Nizhny Tagil climate

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Nizhny Tagil is warmest in July, with average highs of 22 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average -17 °C. July is the wettest month (87 mm) and February the driest (17 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Nizhny Tagil averages 568 mm of rain, 20 days above 25 °C and 191 days below freezing.

Russia · population 381,116 · 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 22 °C
Coldest month January -17 °C
Driest month February 17 mm
Wettest month July 87 mm
Least cloud May 61 % cloud
Hottest on record July 36 °C
Coldest on record December -40 °C

What to expectNizhny Tagil through the year

Nizhny Tagil has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from -11 °C in January to 22 °C in July, a swing of 32 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 20 days a year reach 25 °C, 2 of them reach 30 °C, 191 nights drop below freezing. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 36 °C, in July.

Rain is strongly seasonal. July averages 87 mm against 17 mm in February — 5.3 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	-11.2 °C	20 mm	85 %
February	-9.2 °C	17 mm	78 %
March	-1.3 °C	27 mm	74 %
April	7.2 °C	37 mm	67 %
May	15.4 °C	57 mm	61 %
June	20.1 °C	83 mm	61 %
July	22.0 °C	87 mm	61 %
August	19.0 °C	84 mm	69 %
September	13.1 °C	62 mm	74 %
October	5.2 °C	44 mm	81 %
November	-4.2 °C	30 mm	85 %
December	-9.4 °C	21 mm	87 %

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	-11.2 °C	-17.0 °C	-13.9 °C	3.1 °C	-38.3 °C	0	0	31
February	-9.2 °C	-15.8 °C	-12.3 °C	4.3 °C	-35.9 °C	0	0	28
March	-1.3 °C	-9.0 °C	-4.9 °C	12.9 °C	-27.8 °C	0	0	30
April	7.2 °C	-2.7 °C	2.6 °C	23.8 °C	-19.0 °C	0	0	22
May	15.4 °C	4.4 °C	10.5 °C	30.6 °C	-8.8 °C	1	0	6
June	20.1 °C	10.6 °C	15.9 °C	31.8 °C	-1.4 °C	5	1	0
July	22.0 °C	13.3 °C	18.0 °C	36.0 °C	5.1 °C	9	1	0
August	19.0 °C	11.1 °C	15.2 °C	33.1 °C	1.5 °C	4	1	0
September	13.1 °C	6.1 °C	9.7 °C	28.7 °C	-4.9 °C	0	0	1
October	5.2 °C	-0.1 °C	2.7 °C	19.5 °C	-19.4 °C	0	0	15
November	-4.2 °C	-9.3 °C	-6.6 °C	9.9 °C	-36.8 °C	0	0	28
December	-9.4 °C	-14.8 °C	-11.9 °C	3.4 °C	-39.8 °C	0	0	31

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	20 mm	6	7.2 h/day	85 %	80 %	16 km/h
February	17 mm	5	9.4 h/day	78 %	78 %	16 km/h
March	27 mm	6	12 h/day	74 %	78 %	17 km/h
April	37 mm	8	14 h/day	67 %	71 %	17 km/h
May	57 mm	10	17 h/day	61 %	65 %	17 km/h
June	83 mm	13	18 h/day	61 %	71 %	16 km/h
July	87 mm	13	17 h/day	61 %	74 %	14 km/h
August	84 mm	13	15 h/day	69 %	78 %	15 km/h
September	62 mm	11	13 h/day	74 %	79 %	16 km/h
October	44 mm	10	10 h/day	81 %	80 %	18 km/h
November	30 mm	8	7.9 h/day	85 %	81 %	17 km/h
December	21 mm	6	6.5 h/day	87 %	82 %	17 km/h

How Nizhny Tagil 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
Nizhny Tagil	22 °C	-17 °C	568 mm	20
Yekaterinburg · Russia	22 °C	-17 °C	526 mm	22
Kamensk-Ural’skiy · Russia	23 °C	-17 °C	500 mm	31
Perm · Russia	22 °C	-16 °C	649 mm	20
Berezniki · Russia	21 °C	-17 °C	739 mm	15

Where Nizhny Tagil ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
The coolest places in Europe in October	14th of 50	5.2 °C
The coolest places in Europe year-round	15th of 50	5.6 °C
The coolest places in Europe in November	17th of 50	-4.2 °C
The coolest places in Europe in September	17th of 50	13 °C
The coolest places in the world in October	18th of 50	5.2 °C
The driest places in Europe in December	18th of 50	21 mm

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QuestionsCommon questions about Nizhny Tagil’s climate

When is the best time to visit Nizhny Tagil?

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 Nizhny Tagil get?

In July, the warmest month, daily highs average 22 °C. About 2 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 -17 °C in January, the coldest month. A normal year has 191 nights below freezing.

Which month is wettest in Nizhny Tagil?

July, averaging 87 mm over 13 days with rain. The driest month is February with 17 mm. The year as a whole averages 568 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 Nizhny Tagil 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: 57.919°, 59.965° (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.