Russia · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Murmansk.

July leads for comfortable weather in Murmansk: typically 17.9°C by day, 9.6°C at night, with 66 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortJuly
Typical high17.9°C
Typical low9.6°C
Rain in July66 mm
Comfort

July

July · August · June

58climate match
Beach

July

July · August · January

21climate match
Outdoors

July

July · August · June

77climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against July’s 58days reach only -6.6°C, 31° 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
5-6.6° / -12.7°
Feb
5-6.5° / -12.4°
Mar
5-1.9° / -8.2°
Apr
53° / -3.3°
May
198.4° / 1.5°
Jun
4013.7° / 5.9°
Jul
5817.9° / 9.6°
Aug
4915.5° / 8.4°
Sep
2810.7° / 5°
Oct
53.6° / -0.2°
Nov
5-1.8° / -6.3°
Dec
5-4.2° / -9.7°
Monthly climate evidence for Murmansk — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
MonthDayNightRainWet daysDaylightComfortCoverage
January-6.6°C-12.7°C34 mm9.71 h 515Strong coverage
February-6.5°C-12.4°C24 mm7.77 h 185Strong coverage
March-1.9°C-8.2°C29 mm8.411 h 185Strong coverage
April3°C-3.3°C27 mm8.115 h 435Strong coverage
May8.4°C1.5°C37 mm8.321 h 0019Strong coverage
June13.7°C5.9°C55 mm10.824 h40Strong coverage
July17.9°C9.6°C66 mm11.524 h58Strong coverage
August15.5°C8.4°C65 mm10.817 h 4549Strong coverage
September10.7°C5°C54 mm11.113 h 0728Strong coverage
October3.6°C-0.2°C56 mm12.28 h 545Strong coverage
November-1.8°C-6.3°C35 mm9.54 h 085Strong coverage
December-4.2°C-9.7°C37 mm10.6none5Strong coverage

What has changed

Murmansk runs +1.6°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
+0.1
Feb
+1.7
Mar
+1.9
Apr
+1.8
May
+3.0
Jun
+0.2
Jul
+1.7
Aug
+1.5
Sep
+2.4
Oct
+1.0
Nov
+2.0
Dec
+2.1
July daytime highs, 20112018. Last recorded: 24.3°C.
Records at MURMANSK, 1936–2025
MonthRecord highRecord lowWettest dayWettest / driest monthYears
January7.0°C28 Jan 1949-39.4°C6 Jan 198516 mm20 Jan 202573 mm2025 · driest 1 mm in 193790
February6.6°C20 Feb 2004-38.6°C2 Feb 196618 mm28 Feb 202364 mm2021 · driest 2 mm in 196990
March9.0°C31 Mar 1948-32.6°C16 Mar 196618 mm3 Mar 201054 mm2025 · driest 1 mm in 194690
April17.6°C29 Apr 2016-21.7°C3 Apr 194115 mm25 Apr 202072 mm2000 · driest 5 mm in 194490
May29.4°C31 May 2013-10.4°C1 May 198125 mm22 May 202169 mm1975 · driest 8 mm in 194590
June30.8°C19 Jun 1939-2.5°C5 Jun 196245 mm30 Jun 1984142 mm1981 · driest 3 mm in 199790
July32.9°C9 Jul 19721.7°C1 Jul 198649 mm16 Jul 2007148 mm1984 · driest 10 mm in 194290
August30.2°C1 Aug 2018-2.0°C30 Aug 198457 mm1 Aug 1977195 mm1974 · driest 16 mm in 195890
September24.2°C3 Sep 1938-5.4°C29 Sep 193933 mm20 Sep 2007120 mm1970 · driest 19 mm in 195589
October15.0°C11 Oct 2005-21.2°C26 Oct 196823 mm8 Oct 1963116 mm1995 · driest 7 mm in 193889
November11.7°C8 Nov 2024-30.5°C29 Nov 200226 mm20 Nov 1971103 mm1973 · driest 3 mm in 194289
December7.2°C17 Dec 1997-35.0°C30 Dec 199520 mm20 Dec 2016113 mm2016 · driest 3 mm in 194589
Typical days per month at MURMANSK, 1991–2020
MonthDays 25°C+Frost nightsHeavy rain (10 mm+)
January031<1
February0280
March030<1
April023<1
May<110<1
June<1<12
July302
August102
September021
October0151
November027<1
December030<1
How often, not how much — every day in MURMANSK’s record sorted by what it was actually like, rather than averaged
MonthWarm & dry daysWet daysWashoutsWeek with 3+ wet daysDaytime mean has ranged
January0%27%<1%30%-11.0–-3.8°C
February0%23%<1%25%-12.1–-2.8°C
March0%22%<1%24%-6.5–0.2°C
April0%22%<1%23%-0.2–4.9°C
May2%24%1%27%4.7–10.8°C
June16%33%4%43%10.6–17.3°C
July27%33%6%45%14.6–20.7°C
August15%35%5%49%13.1–17.6°C
September<1%36%4%49%7.7–12.4°C
October0%34%2%43%0.9–5.7°C
November0%29%1%37%-5.1–1.1°C
December0%30%<1%36%-9.4–-0.6°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.

1937Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 82-year average. Warmest: 1938. Coolest: 1966.2018

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity
GeoNames 524305
NOAA station
RSM00022113 · MURMANSK
Station distance
2 km from the place centre
Climate period
1991–2020
Minimum month coverage
28 usable years
Daylight
Calculated from latitude 68.97°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
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 MURMANSK is what differs

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