Climate averages 1991–2020
Yoshkar-Ola weather
in October.
A cold, moderately wet month: the 7th warmest and the 9th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
October is a cold month in Yoshkar-Ola: daytime highs average 7.3°C and nights cool to about 2.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 61 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes October a moderately wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 27 min on an average October day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Novocheboksarsk (64 km away). In October its highs average 7.5°C, about as warm as Yoshkar-Ola, with 54 mm of rain.
Among the 236 cities listed in Russia, Yoshkar-Ola ranks joint 149th of 236 for the warmest October highs and joint 187th of 236 for the driest October (rainfall, lowest first). The mean October high of those 236 cities is 8.6°C; Yoshkar-Ola is 1.3°C cooler than that mean.
From October to November, average highs fall by 8.1°C to -0.9°C, and monthly precipitation falls from 61 mm to 45 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
Yoshkar-Ola climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -7.6°C-12.8°C | -12.8°C | 39 | 10.6 | 7.58 h |
| February | -6.8°C-12.7°C | -12.7°C | 33 | 8.6 | 9.59 h |
| March | -0.5°C-7.1°C | -7.1°C | 37 | 8.8 | 11.812 h |
| April | 8.9°C-0.3°C | -0.3°C | 40 | 9.0 | 14.214 h |
| May | 17.2°C7.2°C | 7.2°C | 49 | 9.9 | 16.416 h |
| June | 21.5°C12.5°C | 12.5°C | 66 | 11.7 | 17.718 h |
| July | 23.8°C15.1°C | 15.1°C | 73 | 11.2 | 17.117 h |
| August | 21.3°C13.3°C | 13.3°C | 62 | 10.3 | 15.215 h |
| September | 15.3°C8.3°C | 8.3°C | 58 | 10.8 | 12.813 h |
| October, selected | 7.3°C2.2°C | 2.2°C | 61 | 11.5 | 10.410 h |
| November | -0.9°C-5.0°C | -5.0°C | 45 | 10.3 | 8.28 h |
| December | -5.6°C-10.6°C | -10.6°C | 43 | 10.8 | 6.97 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
- Novocheboksarsk in OctoberRussia · 64 kmHigh 7.5°C · Low 2.4°C · 54 mm rain
- Cheboksary in OctoberRussia · 69 kmHigh 7.4°C · Low 2.5°C · 58 mm rain
- Zelenodolsk in OctoberRussia · 97 kmHigh 7.5°C · Low 2.6°C · 53 mm rain
- Kazan in OctoberRussia · 121 kmHigh 7.6°C · Low 2.5°C · 55 mm rain
- Nizhniy Novgorod in OctoberRussia · 241 kmHigh 7.4°C · Low 2.3°C · 63 mm rain
- Kirov in OctoberRussia · 242 kmHigh 5.3°C · Low 0.8°C · 68 mm rain
- Kirovo-Chepetsk in OctoberRussia · 248 kmHigh 5.3°C · Low 0.9°C · 68 mm rain
- Ulyanovsk in OctoberRussia · 259 kmHigh 7.9°C · Low 3.0°C · 48 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 Yoshkar-Ola) is explained once on the Yoshkar-Ola year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.