Climate averages 1991–2020
Volgograd weather
in August.
A hot, fairly dry month: the 2nd warmest and the driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a hot month in Volgograd: daytime highs average 29.2°C and nights cool to about 18.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 23 mm of rain on roughly 4 days, which makes August a fairly dry month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 22 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Volzhsky (22 km away). In August its highs average 29.3°C, about as warm as Volgograd, with 21 mm of rain.
Among the 236 cities listed in Russia, Volgograd ranks 8th of 236 for the warmest August highs and joint 4th of 236 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 236 cities is 22.4°C; Volgograd is 6.8°C warmer than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 7.2°C to 21.9°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 23 mm to 32 mm.
The annual picture
August 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
Volgograd climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -2.9°C-7.9°C | -7.9°C | 31 | 8.0 | 8.89 h |
| February | -2.1°C-8.2°C | -8.2°C | 26 | 6.5 | 10.110 h |
| March | 5.0°C-3.0°C | -3.0°C | 31 | 7.6 | 11.912 h |
| April | 14.8°C4.7°C | 4.7°C | 30 | 6.6 | 13.714 h |
| May | 22.2°C11.8°C | 11.8°C | 40 | 7.3 | 15.215 h |
| June | 27.3°C17.0°C | 17.0°C | 35 | 6.9 | 16.116 h |
| July | 30.0°C19.6°C | 19.6°C | 28 | 5.8 | 15.716 h |
| August, selected | 29.2°C18.6°C | 18.6°C | 23 | 4.1 | 14.414 h |
| September | 21.9°C12.5°C | 12.5°C | 32 | 5.5 | 12.613 h |
| October | 13.5°C6.0°C | 6.0°C | 33 | 6.9 | 10.911 h |
| November | 4.2°C-1.0°C | -1.0°C | 25 | 6.2 | 9.29 h |
| December | -1.2°C-5.8°C | -5.8°C | 34 | 7.8 | 8.48 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
- Volzhsky in AugustRussia · 22 kmHigh 29.3°C · Low 18.9°C · 21 mm rain
- Kamyshin in AugustRussia · 167 kmHigh 27.5°C · Low 18.7°C · 19 mm rain
- Volgodonsk in AugustRussia · 219 kmHigh 28.8°C · Low 19.5°C · 25 mm rain
- Elista in AugustRussia · 268 kmHigh 30.5°C · Low 19.3°C · 23 mm rain
- Kamensk-Shakhtinsky in AugustRussia · 315 kmHigh 28.3°C · Low 17.7°C · 31 mm rain
- Engels in AugustRussia · 329 kmHigh 26.3°C · Low 16.7°C · 29 mm rain
- Balashov in AugustRussia · 329 kmHigh 25.2°C · Low 15.6°C · 37 mm rain
- Saratov in AugustRussia · 332 kmHigh 25.6°C · Low 16.3°C · 29 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 Volgograd) is explained once on the Volgograd year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.