Climate and average weather in Nazran

In Nazran, the summers are warm, showery, and mostly clear and the winters are very cold, snowy, and partly cloudy.

Best: mid May to mid October

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Nazran typically varies from -5°C to 27°C, and is rarely below -14°C or above 33°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 Nazran for warm-weather activities is from mid May to mid October.

Hottest
Jul
27°
Coldest
Jan
-5°
Wettest
Jun
104 mm
Driest
Jan
27 mm
Rain / yr
695 mm
113 wet days
Daylight
8.8–15.2 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
523 m
43.2°N
Clearest
Jul
48% cloud

Nazran is human settlement in Nazran Urban Okrug, Republic of Ingushetia, Russia.

Density
1,388/km²
people per km²
Founded
1781

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

Nazran 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 October.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 4.0 months, from May 23 to September 20, with daily high temperatures above 21°C. The hottest month of the year in Nazran is July, with an average high of 27°C and low of 17°C.

The cool season lasts 3.5 months, from November 21 to March 6, with daily high temperatures below 7°C. The coldest month of the year in Nazran is January, with an average low of -5°C and high of 2°C.

Days typically run about 9°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 10°C) in August.

-10°10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2-5
Feb3-4
Mar80
Apr155
May2011
Jun2415
Jul2717
Aug2717
Sep2213
Oct167
Nov81
Dec3-3

How hot and cold Nazran 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 -8°C (around January 27), with roughly 139 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C), worst in January.

-10°10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan22-7-5
Feb33-7-4
Mar88-20
Apr151545
May20201011
Jun24241515
Jul27271717
Aug27271717
Sep22221313
Oct161667
Nov88-11
Dec33-6-3

Average hourly temperature in Nazran

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 27°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near -5°C.

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

Nazran 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 / -5°277.689.20.0
Feb / -4°296.96.710.20.0
Mar / 5510.96.411.61.5
Apr15° / 6910.90.913.24.2
May20° / 11°9813.6014.55.7
Jun24° / 15°10412.5015.16.5
Jul27° / 17°7310.7014.96.6
Aug27° / 17°659.4013.86.8
Sep22° / 13°628.6012.37.0
Oct16° / 518.30.710.85.2
Nov / 377.13.69.51.5
Dec / -3°276.25.88.90.0

Chance of rain

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

Nazran gets about 695 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is often wet, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 5.4 months, from around Mar 7 to Aug 16, peaking in May at about 45% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Dec 18.

June is the wettest month by volume, with 104 mm over about 13 wet days; January is the driest, with 27 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetMay 11 · 45%Dec 18 · 20%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan248
Feb257
Mar3411
Apr3811
May4414
Jun4113
Jul3511
Aug309
Sep289
Oct268
Nov247
Dec216

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Nazran collects about 695 mm of rain across 113 wet days — roughly 58 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. June is the wettest month with 104 mm, while January is the driest at just 27 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 39% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075100125JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec2729556998104736562513727
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan2788
Feb2977
Mar55116
Apr69111
May98140
Jun104130
Jul73110
Aug6590
Sep6290
Oct5181
Nov3774
Dec2766

Snow in Nazran

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.

Nazran averages about 32 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Oct 16 to Apr 19 — about 6.1 months.

January is snowiest, with roughly 8 days of snow and an estimated 27 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 125 cm of snow.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonJan 24
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan827
Feb727
Mar627
Apr14
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct12
Nov414
Dec625

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Nazran, 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 June 11 and lasts for 5.1 months, ending around November 13. The clearest month is July, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 63% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around November 14 and lasts for 6.9 months, ending around June 10. The cloudiest month is March, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 65% 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 3 · 65%Mar 14 · 33%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan3664
Feb3763
Mar3565
Apr3763
May3862
Jun5050
Jul6337
Aug6238
Sep5644
Oct5149
Nov4357
Dec3664

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 13, brings about 15 h 12 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 8 h 48 min — a swing of roughly 6 h 24 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan9.27:364:44
Feb10.27:085:23
Mar11.66:226:00
Apr13.25:266:37
May14.54:437:11
Jun15.14:267:37
Jul14.94:397:34
Aug13.85:116:59
Sep12.35:476:04
Oct10.86:225:10
Nov9.57:024:30
Dec8.97:334:21

Sunny days

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

Nazran averages about 9 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 6 and 14 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.0 months, from around Jun 19 to Nov 18. The sunniest month is August, with roughly 13 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is March, down near 7 sunny days — about 47% fewer than the August peak.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightAug 314 daysMar 146 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan7Gloomy
Feb7Gloomy
Mar7Gloomy
Apr7Gloomy
May7Gloomy
Jun9Mixed
Jul13Mixed
Aug13Mixed
Sep12Mixed
Oct12Mixed
Nov9Mixed
Dec7Gloomy

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 Nazran, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 3.4 months, from around June 2 to September 14. The muggiest month is July, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 66% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around September 15 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 22 · 100%Jul 27 · 27%muggycomfortablehumiddrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan100000
Feb100000
Mar100000
Apr100000
May742240
Jun2441314
Jul6284817
Aug11274517
Sep5034142
Oct93700
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.

Wind in Nazran is steady company: average speeds sit near 6 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeMar 29 · 7 km/hDec 21 · 5 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan6calm
Feb6calm
Mar7calm
Apr7calm
May7calm
Jun6calm
Jul6calm
Aug6calm
Sep6calm
Oct6calm
Nov6calm
Dec6calm

Best time to visit Nazran

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late May, Nazran 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 Nazran for general outdoor tourist activities is from mid May to mid October, with a peak score in the first week of September.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 4 · 7.2

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
Feb0.1poor
Mar1.5poor
Apr4.1fair
May5.6good
Jun6.4good
Jul6.6good
Aug6.8good
Sep6.9good
Oct5.1fair
Nov1.6poor
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 Nazran for hot-weather activities is from mid June to mid September, with a peak score in the first week of August.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 3 · 7.0

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 Nazran, 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 27°C), the essentials are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 2°C), pack a warm layer and a heavy coat.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Nazran sees daytime highs around 27°C and nights near 17°C. Pack light clothes. Worth having: rain gear and sun protection. About 11 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Nazran 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 Nazran peaks around July 12 at about 9 (very high) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near January 12 at about 2 (low).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — in 7 months of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecLowModerateHighVery highHighModerateLowJul 12UV 9Jan 12UV 2
UV index (midday)Level
Jan2Low
Feb2Moderate
Mar3Moderate
Apr6High
May7High
Jun9Very high
Jul9Very high
Aug8Very high
Sep6High
Oct4Moderate
Nov2Low
Dec2Low

Average hourly UV index in Nazran

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 5.5 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
Apr60
May7.53.5
Jun8.55.5
Jul8.55.5
Aug7.54.5
Sep60
Oct30
Nov00
Dec00

Air quality in Nazran 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 Nazran is worst in March — around 18 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 1.7× the cleanest month (December, 11 µg/m³).

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

01020JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateGoodMar 1918 µg/m³Dec 2011 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan12Good
Feb13Moderate
Mar18Moderate
Apr15Moderate
May15Moderate
Jun14Moderate
Jul16Moderate
Aug16Moderate
Sep14Moderate
Oct14Moderate
Nov14Moderate
Dec11Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

The growing season in Nazran typically lasts about 250 days, from around March 16 to November 20 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from April 10 to October 26.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonMar 1650%Apr 1090%Oct 2690%Nov 2050%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan1531
Feb2128
Mar5231
Apr929
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct967
Nov5930
Dec2531

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. Nazran banks about 1,474 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
Apr17
May161
Jun284
Jul374
Aug367
Sep219
Oct53
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.

Nazran receives about 3.5 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — moderate — with a clear seasonal swing between 1.4 and 5.7 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.0 months, from around Mar 18 to Sep 15. The brightest month is June, averaging about 5.5 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is December, down near 1.5 kWh/m² — roughly 73% less than the June peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 305.7 kWhDec 121.4 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan1.8Dim
Feb2.6Moderate
Mar3.5Moderate
Apr4.4Bright
May5.0Bright
Jun5.5Bright
Jul5.5Bright
Aug4.8Bright
Sep3.5Moderate
Oct2.6Moderate
Nov1.8Dim
Dec1.4Dim

Where is Nazran?

Nazran sits at 43.2°N, 44.8°E, 523 m above sea level, in Russia. The nearest listed city is Ekazhevo, 4.0 km away.

Topography around Nazran

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Nazran has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 139 m around an average of 531 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 748 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 4,920 m.

The land around Nazran is covered by artificial surfaces (54%) within 3 km, cropland (49%) and grassland (26%) within 16 km, and cropland (36%), grassland (29%) and trees (27%) within 80 km.

3 km
139 m
16 km
748 m
80 km
4,920 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwatermoss and lichen
Nearby: Ekazhevo 4.0 km · Surkhakhi 11 km · Kantyshevo 11 km · Karabulak 13 km · Troitskaya 19 km · Beslan 20 km · Vladikavkaz 22 km · Nesterovskaya 22 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 Nazran (43.226°, 44.7732°, elevation 523 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).