Climate and average weather in Otradnaya

In Otradnaya, the summers are warm, showery, and mostly clear and the winters are cold, snowy, and mostly cloudy.

Best: late May to mid October

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Otradnaya typically varies from -6°C to 27°C, and is rarely below -16°C or above 34°C. August is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Otradnaya for warm-weather activities is from late May to mid October.

Hottest
Aug
27°
Coldest
Jan
-6°
Wettest
Jun
110 mm
Driest
Feb
36 mm
Rain / yr
804 mm
127 wet days
Daylight
8.7–15.3 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
431 m
44.4°N
Clearest
Aug
39% cloud

Otradnaya is human settlement in Russia.

Founded
1857

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

Otradnaya 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 mid October.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Otradnaya, 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 26 to September 21, with daily high temperatures above 22°C. The hottest month of the year in Otradnaya is August, with an average high of 27°C and low of 16°C.

The cool season lasts 3.4 months, from November 23 to March 4, with daily high temperatures below 7°C. The coldest month of the year in Otradnaya is January, with an average low of -6°C and high of 2°C.

Days typically run about 10°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 11°C) in August.

-20°-10°10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2-5
Feb4-5
Mar90
Apr155
May2010
Jun2414
Jul2716
Aug2716
Sep2311
Oct166
Nov90
Dec4-4

How hot and cold Otradnaya 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 -11°C (around January 30), with roughly 157 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C) 28 of them bitterly cold — worst in January.

-10°10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan22-10-5
Feb44-10-5
Mar99-40
Apr151525
May2020910
Jun24241414
Jul27271616
Aug27271616
Sep23231111
Oct161646
Nov99-30
Dec44-8-4

Average hourly temperature in Otradnaya

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 August afternoons, near 27°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near -6°C.

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

Otradnaya 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 / -6°419.27.290.0
Feb / -5°368.15.510.10.1
Mar / -1°5911.75.511.61.7
Apr15° / 7512.60.913.24.3
May20° / 10°10815.10.114.65.6
Jun24° / 14°11013.8015.36.3
Jul27° / 16°7610.10156.6
Aug27° / 16°679.8013.86.7
Sep23° / 11°719.2012.37.1
Oct16° / 648.70.510.85.3
Nov / 508.82.89.41.8
Dec / -4°469.568.70.0

Chance of rain

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

Otradnaya gets about 804 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 4.1 months, from around Mar 6 to Jul 9, peaking in May at about 49% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Oct 6.

June is the wettest month by volume, with 110 mm over about 14 wet days; February is the driest, with 36 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetMay 27 · 49%Oct 6 · 27%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan309
Feb308
Mar3712
Apr4313
May4815
Jun4514
Jul3410
Aug3110
Sep309
Oct289
Nov309
Dec3110

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Otradnaya collects about 804 mm of rain across 127 wet days — roughly 67 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. June is the wettest month with 110 mm, while February is the driest at just 36 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 37% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075100125150JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec41365975108110766771645046
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan4197
Feb3686
Mar59126
Apr75131
May108150
Jun110140
Jul76100
Aug67100
Sep7190
Oct6491
Nov5093
Dec46106

Snow in Otradnaya

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.

Otradnaya averages about 29 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Oct 21 to Apr 25 — about 6.1 months.

January is snowiest, with roughly 7 days of snow and an estimated 28 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 115 cm of snow.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonJan 27
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan728
Feb625
Mar620
Apr13
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct11
Nov314
Dec625

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Otradnaya, 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 8 and lasts for 4.5 months, ending around October 21. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 73% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 22 and lasts for 7.5 months, ending around June 7. The cloudiest month is January, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 71% 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 11 · 75%Jan 10 · 28%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan2971
Feb3367
Mar3268
Apr3664
May4060
Jun5347
Jul7030
Aug7327
Sep6337
Oct4951
Nov4159
Dec3367

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 10, brings about 15 h 18 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 8 h 42 min — a swing of roughly 6 h 36 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan9.07:534:53
Feb10.17:245:33
Mar11.66:356:12
Apr13.25:376:51
May14.64:537:28
Jun15.34:347:54
Jul15.04:497:51
Aug13.85:227:14
Sep12.35:596:17
Oct10.86:375:21
Nov9.47:184:40
Dec8.77:504:30

Sunny days

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

Otradnaya averages about 10 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 5 and 17 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.5 months, from around Jun 15 to Oct 30. The sunniest month is August, with roughly 17 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is January, down near 5 sunny days — about 68% fewer than the August peak.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightAug 417 daysJan 245 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan5Gloomy
Feb6Gloomy
Mar6Gloomy
Apr7Gloomy
May8Gloomy
Jun10Mixed
Jul16Bright
Aug17Bright
Sep14Mixed
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 Otradnaya, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 3.3 months, from around June 1 to September 9. The muggiest month is July, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 44% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around September 10 to May 31, and October 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecOct 2 · 100%Jul 28 · 52%muggyhumidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan100000
Feb100000
Mar100000
Apr100000
May801820
Jun3638233
Jul2036349
Aug3031327
Sep672661
Oct97300
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 Otradnaya is steady company: average speeds sit near 11 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeMar 22 · 12 km/hJun 29 · 9 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan10calm
Feb11calm
Mar12calm
Apr12calm
May10calm
Jun10calm
Jul10calm
Aug11calm
Sep11calm
Oct11calm
Nov11calm
Dec10calm

Best time to visit Otradnaya

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 12 · 7.3

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
Feb0.1poor
Mar1.7poor
Apr4.2fair
May5.6good
Jun6.3good
Jul6.6good
Aug6.7good
Sep7.1good
Oct5.3fair
Nov1.8poor
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 Otradnaya for hot-weather activities is from late June to mid September, with a peak score in the first week of August.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 5 · 7.3

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 Otradnaya, 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 August (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, a heavy coat and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In August, Otradnaya sees daytime highs around 27°C and nights near 16°C. Pack light clothes. Worth having: rain gear and sun protection. About 10 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Otradnaya 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 Otradnaya peaks around July 12 at about 9 (very high) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 20 at about 1 (low).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecLowModerateHighVery highHighModerateLowJul 12UV 9Dec 20UV 1
UV index (midday)Level
Jan2Low
Feb2Low
Mar2Moderate
Apr6High
May6High
Jun9Very high
Jul9Very high
Aug8Very high
Sep6High
Oct3Moderate
Nov2Low
Dec1Low

Average hourly UV index in Otradnaya

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
May72
Jun8.55.5
Jul8.55.5
Aug7.54.5
Sep60
Oct2.50
Nov00
Dec00

Air quality in Otradnaya 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 Otradnaya is worst in March — around 17 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 2.4× the cleanest month (December, 7 µg/m³).

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

01020JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModerateGoodMar 1816 µg/m³Dec 187 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan9Good
Feb11Good
Mar17Moderate
Apr13Moderate
May12Moderate
Jun13Moderate
Jul12Good
Aug12Good
Sep9Good
Oct9Good
Nov9Good
Dec7Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

The growing season in Otradnaya typically lasts about 241 days, from around March 21 to November 16 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from April 15 to October 21.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonMar 2150%Apr 1590%Oct 2190%Nov 1650%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan1531
Feb2028
Mar4631
Apr8814
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct9211
Nov5330
Dec2431

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. Otradnaya banks about 1,431 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
May156
Jun274
Jul364
Aug361
Sep210
Oct50
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.

Otradnaya receives about 3.8 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — moderate — with a clear seasonal swing between 1.4 and 6.2 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.0 months, from around Mar 22 to Sep 21. The brightest month is July, averaging about 6.1 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 1.4 kWh/m² — roughly 77% less than the July peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJul 86.2 kWhDec 191.4 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan1.7Dim
Feb2.7Moderate
Mar3.6Moderate
Apr4.8Bright
May5.4Bright
Jun5.9Bright
Jul6.2Intense
Aug5.5Bright
Sep4.1Bright
Oct2.7Moderate
Nov1.8Dim
Dec1.4Dim

Where is Otradnaya?

Otradnaya sits at 44.4°N, 41.5°E, 431 m above sea level, in Russia. The nearest listed city is Kochubeyevskoye, 38 km away.

Topography around Otradnaya

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Otradnaya has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 147 m around an average of 465 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 442 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,133 m.

The land around Otradnaya is covered by cropland (41%), artificial surfaces (24%) and trees (23%) within 3 km, cropland (68%) within 16 km, and cropland (45%), grassland (28%) and trees (25%) within 80 km.

3 km
147 m
16 km
442 m
80 km
2,133 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Kochubeyevskoye 38 km · Nevinnomyssk 43 km · Cherkessk 46 km · Ust’-Dzheguta 50 km · Mostovskoy 58 km · Zelenchukskaya 60 km · Labinsk 68 km · Armavir 75 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 Otradnaya (44.3932°, 41.5193°, elevation 431 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).