Climate and average weather in Nizhnyaya Salda

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

Best: mid May to late August

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Nizhnyaya Salda typically varies from -17°C to 23°C, and is rarely below -29°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 Nizhnyaya Salda for warm-weather activities is from mid May to late August.

Hottest
Jul
23°
Coldest
Jan
-17°
Wettest
Jul
88 mm
Driest
Feb
16 mm
Rain / yr
563 mm
111 wet days
Daylight
6.1–17.9 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
167 m
58.1°N
Clearest
Jul
65% cloud

Nizhnyaya Salda is human settlement in Nizhnyaya Salda Urban Okrug, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia.

Founded
1760

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

Nizhnyaya Salda 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 late August.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Nizhnyaya Salda, 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 7 to September 11, with daily high temperatures above 14°C. The hottest month of the year in Nizhnyaya Salda is July, with an average high of 23°C and low of 13°C.

The cool season lasts 3.4 months, from November 17 to February 27, with daily high temperatures below -4°C. The coldest month of the year in Nizhnyaya Salda is January, with an average low of -17°C and high of -11°C.

Days typically run about 8°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 11°C) in May.

-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan-11-17
Feb-8-16
Mar0-9
Apr8-1
May165
Jun2110
Jul2313
Aug2011
Sep136
Oct60
Nov-4-9
Dec-9-15

How hot and cold Nizhnyaya Salda 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 -25°C (around January 27), with roughly 220 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C) 149 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-11-11-25-17
Feb-8-8-23-16
Mar00-15-9
Apr88-5-1
May161625
Jun2121910
Jul23231313
Aug19201011
Sep131336
Oct66-40
Nov-4-4-15-9
Dec-9-9-22-15

Average hourly temperature in Nizhnyaya Salda

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 -17°C.

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

Nizhnyaya Salda 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-11° / -17°185.97.26.90.0
Feb-8° / -16°164.86.38.90.0
Mar-0° / -9°256.77.411.40.0
Apr / -1°357.83.7141.6
May16° / 5810.20.916.44.9
Jun21° / 10°8412.90.117.75.9
Jul23° / 13°8813.2017.26.2
Aug20° / 11°8513.2015.15.5
Sep13° / 6311.60.412.53.5
Oct / -0°4310.24.19.90.6
Nov-4° / -9°2987.97.60.0
Dec-9° / -15°206.38.46.30.0

Chance of rain

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

Nizhnyaya Salda gets about 563 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 6.0 months, from around May 6 to Nov 5, peaking in June at about 45% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Feb 22.

July is the wettest month by volume, with 88 mm over about 13 wet days; February is the driest, with 16 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJun 11 · 45%Feb 22 · 16%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan206
Feb175
Mar217
Apr268
May3410
Jun4313
Jul4213
Aug4213
Sep3912
Oct3310
Nov278
Dec206

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Nizhnyaya Salda collects about 563 mm of rain across 111 wet days — roughly 47 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. July is the wettest month with 88 mm, while February is the driest at just 16 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 46% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075100125JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec181625355884888563432920
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan1867
Feb1656
Mar2577
Apr3584
May58101
Jun84130
Jul88130
Aug85130
Sep63120
Oct43104
Nov2988
Dec2068

Snow in Nizhnyaya Salda

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.

Nizhnyaya Salda averages about 46 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Sep 19 to May 29 — about 8.3 months.

December is snowiest, with roughly 8 days of snow and an estimated 21 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 160 cm of snow.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonDec 28
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan724
Feb622
Mar726
Apr415
May16
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep01
Oct418
Nov828
Dec821

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Nizhnyaya Salda, 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 March 29 and lasts for 4.8 months, ending around August 20. The clearest month is July, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 40% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around August 21 and lasts for 5.7 months, ending around February 11. The cloudiest month is December, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 86% 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 15 · 41%Dec 11 · 13%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan1783
Feb2575
Mar2575
Apr2971
May3664
Jun3862
Jul4060
Aug2971
Sep2278
Oct1783
Nov1585
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 18, brings about 17 h 54 min of light; the shortest, around December 18, only 6 h 06 min — a swing of roughly 11 h 48 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan6.99:414:31
Feb8.98:445:40
Mar11.47:266:48
Apr14.05:567:58
May16.44:429:05
Jun17.74:029:52
Jul17.24:259:40
Aug15.15:288:35
Sep12.56:377:06
Oct9.97:455:40
Nov7.68:574:27
Dec6.39:483:58

Sunny days

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

Nizhnyaya Salda averages about 4 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 2 and 7 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 6.2 months, from around Feb 7 to Aug 14. The sunniest month is July, with roughly 7 sunny days (gloomy).

The greyest month is October, down near 2 sunny days — about 65% fewer than the July peak.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedJul 187 daysOct 212 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan3Gloomy
Feb4Gloomy
Mar5Gloomy
Apr5Gloomy
May6Gloomy
Jun5Gloomy
Jul7Gloomy
Aug4Gloomy
Sep3Gloomy
Oct2Gloomy
Nov3Gloomy
Dec2Gloomy

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 Nizhnyaya Salda, how humid it feels changes noticeably over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 2.6 months, from around June 10 to August 28. The muggiest month is July, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 20% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around August 29 to June 9, 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 14 · 100%Jul 21 · 77%humidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan100000
Feb100000
Mar100000
Apr100000
May98200
Jun751861
Jul5228183
Aug692191
Sep97300
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 Nizhnyaya Salda is typically calm, near 12 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 4.4 months, from around Sep 23 to Feb 3. The windiest month is October, averaging about 13 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around May 5 to Sep 22, with July the calmest month at about 10 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeOct 24 · 13 km/hJul 17 · 10 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan12light breeze
Feb12light breeze
Mar13light breeze
Apr12light breeze
May12calm
Jun11calm
Jul10calm
Aug11calm
Sep12calm
Oct13light breeze
Nov12light breeze
Dec12light breeze

Best time to visit Nizhnyaya Salda

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late May, Nizhnyaya Salda 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 Nizhnyaya Salda for general outdoor tourist activities is from mid May to late August, with a peak score in the third week of July.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 21 · 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
Apr1.6poor
May4.8fair
Jun5.8good
Jul6.2good
Aug5.5good
Sep3.5poor
Oct0.7poor
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 Nizhnyaya Salda 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 20 · 4.8

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 Nizhnyaya Salda, 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 -11°C), pack a warm layer and a heavy coat.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Nizhnyaya Salda sees daytime highs around 23°C and nights near 13°C. Worth packing: light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. About 13 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Nizhnyaya Salda 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 Nizhnyaya Salda peaks around June 21 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 5 months of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecLowModerateHighModerateLowJun 21UV 6Dec 20UV 0
UV index (midday)Level
Jan0Low
Feb1Low
Mar2Low
Apr3Moderate
May4Moderate
Jun6High
Jul5High
Aug4Moderate
Sep3Moderate
Oct1Low
Nov1Low
Dec0Low

Average hourly UV index in Nizhnyaya Salda

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 June 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
Apr00
May4.50
Jun7.50
Jul70
Aug4.50
Sep00
Oct00
Nov00
Dec00

Air quality in Nizhnyaya Salda 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 Nizhnyaya Salda is worst in April — around 15 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 2.9× the cleanest month (January, 5 µg/m³).

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

01020JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModerateModerateGoodApr 2015 µg/m³Jan 15 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan5Good
Feb8Good
Mar11Good
Apr15Moderate
May14Moderate
Jun11Good
Jul15Moderate
Aug13Moderate
Sep9Good
Oct8Good
Nov7Good
Dec5Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

The growing season in Nizhnyaya Salda typically lasts about 177 days, from around April 21 to October 14 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from May 23 to September 18.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonMar 2510%Apr 2150%May 2390%Sep 1890%Oct 1450%Nov 2010%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan231
Feb328
Mar831
Apr4130
May8422
Jun990
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep9112
Oct4831
Nov1230
Dec331

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. Nizhnyaya Salda banks about 598 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
May30
Jun164
Jul234
Aug154
Sep16
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.

Nizhnyaya Salda receives about 2.7 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — moderate — with a clear seasonal swing between 0.3 and 5.5 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 5.7 months, from around Mar 18 to Sep 7. The brightest month is June, averaging about 5.5 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is December, down near 0.3 kWh/m² — roughly 94% less than the June peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 105.5 kWhDec 200.3 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan0.5Dim
Feb1.3Dim
Mar2.6Moderate
Apr4.1Bright
May5.2Bright
Jun5.5Bright
Jul5.1Bright
Aug3.7Moderate
Sep2.4Moderate
Oct1.2Dim
Nov0.6Dim
Dec0.3Dim

Where is Nizhnyaya Salda?

Nizhnyaya Salda sits at 58.1°N, 60.7°E, 167 m above sea level, in Russia. The nearest listed city is Verkhnyaya Salda, 11 km away.

Topography around Nizhnyaya Salda

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Nizhnyaya Salda has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 73 m around an average of 193 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 122 m; within 80 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 686 m.

The land around Nizhnyaya Salda is covered by grassland (39%) and trees (38%) within 3 km, trees (90%) within 16 km, and trees (87%) within 80 km.

3 km
73 m
16 km
122 m
80 km
686 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswaterwetland
Nearby: Verkhnyaya Salda 11 km · Nizhny Tagil 48 km · Krasnoural’sk 51 km · Kushva 62 km · Alapayevsk 63 km · Nev’yansk 72 km · Nizhnyaya Tura 79 km · Kirovgrad 82 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 Nizhnyaya Salda (58.0776°, 60.7202°, elevation 167 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).