mm, while February is the driest at just 4 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 51% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec54816335048513525136
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan524
Feb413
Mar835
Apr1656
May3383
Jun50100
Jul4890
Aug5190
Sep3583
Oct2589
Nov1357
Dec624

Snow in Mirny

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.

Mirny averages about 42 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Sep 3 to Jun 6 — about 9.1 months.

October is snowiest, with roughly 8 days of snow and an estimated 27 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 122 cm of snow.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonOct 25
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan49
Feb38
Mar512
Apr617
May312
Jun01
Jul00
Aug00
Sep39
Oct927
Nov718
Dec410

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Mirny, 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 May 15 and lasts for 4.3 months, ending around September 23. The clearest month is July, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 38% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around September 24 and lasts for 4.8 months, ending around February 16. The cloudiest month is December, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 93% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJul 20 · 40%Nov 25 · 5%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan793
Feb1882
Mar2674
Apr2476
May2278
Jun3268
Jul3862
Aug3466
Sep2377
Oct1288
Nov793
Dec793

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 16, brings about 19 h 30 min of light; the shortest, around December 16, only 4 h 30 min — a swing of roughly 15 hours.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan5.610:484:19
Feb8.29:315:47
Mar11.37:567:11
Apr14.46:118:38
May17.44:3810:03
Jun19.33:4111:08
Jul18.54:1210:48
Aug15.85:359:22
Sep12.67:017:36
Oct9.58:245:54
Nov6.59:564:23
Dec4.711:043:36

Sunny days

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

Mirny averages about 3 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 0 and 7 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.3 months, from around May 18 to Sep 25. The sunniest month is July, with roughly 7 sunny days (gloomy).

The greyest month is January, down near 1 sunny days — about 91% fewer than the July peak.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedJul 217 daysJan 200 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan1Gloomy
Feb3Gloomy
Mar5Gloomy
Apr4Gloomy
May3Gloomy
Jun5Gloomy
Jul7Gloomy
Aug6Gloomy
Sep4Gloomy
Oct2Gloomy
Nov1Gloomy
Dec1Gloomy

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 Mirny, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in July, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 6% of the time — humidity is not something you need to plan around here.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccomfortabledry
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)
Jan10000
Feb10000
Mar10000
Apr10000
May10000
Jun9181
Jul71226
Aug9181
Sep10000
Oct10000
Nov10000
Dec10000

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.

Wind in Mirny is steady company: average speeds sit near 10 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeOct 18 · 11 km/hJul 10 · 9 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan10calm
Feb10calm
Mar10calm
Apr11calm
May11calm
Jun10calm
Jul9calm
Aug10calm
Sep10calm
Oct11calm
Nov10calm
Dec10calm

Best time to visit Mirny

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid June, Mirny is still near the start of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds not yet at full swing.

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 Mirny for general outdoor tourist activities is from early June to late August, with a peak score in the third week of July.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 21 · 6.9

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
Apr0.0poor
May2.3poor
Jun6.0good
Jul6.7good
Aug5.9good
Sep1.9poor
Oct0.0poor
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 Mirny for hot-weather activities is from late June to early August, with a peak score in the third week of July.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 16 · 5.1

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 Mirny, 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 22°C), the essentials are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. In the cold season around December (highs near -27°C), pack a warm layer and a heavy coat.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Mirny sees daytime highs around 22°C and nights near 12°C. Worth packing: light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. About 9 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Mirny 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 Mirny peaks around May 23 at about 4 (moderate) — a little sun protection helps at midday. It bottoms out near January 1 at about 0 (low).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — in 4 months of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecLowModerateLowMay 23UV 4Jan 1UV 0
UV index (midday)Level
Jan0Low
Feb0Low
Mar1Low
Apr3Moderate
May4Moderate
Jun4Moderate
Jul3Moderate
Aug4Moderate
Sep2Low
Oct1Low
Nov0Low
Dec0Low

Average hourly UV index in Mirny

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 May the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 4.5 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended). 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
Apr00
May4.50
Jun4.50
Jul40
Aug40
Sep00
Oct00
Nov00
Dec00

Air quality in Mirny 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 Mirny is worst in July — around 53 µg/m³ PM2.5 (poor), about 58.9× the cleanest month (December, 1 µg/m³).

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

0204060JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodPoorModerateGoodJul 2151 µg/m³Dec 201 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan1Good
Feb2Good
Mar5Good
Apr8Good
May8Good
Jun13Moderate
Jul53Poor
Aug44Poor
Sep15Moderate
Oct7Good
Nov2Good
Dec1Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

The growing season in Mirny typically lasts about 124 days, from around May 19 to September 19 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from June 3 to September 1.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonApr 2710%May 1950%Jun 390%Sep 190%Sep 1950%Oct 810%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan031
Feb028
Mar131
Apr630
May4731
Jun972
Jul1000
Aug980
Sep5829
Oct731
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. Mirny banks about 450 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around July.

0200400600JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr0
May0
Jun131
Jul217
Aug102
Sep0
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.

Mirny receives about 2.8 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — moderate — with a clear seasonal swing between 0.1 and 5.9 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 5.7 months, from around Mar 19 to Sep 7. The brightest month is June, averaging about 5.9 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is December, down near 0.1 kWh/m² — roughly 98% less than the June peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 135.9 kWhDec 210.1 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan0.3Dim
Feb1.0Dim
Mar2.6Moderate
Apr4.4Bright
May5.5Bright
Jun5.9Bright
Jul5.5Bright
Aug4.1Bright
Sep2.4Moderate
Oct1.1Dim
Nov0.4Dim
Dec0.1Dim

Where is Mirny?

Mirny sits at 62.5°N, 114.0°E, 352 m above sea level, in Russia. The nearest listed city is Lensk, 208 km away.

BodayboAldanUst’-KutUst’-IlimskSeverobaykal’sk

Topography around Mirny

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Mirny has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 527 m around an average of 336 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 562 m; within 80 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 563 m.

The land around Mirny is covered by trees (42%), artificial surfaces (25%) and bare terrain (22%) within 3 km, trees (90%) within 16 km, and trees (92%) within 80 km.

3 km
527 m
16 km
562 m
80 km
563 m
treesgrasslandartificial surfacesbare terrainwatermoss and lichen
Nearby: Lensk 208 km · Aykhal 396 km · Udachny 439 km · Bodaybo 521 km · Aldan 760 km · Ust’-Kut 785 km · Ust’-Ilimsk 800 km · Severobaykal’sk 811 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 Mirny (62.5353°, 113.9611°, elevation 352 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).