Climate averages 1991–2020

Novyy Urengoy weather
in August.

A cool, moderately wet month: the 2nd warmest and the wettest of the year.

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

Average high 14.5°C Daytime mean, August
Average low 8.1°C Night-time mean, August
Rainfall 70 mm 13 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 17 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Novyy Urengoy · average highYear overview

August is a cool month in Novyy Urengoy: daytime highs average 14.5°C and nights cool to about 8.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 70 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes August a moderately wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 16 h 55 min on an average August day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Noyabrsk (326 km away). In August its highs average 15.7°C, 1.2°C warmer than Novyy Urengoy, with 96 mm of rain.

Among the 236 cities listed in Russia, Novyy Urengoy ranks 233rd of 236 for the warmest August highs and joint 152nd of 236 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 236 cities is 22.4°C; Novyy Urengoy is 7.9°C cooler than that mean.

From August to September, average highs fall by 6.8°C to 7.7°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 70 mm to 46 mm.

The annual picture

August 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. -30-25-20-15-10-50510152025 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

Novyy Urengoy climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Novyy Urengoy, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowPrecipitation mm/monthWet days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January -21.1°C-26.9°C-26.9°C155.94.65 h
February -19.8°C-25.6°C-25.6°C134.68.18 h
March -11.8°C-18.1°C-18.1°C206.611.712 h
April -5.7°C-12.1°C-12.1°C317.515.315 h
May 1.5°C-4.4°C-4.4°C419.019.219 h
June 13.8°C5.7°C5.7°C6411.823.423 h
July 18.4°C10.7°C10.7°C599.721.221 h
August, selected 14.5°C8.1°C8.1°C7012.516.917 h
September 7.7°C2.3°C2.3°C4610.013.213 h
October -2.1°C-7.0°C-7.0°C4811.89.610 h
November -13.7°C-19.8°C-19.8°C278.55.96 h
December -18.3°C-24.4°C-24.4°C207.13.13 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

Distance from Novyy Urengoy

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