Climate averages 1991–2020

Birobidzhan weather
in August.

A warm, wet month: the 2nd warmest and the 11th driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 23.4°C Daytime mean, August
Average low 15.3°C Night-time mean, August
Rainfall 173 mm 15 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 14 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Birobidzhan · average highYear overview

August is a warm month in Birobidzhan: daytime highs average 23.4°C and nights cool to about 15.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 173 mm of rain on roughly 15 days, which makes August a wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 22 min on an average August day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Khabarovsk (164 km away). In August its highs average 23.6°C, about as warm as Birobidzhan, with 150 mm of rain.

Among the 236 cities listed in Russia, Birobidzhan ranks joint 71st of 236 for the warmest August highs and 236th of 236 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 236 cities is 22.4°C; Birobidzhan is 1.0°C warmer than that mean.

From August to September, average highs fall by 5.2°C to 18.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 173 mm to 99 mm.

The annual picture

August in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. -35-30-25-20-15-10-5051015202530 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly precipitation

Average total · mm
Average monthly precipitation totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 2000

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Birobidzhan climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Birobidzhan, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowPrecipitation mm/monthWet days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January -14.8°C-28.3°C-28.3°C6.41.88.89 h
February -8.9°C-24.0°C-24.0°C8.01.910.110 h
March -0.3°C-13.4°C-13.4°C234.411.912 h
April 9.9°C-1.7°C-1.7°C467.813.714 h
May 17.6°C6.0°C6.0°C9212.015.215 h
June 22.1°C12.7°C12.7°C10813.516.116 h
July 24.8°C16.6°C16.6°C18215.015.716 h
August, selected 23.4°C15.3°C15.3°C17314.614.414 h
September 18.2°C8.8°C8.8°C9911.112.613 h
October 8.4°C-0.4°C-0.4°C557.310.911 h
November -4.3°C-13.7°C-13.7°C224.69.29 h
December -14.6°C-25.9°C-25.9°C122.98.38 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

August in nearby cities

Distance from Birobidzhan

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 limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Birobidzhan) is explained once on the Birobidzhan year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.