Climate averages 1991–2020
Shakhty weather
in April.
A cool, moderately wet month: the 6th warmest and the 7th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a cool month in Shakhty: daytime highs average 14.8°C and nights cool to about 5.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 42 mm of rain on roughly 9 days, which makes April a moderately wet month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 36 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Novoshakhtinsk (22 km away). In April its highs average 14.5°C, about as warm as Shakhty, with 44 mm of rain.
Among the 236 cities listed in Russia, Shakhty ranks joint 20th of 236 for the warmest April highs and joint 172nd of 236 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 236 cities is 9.5°C; Shakhty is 5.3°C warmer than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 6.5°C to 21.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 42 mm to 58 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
Shakhty climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -1.0°C-6.1°C | -6.1°C | 44 | 9.5 | 8.99 h |
| February | 0.2°C-5.9°C | -5.9°C | 39 | 8.2 | 10.210 h |
| March | 6.5°C-1.5°C | -1.5°C | 43 | 9.8 | 11.912 h |
| April, selected | 14.8°C5.0°C | 5.0°C | 42 | 9.2 | 13.614 h |
| May | 21.3°C11.4°C | 11.4°C | 58 | 10.2 | 15.115 h |
| June | 26.2°C16.2°C | 16.2°C | 46 | 8.5 | 15.916 h |
| July | 28.8°C18.8°C | 18.8°C | 41 | 7.5 | 15.616 h |
| August | 28.6°C18.3°C | 18.3°C | 30 | 5.1 | 14.314 h |
| September | 21.9°C12.6°C | 12.6°C | 38 | 6.3 | 12.613 h |
| October | 14.1°C6.4°C | 6.4°C | 39 | 7.4 | 10.911 h |
| November | 5.6°C0.2°C | 0.2°C | 37 | 7.0 | 9.39 h |
| December | 0.5°C-4.2°C | -4.2°C | 45 | 8.7 | 8.58 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
April in nearby cities
- Novoshakhtinsk in AprilRussia · 22 kmHigh 14.5°C · Low 4.7°C · 44 mm rain
- Novocherkassk in AprilRussia · 34 kmHigh 15.1°C · Low 5.1°C · 42 mm rain
- Kamensk-Shakhtinsky in AprilRussia · 67 kmHigh 14.9°C · Low 4.8°C · 44 mm rain
- Rostov-on-Don in AprilRussia · 67 kmHigh 15.2°C · Low 5.9°C · 42 mm rain
- Bataysk in AprilRussia · 73 kmHigh 15.6°C · Low 5.9°C · 42 mm rain
- Azov in AprilRussia · 91 kmHigh 14.7°C · Low 6.4°C · 43 mm rain
- Khrustalnyi in AprilUkraine · 107 kmHigh 13.5°C · Low 3.6°C · 52 mm rain
- Taganrog in AprilRussia · 112 kmHigh 13.1°C · Low 7.9°C · 41 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 Shakhty) is explained once on the Shakhty year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.