Climate and average weather in Shushenskoye

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

Best: mid May to mid September

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Shushenskoye typically varies from -22°C to 26°C, and is rarely below -34°C or above 31°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 Shushenskoye for warm-weather activities is from mid May to mid September.

Hottest
Jul
26°
Coldest
Jan
-22°
Wettest
Aug
77 mm
Driest
Feb
10 mm
Rain / yr
503 mm
102 wet days
Daylight
7.3–16.7 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
278 m
53.3°N
Clearest
Aug
59% cloud

Shushenskoye is town in Shushensky District, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia.

Density
166/km²
people per km²
Founded
1744

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

Shushenskoye 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 September.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Shushenskoye, 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 9 to September 15, with daily high temperatures above 17°C. The hottest month of the year in Shushenskoye is July, with an average high of 26°C and low of 14°C.

The cool season lasts 3.1 months, from November 22 to February 24, with daily high temperatures below -4°C. The coldest month of the year in Shushenskoye is January, with an average low of -22°C and high of -12°C.

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

-20°20°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan-11-22
Feb-7-19
Mar2-10
Apr12-1
May185
Jun2412
Jul2614
Aug2312
Sep175
Oct8-1
Nov-2-10
Dec-9-18

How hot and cold Shushenskoye 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 -29°C (around January 26), with roughly 218 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C) 144 of them bitterly cold — worst in January.

-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan-12-11-28-22
Feb-7-7-25-19
Mar22-15-10
Apr1212-4-1
May181835
Jun24241112
Jul26261414
Aug23231212
Sep171735
Oct88-5-1
Nov-2-2-15-10
Dec-9-9-24-18

Average hourly temperature in Shushenskoye

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 26°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near -22°C.

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

Shushenskoye 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-12° / -22°113.967.80.0
Feb-7° / -19°103.44.79.40.0
Mar / -10°1854.711.50.2
Apr12° / -1°368.63.513.73.0
May18° / 5611.30.615.65.6
Jun24° / 12°6711016.66.6
Jul26° / 14°7310.9016.26.5
Aug23° / 12°7712.3014.66.5
Sep17° / 6210.80.312.45.1
Oct / -1°439.43.410.31.6
Nov-2° / -10°308.58.18.40.0
Dec-9° / -18°206.68.47.40.0

Chance of rain

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

Shushenskoye gets about 503 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is some rain, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 7.0 months, from around Apr 12 to Nov 11, peaking in August at about 41% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jan 26.

August is the wettest month by volume, with 77 mm over about 12 wet days; February is the driest, with 10 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetAug 21 · 41%Jan 26 · 11%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan134
Feb123
Mar165
Apr299
May3611
Jun3611
Jul3511
Aug3912
Sep3511
Oct319
Nov289
Dec217

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Shushenskoye collects about 503 mm of rain across 102 wet days — roughly 42 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. August is the wettest month with 77 mm, while February is the driest at just 10 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 43% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075100JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec111018365667737762433020
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan1146
Feb1035
Mar1855
Apr3694
May56111
Jun67110
Jul73110
Aug77120
Sep62110
Oct4393
Nov3098
Dec2078

Snow in Shushenskoye

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.

Shushenskoye averages about 40 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Sep 22 to May 16 — about 7.8 months.

November is snowiest, with roughly 8 days of snow and an estimated 28 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 126 cm of snow.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonNov 27
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan616
Feb515
Mar516
Apr412
May12
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep01
Oct312
Nov828
Dec824

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Shushenskoye, 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 13 and lasts for 4.8 months, ending around October 5. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 47% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 6 and lasts for 3.5 months, ending around January 21. The cloudiest month is November, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 73% 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 17 · 49%Nov 25 · 24%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan3565
Feb3862
Mar3763
Apr3367
May3961
Jun4555
Jul4357
Aug4753
Sep4456
Oct3367
Nov2773
Dec3070

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 16 h 42 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, 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)
Jan7.89:084:55
Feb9.48:235:50
Mar11.57:186:46
Apr13.76:027:43
May15.65:008:37
Jun16.64:319:14
Jul16.24:509:06
Aug14.65:398:14
Sep12.46:346:59
Oct10.37:295:45
Nov8.48:284:47
Dec7.49:104:27

Sunny days

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

Shushenskoye averages about 7 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 5 and 9 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 2.7 months, from around Jan 8 to Mar 29. The sunniest month is January, with roughly 8 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is November, down near 5 sunny days — about 36% fewer than the January peak.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyergloomymixedJan 299 daysNov 255 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan8Mixed
Feb8Mixed
Mar8Mixed
Apr6Gloomy
May7Gloomy
Jun8Gloomy
Jul8Mixed
Aug9Mixed
Sep8Mixed
Oct7Gloomy
Nov5Gloomy
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 Shushenskoye, how humid it feels changes noticeably over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 2.3 months, from around June 12 to August 21. The muggiest month is July, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 25% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around August 22 to June 11, 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 10 · 100%Jul 17 · 71%humidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan100000
Feb100000
Mar100000
Apr100000
May98200
Jun702370
Jul3639223
Aug593290
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.

Wind in Shushenskoye is steady company: average speeds sit near 8 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeApr 25 · 10 km/hJul 14 · 7 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan8calm
Feb8calm
Mar9calm
Apr10calm
May9calm
Jun8calm
Jul7calm
Aug7calm
Sep8calm
Oct9calm
Nov9calm
Dec9calm

Best time to visit Shushenskoye

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJun 16 · 6.7

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
Apr2.9poor
May5.5good
Jun6.6good
Jul6.6good
Aug6.4good
Sep5.1fair
Oct1.6poor
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 Shushenskoye for hot-weather activities is from early June to mid August, with a peak score in the second week of July.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 11 · 6.3

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 Shushenskoye, 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 26°C), the essentials are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near -12°C), pack a warm layer and a heavy coat.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Shushenskoye sees daytime highs around 26°C and nights near 14°C. Worth packing: light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. About 11 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Shushenskoye 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 Shushenskoye peaks around July 12 at about 6 (high) — sunscreen and a hat are worth it in the middle of the day. It bottoms out near December 19 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 12UV 6Dec 19UV 0
UV index (midday)Level
Jan1Low
Feb1Low
Mar2Moderate
Apr4Moderate
May6High
Jun6High
Jul6High
Aug6High
Sep4Moderate
Oct2Low
Nov1Low
Dec0Low

Average hourly UV index in Shushenskoye

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 1.5 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
Apr40
May70
Jun7.51
Jul7.51.5
Aug6.50
Sep3.50
Oct00
Nov00
Dec00
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

The growing season in Shushenskoye typically lasts about 173 days, from around April 20 to October 9 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from May 16 to September 16.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonMar 2010%Apr 2050%May 1690%Sep 1690%Oct 950%Nov 1010%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan131
Feb128
Mar831
Apr4230
May8814
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep8914
Oct3931
Nov930
Dec231

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. Shushenskoye banks about 874 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
Apr0
May62
Jun233
Jul309
Aug229
Sep41
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.

Shushenskoye receives about 3.4 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — moderate — with a clear seasonal swing between 0.8 and 6.1 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.1 months, from around Mar 14 to Sep 16. The brightest month is June, averaging about 6.0 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 0.8 kWh/m² — roughly 87% less than the June peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 126.1 kWhDec 180.8 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan1.1Dim
Feb2.1Moderate
Mar3.5Moderate
Apr4.7Bright
May5.7Bright
Jun6.1Intense
Jul5.5Bright
Aug4.7Bright
Sep3.4Moderate
Oct1.9Dim
Nov1.1Dim
Dec0.8Dim

Where is Shushenskoye?

Shushenskoye sits at 53.3°N, 91.9°E, 278 m above sea level, in Russia. The nearest listed city is Sayanogorsk, 43 km away.

Topography around Shushenskoye

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Shushenskoye has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 46 m around an average of 282 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 201 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,077 m.

The land around Shushenskoye is covered by trees (50%) and grassland (21%) within 3 km, grassland (41%), trees (30%) and cropland (25%) within 16 km, and trees (49%) and grassland (36%) within 80 km.

3 km
46 m
16 km
201 m
80 km
2,077 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Sayanogorsk 43 km · Minusinsk 45 km · Abakan 55 km · Chernogorsk 70 km · Abaza 144 km · Kyzyl 247 km · Mezhdurechensk 259 km · Uzhur 260 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 Shushenskoye (53.3236°, 91.9361°, elevation 278 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).