Ideal weather days in Sochi
The best time to visit Sochi for warm, dry weather is June to September, with 24 to 26 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Sochi'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 Sochi, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too cold156
- Too wet102
- Too windy3
- Too hot1
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), Sochi averaged 170 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, August and September (up to 21 a month, 81 a year). Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are most common in May (up to 16 a month, 57 a year).
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are too cold (a high under 18 °C): 156 a year, mostly in December to March. Another 102 are wet (more than 1 mm of rain), mostly in February to May and October to December. A day can fail more than one test.
Sochi weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Clear days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 13 °C 55 °F | 10 | 0 | 13 | 0 of 31 |
| February | 10 °C 50 °F | 12 | 1 | 5 | 2 of 28 |
| March | 13 °C 55 °F | 10 | 0 | 7 | 6 of 31 |
| April | 17 °C 63 °F | 12 | 0 | 9 | 11 of 30 |
| May | 20 °C 68 °F | 11 | 0 | 9 | 18 of 31 |
| June | 26 °C 79 °F | 6 | 0 | 8 | 26 of 30 |
| July | 29 °C 84 °F | 7 | 0 | 13 | 25 of 31 |
| August | 30 °C 86 °F | 5 | 0 | 12 | 26 of 31 |
| September | 27 °C 81 °F | 9 | 0 | 14 | 24 of 30 |
| October | 23 °C 73 °F | 12 | 0 | 12 | 19 of 31 |
| November | 17 °C 62 °F | 17 | 1 | 7 | 8 of 30 |
| December | 15 °C 58 °F | 13 | 1 | 13 | 5 of 31 |
| Year | 121 | 3 | 121 | 170 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 170 warm, dry days
- 2024 172 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Sochi for good weather?
The best time to visit Sochi for warm, dry weather is June to September, with 24 to 26 such days a month. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in July, August and September (up to 21 a month, 81 a year). Counted from measured days at Sochi station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Sochi?
On average 121 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was November (17 rain days), the driest August (5).
How many sunny days does Sochi get a year?
About 121 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 September (14).
How warm does Sochi get?
The median daily high ranged from 10 °C (50 °F) in February to 30 °C (86 °F) in August.
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Source: Sochi weather station (37171099999), 25 km from the centre of Sochi, 27 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.