Weather in Nizhny Novgorod

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A Century-Ahead Forecast

The climate of Nizhny Novgorod is characterized as temperate continental, with hot summers and cold winters and a clear change of the four seasons. Up to 530 mm of precipitation falls in the city each year.[1] The weather in the Upper Town is damper and colder than in the Zarechye part, which is drier and warmer.[1]

Winter in Nizhny Novgorod lasts about five months, from November to the end of March; a stable snow cover forms in November and lasts until the end of March. The average January temperature is −12 °C, although in some parts of the Region frosts can reach −44 °C.[1] Spring in Nizhny Novgorod lasts about two months and begins in April, when temperatures rise above freezing; the snow melts by mid-April. The average number of sunny days in May is 11.[1] True summer arrives in Nizhny Novgorod in the second ten days of June; the thermometer climbs to +27…+30 °C, and in some years to +39 °C. The average daily temperature in July is +19 °C.[1]

Climate Summary

The climate of Nizhny Novgorod is temperate continental: winters are cold and long, summers warm and relatively short. Because of differences in terrain, the Zarechye part of the city is slightly warmer than the Upper Town, and the difference in annual precipitation between the two parts of the city reaches 15–20%. Long-term average temperatures are from −11.6 °C in the lowland districts to −12 °C in the upland districts in January, and +18.4 °C and +18.1 °C respectively in July; the average annual temperature is +4.8 °C, average air humidity is 76%, and wind speed is 2.8 m/s. The city stands at the confluence of two large rivers, so fogs are frequent and humidity is high in summer.[2]

Precipitation averages 653 mm per year — the most in July and the least in March; there are about 180 days with precipitation. Snow begins to fall in October, a stable snow cover settles in late November and breaks up by mid-April. Typical winter temperatures are −10…−20 °C, and on some January nights as low as −40 °C; winter thunderstorms occur occasionally (recorded in 1940, 1951, 1960, and 1962).[2]

The sun shines about 1,775 hours a year; daylight lasts from 6 hours 52 minutes in December to 17 hours 44 minutes in June. In spring, positive temperatures set in around April 5 and last until the end of October; summer arrives in early June, the peak of the heat comes in the third ten days of July, and there are about 20 days with thunderstorms in summer. The city's first weather station was opened in 1834; a century later it was transformed into the Gorky Hydrometeorological Service Administration, and since 1978 it has been the Upper Volga Hydrometeorology Administration.[2]

Sources

  1. tutu.ru — Climate of Nizhny Novgorod: weather by month, seasons (archive)
  2. Wikipedia (ru) — Nizhny Novgorod — "Nizhny Novgorod (section "Climate")" (material related to the article's topic) (archive)