Climate averages 1991–2020
Abakan weather
in March.
A cold month with very little precipitation: the 8th warmest and the 3rd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a cold month in Abakan: daytime highs average 1.2°C and nights cool to about -9.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 11 mm of precipitation on roughly 3 days, which makes March a month with very little precipitation (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 49 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Chernogorsk (15 km away). In March its highs average 0.7°C, about as warm as Abakan, with 9.5 mm of precipitation.
Among the 236 cities listed in Russia, Abakan ranks joint 68th of 236 for the warmest March highs and joint 10th of 236 for the driest March (precipitation, lowest first). The mean March high of those 236 cities is 0.7°C; Abakan is 0.5°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 10.2°C to 11.4°C, and monthly precipitation rises from 11 mm to 23 mm.
The annual picture
March 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, selected | 1.2°C-9.2°C | -9.2°C | 11 | 3.1 | 11.812 h |
| April | 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
March in nearby cities
- Chernogorsk in MarchRussia · 15 kmHigh 0.7°C · Low -9.3°C · 9.5 mm precipitation
- Minusinsk in MarchRussia · 19 kmHigh 0.8°C · Low -9.6°C · 13 mm precipitation
- Mezhdurechensk in MarchRussia · 221 kmHigh 0.4°C · Low -9.5°C · 54 mm precipitation
- Krasnoyarsk in MarchRussia · 276 kmHigh -1.5°C · Low -11.4°C · 17 mm precipitation
- Novokuznetsk in MarchRussia · 282 kmHigh -0.6°C · Low -9.9°C · 29 mm precipitation
- Achinsk in MarchRussia · 290 kmHigh -2.5°C · Low -11.0°C · 23 mm precipitation
- Kyzyl in MarchRussia · 301 kmHigh 0.4°C · Low -12.6°C · 6.4 mm precipitation
- Prokop’yevsk in MarchRussia · 310 kmHigh -1.1°C · Low -9.9°C · 23 mm precipitation
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.