Climate averages 1991–2020
Minusinsk weather
in March.
A cold month with very little precipitation: the 8th warmest and the 3rd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a cold month in Minusinsk: daytime highs average 0.8°C and nights cool to about -9.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 13 mm of precipitation on roughly 4 days, which makes March a month with very little precipitation (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 49 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Abakan (19 km away). In March its highs average 1.2°C, about as warm as Minusinsk, with 11 mm of precipitation.
Among the 236 cities listed in Russia, Minusinsk ranks joint 96th of 236 for the warmest March highs and 12th of 236 for the driest March (precipitation, lowest first). The mean March high of those 236 cities is 0.7°C; Minusinsk is 0.1°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 10.2°C to 11.0°C, and monthly precipitation rises from 13 mm to 27 mm.
The annual picture
March 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
Minusinsk climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -13.6°C-21.2°C | -21.2°C | 8.1 | 2.8 | 8.18 h |
| February | -8.9°C-18.4°C | -18.4°C | 8.5 | 2.8 | 9.710 h |
| March, selected | 0.8°C-9.6°C | -9.6°C | 13 | 3.7 | 11.812 h |
| April | 11.0°C-0.7°C | -0.7°C | 27 | 7.9 | 14.014 h |
| May | 18.2°C5.7°C | 5.7°C | 43 | 10.3 | 15.916 h |
| June | 24.4°C13.0°C | 13.0°C | 55 | 10.7 | 17.017 h |
| July | 26.1°C16.0°C | 16.0°C | 63 | 11.0 | 16.517 h |
| August | 23.4°C13.7°C | 13.7°C | 71 | 11.5 | 14.815 h |
| September | 16.3°C7.0°C | 7.0°C | 54 | 10.4 | 12.813 h |
| October | 7.6°C-0.2°C | -0.2°C | 34 | 8.9 | 10.611 h |
| November | -2.6°C-8.8°C | -8.8°C | 23 | 6.9 | 8.79 h |
| December | -10.8°C-17.7°C | -17.7°C | 16 | 5.4 | 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
March in nearby cities
- Abakan in MarchRussia · 19 kmHigh 1.2°C · Low -9.2°C · 11 mm precipitation
- Chernogorsk in MarchRussia · 30 kmHigh 0.7°C · Low -9.3°C · 9.5 mm precipitation
- Mezhdurechensk in MarchRussia · 240 kmHigh 0.4°C · Low -9.5°C · 54 mm precipitation
- Krasnoyarsk in MarchRussia · 271 kmHigh -1.5°C · Low -11.4°C · 17 mm precipitation
- Kyzyl in MarchRussia · 288 kmHigh 0.4°C · Low -12.6°C · 6.4 mm precipitation
- Achinsk in MarchRussia · 296 kmHigh -2.5°C · Low -11.0°C · 23 mm precipitation
- Novokuznetsk in MarchRussia · 301 kmHigh -0.6°C · Low -9.9°C · 29 mm precipitation
- Zheleznogorsk (Krasnoyarsk Krai), Russia in MarchRussia · 306 kmHigh -1.7°C · Low -11.2°C · 21 mm precipitation
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 Minusinsk) is explained once on the Minusinsk year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.