Climate and average weather in Nizhneudinsk

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

Best: late May to late August

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Nizhneudinsk typically varies from -24°C to 23°C, and is rarely below -35°C or above 29°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 Nizhneudinsk for warm-weather activities is from late May to late August.

Hottest
Jul
23°
Coldest
Jan
-24°
Wettest
Aug
96 mm
Driest
Jan
9 mm
Rain / yr
542 mm
112 wet days
Daylight
6.9–17.1 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
412 m
54.9°N
Clearest
Jun
65% cloud

Nizhneudinsk is human settlement in Nizhneudinsky District, Irkutsk Oblast, Russia.

Density
516/km²
people per km²
Founded
1648

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

Nizhneudinsk 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 May to late August.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 4.2 months, from May 10 to September 14, with daily high temperatures above 14°C. The hottest month of the year in Nizhneudinsk is July, with an average high of 23°C and low of 12°C.

The cool season lasts 3.0 months, from November 21 to February 18, with daily high temperatures below -7°C. The coldest month of the year in Nizhneudinsk is January, with an average low of -24°C and high of -14°C.

Days typically run about 11°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 13°C) in March.

-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan-13-23
Feb-8-21
Mar0-13
Apr8-3
May153
Jun219
Jul2312
Aug2010
Sep143
Oct5-4
Nov-5-14
Dec-12-21

How hot and cold Nizhneudinsk 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 -31°C (around January 9), with roughly 240 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C) 163 of them bitterly cold — worst in January.

-30°-20°-10°10°20°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan-14-13-30-23
Feb-8-8-28-21
Mar00-19-13
Apr88-7-3
May151503
Jun212189
Jul23231212
Aug2020910
Sep141413
Oct55-8-4
Nov-5-5-19-14
Dec-12-12-27-21

Average hourly temperature in Nizhneudinsk

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 23°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near -24°C.

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

Nizhneudinsk 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-14° / -24°935.27.60.0
Feb-8° / -21°1045.99.30.0
Mar-0° / -13°185.66.911.40.0
Apr / -3°329.35.613.81.3
May15° / 5813.12.215.84.3
Jun21° / 8713.80.1175.8
Jul23° / 12°8913.7016.56.1
Aug20° / 10°9614.4014.75.6
Sep14° / 6912.81.112.53.6
Oct / -4°359.25.410.20.6
Nov-5° / -14°2279.28.10.0
Dec-12° / -21°175.88.770.0

Chance of rain

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

Nizhneudinsk gets about 542 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 5.9 months, from around Apr 14 to Oct 10, peaking in July at about 48% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jan 14.

August is the wettest month by volume, with 96 mm over about 14 wet days; January is the driest, with 9 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJul 30 · 48%Jan 14 · 9%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan103
Feb154
Mar186
Apr319
May4213
Jun4614
Jul4414
Aug4614
Sep4213
Oct309
Nov237
Dec196

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Nizhneudinsk collects about 542 mm of rain across 112 wet days — roughly 45 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. August is the wettest month with 96 mm, while January is the driest at just 9 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 50% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075100125JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec91018325887899669352217
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan935
Feb1046
Mar1867
Apr3296
May58132
Jun87140
Jul89140
Aug96140
Sep69131
Oct3595
Nov2279
Dec1769

Snow in Nizhneudinsk

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.

Nizhneudinsk averages about 50 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Sep 10 to May 31 — about 8.7 months.

November is snowiest, with roughly 9 days of snow and an estimated 24 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 150 cm of snow.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonNov 28
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan512
Feb617
Mar722
Apr620
May27
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep15
Oct517
Nov924
Dec926

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Nizhneudinsk, 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 May 14 and lasts for 4.3 months, ending around September 22. The clearest month is July, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 36% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around September 23 and lasts for 3.9 months, ending around January 20. The cloudiest month is November, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 78% 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 4 · 38%Nov 27 · 18%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan3070
Feb3070
Mar2971
Apr2575
May3070
Jun3565
Jul3664
Aug3664
Sep3169
Oct2773
Nov2278
Dec2575

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 17, brings about 17 h 06 min of light; the shortest, around December 17, only 6 h 54 min — a swing of roughly 10 h 12 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan7.69:485:18
Feb9.39:006:17
Mar11.47:507:17
Apr13.86:308:18
May15.85:259:15
Jun17.04:539:55
Jul16.55:139:46
Aug14.76:068:50
Sep12.57:057:31
Oct10.28:046:14
Nov8.19:075:11
Dec7.09:514:49

Sunny days

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

Nizhneudinsk averages about 5 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 3 and 8 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.3 months, from around Dec 17 to Mar 26. The sunniest month is February, with roughly 7 sunny days (gloomy).

The greyest month is April, down near 4 sunny days — about 42% fewer than the February peak.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyergloomymixedFeb 28 daysApr 283 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan6Gloomy
Feb6Gloomy
Mar6Gloomy
Apr4Gloomy
May5Gloomy
Jun6Gloomy
Jul6Gloomy
Aug6Gloomy
Sep5Gloomy
Oct5Gloomy
Nov4Gloomy
Dec5Gloomy

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

The more humid part of the year lasts 2.2 months, from around June 14 to August 19. The muggiest month is July, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 16% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around August 20 to June 13, and May 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecMay 25 · 100%Jul 18 · 82%humidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan100000
Feb100000
Mar100000
Apr100000
May100000
Jun801640
Jul4737151
Aug722441
Sep99100
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 Nizhneudinsk is typically calm, near 9 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 3.3 months, from around Feb 28 to Jun 7. The windiest month is April, averaging about 10 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Jun 8 to Sep 15, with July the calmest month at about 7 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezeApr 18 · 11 km/hJul 7 · 7 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan8calm
Feb9calm
Mar10calm
Apr10calm
May10calm
Jun8calm
Jul7calm
Aug8calm
Sep9calm
Oct9calm
Nov9calm
Dec9calm

Hazard calendar for Nizhneudinsk

In seasonPeak

When the seasonal hazards worth planning around — the rainy season, tropical-cyclone risk and dust haze — are active through the year.

Nizhneudinsk's rainy season runs May–September, when most of the year's rain falls.

Rainy season
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec

Best time to visit Nizhneudinsk

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late August, Nizhneudinsk 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 Nizhneudinsk for general outdoor tourist activities is from late May to late August, with a peak score in the second week of July.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 9 · 6.3

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
Apr1.3poor
May4.2fair
Jun5.8good
Jul6.1good
Aug5.6good
Sep3.5fair
Oct0.6poor
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 Nizhneudinsk for hot-weather activities is from mid June to early August, with a peak score in the second week of July.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 10 · 5.0

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 Nizhneudinsk, 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 23°C), the essentials are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near -14°C), pack a warm layer and a heavy coat.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Nizhneudinsk sees daytime highs around 23°C and nights near 12°C. Worth packing: light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. About 14 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Nizhneudinsk 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 Nizhneudinsk peaks around July 13 at about 6 (high) — a little sun protection helps at midday. It bottoms out near December 20 at about 0 (low).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecLowModerateHighModerateLowJul 13UV 6Dec 20UV 0
UV index (midday)Level
Jan0Low
Feb1Low
Mar2Low
Apr4Moderate
May5High
Jun6High
Jul6High
Aug5High
Sep3Moderate
Oct2Low
Nov1Low
Dec0Low

Average hourly UV index in Nizhneudinsk

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 7.5 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
Apr3.50
May6.50
Jun70
Jul7.50
Aug60
Sep2.50
Oct00
Nov00
Dec00

Air quality in Nizhneudinsk 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 Nizhneudinsk is worst in April — around 22 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 15.6× the cleanest month (December, 1 µg/m³).

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

0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModerateGoodModerateGoodApr 1820 µg/m³Dec 162 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan3Good
Feb5Good
Mar6Good
Apr22Moderate
May12Good
Jun11Good
Jul13Moderate
Aug10Good
Sep6Good
Oct5Good
Nov3Good
Dec1Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

The growing season in Nizhneudinsk typically lasts about 150 days, from around May 2 to September 28 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from May 27 to September 11.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonMar 3110%May 250%May 2790%Sep 1190%Sep 2850%Oct 2910%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan031
Feb028
Mar431
Apr2430
May7527
Jun990
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep7920
Oct2231
Nov430
Dec131

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. Nizhneudinsk banks about 576 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
May14
Jun158
Jul237
Aug158
Sep9
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.

Nizhneudinsk receives about 3.2 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — moderate — with a clear seasonal swing between 0.6 and 5.9 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.0 months, from around Mar 15 to Sep 12. The brightest month is June, averaging about 5.9 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is December, down near 0.6 kWh/m² — roughly 90% less than the June peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 105.9 kWhDec 180.6 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan0.9Dim
Feb1.8Dim
Mar3.3Moderate
Apr4.7Bright
May5.7Bright
Jun6.0Bright
Jul5.4Bright
Aug4.5Bright
Sep3.1Moderate
Oct1.8Dim
Nov0.9Dim
Dec0.6Dim

Where is Nizhneudinsk?

Nizhneudinsk sits at 54.9°N, 99.0°E, 412 m above sea level, in Russia. The nearest listed city is Tulun, 106 km away.

Topography around Nizhneudinsk

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Nizhneudinsk has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 122 m around an average of 421 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 356 m; within 80 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,105 m.

The land around Nizhneudinsk is covered by trees (44%), artificial surfaces (26%) and grassland (23%) within 3 km, trees (70%) and grassland (22%) within 16 km, and trees (92%) within 80 km.

3 km
122 m
16 km
356 m
80 km
1,105 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Tulun 106 km · Tayshet 132 km · Chunskiy 137 km · Vikhorevka 191 km · Bratsk 212 km · Sayansk 221 km · Zima 224 km · Ilanskiy 238 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 Nizhneudinsk (54.9072°, 99.034°, elevation 412 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).