Climate averages 1991–2020
Chelyabinsk weather
in August.
A mild, moderately wet month: the 3rd warmest and the 11th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a mild month in Chelyabinsk: daytime highs average 21.3°C and nights cool to about 13.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 3rd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 71 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes August a moderately wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 15 h 00 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Kopeysk (13 km away). In August its highs average 21.4°C, about as warm as Chelyabinsk, with 66 mm of rain.
Among the 236 cities listed in Russia, Chelyabinsk ranks joint 148th of 236 for the warmest August highs and joint 163rd of 236 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 236 cities is 22.4°C; Chelyabinsk is 1.2°C cooler than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 6.1°C to 15.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 71 mm to 43 mm.
The annual picture
August 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
Chelyabinsk climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -11.2°C-17.2°C | -17.2°C | 17 | 5.4 | 7.88 h |
| February | -9.1°C-15.8°C | -15.8°C | 15 | 4.9 | 9.610 h |
| March | -1.4°C-8.9°C | -8.9°C | 24 | 5.7 | 11.812 h |
| April | 9.3°C-0.6°C | -0.6°C | 30 | 7.0 | 14.114 h |
| May | 17.7°C7.1°C | 7.1°C | 48 | 8.8 | 16.116 h |
| June | 22.3°C13.0°C | 13.0°C | 57 | 10.9 | 17.317 h |
| July | 23.4°C15.2°C | 15.2°C | 76 | 11.6 | 16.817 h |
| August, selected | 21.3°C13.5°C | 13.5°C | 71 | 11.4 | 15.015 h |
| September | 15.2°C7.9°C | 7.9°C | 43 | 8.5 | 12.813 h |
| October | 7.1°C1.2°C | 1.2°C | 38 | 9.4 | 10.511 h |
| November | -2.9°C-8.2°C | -8.2°C | 25 | 6.6 | 8.58 h |
| December | -9.2°C-15.2°C | -15.2°C | 21 | 6.0 | 7.37 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
- Kopeysk in AugustRussia · 13 kmHigh 21.4°C · Low 13.6°C · 66 mm rain
- Ozersk in AugustRussia · 80 kmHigh 20.1°C · Low 13.0°C · 71 mm rain
- Miass in AugustRussia · 85 kmHigh 20.4°C · Low 12.5°C · 71 mm rain
- Zlatoust in AugustRussia · 113 kmHigh 19.2°C · Low 11.7°C · 83 mm rain
- Troitsk in AugustRussia · 119 kmHigh 23.1°C · Low 14.1°C · 52 mm rain
- Kamensk-Ural’skiy in AugustRussia · 142 kmHigh 20.7°C · Low 13.0°C · 71 mm rain
- Shadrinsk in AugustRussia · 173 kmHigh 21.1°C · Low 13.3°C · 61 mm rain
- Yekaterinburg in AugustRussia · 195 kmHigh 19.3°C · Low 11.9°C · 72 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 Chelyabinsk) is explained once on the Chelyabinsk year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.