Climate and average weather in Pochep

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

Best: early May to mid September

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Pochep typically varies from -8°C to 24°C, and is rarely below -21°C or above 30°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 Pochep for warm-weather activities is from early May to mid September.

Hottest
Jul
24°
Coldest
Jan
-8°
Wettest
Jul
87 mm
Driest
Feb
36 mm
Rain / yr
625 mm
122 wet days
Daylight
7.3–16.7 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
163 m
52.9°N
Clearest
Aug
57% cloud

Pochep is city in Bryansk Oblast, Russia.

Density
755/km²
people per km²
Founded
1447

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

Pochep 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 May to mid September.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 4.3 months, from May 7 to September 14, with daily high temperatures above 18°C. The hottest month of the year in Pochep is July, with an average high of 24°C and low of 14°C.

The cool season lasts 3.6 months, from November 18 to March 8, with daily high temperatures below 2°C. The coldest month of the year in Pochep is January, with an average low of -8°C and high of -3°C.

Days typically run about 8°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 10°C) in August.

-20°-10°10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan-3-8
Feb-2-8
Mar3-3
Apr123
May199
Jun2213
Jul2414
Aug2313
Sep178
Oct103
Nov3-2
Dec-2-6

How hot and cold Pochep 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 -16°C (around January 30), with roughly 184 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C) 97 of them bitterly cold — worst in January.

-20°-10°10°20°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan-3-3-14-8
Feb-2-2-14-8
Mar33-9-3
Apr121203
May191979
Jun22221213
Jul24241414
Aug23231313
Sep171768
Oct101003
Nov33-6-2
Dec-2-2-12-6

Average hourly temperature in Pochep

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 24°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near -8°C.

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

Pochep 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-3° / -8°381010.37.90.0
Feb-2° / -8°369.39.19.50.0
Mar / -3°389.36.311.50.1
Apr12° / 439.71.213.63.2
May19° / 6310.9015.55.9
Jun22° / 13°6911.8016.66.3
Jul24° / 14°8713.5016.16.4
Aug23° / 13°609.5014.56.9
Sep17° / 539.1012.45.4
Oct10° / 539.9110.32.2
Nov / -2°449.44.28.40.0
Dec-2° / -6°429.58.87.40.0

Chance of rain

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

Pochep gets about 625 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 2.8 months, from around May 12 to Aug 4, peaking in July at about 46% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Sep 20.

July is the wettest month by volume, with 87 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 wetJul 8 · 46%Sep 20 · 28%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan3210
Feb339
Mar319
Apr3210
May3511
Jun4012
Jul4314
Aug3110
Sep309
Oct3210
Nov329
Dec3010

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Pochep collects about 625 mm of rain across 122 wet days — roughly 52 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. July is the wettest month with 87 mm, while February is the driest at just 36 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 35% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075100125JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec383638436369876053534442
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan381010
Feb3699
Mar3896
Apr43101
May63110
Jun69120
Jul87140
Aug60100
Sep5390
Oct53101
Nov4494
Dec42109

Snow in Pochep

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.

Pochep averages about 41 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Oct 13 to Apr 23 — about 6.3 months.

January is snowiest, with roughly 10 days of snow and an estimated 34 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 147 cm of snow.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonJan 30
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan1034
Feb930
Mar624
Apr13
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct12
Nov422
Dec932

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Pochep, 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 March 20 and lasts for 6.4 months, ending around September 30. The clearest month is July, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 51% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 1 and lasts for 5.6 months, ending around March 19. The cloudiest month is January, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 92% 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 · 54%Jan 15 · 7%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan892
Feb1387
Mar2773
Apr3565
May4456
Jun4852
Jul5149
Aug4951
Sep3466
Oct2377
Nov1288
Dec991

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 16 h 42 min of light; the shortest, around December 18, only 7 h 18 min — a swing of roughly 9 h 24 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan7.99:004:51
Feb9.58:165:46
Mar11.57:116:40
Apr13.65:567:37
May15.54:568:29
Jun16.64:279:05
Jul16.14:468:58
Aug14.55:348:07
Sep12.46:286:53
Oct10.37:225:40
Nov8.48:204:42
Dec7.49:024:23

Sunny days

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

Pochep averages about 5 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 1 and 10 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.8 months, from around Apr 13 to Oct 5. The sunniest month is August, with roughly 9 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is January, down near 1 sunny days — about 85% fewer than the August peak.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedAug 1110 daysJan 191 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan1Gloomy
Feb2Gloomy
Mar5Gloomy
Apr6Gloomy
May8Mixed
Jun7Gloomy
Jul8Mixed
Aug9Mixed
Sep6Gloomy
Oct4Gloomy
Nov2Gloomy
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 Pochep, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 2.9 months, from around June 1 to August 27. The muggiest month is July, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 30% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around August 28 to May 31, and May is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 99% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecMay 1 · 100%Jul 22 · 67%humidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan100000
Feb100000
Mar100000
Apr100000
May881010
Jun6323131
Jul3733255
Aug5431132
Sep901000
Oct99100
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 Pochep is typically light breeze, near 14 km/h, and varies moderately with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 6.0 months, from around Oct 9 to Apr 9. The windiest month is January, averaging about 16 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Apr 10 to Oct 8, with July the calmest month at about 11 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeJan 29 · 16 km/hJul 18 · 11 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan16light breeze
Feb16light breeze
Mar15light breeze
Apr13light breeze
May12light breeze
Jun12light breeze
Jul11calm
Aug12calm
Sep13light breeze
Oct14light breeze
Nov14light breeze
Dec15light breeze

Best time to visit Pochep

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 13 · 7.1

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
Mar0.2poor
Apr3.2poor
May5.9good
Jun6.3good
Jul6.4good
Aug6.9good
Sep5.4fair
Oct2.2poor
Nov0.1poor
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 Pochep for hot-weather activities is from early July to late August, with a peak score in the first week of August.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 6 · 6.1

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 Pochep, 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 24°C), the essentials are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near -3°C), pack a warm layer, a heavy coat and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Pochep sees daytime highs around 24°C and nights near 14°C. Worth packing: light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. About 14 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Pochep 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 Pochep peaks around July 13 at about 6 (high) — sunscreen and a hat are worth it in the middle of the day. It bottoms out near December 18 at about 1 (low).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecLowModerateHighModerateLowJul 13UV 6Dec 18UV 1
UV index (midday)Level
Jan1Low
Feb1Low
Mar2Moderate
Apr4Moderate
May4Moderate
Jun6High
Jul7High
Aug5Moderate
Sep4Moderate
Oct2Low
Nov1Low
Dec1Low

Average hourly UV index in Pochep

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), and 2 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
Apr4.50
May5.50
Jun7.50
Jul7.52
Aug60
Sep40
Oct00
Nov00
Dec00
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

The growing season in Pochep typically lasts about 218 days, from around April 3 to November 6 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from April 26 to October 3.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonApr 350%Apr 2690%Oct 390%Nov 650%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan1331
Feb1528
Mar2531
Apr7626
May980
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep980
Oct7727
Nov3930
Dec1731

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. Pochep banks about 952 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around July.

02004006008001,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr4
May116
Jun219
Jul285
Aug247
Sep81
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.

Pochep receives about 3.0 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — moderate — with a clear seasonal swing between 0.5 and 5.8 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 5.9 months, from around Mar 19 to Sep 14. The brightest month is June, averaging about 5.7 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is December, down near 0.5 kWh/m² — roughly 91% less than the June peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 75.8 kWhDec 180.5 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan0.7Dim
Feb1.5Dim
Mar2.9Moderate
Apr4.2Bright
May5.3Bright
Jun5.7Bright
Jul5.4Bright
Aug4.5Bright
Sep3.0Moderate
Oct1.6Dim
Nov0.7Dim
Dec0.5Dim

Where is Pochep?

Pochep sits at 52.9°N, 33.4°E, 163 m above sea level, in Russia. The nearest listed city is Trubchevsk, 45 km away.

Topography around Pochep

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Pochep has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 45 m around an average of 160 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 80 m; within 80 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 166 m.

The land around Pochep is covered by grassland (35%), cropland (28%) and trees (24%) within 3 km, cropland (42%), trees (29%) and grassland (28%) within 16 km, and trees (56%) and cropland (27%) within 80 km.

3 km
45 m
16 km
80 m
80 km
166 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Trubchevsk 45 km · Unecha 52 km · Starodub 60 km · Sel’tso 65 km · Zhukovka 69 km · Bryansk 69 km · Klintsy 83 km · Dyat’kovo 95 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 Pochep (52.9331°, 33.447°, elevation 163 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. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).