Climate averages 1991–2020

Kyzyl weather
in April.

A cool, fairly dry month: the 6th warmest and the joint 6th driest of the year.

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

Average high 12.1°C Daytime mean, April
Average low -1.6°C Night-time mean, April
Rainfall 16 mm 5 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 14 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Kyzyl · average highYear overview

April is a cool month in Kyzyl: daytime highs average 12.1°C and nights cool to about -1.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 16 mm of rain on roughly 5 days, which makes April a fairly dry month (the joint 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 50 min on an average April day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Minusinsk (288 km away). In April its highs average 11.0°C, 1.1°C cooler than Kyzyl, with 27 mm of rain.

Among the 236 cities listed in Russia, Kyzyl ranks joint 50th of 236 for the warmest April highs and 4th of 236 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 236 cities is 9.5°C; Kyzyl is 2.6°C warmer than that mean.

From April to May, average highs rise by 7.1°C to 19.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 16 mm to 29 mm.

The annual picture

April 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. -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 1000

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

Every month, side by side

Kyzyl climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Kyzyl, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowPrecipitation mm/monthWet days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January -16.1°C-25.0°C-25.0°C2.50.88.48 h
February -9.3°C-21.2°C-21.2°C3.21.29.910 h
March 0.4°C-12.6°C-12.6°C6.42.211.812 h
April, selected 12.1°C-1.6°C-1.6°C165.113.814 h
May 19.2°C4.3°C4.3°C298.815.616 h
June 25.4°C11.4°C11.4°C4510.316.617 h
July 27.0°C14.6°C14.6°C6812.216.216 h
August 24.3°C12.0°C12.0°C5010.614.615 h
September 17.3°C5.4°C5.4°C337.612.713 h
October 7.7°C-2.1°C-2.1°C165.110.711 h
November -4.6°C-12.6°C-12.6°C113.68.99 h
December -14.3°C-22.0°C-22.0°C6.52.27.98 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

Distance from Kyzyl

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 Kyzyl) is explained once on the Kyzyl year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.