Perm climate

Name: Perm
Address: RU

Perm is warmest in July, with average highs of 22 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average -16 °C. June is the wettest month (82 mm) and February the driest (28 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Perm averages 649 mm of rain, 20 days above 25 °C and 189 days below freezing.

Russia · population 982,419 · 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 -16 °C
Driest month February 28 mm
Wettest month June 82 mm
Least cloud July 59 % cloud
Hottest on record July 35 °C
Coldest on record December -42 °C

What to expectPerm through the year

Perm has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from -10 °C in January to 22 °C in July, a swing of 31 °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, 189 nights drop below freezing. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 35 °C, in July.

Rain is strongly seasonal. June averages 82 mm against 28 mm in February — 2.9 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	-10.4 °C	35 mm	88 %
February	-9.0 °C	28 mm	82 %
March	-1.4 °C	36 mm	75 %
April	6.7 °C	39 mm	66 %
May	15.3 °C	58 mm	60 %
June	20.0 °C	82 mm	61 %
July	22.2 °C	78 mm	59 %
August	19.2 °C	77 mm	68 %
September	13.4 °C	65 mm	75 %
October	5.4 °C	63 mm	84 %
November	-3.5 °C	47 mm	87 %
December	-8.6 °C	40 mm	92 %

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	-10.4 °C	-15.8 °C	-13.0 °C	3.0 °C	-38.0 °C	0	0	31
February	-9.0 °C	-14.9 °C	-11.8 °C	2.8 °C	-35.7 °C	0	0	28
March	-1.4 °C	-8.5 °C	-4.8 °C	9.5 °C	-28.3 °C	0	0	30
April	6.7 °C	-2.6 °C	2.3 °C	22.8 °C	-18.0 °C	0	0	23
May	15.3 °C	4.9 °C	10.7 °C	29.7 °C	-7.1 °C	1	0	5
June	20.0 °C	11.1 °C	16.0 °C	33.6 °C	0.0 °C	5	1	0
July	22.2 °C	14.0 °C	18.4 °C	34.7 °C	5.4 °C	9	1	0
August	19.2 °C	11.8 °C	15.6 °C	34.7 °C	3.3 °C	4	1	0
September	13.4 °C	6.8 °C	10.2 °C	27.2 °C	-3.2 °C	0	0	1
October	5.4 °C	0.6 °C	3.1 °C	18.6 °C	-13.3 °C	0	0	14
November	-3.5 °C	-8.2 °C	-5.6 °C	10.0 °C	-30.7 °C	0	0	27
December	-8.6 °C	-13.7 °C	-11.0 °C	3.5 °C	-41.7 °C	0	0	31

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	35 mm	10	7.2 h/day	88 %	82 %	15 km/h
February	28 mm	8	9.4 h/day	82 %	80 %	15 km/h
March	36 mm	9	12 h/day	75 %	79 %	16 km/h
April	39 mm	8	14 h/day	66 %	75 %	16 km/h
May	58 mm	11	17 h/day	60 %	69 %	16 km/h
June	82 mm	13	18 h/day	61 %	73 %	15 km/h
July	78 mm	12	18 h/day	59 %	75 %	13 km/h
August	77 mm	12	15 h/day	68 %	78 %	14 km/h
September	65 mm	12	13 h/day	75 %	80 %	15 km/h
October	63 mm	12	10 h/day	84 %	82 %	16 km/h
November	47 mm	11	7.9 h/day	87 %	84 %	15 km/h
December	40 mm	10	6.5 h/day	92 %	84 %	15 km/h

How Perm 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
Perm	22 °C	-16 °C	649 mm	20
Berezniki · Russia	21 °C	-17 °C	739 mm	15
Nizhny Tagil · Russia	22 °C	-17 °C	568 mm	20
Izhevsk · Russia	23 °C	-15 °C	618 mm	28
Yekaterinburg · Russia	22 °C	-17 °C	526 mm	22

Where Perm ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
The coolest places in Europe in October	16thof 50	5.4 °C
The coolest places in Europe in September	20thof 50	13 °C
The coolest places in the world in October	20thof 50	5.4 °C
The coolest places in Europe in April	21stof 50	6.7 °C
The coolest places in Europe year-round	22ndof 50	5.8 °C
The coolest places in Europe in February	26thof 50	-9.0 °C

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Perm’s climate

When is the best time to visit Perm?

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 Perm 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 35 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average -16 °C in January, the coldest month. A normal year has 189 nights below freezing.

Which month is wettest in Perm?

June, averaging 82 mm over 13 days with rain. The driest month is February with 28 mm. The year as a whole averages 649 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 Perm 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
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.