Winter Weather in Kyakhta Russia

Daily high temperatures increase by 8°F, from 11°F to 19°F, rarely falling below -12°F or exceeding 30°F. The lowest daily average high temperature is -1°F on January 11.

Daily low temperatures are around -13°F, rarely falling below -30°F or exceeding 5°F. The lowest daily average low temperature is -20°F on January 18.

For reference, on July 16, the hottest day of the year, temperatures in Kyakhta typically range from 54°F to 77°F, while on January 18, the coldest day of the year, they range from -20°F to -0°F.

The figure below shows you a compact characterization of the hourly average winter temperatures. The horizontal axis is the day, the vertical axis is the hour of the day, and the color is the average temperature for that hour and day.

Fort Smith, Canada (4,522 miles away) and Flin Flon, Canada (4,997 miles) are the far-away foreign places with temperatures most similar to Kyakhta (view comparison).

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The winter in Kyakhta experiences essentially constant cloud cover, with the percentage of time that the sky is overcast or mostly cloudy remaining about 52% throughout the season. The highest chance of overcast or mostly cloudy conditions is 54% on December 16.

The clearest day of the winter is January 20, with clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy conditions 49% of the time.

For reference, on December 16, the cloudiest day of the year, the chance of overcast or mostly cloudy conditions is 54%, while on September 12, the clearest day of the year, the chance of clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy skies is 58%.

A wet day is one with at least 0.04 inches of liquid or liquid-equivalent precipitation. In Kyakhta, the chance of a wet day over the course of the winter is essentially constant, remaining around 1% throughout.

For reference, the year's highest daily chance of a wet day is 34% on July 28, and its lowest chance is 0% on February 28.

Over the course of the winter in Kyakhta, the length of the day is very rapidly increasing. From the start to the end of the season, the length of the day increases by 2 hours, 33 minutes, implying an average daily increase of 1 minute, 43 seconds, and weekly increase of 12 minutes, 0 seconds.

The shortest day of the winter is December 21, with 8 hours, 1 minute of daylight and the longest day is February 28, with 10 hours, 54 minutes of daylight.

The latest sunrise of the winter in Kyakhta is 8:54 AM on December 31 and the earliest sunrise is 1 hour, 14 minutes earlier at 7:40 AM on February 28.

The earliest sunset is 4:50 PM on December 12 and the latest sunset is 1 hour, 43 minutes later at 6:34 PM on February 28.

Daylight saving time is not observed in Kyakhta during 2024.

For reference, on June 20, the longest day of the year, the Sun rises at 4:42 AM and sets 16 hours, 26 minutes later, at 9:08 PM, while on December 21, the shortest day of the year, it rises at 8:51 AM and sets 8 hours, 1 minute later, at 4:52 PM.

The figure below presents a compact representation of the sun's elevation (the angle of the sun above the horizon) and azimuth (its compass bearing) for every hour of every day in the reporting period. The horizontal axis is the day of the year and the vertical axis is the hour of the day. For a given day and hour of that day, the background color indicates the azimuth of the sun at that moment. The black isolines are contours of constant solar elevation.

The figure below presents a compact representation of key lunar data for the winter of 2024. The horizontal axis is the day, the vertical axis is the hour of the day, and the colored areas indicate when the moon is above the horizon. The vertical gray bars (new Moons) and blue bars (full Moons) indicate key Moon phases. The label associated with each bar indicates the date and time that the phase is obtained, and the companion time labels indicate the rise and set times of the Moon for the nearest time interval in which the moon is above the horizon.

We base the humidity comfort level on the dew point, as it determines whether perspiration will evaporate from the skin, thereby cooling the body. Lower dew points feel drier and higher dew points feel more humid. Unlike temperature, which typically varies significantly between night and day, dew point tends to change more slowly, so while the temperature may drop at night, a muggy day is typically followed by a muggy night.

The chance that a given day will be muggy in Kyakhta is essentially constant during the winter, remaining around 0% throughout.

For reference, on July 25, the muggiest day of the year, there are muggy conditions 0% of the time, while on September 2, the least muggy day of the year, there are muggy conditions 0% of the time.

This section discusses the wide-area hourly average wind vector (speed and direction) at 10 meters above the ground. The wind experienced at any given location is highly dependent on local topography and other factors, and instantaneous wind speed and direction vary more widely than hourly averages.

The average hourly wind speed in Kyakhta is essentially constant during the winter, remaining within 0.3 miles per hour of 6.4 miles per hour throughout.

For reference, on April 18, the windiest day of the year, the daily average wind speed is 8.4 miles per hour, while on August 5, the calmest day of the year, the daily average wind speed is 5.6 miles per hour.

The lowest daily average wind speed during the winter is 6.1 miles per hour on January 25.

The wind direction in Kyakhta during the winter is predominantly out of the south from December 1 to February 24 and the north from February 24 to February 28.

Definitions of the growing season vary throughout the world, but for the purposes of this report, we define it as the longest continuous period of non-freezing temperatures (≥ 32°F) in the year (the calendar year in the Northern Hemisphere, or from July 1 until June 30 in the Southern Hemisphere).

The growing season in Kyakhta typically lasts for 3.6 months (109 days), from around May 24 to around September 11, rarely starting before May 8 or after June 11, and rarely ending before August 26 or after September 26.

The winter in Kyakhta is reliably fully outside of the growing season.

Growing degree days are a measure of yearly heat accumulation used to predict plant and animal development, and defined as the integral of warmth above a base temperature, discarding any excess above a maximum temperature. In this report, we use a base of 50°F and a cap of 86°F.

The average accumulated growing degree days in Kyakhta are very rapidly decreasing during the winter, decreasing by 1,480°F, from 1,480°F to 0°F, over the course of the season.

This section discusses the total daily incident shortwave solar energy reaching the surface of the ground over a wide area, taking full account of seasonal variations in the length of the day, the elevation of the Sun above the horizon, and absorption by clouds and other atmospheric constituents. Shortwave radiation includes visible light and ultraviolet radiation.

The average daily incident shortwave solar energy in Kyakhta is rapidly increasing during the winter, rising by 1.8 kWh, from 1.2 kWh to 3.0 kWh, over the course of the season.

The lowest average daily incident shortwave solar energy during the winter is 1.1 kWh on December 21.

For the purposes of this report, the geographical coordinates of Kyakhta are 50.357 deg latitude, 106.450 deg longitude, and 2,513 ft elevation.

The topography within 2 miles of Kyakhta contains very significant variations in elevation, with a maximum elevation change of 974 feet and an average elevation above sea level of 2,719 feet. Within 10 miles also contains very significant variations in elevation (1,634 feet). Within 50 miles contains very significant variations in elevation (3,881 feet).

The area within 2 miles of Kyakhta is covered by grassland (52%), bare soil (13%), trees (13%), and cropland (11%), within 10 miles by trees (35%) and sparse vegetation (22%), and within 50 miles by grassland (38%) and trees (27%).