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Best time to visit
Sochi.

June leads for comfortable weather in Sochi: typically 25.4°C by day, 17.4°C at night, with 98 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortJune

Typical high25.4°C

Typical low17.4°C

Rain in June98 mm

Comfort

June

June · May · September

79climate match

Beach

August

August · July · June

82climate match

Outdoors

May

May · April · October

71climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against June’s 79 — days reach only 9.8°C, 14° 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

59.8° / 3.7°

Feb

1410.3° / 3.7°

Mar

2312.7° / 5.6°

Apr

4917° / 9°

May

7221.2° / 13.3°

Jun

7925.4° / 17.4°

Jul

6327.9° / 20.1°

Aug

6228.6° / 20.7°

Sep

7225.2° / 16.8°

Oct

5820.7° / 13°

Nov

3315.6° / 8.4°

Dec

1211.7° / 5.4°

Monthly climate evidence for Sochi — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 9 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	9.8°C	3.7°C	176 mm	13.7	10.2°C	9 h 16	5	Strong coverage
February	10.3°C	3.7°C	131 mm	10.6	9.1°C	10 h 25	14	Strong coverage
March	12.7°C	5.6°C	135 mm	12.5	9.2°C	11 h 47	23	Strong coverage
April	17°C	9°C	112 mm	10.2	11.6°C	13 h 21	49	Strong coverage
May	21.2°C	13.3°C	107 mm	9.4	16.6°C	14 h 41	72	Strong coverage
June	25.4°C	17.4°C	98 mm	7	21.7°C	15 h 25	79	Strong coverage
July	27.9°C	20.1°C	120 mm	6.3	24.9°C	15 h 07	63	Strong coverage
August	28.6°C	20.7°C	107 mm	5.8	26.1°C	13 h 58	62	Strong coverage
September	25.2°C	16.8°C	145 mm	8.5	24.0°C	12 h 27	72	Strong coverage
October	20.7°C	13°C	185 mm	9.8	20.3°C	10 h 56	58	Strong coverage
November	15.6°C	8.4°C	180 mm	10.6	16.1°C	9 h 36	33	Strong coverage
December	11.7°C	5.4°C	183 mm	14	12.6°C	8 h 57	12	Strong coverage

What has changed

Sochi runs +1.0°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

+0.6

Feb

+0.9

Mar

+0.7

Apr

+1.1

May

+1.6

Jun

+2.0

Jul

+1.6

Aug

+2.3

Sep

+1.5

Oct

+0.5

Nov

-0.1

Dec

-0.2

June daytime highs, 2011–2019. Last recorded: 28.8°C.

Records at SOTCHI, 1891–2019
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	21.2°C22 Jan 1948	-13.4°C25 Jan 1892	182 mm31 Jan 1892	615 mm1892 · driest 2 mm in 1919	120
February	23.5°C18 Feb 1901	-12.6°C13 Feb 1911	100 mm12 Feb 1975	386 mm1894 · driest 10 mm in 1914	122
March	30.0°C29 Mar 1901	-7.0°C1 Mar 1985	84 mm30 Mar 1893	352 mm1893 · driest 6 mm in 1986	121
April	33.7°C14 Apr 1915	-5.0°C4 Apr 2004	85 mm10 Apr 1892	351 mm1892 · driest 13 mm in 1957	122
May	34.7°C26 May 2007	3.0°C6 May 1986	113 mm29 May 1906	318 mm1991 · driest 3 mm in 1899	122
June	35.2°C11 Jun 2002	7.1°C5 Jun 1978	136 mm25 Jun 1988	392 mm1988 · driest 8 mm in 1904	122
July	39.4°C30 Jul 2000	12.6°C27 Jul 1917	162 mm15 Jul 1997	269 mm1956 · driest 2 mm in 1904	119
August	38.5°C18 Aug 1961	10.4°C16 Aug 1923	153 mm25 Aug 1960	581 mm1960 · driest 2 mm in 2006	118
September	36.0°C12 Sep 1899	2.7°C30 Sep 1941	177 mm4 Sep 1907	526 mm2013 · driest 3 mm in 1946	119
October	32.1°C9 Oct 2003	-3.2°C26 Oct 1965	161 mm18 Oct 1893	428 mm1999 · driest 0 mm in 1907	118
November	29.1°C3 Nov 1938	-5.4°C25 Nov 1914	154 mm11 Nov 2015	407 mm1909 · driest 14 mm in 1926	120
December	23.5°C4 Dec 2010	-8.3°C29 Dec 1904	139 mm20 Dec 1892	537 mm1892 · driest 26 mm in 1932	119

Typical days per month at SOTCHI, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	0	0	4	7
February	0	0	5	5
March	<1	0	2	5
April	2	<1	<1	4
May	6	<1	0	3
June	16	2	0	3
July	28	6	0	3
August	30	9	0	3
September	16	2	0	4
October	4	<1	0	5
November	<1	0	<1	6
December	0	0	2	6

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was June (scoring 88); on 2011–2025 it is May (85). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in SOTCHI’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	<1%	43%	21%	59%	7.0–12.1°C
February	<1%	40%	18%	55%	7.4–13.0°C
March	5%	38%	16%	51%	9.8–14.8°C
April	19%	35%	13%	46%	14.1–18.7°C
May	45%	27%	9%	33%	18.8–22.4°C
June	74%	24%	9%	26%	22.5–26.2°C
July	79%	21%	9%	20%	25.3–28.6°C
August	80%	20%	10%	19%	25.7–29.5°C
September	71%	26%	13%	31%	22.7–26.2°C
October	45%	29%	15%	37%	18.3–22.7°C
November	12%	36%	19%	50%	12.8–18.1°C
December	2%	43%	20%	60%	9.6–14.3°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.

1898Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 107-year average. Warmest: 2010. Coolest: 1992.2018

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 491422
NOAA station: RSM00037099 · SOTCHI
Station distance: 4.1 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 27 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 43.60°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 9 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 SOTCHI is what differs

Dagomys→Vardane→Gornoye Loo→Loo→Vorontsovka→Tret’ya Rota→

Or put two places side by side: Sochi vs Dagomys

Best time to visitSochi.

June

August

May

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Sochi runs +1.0°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Sochi.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Sochi runs +1.0°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.