Russia in October: where is it warmest?
In October, Sochi is the warmest place with 19 °C by day, Norilsk the coolest with −6 °C. 7 of 55 destinations have good holiday weather.
All destinations in October, warmest first
Long-term averages for the month: daytime high, sea, sunshine and rainy days.
| Place | Score | Air | Sea | Sun | Rain days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sochi | 71 | 19° | 21° | 5 h | 12 |
| Makhachkala | 82 | 18° | 18° | 5 h | 6 |
| Novorossiysk | 77 | 18° | 20° | 5 h | 8 |
| Krasnodar | 76 | 18° | – | 5 h | 8 |
| Derbent | 25 | 18° | 19° | 5 h | 9 |
| Grozny | 75 | 17° | – | 5 h | 8 |
| Astrakhan | 73 | 16° | – | 5 h | 5 |
| Rostov-on-Don | 63 | 15° | – | 5 h | 8 |
| Vladikavkaz | 57 | 14° | – | 5 h | 9 |
| Volgograd | 54 | 14° | – | 4 h | 7 |
| Vladivostok | 59 | 13° | 14° | 6 h | 7 |
| Taganrog | 56 | 13° | 14° | 5 h | 7 |
| Kaliningrad | 35 | 12° | – | 4 h | 12 |
| Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk | 40 | 11° | – | 5 h | 10 |
| Saratov | 36 | 11° | – | 3 h | 8 |
| Voronezh | 34 | 11° | – | 4 h | 9 |
| Kursk | 34 | 11° | – | 4 h | 10 |
| Sovetsk | 30 | 11° | – | 3 h | 12 |
| Orenburg | 38 | 10° | – | 5 h | 8 |
| Khabarovsk | 33 | 9° | – | 6 h | 9 |
| Samara | 25 | 9° | – | 3 h | 9 |
| Tolyatti | 24 | 9° | – | 3 h | 9 |
| Tula | 20 | 9° | – | 2 h | 11 |
| Smolensk | 16 | 9° | – | 3 h | 12 |
| Pskov | 16 | 9° | – | 3 h | 12 |
| Birobidzhan | 35 | 8° | – | 6 h | 7 |
| Ulyanovsk | 20 | 8° | – | 3 h | 10 |
| Barnaul | 17 | 8° | – | 3 h | 10 |
| Moscow | 16 | 8° | – | 2 h | 12 |
| Kazan | 15 | 8° | – | 3 h | 11 |
| Nizhny Novgorod | 14 | 8° | – | 3 h | 12 |
| Ufa | 14 | 8° | – | 3 h | 12 |
| Tver | 12 | 8° | – | 2 h | 12 |
| Saint Petersburg | 11 | 8° | 10° | 2 h | 13 |
| Veliky Novgorod | 8 | 8° | – | 2 h | 14 |
| Vyborg | 8 | 8° | 10° | 2 h | 12 |
| Irkutsk | 34 | 7° | – | 5 h | 5 |
| Omsk | 24 | 7° | – | 4 h | 8 |
| Chelyabinsk | 18 | 7° | – | 3 h | 10 |
| Kronstadt | 8 | 7° | 10° | 2 h | 13 |
| Ulan-Ude | 37 | 6° | – | 5 h | 4 |
| Tyumen | 21 | 6° | – | 2 h | 8 |
| Yekaterinburg | 20 | 6° | – | 2 h | 9 |
| Krasnoyarsk | 17 | 6° | – | 3 h | 10 |
| Novosibirsk | 16 | 6° | – | 3 h | 11 |
| Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky | 15 | 6° | 8° | 4 h | 13 |
| Perm | 12 | 6° | – | 2 h | 13 |
| Tomsk | 13 | 5° | – | 2 h | 12 |
| Arkhangelsk | 11 | 5° | 7° | 2 h | 13 |
| Murmansk | 11 | 3° | 8° | 2 h | 13 |
| Magadan | 18 | 1° | 5° | 4 h | 9 |
| Anadyr | 15 | −1° | 3° | 3 h | 8 |
| Vorkuta | 7 | −1° | – | 1 h | 15 |
| Yakutsk | 28 | −3° | – | 3 h | 5 |
| Norilsk | 8 | −6° | – | 1 h | 14 |
Russia in October: quick answers
Russia in October: where is it warmest?
The warmest places in October are Sochi (19 °C), Makhachkala (18 °C) and Novorossiysk (18 °C).
Russia in October: where is the sea warmest?
The sea is warmest at Sochi (21 °C), Novorossiysk (20 °C) and Derbent (19 °C).
Russia in October: where is the weather best?
The best holiday weather in October – warm, sunny and dry – is in Makhachkala, Novorossiysk and Krasnodar.
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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