Nizhnevartovsk climate

Name: Nizhnevartovsk
Address: RU

Nizhnevartovsk is warmest in July, with average highs of 21 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average -23 °C. August is the wettest month (90 mm) and February the driest (19 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Nizhnevartovsk averages 562 mm of rain, 15 days above 25 °C and 219 days below freezing.

Russia · population 244,937 · 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 -23 °C
Driest month February 19 mm
Wettest month August 90 mm
Least cloud July 60 % cloud
Hottest on record July 33 °C
Coldest on record January -56 °C

What to expectNizhnevartovsk through the year

Nizhnevartovsk has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from -17 °C in January to 21 °C in July, a swing of 38 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 15 days a year reach 25 °C, 1 of them reach 30 °C, 219 nights drop below freezing. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 33 °C, in July.

Rain is strongly seasonal. August averages 90 mm against 19 mm in February — 4.8 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	-17.1 °C	21 mm	88 %
February	-14.6 °C	19 mm	83 %
March	-5.7 °C	28 mm	75 %
April	1.4 °C	37 mm	71 %
May	10.1 °C	54 mm	71 %
June	18.6 °C	71 mm	65 %
July	21.4 °C	60 mm	60 %
August	17.6 °C	90 mm	71 %
September	10.6 °C	65 mm	78 %
October	1.9 °C	51 mm	87 %
November	-9.3 °C	38 mm	90 %
December	-14.4 °C	29 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	-17.1 °C	-22.9 °C	-19.9 °C	1.4 °C	-56.4 °C	0	31
February	-14.6 °C	-20.5 °C	-17.3 °C	2.6 °C	-44.3 °C	0	28
March	-5.7 °C	-13.0 °C	-8.9 °C	5.9 °C	-35.6 °C	0	31
April	1.4 °C	-6.9 °C	-2.2 °C	21.7 °C	-26.0 °C	0	26
May	10.1 °C	0.5 °C	5.8 °C	28.9 °C	-14.8 °C	1	15
June	18.6 °C	9.8 °C	14.6 °C	32.2 °C	-3.6 °C	5	0
July	21.4 °C	13.2 °C	17.7 °C	33.2 °C	5.1 °C	8	0
August	17.6 °C	10.3 °C	14.3 °C	31.3 °C	1.6 °C	2	0
September	10.6 °C	4.3 °C	7.6 °C	26.2 °C	-6.6 °C	0	4
October	1.9 °C	-3.1 °C	-0.4 °C	20.2 °C	-25.1 °C	0	22
November	-9.3 °C	-15.2 °C	-12.0 °C	5.1 °C	-42.9 °C	0	30
December	-14.4 °C	-20.5 °C	-17.3 °C	1.6 °C	-49.6 °C	0	31

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	21 mm	7	6.5 h/day	88 %	79 %	19 km/h
February	19 mm	6	9.0 h/day	83 %	79 %	18 km/h
March	28 mm	8	12 h/day	75 %	80 %	21 km/h
April	37 mm	9	15 h/day	71 %	78 %	21 km/h
May	54 mm	11	17 h/day	71 %	70 %	20 km/h
June	71 mm	12	19 h/day	65 %	69 %	18 km/h
July	60 mm	11	18 h/day	60 %	70 %	17 km/h
August	90 mm	14	16 h/day	71 %	77 %	17 km/h
September	65 mm	13	13 h/day	78 %	79 %	18 km/h
October	51 mm	12	10 h/day	87 %	83 %	19 km/h
November	38 mm	10	7.3 h/day	90 %	83 %	19 km/h
December	29 mm	9	5.6 h/day	92 %	81 %	19 km/h

Where Nizhnevartovsk ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
The coolest places in Europe in November	2nd of 50	-9.3 °C
The coolest places in the world in November	2nd of 50	-9.3 °C
The coolest places in Europe in February	3rd of 50	-15 °C
The coolest places in Europe in October	3rd of 50	1.9 °C
The coolest places in the world in February	3rd of 50	-15 °C
The coolest places in Europe in April	4th of 50	1.4 °C

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Nizhnevartovsk’s climate

When is the best time to visit Nizhnevartovsk?

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 Nizhnevartovsk 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 33 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average -23 °C in January, the coldest month. A normal year has 219 nights below freezing.

Which month is wettest in Nizhnevartovsk?

August, averaging 90 mm over 14 days with rain. The driest month is February with 19 mm. The year as a whole averages 562 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 Nizhnevartovsk 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: 60.934°, 76.553° (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.