Abakan climate

Name: Abakan
Address: RU

Abakan is warmest in July, with average highs of 26 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average -21 °C. August is the wettest month (65 mm) and January the driest (7.0 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Abakan averages 373 mm of rain, 52 days above 25 °C and 191 days below freezing.

Russia · population 184,168 · 1991–2020 normals

Temperature below 0 °C to above 30 °C Rain band height is that month’s share of the wettest month

Warmest month July 26 °C
Coldest month January -21 °C
Driest month January 7 mm
Wettest month August 65 mm
Least cloud June 58 % cloud
Hottest on record July 38 °C
Coldest on record January -42 °C

What to expectAbakan through the year

Abakan has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from -13 °C in January to 26 °C in July, a swing of 38 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 52 days a year reach 25 °C, 13 of them reach 30 °C, 191 nights drop below freezing. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 38 °C, in July.

Rain is strongly seasonal. August averages 65 mm against 7 mm in January — 9.3 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	-13.4 °C	7 mm	71 %
February	-8.7 °C	7 mm	67 %
March	1.2 °C	11 mm	62 %
April	11.4 °C	24 mm	64 %
May	18.4 °C	39 mm	61 %
June	24.6 °C	51 mm	58 %
July	26.2 °C	58 mm	61 %
August	23.4 °C	65 mm	60 %
September	16.4 °C	48 mm	62 %
October	7.6 °C	30 mm	69 %
November	-2.5 °C	20 mm	79 %
December	-10.6 °C	13 mm	77 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C	Days below 0 °C
January	-13.4 °C	-21.0 °C	-17.0 °C	4.9 °C	-41.6 °C	0	0	31
February	-8.7 °C	-18.6 °C	-13.5 °C	10.1 °C	-39.4 °C	0	0	28
March	1.2 °C	-9.8 °C	-4.1 °C	18.2 °C	-30.4 °C	0	0	30
April	11.4 °C	-1.3 °C	5.4 °C	33.7 °C	-17.4 °C	0	0	19
May	18.4 °C	5.6 °C	12.4 °C	34.9 °C	-5.2 °C	5	1	4
June	24.6 °C	13.0 °C	19.1 °C	36.9 °C	1.9 °C	14	4	0
July	26.2 °C	15.9 °C	21.3 °C	38.2 °C	8.3 °C	19	5	0
August	23.4 °C	13.4 °C	18.6 °C	36.4 °C	3.4 °C	11	2	0
September	16.4 °C	6.3 °C	11.5 °C	34.2 °C	-2.7 °C	1	0	1
October	7.6 °C	-0.7 °C	3.4 °C	23.7 °C	-13.0 °C	0	0	18
November	-2.5 °C	-8.6 °C	-5.4 °C	12.9 °C	-29.7 °C	0	0	29
December	-10.6 °C	-17.4 °C	-13.8 °C	4.2 °C	-36.4 °C	0	0	31

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	7 mm	2	8.0 h/day	71 %	73 %	11 km/h
February	7 mm	2	9.8 h/day	67 %	72 %	12 km/h
March	11 mm	3	12 h/day	62 %	65 %	15 km/h
April	24 mm	7	14 h/day	64 %	55 %	18 km/h
May	39 mm	9	16 h/day	61 %	53 %	18 km/h
June	51 mm	10	17 h/day	58 %	57 %	15 km/h
July	58 mm	11	17 h/day	61 %	63 %	13 km/h
August	65 mm	11	15 h/day	60 %	68 %	13 km/h
September	48 mm	9	13 h/day	62 %	69 %	15 km/h
October	30 mm	8	11 h/day	69 %	72 %	15 km/h
November	20 mm	6	8.6 h/day	79 %	71 %	14 km/h
December	13 mm	4	7.5 h/day	77 %	73 %	12 km/h

How Abakan compares

The same four figures for nearby destinations, so the numbers above have something to be read against. Summer high is the warmest month's average high; winter low is the coldest month's average low.

Destination	Summer high	Winter low	Rain per year	Days above 25 °C
Abakan	26 °C	-21 °C	373 mm	52
Krasnoyarsk · Russia	24 °C	-21 °C	462 mm	30
Novokuznetsk · Russia	24 °C	-20 °C	639 mm	36
Prokop’yevsk · Russia	24 °C	-20 °C	568 mm	31
Kemerovo · Russia	24 °C	-20 °C	593 mm	29

Where Abakan ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
The driest places in Europe in December	7th of 50	13 mm
The driest places in Europe in February	7th of 50	7.1 mm
The driest places in Europe in January	7th of 50	7.0 mm
The driest places in Europe in March	7th of 50	11 mm
The driest places in Europe in November	8th of 50	20 mm
The driest places in Europe in April	12th of 50	24 mm

Planning a trip? See the best time to visit Abakan.

QuestionsCommon questions about Abakan’s climate

When is the best time to visit Abakan?

That depends on what you want, so the honest answer is a comparison rather than a single month. June, July, August sit closest to 20 °C on average, July is the warmest month and January the driest. The month-by-month table above has the full picture.

How hot does Abakan get?

In July, the warmest month, daily highs average 26 °C. About 13 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 38 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average -21 °C in January, the coldest month. A normal year has 191 nights below freezing.

Which month is wettest in Abakan?

August, averaging 65 mm over 11 days with rain. The driest month is January with 7 mm. The year as a whole averages 373 mm.

Are these figures a forecast?

No. They are 1991–2020 climate normals: the average of thirty years, which describes what a month is usually like in Abakan rather than what any particular week will bring. Individual years can differ substantially from the normal.

Data sources and method

ERA5 / ERA5-Land reanalysis — Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), ECMWF. Copernicus Licence
Open-Meteo — Open-Meteo.com. CC BY 4.0
NOAA OISST v2.1 — NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Public domain
GeoNames — GeoNames.org. CC BY 4.0

Normal period: 1991–2020
Data point: 53.715°, 91.426° (the coordinates the reanalysis values are taken for)
Dataset version: era5-1991-2020-scores1.1
Last processed: 1 August 2026

Measured values come from ERA5 reanalysis and are reproduced unchanged. Calculated by us: monthly rankings, daylight hours, beach and comfort scores. Full formulas are on the methodology page.

Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.