Climate averages 1991–2020
Abakan weather
in April.
A cool, fairly dry month: the 6th warmest and the 6th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a cool month in Abakan: daytime highs average 11.4°C and nights cool to about -0.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 23 mm of rain on roughly 7 days, which makes April a fairly dry month (the 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 59 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Chernogorsk (15 km away). In April its highs average 10.9°C, about as warm as Abakan, with 22 mm of rain.
Among the 236 cities listed in Russia, Abakan ranks joint 63rd of 236 for the warmest April highs and 11th of 236 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 236 cities is 9.5°C; Abakan is 1.9°C warmer than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 7.1°C to 18.5°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 23 mm to 38 mm.
The annual picture
April in context
Monthly precipitation
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
Abakan climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -13.4°C-20.4°C | -20.4°C | 6.5 | 2.5 | 8.18 h |
| February | -8.8°C-17.8°C | -17.8°C | 7.1 | 2.5 | 9.710 h |
| March | 1.2°C-9.2°C | -9.2°C | 11 | 3.1 | 11.812 h |
| April, selected | 11.4°C-0.7°C | -0.7°C | 23 | 6.8 | 14.014 h |
| May | 18.5°C5.7°C | 5.7°C | 38 | 9.5 | 15.916 h |
| June | 24.7°C12.9°C | 12.9°C | 50 | 9.9 | 17.017 h |
| July | 26.2°C16.0°C | 16.0°C | 57 | 10.6 | 16.517 h |
| August | 23.5°C13.8°C | 13.8°C | 64 | 11.3 | 14.815 h |
| September | 16.5°C7.2°C | 7.2°C | 49 | 9.7 | 12.813 h |
| October | 7.7°C-0.1°C | -0.1°C | 30 | 7.8 | 10.611 h |
| November | -2.4°C-8.2°C | -8.2°C | 19 | 5.6 | 8.79 h |
| December | -10.7°C-17.0°C | -17.0°C | 13 | 4.5 | 7.58 h |
Precipitation (rain or snow, as water) is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A wet day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.
Compare places
April in nearby cities
- Chernogorsk in AprilRussia · 15 kmHigh 10.9°C · Low -1.0°C · 22 mm rain
- Minusinsk in AprilRussia · 19 kmHigh 11.0°C · Low -0.7°C · 27 mm rain
- Mezhdurechensk in AprilRussia · 221 kmHigh 8.0°C · Low -2.5°C · 74 mm rain
- Krasnoyarsk in AprilRussia · 276 kmHigh 7.3°C · Low -2.6°C · 31 mm rain
- Novokuznetsk in AprilRussia · 282 kmHigh 8.7°C · Low -1.7°C · 45 mm rain
- Achinsk in AprilRussia · 290 kmHigh 6.5°C · Low -3.1°C · 37 mm rain
- Kyzyl in AprilRussia · 301 kmHigh 12.1°C · Low -1.6°C · 16 mm rain
- Prokop’yevsk in AprilRussia · 310 kmHigh 8.2°C · Low -1.9°C · 40 mm rain
Read the numbers correctly
Climate, not a promise.
These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.
Sources, method and limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Abakan) is explained once on the Abakan year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.