Climate and average weather in Volzhsky

In Volzhsky, the summers are hot, fairly dry, and mostly clear and the winters are very cold, snowy, and mostly cloudy.

Best: late April to late June

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Volzhsky typically varies from -8°C to 31°C, and is rarely below -20°C or above 37°C. July is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Volzhsky for warm-weather activities are from late April to late June and mid August to early October.

Hottest
Jul
31°
Coldest
Jan
-8°
Wettest
May
39 mm
Driest
Aug
21 mm
Rain / yr
349 mm
77 wet days
Daylight
8.0–16.0 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
23 m
48.8°N
Clearest
Aug
39% cloud

Volzhsky is city in Volgograd Oblast, Russia.

Density
2,155/km²
people per km²
Founded
1951

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

Volzhsky 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 April to late June.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 4.1 months, from May 15 to September 15, with daily high temperatures above 22°C. The hottest month of the year in Volzhsky is July, with an average high of 31°C and low of 19°C.

The cool season lasts 3.7 months, from November 19 to March 10, with daily high temperatures below 3°C. The coldest month of the year in Volzhsky is January, with an average low of -8°C and high of -3°C.

Days typically run about 9°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 12°C) in August.

-20°-10°10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan-3-8
Feb-2-8
Mar5-3
Apr155
May2312
Jun2817
Jul3119
Aug2917
Sep2211
Oct145
Nov4-2
Dec-1-6

How hot and cold Volzhsky 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 29), with roughly 168 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C) 98 of them bitterly cold — worst in January.

-20°-10°10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan-3-3-15-8
Feb-2-2-15-8
Mar55-8-3
Apr151525
May23231112
Jun28281717
Jul30311919
Aug29291717
Sep22221111
Oct141425
Nov44-6-2
Dec-1-1-12-6

Average hourly temperature in Volzhsky

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 31°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near -8°C.

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

Volzhsky 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°307.86.98.50.0
Feb-2° / -8°256.44.99.80.0
Mar / -3°307.33.911.60.5
Apr15° / 296.30.313.44.9
May23° / 12°397.10157.2
Jun28° / 17°316.4015.96.6
Jul31° / 19°255.5015.55.5
Aug29° / 17°213.9014.26.3
Sep22° / 11°315.6012.47.4
Oct14° / 326.80.210.54.3
Nov / -2°246290.3
Dec-1° / -6°327.95.48.10.0

Chance of rain

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

Volzhsky gets about 349 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 4.4 months, from around Nov 24 to Apr 5, peaking in December at about 27% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Aug 16.

May is the wettest month by volume, with 39 mm over about 7 wet days; August is the driest, with 21 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetDec 20 · 27%Aug 16 · 12%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan258
Feb236
Mar237
Apr216
May237
Jun226
Jul176
Aug134
Sep196
Oct217
Nov216
Dec258

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Volzhsky collects about 349 mm of rain across 77 wet days — roughly 29 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. May is the wettest month with 39 mm, while August is the driest at just 21 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 29% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

02550JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec302530293931252131322432
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan3087
Feb2565
Mar3074
Apr2960
May3970
Jun3160
Jul2560
Aug2140
Sep3160
Oct3270
Nov2462
Dec3285

Snow in Volzhsky

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.

Volzhsky averages about 24 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Oct 27 to Apr 11 — about 5.5 months.

January is snowiest, with roughly 6 days of snow and an estimated 23 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 88 cm of snow.

02468JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonJan 25
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan723
Feb519
Mar412
Apr01
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct01
Nov28
Dec524

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Volzhsky, 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 April 15 and lasts for 5.9 months, ending around October 11. The clearest month is July, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 71% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 12 and lasts for 6.1 months, ending around April 14. The cloudiest month is December, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 88% 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 7 · 75%Dec 19 · 10%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan1486
Feb2080
Mar3070
Apr4258
May5248
Jun6337
Jul7129
Aug7129
Sep5842
Oct3862
Nov2476
Dec1288

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 20, brings about 16 hours of light; the shortest, around December 20, only 8 hours — a swing of roughly 8 hours.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan8.57:564:24
Feb9.87:205:11
Mar11.66:245:57
Apr13.45:186:44
May15.04:267:28
Jun15.94:037:59
Jul15.54:197:54
Aug14.25:007:10
Sep12.45:456:06
Oct10.56:305:02
Nov9.07:194:13
Dec8.17:553:59

Sunny days

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

Volzhsky averages about 9 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 2 and 18 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.8 months, from around Apr 21 to Oct 14. The sunniest month is August, with roughly 17 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is December, down near 2 sunny days — about 86% fewer than the August peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantAug 518 daysDec 222 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan3Gloomy
Feb3Gloomy
Mar6Gloomy
Apr8Mixed
May11Mixed
Jun13Mixed
Jul16Bright
Aug17Bright
Sep12Mixed
Oct9Mixed
Nov5Gloomy
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 Volzhsky, how humid it feels changes noticeably over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 3.1 months, from around May 29 to August 30. The muggiest month is July, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 17% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around August 31 to May 28, and April 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecApr 24 · 100%Jul 26 · 81%humidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan100000
Feb100000
Mar100000
Apr100000
May90910
Jun642690
Jul4934151
Aug682291
Sep91810
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 Volzhsky is typically light breeze, near 14 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 5.4 months, from around Nov 12 to Apr 23. The windiest month is February, averaging about 16 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Apr 24 to Nov 11, with July the calmest month at about 12 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeFeb 4 · 16 km/hJul 24 · 12 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan15light breeze
Feb16light breeze
Mar15light breeze
Apr14light breeze
May13light breeze
Jun13light breeze
Jul12calm
Aug12light breeze
Sep13light breeze
Oct13light breeze
Nov14light breeze
Dec15light breeze

Best time to visit Volzhsky

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid June, Volzhsky 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 times of year to visit Volzhsky for general outdoor tourist activities run from late April to late June and again from mid August to early October, with a peak score in the first week of September.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 6 · 7.7

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
Mar0.6poor
Apr4.9fair
May7.2good
Jun6.6good
Jul5.5fair
Aug6.3good
Sep7.4good
Oct4.3fair
Nov0.4poor
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 Volzhsky for hot-weather activities is from late May to early September, with a peak score in the third week of August.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 18 · 8.2

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 Volzhsky, 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 31°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near -3°C), pack a warm layer and a heavy coat.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Volzhsky sees daytime highs around 31°C and nights near 19°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. About 6 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Volzhsky 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 Volzhsky peaks around July 15 at about 7 (very 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.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecLowModerateHighHighModerateLowJul 15UV 7Dec 18UV 1
UV index (midday)Level
Jan1Low
Feb2Low
Mar2Moderate
Apr4Moderate
May5Moderate
Jun6High
Jul7Very high
Aug5High
Sep5Moderate
Oct3Moderate
Nov1Low
Dec1Low

Average hourly UV index in Volzhsky

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 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 3.5 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
Apr4.50
May60
Jun7.52
Jul83.5
Aug60
Sep50
Oct00
Nov00
Dec00

Air quality in Volzhsky 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 Volzhsky is worst in March — around 20 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 2.4× the cleanest month (June, 8 µg/m³).

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

0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModerateGoodMar 1719 µg/m³Jun 159 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan11Good
Feb13Moderate
Mar20Moderate
Apr14Moderate
May10Good
Jun8Good
Jul11Good
Aug10Good
Sep9Good
Oct11Good
Nov12Good
Dec10Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

The growing season in Volzhsky typically lasts about 224 days, from around March 30 to November 8 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from April 14 to October 15.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonMar 3050%Apr 1490%Oct 1590%Nov 850%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan1331
Feb1328
Mar2931
Apr8712
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct8715
Nov4130
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. Volzhsky banks about 1,725 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around July.

05001,0001,5002,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr31
May224
Jun368
Jul459
Aug417
Sep204
Oct23
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.

Volzhsky receives about 3.6 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — moderate — with a clear seasonal swing between 0.7 and 6.3 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.0 months, from around Mar 22 to Sep 20. The brightest month is June, averaging about 6.3 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 0.8 kWh/m² — roughly 88% less than the June peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 166.3 kWhDec 160.7 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan1.1Dim
Feb2.0Dim
Mar3.3Moderate
Apr4.7Bright
May5.7Bright
Jun6.3Intense
Jul6.2Intense
Aug5.5Bright
Sep3.8Moderate
Oct2.2Moderate
Nov1.1Dim
Dec0.8Dim

Where is Volzhsky?

Volzhsky sits at 48.8°N, 44.8°E, 23 m above sea level, in Russia. The nearest listed city is Volgograd, 22 km away.

Topography around Volzhsky

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Volzhsky has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 57 m around an average of 22 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 134 m; within 80 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 270 m.

The land around Volzhsky is covered by artificial surfaces (56%) and trees (20%) within 3 km, grassland (38%) within 16 km, and grassland (57%) and cropland (25%) within 80 km.

3 km
57 m
16 km
134 m
80 km
270 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswaterwetland
Nearby: Volgograd 22 km · Gorodishche 22 km · Dubovka 30 km · Leninsk 32 km · Znamensk 74 km · Kalach-na-Donu 93 km · Akhtubinsk 116 km · Frolovo 136 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 Volzhsky (48.7858°, 44.7797°, elevation 23 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).