Climate and average weather in Ust’-Dzheguta

In Ust’-Dzheguta, the summers are warm, showery, and mostly clear and the winters are cold, snowy, and partly cloudy.

Best: late June to early October

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Ust’-Dzheguta typically varies from -8°C to 24°C, and is rarely below -18°C or above 30°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 Ust’-Dzheguta for warm-weather activities is from late June to early October.

Hottest
Aug
24°
Coldest
Jan
-8°
Wettest
May
113 mm
Driest
Feb
34 mm
Rain / yr
779 mm
125 wet days
Daylight
8.7–15.3 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
628 m
44.1°N
Clearest
Aug
44% cloud

Ust’-Dzheguta is human settlement in Ust-Dzhegutinsky District, Karachay-Cherkess Republic, Russia.

Founded
1861

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

Ust’-Dzheguta 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 June to early October.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 4.0 months, from May 24 to September 23, with daily high temperatures above 19°C. The hottest month of the year in Ust’-Dzheguta is August, with an average high of 24°C and low of 12°C.

The cool season lasts 3.4 months, from November 24 to March 7, with daily high temperatures below 7°C. The coldest month of the year in Ust’-Dzheguta is January, with an average low of -8°C and high of 2°C.

Days typically run about 11°C warmer than nights year-round.

-20°-10°10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2-8
Feb4-7
Mar8-3
Apr142
May187
Jun2210
Jul2413
Aug2412
Sep208
Oct153
Nov8-3
Dec4-6

How hot and cold Ust’-Dzheguta 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 -12°C (around January 25), with roughly 177 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C) 51 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)
Jan22-11-8
Feb44-10-7
Mar88-6-3
Apr1314-12
May181857
Jun22221010
Jul24241313
Aug24241212
Sep202078
Oct151523
Nov88-5-3
Dec34-9-6

Average hourly temperature in Ust’-Dzheguta

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 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

Ust’-Dzheguta 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 / -8°368.27.59.10.0
Feb / -7°347.46.810.20.0
Mar / -3°6511.6811.61.2
Apr14° / 8312.7313.23.5
May18° / 11316.50.214.54.9
Jun22° / 10°11314.9015.25.9
Jul24° / 13°6910.40157.0
Aug24° / 12°629.4013.87.3
Sep20° / 609012.36.7
Oct15° / 629.31.410.84.8
Nov / -3°447.54.49.41.6
Dec / -6°397.96.48.80.0

Chance of rain

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

Ust’-Dzheguta gets about 779 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 4.3 months, from around Mar 8 to Jul 17, peaking in May at about 54% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Dec 1.

May is the wettest month by volume, with 113 mm over about 17 wet days; February is the driest, with 34 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetMay 16 · 54%Dec 1 · 25%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan268
Feb277
Mar3712
Apr4313
May5317
Jun4915
Jul3510
Aug319
Sep299
Oct299
Nov268
Dec258

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Ust’-Dzheguta collects about 779 mm of rain across 125 wet days — roughly 65 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. May is the wettest month with 113 mm, while February is the driest at just 34 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 40% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075100125150JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec36346583113113696260624439
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan3688
Feb3477
Mar65128
Apr83133
May113170
Jun113150
Jul69100
Aug6290
Sep6090
Oct6291
Nov4484
Dec3986

Snow in Ust’-Dzheguta

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.

Ust’-Dzheguta averages about 38 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Oct 8 to May 8 — about 7 months.

March is snowiest, with roughly 8 days of snow and an estimated 38 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 174 cm of snow.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonMar 14
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan834
Feb731
Mar838
Apr312
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct14
Nov423
Dec631

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Ust’-Dzheguta, 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 15 and lasts for 5.5 months, ending around November 27. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 67% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around November 28 and lasts for 6.5 months, ending around June 14. The cloudiest month is March, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 65% 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 5 · 68%Mar 16 · 33%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan3862
Feb3961
Mar3565
Apr3862
May3961
Jun4852
Jul6436
Aug6733
Sep5941
Oct5149
Nov5050
Dec4357

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 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)
Jan9.17:504:53
Feb10.27:215:32
Mar11.66:336:10
Apr13.25:366:49
May14.54:527:25
Jun15.24:347:51
Jul15.04:487:48
Aug13.85:217:11
Sep12.35:576:15
Oct10.86:345:20
Nov9.47:164:39
Dec8.87:474:30

Sunny days

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

Ust’-Dzheguta averages about 10 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 6 and 15 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.4 months, from around Jun 25 to Dec 5. The sunniest month is August, with roughly 15 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is April, down near 7 sunny days — about 55% fewer than the August peak.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightAug 615 daysApr 226 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan8Mixed
Feb8Mixed
Mar7Gloomy
Apr6Gloomy
May6Gloomy
Jun8Mixed
Jul13Mixed
Aug15Mixed
Sep13Mixed
Oct12Mixed
Nov12Mixed
Dec9Mixed

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 Ust’-Dzheguta, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 2.6 months, from around June 16 to September 2. The muggiest month is July, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 24% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around September 3 to June 15, 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 8 · 100%Jul 28 · 68%humidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan100000
Feb100000
Mar100000
Apr100000
May96400
Jun603550
Jul2848222
Aug3346191
Sep841410
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 Ust’-Dzheguta is steady company: average speeds sit near 6 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeApr 22 · 7 km/hDec 10 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan6calm
Feb6calm
Mar7calm
Apr7calm
May7calm
Jun6calm
Jul6calm
Aug6calm
Sep6calm
Oct6calm
Nov6calm
Dec6calm

Best time to visit Ust’-Dzheguta

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late June, Ust’-Dzheguta 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 Ust’-Dzheguta for general outdoor tourist activities is from mid June to early October, with a peak score in the last week of August.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 26 · 7.4

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
Mar1.2poor
Apr3.5poor
May4.9fair
Jun5.9good
Jul7.0good
Aug7.3good
Sep6.7good
Oct4.8fair
Nov1.6poor
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 Ust’-Dzheguta for hot-weather activities is from early July to early September, with a peak score in the first week of August.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 2 · 6.5

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 Ust’-Dzheguta, 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 24°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, Ust’-Dzheguta sees daytime highs around 24°C and nights near 12°C. Worth packing: light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. About 9 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Ust’-Dzheguta 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 Ust’-Dzheguta peaks around July 11 at about 9 (very high) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near January 13 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 11UV 9Jan 13UV 1
UV index (midday)Level
Jan1Low
Feb2Moderate
Mar3Moderate
Apr6High
May7High
Jun9Very high
Jul9Very high
Aug8Very high
Sep6High
Oct4Moderate
Nov2Low
Dec2Low

Average hourly UV index in Ust’-Dzheguta

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
Apr6.50
May73
Jun8.55.5
Jul8.55.5
Aug84.5
Sep61.5
Oct30
Nov00
Dec00

Air quality in Ust’-Dzheguta 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 Ust’-Dzheguta is worst in March — around 16 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 2.2× the cleanest month (December, 7 µg/m³).

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

01020JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModerateGoodMar 1916 µg/m³Dec 198 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan9Good
Feb10Good
Mar16Moderate
Apr13Moderate
May13Moderate
Jun14Moderate
Jul13Moderate
Aug12Moderate
Sep10Good
Oct10Good
Nov10Good
Dec7Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

The growing season in Ust’-Dzheguta typically lasts about 209 days, from around April 6 to October 31 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from May 3 to October 10.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonJan 2910%Apr 650%May 390%Oct 1090%Oct 3150%Dec 2810%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan831
Feb1228
Mar2431
Apr6730
May982
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep990
Oct7922
Nov2730
Dec1331

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. Ust’-Dzheguta banks about 906 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
May70
Jun181
Jul259
Aug257
Sep127
Oct12
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.

Ust’-Dzheguta receives about 3.9 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — moderate — with a clear seasonal swing between 1.6 and 5.9 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.2 months, from around Mar 18 to Sep 21. The brightest month is July, averaging about 5.8 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is December, down near 1.6 kWh/m² — roughly 72% less than the July peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJul 65.9 kWhDec 201.6 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan1.9Dim
Feb2.9Moderate
Mar3.8Moderate
Apr4.9Bright
May5.3Bright
Jun5.7Bright
Jul5.9Bright
Aug5.3Bright
Sep4.1Bright
Oct3.0Moderate
Nov2.1Moderate
Dec1.6Dim

Where is Ust’-Dzheguta?

Ust’-Dzheguta sits at 44.1°N, 42.0°E, 628 m above sea level, in Russia. The nearest listed city is Cherkessk, 17 km away.

Topography around Ust’-Dzheguta

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 3, 16 and 80 km of Ust’-Dzheguta.

Within 3 km, the terrain around Ust’-Dzheguta has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 413 m around an average of 694 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 870 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 3,416 m.

The land around Ust’-Dzheguta is covered by grassland (34%), trees (23%) and cropland (20%) within 3 km, grassland (43%), cropland (30%) and trees (22%) within 16 km, and grassland (38%), cropland (34%) and trees (25%) within 80 km.

3 km
413 m
16 km
870 m
80 km
3,416 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Cherkessk 17 km · Karachayevsk 35 km · Zelenchukskaya 40 km · Uchkeken 46 km · Otradnaya 50 km · Suvorovskaya 56 km · Nevinnomyssk 61 km · Kislovodsk 62 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 Ust’-Dzheguta (44.0834°, 41.9763°, elevation 628 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).