Kurgan climate

Name: Kurgan
Address: RU

Kurgan is warmest in July, with average highs of 24 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average -18 °C. July is the wettest month (77 mm) and February the driest (15 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Kurgan averages 444 mm of rain, 37 days above 25 °C and 183 days below freezing.

Russia · population 309,285 · 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 24 °C
Coldest month January -18 °C
Driest month February 15 mm
Wettest month July 77 mm
Least cloud June 55 % cloud
Hottest on record August 37 °C
Coldest on record January -41 °C

What to expectKurgan through the year

Kurgan has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from -12 °C in January to 24 °C in July, a swing of 35 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 37 days a year reach 25 °C, 7 of them reach 30 °C, 183 nights drop below freezing. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 37 °C, in August.

Rain is strongly seasonal. July averages 77 mm against 15 mm in February — 5.1 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	-11.7 °C	18 mm	77 %
February	-9.5 °C	15 mm	71 %
March	-1.5 °C	23 mm	66 %
April	9.5 °C	28 mm	62 %
May	18.0 °C	44 mm	56 %
June	22.7 °C	54 mm	55 %
July	23.8 °C	77 mm	56 %
August	21.7 °C	54 mm	61 %
September	15.3 °C	43 mm	67 %
October	7.1 °C	37 mm	74 %
November	-3.2 °C	27 mm	77 %
December	-9.5 °C	23 mm	78 %

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	-11.7 °C	-18.5 °C	-14.8 °C	2.9 °C	-41.1 °C	0	0	31
February	-9.5 °C	-17.1 °C	-13.0 °C	5.9 °C	-40.0 °C	0	0	28
March	-1.5 °C	-9.9 °C	-5.2 °C	16.8 °C	-28.4 °C	0	0	30
April	9.5 °C	-1.4 °C	4.6 °C	26.8 °C	-20.5 °C	0	0	18
May	18.0 °C	6.0 °C	12.8 °C	32.5 °C	-6.0 °C	4	0	2
June	22.7 °C	12.2 °C	18.2 °C	34.2 °C	-1.6 °C	11	3	0
July	23.8 °C	14.5 °C	19.8 °C	35.8 °C	5.0 °C	13	2	0
August	21.7 °C	12.7 °C	17.6 °C	37.0 °C	3.5 °C	8	2	0
September	15.3 °C	7.0 °C	11.4 °C	30.2 °C	-3.1 °C	1	0	1
October	7.1 °C	0.6 °C	4.0 °C	21.7 °C	-16.5 °C	0	0	13
November	-3.2 °C	-9.0 °C	-5.9 °C	11.7 °C	-39.6 °C	0	0	28
December	-9.5 °C	-16.2 °C	-12.5 °C	5.0 °C	-39.3 °C	0	0	31

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	18 mm	5	7.7 h/day	77 %	81 %	16 km/h
February	15 mm	4	9.6 h/day	71 %	80 %	16 km/h
March	23 mm	6	12 h/day	66 %	79 %	18 km/h
April	28 mm	6	14 h/day	62 %	66 %	19 km/h
May	44 mm	8	16 h/day	56 %	59 %	19 km/h
June	54 mm	9	17 h/day	55 %	62 %	17 km/h
July	77 mm	11	17 h/day	56 %	68 %	16 km/h
August	54 mm	10	15 h/day	61 %	70 %	16 km/h
September	43 mm	9	13 h/day	67 %	70 %	17 km/h
October	37 mm	8	11 h/day	74 %	75 %	17 km/h
November	27 mm	7	8.3 h/day	77 %	79 %	17 km/h
December	23 mm	6	7.1 h/day	78 %	82 %	16 km/h

How Kurgan 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
Kurgan	24 °C	-18 °C	444 mm	37
Tyumen · Russia	23 °C	-19 °C	481 mm	26
Kamensk-Ural’skiy · Russia	23 °C	-17 °C	500 mm	31
Petropavl · Kazakhstan	23 °C	-19 °C	438 mm	33
Chelyabinsk · Russia	23 °C	-17 °C	466 mm	34
Kostanay · Kazakhstan	25 °C	-18 °C	385 mm	52
Miass · Russia	22 °C	-18 °C	474 mm	25

Where Kurgan ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
The driest places in Europe in March	12th of 50	23 mm
Places with the best weather in Europe in June	13th of 50	91/100
The driest places in Europe in November	16th of 50	27 mm
The driest places in Europe in April	18th of 50	28 mm
The driest places in Europe in February	19th of 50	15 mm
The coolest places in Europe in February	20th of 50	-9.5 °C

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Kurgan’s climate

When is the best time to visit Kurgan?

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 Kurgan get?

In July, the warmest month, daily highs average 24 °C. About 7 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 37 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average -18 °C in January, the coldest month. A normal year has 183 nights below freezing.

Which month is wettest in Kurgan?

July, averaging 77 mm over 11 days with rain. The driest month is February with 15 mm. The year as a whole averages 444 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 Kurgan 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: 55.449°, 65.343° (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.