Russia in April: where is it warmest?
In April, Astrakhan is the warmest place with 17 °C by day, Norilsk the coolest with −9 °C. 9 of 55 destinations have good holiday weather.
All destinations in April, warmest first
Long-term averages for the month: daytime high, sea, sunshine and rainy days.
| Place | Score | Air | Sea | Sun | Rain days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Astrakhan | 85 | 17° | – | 7 h | 5 |
| Grozny | 75 | 17° | – | 6 h | 8 |
| Krasnodar | 73 | 17° | – | 6 h | 9 |
| Makhachkala | 75 | 16° | 9° | 6 h | 7 |
| Rostov-on-Don | 70 | 16° | – | 7 h | 9 |
| Volgograd | 72 | 15° | – | 7 h | 7 |
| Novorossiysk | 67 | 15° | 11° | 7 h | 8 |
| Sochi | 59 | 15° | 12° | 6 h | 12 |
| Vladikavkaz | 50 | 14° | – | 5 h | 11 |
| Orenburg | 63 | 13° | – | 8 h | 8 |
| Taganrog | 60 | 13° | 10° | 7 h | 8 |
| Voronezh | 58 | 13° | – | 7 h | 9 |
| Kursk | 56 | 13° | – | 7 h | 9 |
| Kaliningrad | 54 | 13° | – | 7 h | 10 |
| Derbent | 27 | 13° | 9° | 6 h | 6 |
| Saratov | 55 | 12° | – | 7 h | 8 |
| Sovetsk | 52 | 12° | – | 7 h | 9 |
| Samara | 49 | 11° | – | 7 h | 8 |
| Tolyatti | 48 | 11° | – | 7 h | 8 |
| Tula | 42 | 11° | – | 6 h | 10 |
| Smolensk | 41 | 11° | – | 6 h | 10 |
| Ulan-Ude | 56 | 10° | – | 8 h | 3 |
| Irkutsk | 53 | 10° | – | 8 h | 6 |
| Omsk | 47 | 10° | – | 8 h | 8 |
| Ulyanovsk | 46 | 10° | – | 7 h | 8 |
| Barnaul | 45 | 10° | – | 7 h | 8 |
| Birobidzhan | 45 | 10° | – | 7 h | 8 |
| Ufa | 44 | 10° | – | 7 h | 9 |
| Chelyabinsk | 44 | 10° | – | 7 h | 7 |
| Khabarovsk | 43 | 10° | – | 7 h | 8 |
| Pskov | 41 | 10° | – | 6 h | 9 |
| Moscow | 39 | 10° | – | 6 h | 9 |
| Tver | 38 | 10° | – | 6 h | 9 |
| Veliky Novgorod | 34 | 10° | – | 5 h | 10 |
| Nizhny Novgorod | 40 | 9° | – | 7 h | 9 |
| Kazan | 38 | 8° | – | 7 h | 8 |
| Tyumen | 38 | 8° | – | 7 h | 7 |
| Novosibirsk | 36 | 8° | – | 7 h | 8 |
| Yekaterinburg | 33 | 8° | – | 6 h | 8 |
| Krasnoyarsk | 33 | 8° | – | 7 h | 8 |
| Vladivostok | 32 | 7° | 3° | 6 h | 8 |
| Saint Petersburg | 29 | 7° | 2° | 6 h | 9 |
| Perm | 29 | 7° | – | 6 h | 9 |
| Vyborg | 24 | 7° | 1° | 6 h | 8 |
| Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk | 32 | 6° | – | 7 h | 9 |
| Tomsk | 32 | 6° | – | 7 h | 9 |
| Kronstadt | 23 | 5° | 2° | 6 h | 9 |
| Arkhangelsk | 31 | 4° | 0° | 6 h | 9 |
| Yakutsk | 50 | 2° | – | 10 h | 4 |
| Murmansk | 27 | 2° | 2° | 6 h | 10 |
| Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky | 28 | 1° | 1° | 7 h | 11 |
| Magadan | 33 | −3° | −1° | 8 h | 6 |
| Vorkuta | 25 | −6° | – | 6 h | 10 |
| Anadyr | 34 | −7° | −1° | 8 h | 5 |
| Norilsk | 33 | −9° | – | 7 h | 10 |
Russia in April: quick answers
Russia in April: where is it warmest?
The warmest places in April are Astrakhan (17 °C), Grozny (17 °C) and Krasnodar (17 °C).
Russia in April: where is the sea warmest?
The sea is warmest at Sochi (12 °C), Novorossiysk (11 °C) and Taganrog (10 °C).
Russia in April: where is the weather best?
The best holiday weather in April – warm, sunny and dry – is in Astrakhan, Grozny and Makhachkala.
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Climate averages 1996–2025, not a forecast. Data: Copernicus ERA5 / ERA5-Land via Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0), NOAA OISST, WMO 1991–2020 (NOAA NCEI), GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Sources & licences