Climate averages 1991–2020
Minusinsk weather
in October.
A cold, fairly dry month: the 7th warmest and the 7th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
October is a cold month in Minusinsk: daytime highs average 7.6°C and nights cool to about -0.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 34 mm of rain on roughly 9 days, which makes October a fairly dry month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 37 min on an average October day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Abakan (19 km away). In October its highs average 7.7°C, about as warm as Minusinsk, with 30 mm of rain.
Among the 236 cities listed in Russia, Minusinsk ranks joint 135th of 236 for the warmest October highs and joint 20th of 236 for the driest October (rainfall, lowest first). The mean October high of those 236 cities is 8.6°C; Minusinsk is 0.9°C cooler than that mean.
From October to November, average highs fall by 10.2°C to -2.6°C, and monthly precipitation falls from 34 mm to 23 mm.
The annual picture
October 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 | 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, selected | 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
October in nearby cities
- Abakan in OctoberRussia · 19 kmHigh 7.7°C · Low -0.1°C · 30 mm rain
- Chernogorsk in OctoberRussia · 30 kmHigh 7.4°C · Low -0.2°C · 27 mm rain
- Mezhdurechensk in OctoberRussia · 240 kmHigh 7.0°C · Low -1.2°C · 107 mm rain
- Krasnoyarsk in OctoberRussia · 271 kmHigh 5.7°C · Low -1.3°C · 41 mm rain
- Kyzyl in OctoberRussia · 288 kmHigh 7.7°C · Low -2.1°C · 16 mm rain
- Achinsk in OctoberRussia · 296 kmHigh 4.9°C · Low -1.5°C · 51 mm rain
- Novokuznetsk in OctoberRussia · 301 kmHigh 7.3°C · Low -0.2°C · 59 mm rain
- Zheleznogorsk (Krasnoyarsk Krai), Russia in OctoberRussia · 306 kmHigh 5.5°C · Low -1.3°C · 49 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 Minusinsk) is explained once on the Minusinsk year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.