Ideal weather days in Saint Petersburg
The best time to visit Saint Petersburg for warm, dry weather is June to September, with 19 to 21 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Saint Petersburg's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in June to September.
This station doesn't record cloud cover, so the sky setting is left out here.
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Your ideal days in Saint Petersburg, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too cold236
- Too wet114
- Too windy34
- 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), Saint Petersburg averaged 95 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 July (up to 8 a month, 16 a year). Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are most common in August and September (up to 13 a month, 50 a year).
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are too cold (a high under 18 °C): 236 a year, mostly in October to April. Another 114 are wet (more than 1 mm of rain), mostly in June to August and October to January. A day can fail more than one test.
Saint Petersburg weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Clear days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 1 °C 33 °F | 17 | 5 | 1 | 0 of 31 |
| February | 0 °C 31 °F | 9 | 4 | 2 | 0 of 28 |
| March | 5 °C 41 °F | 11 | 3 | 2 | 0 of 31 |
| April | 11 °C 51 °F | 9 | 3 | 5 | 4 of 30 |
| May | 18 °C 64 °F | 8 | 2 | 5 | 13 of 31 |
| June | 22 °C 71 °F | 9 | 1 | 4 | 19 of 30 |
| July | 24 °C 75 °F | 11 | 1 | 2 | 20 of 31 |
| August | 23 °C 73 °F | 13 | 0 | 2 | 19 of 31 |
| September | 21 °C 70 °F | 7 | 1 | 4 | 21 of 30 |
| October | 10 °C 50 °F | 13 | 7 | 3 | 0 of 31 |
| November | 5 °C 40 °F | 16 | 3 | 0 | 0 of 30 |
| December | -1 °C 30 °F | 16 | 5 | 0 | 0 of 31 |
| Year | 139 | 34 | 30 | 95 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 94 warm, dry days
- 2024 104 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Saint Petersburg for good weather?
The best time to visit Saint Petersburg for warm, dry weather is June to September, with 19 to 21 such days a month. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in July (up to 8 a month, 16 a year). Counted from measured days at Pulkovo station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Saint Petersburg?
On average 139 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was January (17 rain days), the driest September (7).
How many sunny days does Saint Petersburg get a year?
About 30 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 April (5).
How warm does Saint Petersburg get?
The median daily high ranged from -1 °C (30 °F) in December to 24 °C (75 °F) in July.
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Source: Pulkovo weather station (26063099999), 15 km from the centre of Saint Petersburg, 24 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.