Ideal weather days in Norilsk
The best time to visit Norilsk for warm, dry weather is August, with about 20 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Norilsk's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in August.
This station doesn't record cloud cover, so the sky setting is left out here.
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Your ideal days in Norilsk, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too cold318
- Too wet98
- Too windy92
- 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), Norilsk averaged 40 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 rare: no month averaged more than 2. Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are most common in August (up to 15 a month, 25 a year).
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are too cold (a high under 18 °C): 318 a year, mostly in September to June. Another 98 are wet (more than 1 mm of rain), mostly in March and September to November. A day can fail more than one test.
Norilsk weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Clear days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -22 °C -8 °F | 8 | 11 | 8 | 0 of 31 |
| February | -15 °C 5 °F | 12 | 9 | 4 | 0 of 28 |
| March | -15 °C 5 °F | 12 | 11 | 7 | 0 of 31 |
| April | -8 °C 17 °F | 12 | 10 | 7 | 0 of 30 |
| May | 1 °C 34 °F | 9 | 6 | 7 | 0 of 31 |
| June | 11 °C 52 °F | 9 | 3 | 3 | 4 of 30 |
| July | 20 °C 68 °F | 12 | 2 | 5 | 16 of 31 |
| August | 20 °C 68 °F | 5 | 1 | 6 | 20 of 31 |
| September | 8 °C 46 °F | 16 | 4 | 2 | 0 of 30 |
| October | -1 °C 30 °F | 14 | 5 | 2 | 0 of 31 |
| November | -11 °C 12 °F | 14 | 13 | 3 | 0 of 30 |
| December | -13 °C 8 °F | 11 | 16 | 3 | 0 of 31 |
| Year | 136 | 92 | 58 | 40 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 34 warm, dry days
- 2024 44 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Norilsk for good weather?
The best time to visit Norilsk for warm, dry weather is August, with about 20 such days a month. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are rare: no month averaged more than 2. Counted from measured days at Noril Sk station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Norilsk?
On average 136 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was September (16 rain days), the driest August (5).
How many sunny days does Norilsk get a year?
About 58 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 January (8).
How warm does Norilsk get?
The median daily high ranged from -22 °C (-8 °F) in January to 20 °C (68 °F) in July.
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Source: Noril Sk weather station (23078099999), 3 km from the centre of Norilsk, 64 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.