Climate guideThirty-year normals for Yelets
Yelets climate by month
Warm-summer humid continental · DfbBest May · Aug–Sep
Annual mean6°day and night
Seasonal swing28°warmest vs coolest
Precipitation581 mm131 wet days a year
52.61° N, 38.51° EElevation 121 mUTC+3 · Moscow Standard Time
When to goYelets · weather score
Best timeMay · Aug–Sep
October: high / low10° / 4°
iSummary
What the weather is like
Yelets has a warm-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfb): warm summers, cold winters and precipitation in every season.
The warmest month is July, when afternoons average 25° and nights 16°. February is the coolest month, with highs of -5° and lows of -10°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 28°, a large swing typical of continental interiors.
About 581 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. July is the wettest month (73 mm, 14 wet days) and August the driest (55 mm, 9 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 29% in August to 67% in December.
Compared with Moscow, the capital, Yelets is 0.3° warmer on a July afternoon and receives less precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 25° · July
- Coldest nights
- -10° · February
- Wettest month
- July
- Driest month
- August
- Clearest skies
- August · 29% cloud
- Longest day
- 16 h 49 min
- Shortest day
- 7 h 41 min
iiCharts
Twelve months at a glance
Temperature and precipitation
Daily high/low range bars, monthly precipitation columnsTemperature curve
Average high, lowDaylight
Hours between sunrise and sunset on the 15th of each monthiiiData table
Climate normals month by month
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average high | -4° | -5° | 1° | 13° | 20° | 23° | 25° | 24° | 18° | 10° | 2° | -3° |
| Average low | -10° | -10° | -5° | 2° | 9° | 13° | 16° | 14° | 9° | 4° | -3° | -8° |
| Precipitation | 42 mm | 35 mm | 30 mm | 40 mm | 41 mm | 74 mm | 73 mm | 55 mm | 52 mm | 54 mm | 43 mm | 42 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 11.8 | 10 | 10 | 9.8 | 12.1 | 13.3 | 14.1 | 9.2 | 9.4 | 10.2 | 10 | 11.5 |
| Cloud cover | 66% | 62% | 51% | 43% | 33% | 33% | 31% | 29% | 41% | 50% | 63% | 67% |
| Daylight | 8h 10 | 9h 54 | 11h 48 | 13h 55 | 15h 45 | 16h 49 | 16h 23 | 14h 46 | 12h 44 | 10h 42 | 8h 46 | 7h 41 |
| Month score | 15 | 21 | 26 | 43 | 70 | 67 | 66 | 78 | 71 | 26 | 21 | 15 |
ivMonth by month
Yelets in every month
January15
-4° / -10°
42 mm · 11.8 wet days
February21
-5° / -10°
35 mm · 10 wet days
March26
1° / -5°
30 mm · 10 wet days
April43
13° / 2°
40 mm · 9.8 wet days
May70
20° / 9°
41 mm · 12.1 wet days
June67
23° / 13°
74 mm · 13.3 wet days
July66
25° / 16°
73 mm · 14.1 wet days
August78
24° / 14°
55 mm · 9.2 wet days
September71
18° / 9°
52 mm · 9.4 wet days
October26
10° / 4°
54 mm · 10.2 wet days
November21
2° / -3°
43 mm · 10 wet days
December15
-3° / -8°
42 mm · 11.5 wet days