Climate averages 1991–2020
Kurgan 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 Kurgan: daytime highs average 9.6°C and nights cool to about -0.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 28 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 14 h 06 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Shadrinsk (128 km away). In April its highs average 9.3°C, about as warm as Kurgan, with 29 mm of rain.
Among the 236 cities listed in Russia, Kurgan ranks joint 128th of 236 for the warmest April highs and joint 18th of 236 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 236 cities is 9.5°C; Kurgan is level with that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 8.4°C to 18.0°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 28 mm to 43 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
Kurgan climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -11.6°C-18.1°C | -18.1°C | 17 | 5.5 | 7.88 h |
| February | -9.4°C-16.6°C | -16.6°C | 15 | 4.6 | 9.610 h |
| March | -1.4°C-9.3°C | -9.3°C | 23 | 6.2 | 11.812 h |
| April, selected | 9.6°C-0.8°C | -0.8°C | 28 | 6.8 | 14.114 h |
| May | 18.0°C6.8°C | 6.8°C | 43 | 8.3 | 16.216 h |
| June | 22.7°C12.9°C | 12.9°C | 53 | 9.6 | 17.417 h |
| July | 23.8°C15.1°C | 15.1°C | 78 | 11.1 | 16.917 h |
| August | 21.7°C13.4°C | 13.4°C | 54 | 10.4 | 15.015 h |
| September | 15.3°C7.7°C | 7.7°C | 43 | 8.7 | 12.813 h |
| October | 7.1°C1.0°C | 1.0°C | 36 | 8.6 | 10.511 h |
| November | -3.2°C-8.8°C | -8.8°C | 27 | 6.8 | 8.48 h |
| December | -9.5°C-15.9°C | -15.9°C | 23 | 6.6 | 7.27 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
- Shadrinsk in AprilRussia · 128 kmHigh 9.3°C · Low -0.5°C · 29 mm rain
- Tyumen in AprilRussia · 190 kmHigh 7.7°C · Low -1.7°C · 29 mm rain
- Kamensk-Ural’skiy in AprilRussia · 238 kmHigh 9.1°C · Low -0.6°C · 33 mm rain
- Kopeysk in AprilRussia · 239 kmHigh 9.4°C · Low -0.6°C · 29 mm rain
- Chelyabinsk in AprilRussia · 250 kmHigh 9.3°C · Low -0.6°C · 30 mm rain
- Petropavl in AprilKazakhstan · 250 kmHigh 9.0°C · Low -0.9°C · 30 mm rain
- Kostanay in AprilKazakhstan · 272 kmHigh 11.0°C · Low -0.1°C · 29 mm rain
- Troitsk in AprilRussia · 285 kmHigh 11.0°C · Low 0.0°C · 30 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 Kurgan) is explained once on the Kurgan year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.