Climate averages 1991–2020
Abakan weather
in October.
A cold, fairly dry month: the 7th warmest and the 7th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
October is a cold month in Abakan: daytime highs average 7.7°C and nights cool to about -0.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 30 mm of rain on roughly 8 days, which makes October a fairly dry month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 37 min on an average October day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Chernogorsk (15 km away). In October its highs average 7.4°C, about as warm as Abakan, with 27 mm of rain.
Among the 236 cities listed in Russia, Abakan ranks joint 127th of 236 for the warmest October highs and 11th of 236 for the driest October (rainfall, lowest first). The mean October high of those 236 cities is 8.6°C; Abakan is 0.9°C cooler than that mean.
From October to November, average highs fall by 10.1°C to -2.4°C, and monthly precipitation falls from 30 mm to 19 mm.
The annual picture
October 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 | 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, selected | 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
October in nearby cities
- Chernogorsk in OctoberRussia · 15 kmHigh 7.4°C · Low -0.2°C · 27 mm rain
- Minusinsk in OctoberRussia · 19 kmHigh 7.6°C · Low -0.2°C · 34 mm rain
- Mezhdurechensk in OctoberRussia · 221 kmHigh 7.0°C · Low -1.2°C · 107 mm rain
- Krasnoyarsk in OctoberRussia · 276 kmHigh 5.7°C · Low -1.3°C · 41 mm rain
- Novokuznetsk in OctoberRussia · 282 kmHigh 7.3°C · Low -0.2°C · 59 mm rain
- Achinsk in OctoberRussia · 290 kmHigh 4.9°C · Low -1.5°C · 51 mm rain
- Kyzyl in OctoberRussia · 301 kmHigh 7.7°C · Low -2.1°C · 16 mm rain
- Prokop’yevsk in OctoberRussia · 310 kmHigh 6.7°C · Low -0.4°C · 48 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.