Ideal weather days in Murmansk
The best time to visit Murmansk for warm, dry weather is July and August, with 17 to 18 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Murmansk's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in July and August.
This station doesn't record cloud cover, so the sky setting is left out here.
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Your ideal days in Murmansk, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too cold292
- Too wet108
- Too windy4
- Too hot0
A day can fail more than one test.
Warm and dry, beach and mild days
With the Warm & dry preset (a high of 18–33 °C, no more than 1 mm of rain, wind under 20 km/h), Murmansk averaged 63 days a year in 2023–2025. Every number here is counted from real measured days in Russia, not from climate averages.
Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in (up to 4 a month, 8 a year). Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are most common in June and August (up to 15 a month, 52 a year).
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are too cold (a high under 18 °C): 292 a year, mostly in September to May. Another 108 are wet (more than 1 mm of rain), mostly in June to July and September to April. A day can fail more than one test.
Murmansk weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Clear days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -3 °C 26 °F | 17 | 0 | 2 | 0 of 31 |
| February | -2 °C 28 °F | 10 | 0 | 4 | 0 of 28 |
| March | -2 °C 28 °F | 16 | 0 | 3 | 0 of 31 |
| April | 2 °C 36 °F | 12 | 1 | 1 | 0 of 30 |
| May | 10 °C 50 °F | 10 | 1 | 3 | 5 of 31 |
| June | 17 °C 63 °F | 12 | 0 | 2 | 13 of 30 |
| July | 20 °C 68 °F | 10 | 0 | 4 | 17 of 31 |
| August | 21 °C 69 °F | 9 | 0 | 2 | 18 of 31 |
| September | 14 °C 57 °F | 13 | 0 | 4 | 9 of 30 |
| October | 4 °C 39 °F | 9 | 1 | 1 | 0 of 31 |
| November | -1 °C 30 °F | 10 | 1 | 2 | 0 of 30 |
| December | -6 °C 20 °F | 13 | 1 | 4 | 0 of 31 |
| Year | 141 | 4 | 31 | 63 of 365 |
Typical high is the median daily maximum. A rain day has 1 mm or more; a windy day a mean wind above 20 km/h; a clear day a daytime cloud cover of 2/8 or less on average (9:00–17:00). Days are averaged over 2023–2025 and scaled to the length of each month.
Year by year
- 2023 45 warm, dry days
- 2024 85 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Murmansk for good weather?
The best time to visit Murmansk for warm, dry weather is July and August, with 17 to 18 such days a month. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in (up to 4 a month, 8 a year). Counted from measured days at Murmansk station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Murmansk?
On average 141 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was January (17 rain days), the driest October (9).
How many sunny days does Murmansk get a year?
About 31 days a year had mostly clear skies (daytime cloud cover of 2/8 or less on average, 9:00–17:00), most of them in July (4).
How warm does Murmansk get?
The median daily high ranged from -6 °C (20 °F) in December to 21 °C (69 °F) in August.
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Source: Murmansk weather station (22113099999), 25 km from the centre of Murmansk, 81 m above sea level. Daily records from NOAA's Global Surface Summary of the Day, 2023–2025; 87% of days have a complete record. A single station may not represent every part of a city, and three years is a short record.