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Best time to visit
Yuzhno-Kurilsk.

August leads for comfortable weather in Yuzhno-Kurilsk: typically 18.3°C by day, 14.2°C at night, with 165 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortAugust

Typical high18.3°C

Typical low14.2°C

Rain in August165 mm

Comfort

August

August · September · July

53climate match

Beach

August

August · September · January

16climate match

Outdoors

July

July · August · September

56climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against August’s 53 — days reach only -1.5°C, 25° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal.

Month by month

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

The bars show the comfort score. Day and night temperatures come from daily observed highs and lows; rain is the historical monthly estimate.

Jan

5-1.5° / -6°

Feb

5-2.2° / -7.3°

Mar

50.7° / -4.3°

Apr

55.1° / -0.4°

May

99° / 3.2°

Jun

2611.6° / 7.1°

Jul

4315.5° / 11.2°

Aug

5318.3° / 14.2°

Sep

4917.8° / 13.4°

Oct

3313.6° / 8.6°

Nov

57.7° / 2.3°

Dec

51.4° / -3.2°

Monthly climate evidence for Yuzhno-Kurilsk — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 11 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	-1.5°C	-6°C	61 mm	11.9	1.9°C	9 h 14	5	Strong coverage
February	-2.2°C	-7.3°C	45 mm	8.3	0.2°C	10 h 24	5	Strong coverage
March	0.7°C	-4.3°C	70 mm	8.6	0.0°C	11 h 47	5	Strong coverage
April	5.1°C	-0.4°C	89 mm	9.5	1.5°C	13 h 23	5	Strong coverage
May	9°C	3.2°C	124 mm	11.2	4.4°C	14 h 43	9	Strong coverage
June	11.6°C	7.1°C	118 mm	11.2	8.6°C	15 h 28	26	Strong coverage
July	15.5°C	11.2°C	133 mm	12	12.7°C	15 h 10	43	Strong coverage
August	18.3°C	14.2°C	165 mm	12.2	16.1°C	14 h 00	53	Strong coverage
September	17.8°C	13.4°C	179 mm	11.7	16.3°C	12 h 27	49	Strong coverage
October	13.6°C	8.6°C	132 mm	11.7	13.6°C	10 h 55	33	Strong coverage
November	7.7°C	2.3°C	103 mm	12.5	9.4°C	9 h 34	5	Strong coverage
December	1.4°C	-3.2°C	83 mm	13.9	5.0°C	8 h 54	5	Strong coverage

What has changed

Yuzhno-Kurilsk runs +0.9°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Each bar compares the 2011–2025 daytime average for that month against the same month in 1961–1990, measured at the same station. Months where the older record is too thin to compare are left blank.

Jan

+0.5

Feb

+0.9

Mar

+1.6

Apr

+1.0

May

+0.7

Jun

+0.6

Jul

+1.9

Aug

+0.6

Sep

+1.1

Oct

+0.7

Nov

+0.8

Dec

-0.1

August daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 22.8°C.

Records at JUZHNO-KURILSK, 1947–2025
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	8.5°C21 Jan 1948	-16.5°C23 Jan 1955	81 mm14 Jan 2000	177 mm2000 · driest 13 mm in 2025	79
February	9.7°C14 Feb 2024	-20.3°C10 Feb 1953	40 mm28 Feb 1954	158 mm2015 · driest 10 mm in 1967	79
March	12.7°C20 Mar 2023	-18.0°C5 Mar 1986	63 mm29 Mar 2021	182 mm2021 · driest 6 mm in 1993	79
April	20.9°C27 Apr 1967	-11.4°C2 Apr 1953	74 mm22 Apr 2009	240 mm1947 · driest 10 mm in 1996	79
May	26.2°C19 May 1966	-3.1°C1 May 1980	110 mm18 May 1975	330 mm1981 · driest 26 mm in 2002	79
June	29.0°C26 Jun 2010	0.3°C7 Jun 1949	135 mm13 Jun 2014	251 mm1967 · driest 29 mm in 1985	79
July	30.4°C31 Jul 2023	2.8°C1 Jul 1966	145 mm11 Jul 2014	325 mm2009 · driest 17 mm in 1993	79
August	30.5°C6 Aug 1983	7.0°C25 Aug 1954	110 mm23 Aug 2019	601 mm2016 · driest 19 mm in 1999	79
September	27.8°C11 Sep 1956	4.3°C22 Sep 1950	144 mm16 Sep 1947	419 mm1992 · driest 40 mm in 2024	78
October	22.6°C2 Oct 2024	-3.5°C27 Oct 2016	135 mm12 Oct 1972	361 mm1955 · driest 12 mm in 1977	78
November	18.2°C1 Nov 1950	-7.6°C30 Nov 1971	96 mm12 Nov 2006	234 mm1951 · driest 15 mm in 1958	78
December	14.8°C9 Dec 1954	-13.6°C28 Dec 1952	100 mm2 Dec 1950	210 mm1950 · driest 24 mm in 1983	78

Typical days per month at JUZHNO-KURILSK, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	0	31	1
February	0	28	1
March	0	30	2
April	0	17	3
May	0	2	4
June	<1	0	3
July	<1	0	4
August	<1	0	5
September	<1	0	5
October	0	<1	4
November	0	8	3
December	0	27	2

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was August (scoring 65); on 2011–2025 it is September (64). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in JUZHNO-KURILSK’s record sorted by what it was actually like, rather than averaged
Month	Warm & dry days	Wet days	Washouts	Week with 3+ wet days	Daytime mean has ranged
January	0%	38%	4%	51%	-3.6–-0.4°C
February	0%	27%	4%	31%	-4.4–-0.9°C
March	0%	29%	7%	36%	-1.1–1.9°C
April	0%	32%	10%	42%	3.4–6.5°C
May	1%	35%	12%	46%	7.0–11.0°C
June	2%	36%	11%	48%	9.7–13.3°C
July	10%	39%	12%	56%	13.6–17.7°C
August	22%	40%	14%	54%	16.6–21.1°C
September	12%	37%	16%	51%	16.1–19.3°C
October	<1%	37%	12%	51%	12.4–14.6°C
November	0%	42%	10%	62%	6.1–8.8°C
December	0%	43%	7%	62%	-0.2–2.8°C

A warm and dry day reaches 20°C with under 1 mm of rain; a wet day gets 1 mm or more; a washout gets 10 mm or more. The week column is the share of seven-day stretches in that month, across the station’s whole daily record, that contained three or more wet days — the odds a week-long trip is rained on repeatedly, counted rather than modelled. The last column is the 10th to 90th percentile of that month’s daytime average across individual years: a narrow band means the average is what you will get, a wide one means the average is a midpoint between years that felt quite different.

1947Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 78-year average. Warmest: 2023. Coolest: 1953.2024

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 2119447
NOAA station: RSM00032165 · JUZHNO-KURILSK
Station distance: 1.3 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 30 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 44.03°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 11 km from the place centre. A sheltered bay can run warmer than the open sea it is measured from.
Important limit: Historical climate is not a forecast. Nearby stations can miss mountains, coasts, and local microclimates.

These places read the same station, so their numbers are identical — distance from JUZHNO-KURILSK is what differs

Rausu→Otrada→Shikotan→Dubovaya→Grozovoye→Polino→

Or put two places side by side: Yuzhno-Kurilsk vs Rausu

Best time to visitYuzhno-Kurilsk.

August

August

July

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Yuzhno-Kurilsk runs +0.9°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Yuzhno-Kurilsk.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Yuzhno-Kurilsk runs +0.9°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.