Climate averages 1991–2020
Sunzha weather
in August.
A warm, moderately wet month: the 2nd warmest and the 9th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a warm month in Sunzha: daytime highs average 27.5°C and nights cool to about 18.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 72 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes August a moderately wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 58 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Nazran (25 km away). In August its highs average 25.8°C, 1.6°C cooler than Sunzha, with 65 mm of rain.
Among the 236 cities listed in Russia, Sunzha ranks joint 25th of 236 for the warmest August highs and joint 171st of 236 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 236 cities is 22.4°C; Sunzha is 5.1°C warmer than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 5.2°C to 22.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 72 mm to 67 mm.
The annual picture
August in context
Monthly rainfall
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
Sunzha climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 2.5°C-5.0°C | -5.0°C | 30 | 7.9 | 9.49 h |
| February | 3.8°C-4.5°C | -4.5°C | 32 | 7.2 | 10.510 h |
| March | 9.0°C-0.1°C | -0.1°C | 55 | 11.0 | 11.912 h |
| April | 15.1°C5.2°C | 5.2°C | 71 | 10.8 | 13.413 h |
| May | 20.4°C10.8°C | 10.8°C | 106 | 14.1 | 14.715 h |
| June | 24.7°C15.3°C | 15.3°C | 108 | 13.0 | 15.315 h |
| July | 27.6°C18.2°C | 18.2°C | 76 | 10.9 | 15.115 h |
| August, selected | 27.5°C18.2°C | 18.2°C | 72 | 10.3 | 14.014 h |
| September | 22.2°C13.6°C | 13.6°C | 67 | 8.9 | 12.513 h |
| October | 16.2°C7.8°C | 7.8°C | 52 | 8.6 | 11.111 h |
| November | 8.8°C1.3°C | 1.3°C | 39 | 7.3 | 9.810 h |
| December | 3.9°C-3.3°C | -3.3°C | 29 | 6.9 | 9.09 h |
Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain 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
- Nazran in AugustRussia · 25 kmHigh 25.8°C · Low 17.0°C · 65 mm rain
- Vladikavkaz in AugustRussia · 44 kmHigh 23.9°C · Low 15.1°C · 169 mm rain
- Grozny in AugustRussia · 52 kmHigh 29.4°C · Low 19.5°C · 61 mm rain
- Khasavyurt in AugustRussia · 125 kmHigh 28.3°C · Low 19.6°C · 90 mm rain
- Georgiyevsk in AugustRussia · 157 kmHigh 28.3°C · Low 18.6°C · 53 mm rain
- Pyatigorsk in AugustRussia · 180 kmHigh 26.0°C · Low 16.7°C · 81 mm rain
- Tbilisi in AugustGeorgia · 182 kmHigh 29.9°C · Low 19.0°C · 46 mm rain
- Mineralnye Vody in AugustRussia · 183 kmHigh 27.9°C · Low 18.5°C · 50 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 Sunzha) is explained once on the Sunzha year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.