Cherepovets climate

Name: Cherepovets
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Cherepovets is warmest in July, with average highs of 21 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average -11 °C. July is the wettest month (82 mm) and February the driest (35 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Cherepovets averages 666 mm of rain, 11 days above 25 °C and 168 days below freezing.

Russia · population 315,738 · 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 21 °C
Coldest month January -11 °C
Driest month February 35 mm
Wettest month July 82 mm
Least cloud May 61 % cloud
Hottest on record July 34 °C
Coldest on record January -35 °C

What to expectCherepovets through the year

Cherepovets has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from -6.5 °C in January to 21 °C in July, a swing of 27 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 11 days a year reach 25 °C, 1 of them reach 30 °C, 168 nights drop below freezing. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 34 °C, in July.

Rain is strongly seasonal. July averages 82 mm against 35 mm in February — 2.4 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	-6.5 °C	43 mm	92 %
February	-6.0 °C	35 mm	86 %
March	-1.0 °C	37 mm	73 %
April	6.6 °C	35 mm	66 %
May	14.6 °C	59 mm	61 %
June	19.0 °C	80 mm	62 %
July	21.5 °C	82 mm	62 %
August	19.1 °C	78 mm	65 %
September	13.4 °C	56 mm	74 %
October	6.0 °C	60 mm	83 %
November	-0.7 °C	53 mm	90 %
December	-4.2 °C	49 mm	92 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days below 0 °C
January	-6.5 °C	-10.8 °C	-8.5 °C	4.8 °C	-35.2 °C	0	30
February	-6.0 °C	-10.6 °C	-8.1 °C	4.9 °C	-33.3 °C	0	28
March	-1.0 °C	-6.6 °C	-3.6 °C	12.9 °C	-22.6 °C	0	29
April	6.6 °C	-1.2 °C	2.9 °C	22.0 °C	-15.7 °C	0	19
May	14.6 °C	6.5 °C	11.0 °C	30.2 °C	-4.1 °C	1	3
June	19.0 °C	12.1 °C	16.0 °C	30.5 °C	3.2 °C	3	0
July	21.5 °C	15.1 °C	18.6 °C	33.6 °C	5.3 °C	6	0
August	19.1 °C	13.1 °C	16.3 °C	33.1 °C	4.9 °C	2	0
September	13.4 °C	8.4 °C	11.0 °C	24.5 °C	-2.9 °C	0	0
October	6.0 °C	2.3 °C	4.2 °C	18.7 °C	-13.1 °C	0	9
November	-0.7 °C	-4.0 °C	-2.2 °C	11.8 °C	-26.5 °C	0	22
December	-4.2 °C	-8.1 °C	-6.1 °C	7.5 °C	-33.4 °C	0	28

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	43 mm	11	6.9 h/day	92 %	86 %	19 km/h
February	35 mm	9	9.2 h/day	86 %	84 %	20 km/h
March	37 mm	9	12 h/day	73 %	81 %	19 km/h
April	35 mm	8	14 h/day	66 %	75 %	18 km/h
May	59 mm	11	17 h/day	61 %	69 %	18 km/h
June	80 mm	12	19 h/day	62 %	70 %	18 km/h
July	82 mm	13	18 h/day	62 %	74 %	16 km/h
August	78 mm	12	16 h/day	65 %	76 %	17 km/h
September	56 mm	10	13 h/day	74 %	80 %	18 km/h
October	60 mm	12	10 h/day	83 %	84 %	20 km/h
November	53 mm	11	7.7 h/day	90 %	87 %	19 km/h
December	49 mm	12	6.2 h/day	92 %	87 %	20 km/h

How Cherepovets 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
Cherepovets	21 °C	-11 °C	666 mm	11
Vologda · Russia	22 °C	-12 °C	640 mm	14
Rybinsk · Russia	22 °C	-10 °C	666 mm	16
Yaroslavl · Russia	23 °C	-11 °C	648 mm	20
Kostroma · Russia	23 °C	-11 °C	650 mm	19
Tver · Russia	23 °C	-10.0 °C	652 mm	19

Where Cherepovets ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
The coolest places in Europe in April	20th of 50	6.6 °C
The coolest places in Europe in September	21st of 50	13 °C
The coolest places in Europe in October	23rd of 50	6.0 °C
The coolest places in the world in April	25th of 50	6.6 °C
The coolest places in the world in October	28th of 50	6.0 °C
The coolest places in the world in September	28th of 50	13 °C

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Cherepovets’s climate

When is the best time to visit Cherepovets?

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 Cherepovets get?

In July, the warmest month, daily highs average 21 °C. About 1 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 34 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average -11 °C in January, the coldest month. A normal year has 168 nights below freezing.

Which month is wettest in Cherepovets?

July, averaging 82 mm over 13 days with rain. The driest month is February with 35 mm. The year as a whole averages 666 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 Cherepovets 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: 59.133°, 37.900° (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.