Climate and average weather in Volokolamsk

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

Best: mid May to early September

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Volokolamsk typically varies from -10°C to 23°C, and is rarely below -23°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 Volokolamsk for warm-weather activities is from mid May to early September.

Hottest
Jul
23°
Coldest
Jan
-10°
Wettest
Jul
83 mm
Driest
Feb
31 mm
Rain / yr
642 mm
128 wet days
Daylight
6.7–17.3 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
179 m
56.0°N
Clearest
Aug
64% cloud

Volokolamsk is town and administrative center of Volokolamsky District of Moscow Oblast in central Russia.

Density
2,500/km²
people per km²
Founded
1135

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

Volokolamsk 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 early September.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Volokolamsk, 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 8 to September 11, with daily high temperatures above 16°C. The hottest month of the year in Volokolamsk is July, with an average high of 23°C and low of 14°C.

The cool season lasts 3.6 months, from November 17 to March 7, with daily high temperatures below 1°C. The coldest month of the year in Volokolamsk is January, with an average low of -10°C and high of -4°C.

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

-20°-10°10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan-4-9
Feb-3-10
Mar2-5
Apr111
May177
Jun2111
Jul2314
Aug2112
Sep167
Oct82
Nov1-3
Dec-3-7

How hot and cold Volokolamsk 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 -17°C (around January 30), with roughly 195 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C) 115 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-4-4-16-9
Feb-3-3-16-10
Mar22-10-5
Apr1111-21
May171757
Jun21211111
Jul23231414
Aug21211212
Sep161657
Oct88-12
Nov11-8-3
Dec-3-3-13-7

Average hourly temperature in Volokolamsk

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 -10°C.

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

Volokolamsk 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-4° / -10°369.8117.30.0
Feb-3° / -10°318.510.19.20.0
Mar / -5°339.27.711.40.0
Apr11° / 378.92.113.82.5
May17° / 6912.20.2165.3
Jun21° / 11°7812.4017.25.9
Jul23° / 14°8312.9016.76.3
Aug21° / 12°7311.6014.86.2
Sep16° / 6210.50.212.54.5
Oct / 5711.62.310.11.4
Nov / -3°4610.16.27.90.0
Dec-3° / -7°3810.610.56.80.0

Chance of rain

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

Volokolamsk gets about 642 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 May 7 to Sep 15, peaking in July at about 43% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Mar 26.

July is the wettest month by volume, with 83 mm over about 13 wet days; February is the driest, with 31 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJul 13 · 43%Mar 26 · 28%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan3110
Feb319
Mar309
Apr319
May3812
Jun4212
Jul4113
Aug3812
Sep3511
Oct3712
Nov3410
Dec3411

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Volokolamsk collects about 642 mm of rain across 128 wet days — roughly 54 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. July is the wettest month with 83 mm, while February is the driest at just 31 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 36% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075100JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec363133376978837362574638
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan361011
Feb31910
Mar3398
Apr3792
May69120
Jun78120
Jul83130
Aug73120
Sep62110
Oct57122
Nov46106
Dec381111

Snow in Volokolamsk

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.

Volokolamsk averages about 50 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Oct 1 to May 4 — about 7.1 months.

February is snowiest, with roughly 11 days of snow and an estimated 35 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 175 cm of snow.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonFeb 3
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan1135
Feb1035
Mar828
Apr28
May01
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct27
Nov627
Dec1135

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Volokolamsk, 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 16 and lasts for 6.6 months, ending around October 1. The clearest month is July, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 41% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 2 and lasts for 5.4 months, ending around March 15. The cloudiest month is January, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 93% 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 4 · 46%Jan 1 · 5%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan793
Feb1486
Mar2674
Apr3268
May3862
Jun3862
Jul4159
Aug4159
Sep3070
Oct1684
Nov1189
Dec793

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 14, brings about 17 h 18 min of light; the shortest, around December 13, only 6 h 42 min — a swing of roughly 10 h 36 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan7.39:074:24
Feb9.28:165:26
Mar11.47:036:28
Apr13.85:407:33
May16.04:328:33
Jun17.23:579:15
Jul16.74:189:05
Aug14.85:148:06
Sep12.56:176:44
Oct10.17:195:24
Nov7.98:254:18
Dec6.89:113:53

Sunny days

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

Volokolamsk averages about 4 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 1 and 7 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 6.8 months, from around Mar 9 to Oct 2. The sunniest month is May, with roughly 7 sunny days (gloomy).

The greyest month is January, down near 1 sunny days — about 84% fewer than the May peak.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedMay 37 daysJan 21 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan1Gloomy
Feb3Gloomy
Mar5Gloomy
Apr6Gloomy
May7Gloomy
Jun6Gloomy
Jul6Gloomy
Aug7Gloomy
Sep5Gloomy
Oct3Gloomy
Nov2Gloomy
Dec1Gloomy

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 Volokolamsk, how humid it feels changes noticeably over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 2.9 months, from around June 2 to August 29. 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 30 to June 1, 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 8 · 100%Jul 18 · 71%humidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan100000
Feb100000
Mar100000
Apr100000
May93610
Jun7218100
Jul4531213
Aug5930101
Sep94510
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 Volokolamsk is typically light breeze, near 12 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 6.4 months, from around Sep 27 to Apr 8. The windiest month is December, averaging about 14 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Apr 9 to Sep 26, with July the calmest month at about 10 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeDec 23 · 14 km/hJul 25 · 10 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan14light breeze
Feb14light breeze
Mar14light breeze
Apr12light breeze
May12calm
Jun11calm
Jul10calm
Aug11calm
Sep12light breeze
Oct13light breeze
Nov14light breeze
Dec14light breeze

Best time to visit Volokolamsk

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 1 · 6.6

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
Mar0.1poor
Apr2.5poor
May5.3fair
Jun5.9good
Jul6.3good
Aug6.2good
Sep4.5fair
Oct1.4poor
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 Volokolamsk for hot-weather activities is from late June to mid August, with a peak score in the last week of July.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 28 · 5.3

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 Volokolamsk, 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 -4°C), pack a warm layer, a heavy coat and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Volokolamsk sees daytime highs around 23°C and nights near 14°C. Worth packing: light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. About 13 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Volokolamsk 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 Volokolamsk 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 0 (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 0
UV index (midday)Level
Jan1Low
Feb1Low
Mar2Moderate
Apr3Moderate
May4Moderate
Jun6High
Jul6High
Aug5Moderate
Sep4Moderate
Oct1Low
Nov1Low
Dec0Low

Average hourly UV index in Volokolamsk

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 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
Apr2.50
May50
Jun70
Jul7.51
Aug5.50
Sep30
Oct00
Nov00
Dec00
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

The growing season in Volokolamsk typically lasts about 203 days, from around April 10 to October 29 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from May 7 to September 27.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonFeb 410%Apr 1050%May 790%Sep 2790%Oct 2950%Jan 1510%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan1031
Feb1228
Mar1831
Apr6130
May947
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep965
Oct7031
Nov3030
Dec1531

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. Volokolamsk banks about 754 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
May71
Jun179
Jul256
Aug202
Sep46
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.

Volokolamsk receives about 2.8 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 5.8 months, from around Mar 20 to Sep 11. The brightest month is June, averaging about 5.4 kWh/m² (bright).

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

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 65.5 kWhDec 180.3 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan0.5Dim
Feb1.2Dim
Mar2.6Moderate
Apr4.0Bright
May5.1Bright
Jun5.5Bright
Jul5.3Bright
Aug4.1Bright
Sep2.6Moderate
Oct1.3Dim
Nov0.5Dim
Dec0.3Dim

Where is Volokolamsk?

Volokolamsk sits at 56.0°N, 36.0°E, 179 m above sea level, in Russia. The nearest listed city is Tuchkovo, 57 km away.

Topography around Volokolamsk

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Volokolamsk has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 97 m around an average of 198 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 172 m; within 80 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 205 m.

The land around Volokolamsk is covered by trees (31%), cropland (29%) and grassland (28%) within 3 km, trees (52%), grassland (24%) and cropland (23%) within 16 km, and trees (67%) and grassland (20%) within 80 km.

3 km
97 m
16 km
172 m
80 km
205 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Tuchkovo 57 km · Istra 57 km · Klin 58 km · Mozhaysk 59 km · Solnechnogorsk 64 km · gorod Solnetchnogorsk 65 km · Zvenigorod 65 km · Kubinka 68 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 Volokolamsk (56.0336°, 35.9694°, elevation 179 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).