Yaroslavl climate

Name: Yaroslavl
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Yaroslavl is warmest in July, with average highs of 23 °C, and coldest in February, when nights average -11 °C. July is the wettest month (85 mm) and February the driest (32 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Yaroslavl averages 648 mm of rain, 20 days above 25 °C and 167 days below freezing.

Russia · population 608,722 · 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 23 °C
Coldest month February -11 °C
Driest month February 32 mm
Wettest month July 85 mm
Least cloud July 61 % cloud
Hottest on record August 36 °C
Coldest on record January -37 °C

What to expectYaroslavl through the year

Yaroslavl has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from -5.7 °C in February to 23 °C in July, a swing of 27 °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, 167 nights drop below freezing. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 36 °C, in August.

Rain is strongly seasonal. July averages 85 mm against 32 mm in February — 2.6 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	-6.2 °C	40 mm	91 %
February	-5.7 °C	32 mm	85 %
March	0.1 °C	34 mm	71 %
April	8.8 °C	39 mm	66 %
May	16.4 °C	58 mm	61 %
June	20.3 °C	79 mm	61 %
July	22.6 °C	85 mm	61 %
August	20.5 °C	72 mm	62 %
September	14.6 °C	60 mm	71 %
October	7.0 °C	61 mm	82 %
November	-0.3 °C	48 mm	89 %
December	-4.2 °C	41 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	-6.2 °C	-11.2 °C	-8.5 °C	6.4 °C	-36.8 °C	0	0	30
February	-5.7 °C	-11.4 °C	-8.3 °C	5.1 °C	-36.3 °C	0	0	27
March	0.1 °C	-7.2 °C	-3.3 °C	15.6 °C	-24.4 °C	0	0	29
April	8.8 °C	-0.7 °C	4.4 °C	24.1 °C	-17.3 °C	0	0	18
May	16.4 °C	6.5 °C	12.1 °C	32.2 °C	-4.1 °C	1	0	2
June	20.3 °C	11.4 °C	16.5 °C	32.2 °C	0.4 °C	5	0	0
July	22.6 °C	14.3 °C	18.9 °C	34.5 °C	5.3 °C	9	1	0
August	20.5 °C	12.5 °C	16.8 °C	35.9 °C	2.9 °C	5	0	0
September	14.6 °C	7.8 °C	11.3 °C	27.0 °C	-4.5 °C	0	0	0
October	7.0 °C	2.1 °C	4.6 °C	20.1 °C	-20.3 °C	0	0	10
November	-0.3 °C	-4.0 °C	-2.0 °C	13.1 °C	-28.3 °C	0	0	22
December	-4.2 °C	-8.5 °C	-6.2 °C	9.2 °C	-36.4 °C	0	0	28

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	40 mm	10	7.3 h/day	91 %	86 %	18 km/h
February	32 mm	8	9.4 h/day	85 %	83 %	18 km/h
March	34 mm	8	12 h/day	71 %	80 %	18 km/h
April	39 mm	9	14 h/day	66 %	72 %	18 km/h
May	58 mm	11	17 h/day	61 %	68 %	18 km/h
June	79 mm	12	18 h/day	61 %	71 %	17 km/h
July	85 mm	13	17 h/day	61 %	73 %	15 km/h
August	72 mm	12	15 h/day	62 %	75 %	16 km/h
September	60 mm	10	13 h/day	71 %	78 %	17 km/h
October	61 mm	12	10 h/day	82 %	82 %	18 km/h
November	48 mm	10	8.0 h/day	89 %	85 %	18 km/h
December	41 mm	10	6.6 h/day	92 %	86 %	18 km/h

How Yaroslavl 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
Yaroslavl	23 °C	-11 °C	648 mm	20
Kostroma · Russia	23 °C	-11 °C	650 mm	19
Rybinsk · Russia	22 °C	-10 °C	666 mm	16
Vladimir · Russia	23 °C	-11 °C	615 mm	24
Vologda · Russia	22 °C	-12 °C	640 mm	14
Cherepovets · Russia	21 °C	-11 °C	666 mm	11

Where Yaroslavl ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
The coolest places in Europe in October	39th of 50	7.0 °C
The coolest places in Europe in September	40th of 50	15 °C
The coolest places in the world in October	47th of 50	7.0 °C
The coolest places in Europe in April	50th of 50	8.8 °C

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Yaroslavl’s climate

When is the best time to visit Yaroslavl?

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 Yaroslavl get?

In July, the warmest month, daily highs average 23 °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 -11 °C in February, the coldest month. A normal year has 167 nights below freezing.

Which month is wettest in Yaroslavl?

July, averaging 85 mm over 13 days with rain. The driest month is February with 32 mm. The year as a whole averages 648 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 Yaroslavl 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: 57.630°, 39.874° (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.