Barnaul climate

Name: Barnaul
Address: RU

Barnaul is warmest in July, with average highs of 25 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average -20 °C. July is the wettest month (79 mm) and February the driest (21 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Barnaul averages 526 mm of rain, 42 days above 25 °C and 190 days below freezing.

Russia · population 632,372 · 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 25 °C
Coldest month January -20 °C
Driest month February 21 mm
Wettest month July 79 mm
Least cloud August 53 % cloud
Hottest on record July 36 °C
Coldest on record January -46 °C

What to expectBarnaul through the year

Barnaul has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from -13 °C in January to 25 °C in July, a swing of 37 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 42 days a year reach 25 °C, 6 of them reach 30 °C, 190 nights drop below freezing. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 36 °C, in July.

Rain is strongly seasonal. July averages 79 mm against 21 mm in February — 3.8 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	-13.2 °C	24 mm	76 %
February	-9.9 °C	21 mm	73 %
March	-2.1 °C	25 mm	64 %
April	9.1 °C	37 mm	61 %
May	17.8 °C	50 mm	55 %
June	23.2 °C	62 mm	54 %
July	24.7 °C	79 mm	57 %
August	22.6 °C	53 mm	53 %
September	15.9 °C	44 mm	59 %
October	7.5 °C	43 mm	69 %
November	-3.5 °C	49 mm	79 %
December	-10.0 °C	38 mm	82 %

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	-13.2 °C	-20.4 °C	-16.5 °C	4.4 °C	-46.1 °C	0	0	31
February	-9.9 °C	-18.0 °C	-13.7 °C	5.3 °C	-39.7 °C	0	0	28
March	-2.1 °C	-11.1 °C	-6.2 °C	13.8 °C	-31.6 °C	0	0	31
April	9.1 °C	-2.5 °C	3.9 °C	30.2 °C	-17.1 °C	0	0	21
May	17.8 °C	5.6 °C	12.4 °C	33.6 °C	-5.5 °C	4	1	4
June	23.2 °C	12.6 °C	18.4 °C	33.9 °C	1.1 °C	12	2	0
July	24.7 °C	15.0 °C	20.3 °C	36.3 °C	7.5 °C	15	3	0
August	22.6 °C	12.3 °C	17.9 °C	35.5 °C	2.7 °C	9	1	0
September	15.9 °C	6.1 °C	11.3 °C	32.3 °C	-4.5 °C	2	0	1
October	7.5 °C	-0.4 °C	3.6 °C	24.7 °C	-16.1 °C	0	0	16
November	-3.5 °C	-10.0 °C	-6.6 °C	15.7 °C	-37.5 °C	0	0	28
December	-10.0 °C	-17.4 °C	-13.4 °C	5.3 °C	-43.2 °C	0	0	31

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	24 mm	7	8.1 h/day	76 %	78 %	18 km/h
February	21 mm	6	9.8 h/day	73 %	78 %	18 km/h
March	25 mm	6	12 h/day	64 %	78 %	18 km/h
April	37 mm	8	14 h/day	61 %	67 %	19 km/h
May	50 mm	10	16 h/day	55 %	57 %	19 km/h
June	62 mm	10	17 h/day	54 %	62 %	16 km/h
July	79 mm	13	17 h/day	57 %	68 %	14 km/h
August	53 mm	10	15 h/day	53 %	67 %	15 km/h
September	44 mm	10	13 h/day	59 %	67 %	17 km/h
October	43 mm	10	11 h/day	69 %	71 %	18 km/h
November	49 mm	11	8.6 h/day	79 %	78 %	19 km/h
December	38 mm	10	7.5 h/day	82 %	80 %	19 km/h

How Barnaul 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
Barnaul	25 °C	-20 °C	526 mm	42
Biysk · Russia	26 °C	-20 °C	553 mm	50
Novosibirsk · Russia	24 °C	-20 °C	509 mm	30
Prokop’yevsk · Russia	24 °C	-20 °C	568 mm	31
Novokuznetsk · Russia	24 °C	-20 °C	639 mm	36
Rubtsovsk · Russia	26 °C	-19 °C	420 mm	62
Kemerovo · Russia	24 °C	-20 °C	593 mm	29

Where Barnaul ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
The coolest places in Europe in February	15th of 50	-9.9 °C
The coolest places in Europe in January	18th of 50	-13 °C
The coolest places in Europe in March	18th of 50	-2.1 °C
The coolest places in the world in February	18th of 50	-9.9 °C
The driest places in Europe in March	18th of 50	25 mm
The coolest places in Europe in December	19th of 50	-10 °C

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Barnaul’s climate

When is the best time to visit Barnaul?

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 February the driest. The month-by-month table above has the full picture.

How hot does Barnaul get?

In July, the warmest month, daily highs average 25 °C. About 6 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 36 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average -20 °C in January, the coldest month. A normal year has 190 nights below freezing.

Which month is wettest in Barnaul?

July, averaging 79 mm over 13 days with rain. The driest month is February with 21 mm. The year as a whole averages 526 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 Barnaul 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: 53.362°, 83.728° (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.