Climate
Murmansk features a subarctic climate, with long and cold winters and short but relatively mild summers. In the city, freezing temperatures below zero are routinely experienced from October through May. Average temperatures exceed 0 degrees Celsius only from May through October. The average low during the coldest part of the year in Murmansk is approximately −14 °C (7 °F). However temperatures routinely plunge below −20 °C (−4 °F) during the winter. Murmansk's brief summer is mild, with average highs in July exceeding +17 °C (63 °F). The city is slightly wetter during the summer than the winter, seeing on average roughly 470 millimeters (19 in) of precipitation each year.
| Climate data for Murmansk | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 7.0 (44.6) |
6.6 (43.9) |
9.0 (48.2) |
16.9 (62.4) |
27.2 (81.0) |
30.8 (87.4) |
32.9 (91.2) |
29.1 (84.4) |
24.2 (75.6) |
15.0 (59.0) |
9.6 (49.3) |
7.2 (45.0) |
32.9 (91.2) |
| Average high °C (°F) | −6.8 (19.8) |
−6.7 (19.9) |
−2.4 (27.7) |
2.6 (36.7) |
7.6 (45.7) |
13.6 (56.5) |
17.3 (63.1) |
14.9 (58.8) |
10.0 (50.0) |
3.6 (38.5) |
−2.4 (27.7) |
−5.3 (22.5) |
3.8 (38.8) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −10 (14.0) |
−9.7 (14.5) |
−5.5 (22.1) |
−0.7 (30.7) |
4.0 (39.2) |
9.2 (48.6) |
12.8 (55.0) |
11.1 (52.0) |
7.0 (44.6) |
1.5 (34.7) |
−4.8 (23.4) |
−8.2 (17.2) |
0.6 (33.1) |
| Average low °C (°F) | −13 (9) |
−12.8 (9.0) |
−8.6 (16.5) |
−3.8 (25.2) |
1.1 (34.0) |
5.7 (42.3) |
9.2 (48.6) |
8.0 (46.4) |
4.5 (40.1) |
−0.4 (31.3) |
−7.1 (19.2) |
−11.2 (11.8) |
−2.4 (27.7) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −39.4 (−38.9) |
−38.6 (−37.5) |
−32.6 (−26.7) |
−21.7 (−7.1) |
−10.4 (13.3) |
−2.5 (27.5) |
1.7 (35.1) |
−2 (28) |
−5.4 (22.3) |
−21.2 (−6.2) |
−30.5 (−22.9) |
−35 (−31) |
−39.4 (−38.9) |
| Precipitation mm (inches) | 30 (1.18) |
22 (0.87) |
23 (0.91) |
24 (0.94) |
36 (1.42) |
53 (2.09) |
70 (2.76) |
61 (2.4) |
52 (2.05) |
51 (2.01) |
38 (1.5) |
34 (1.34) |
494 (19.45) |
| % humidity | 84 | 83 | 79 | 73 | 72 | 70 | 73 | 78 | 81 | 83 | 86 | 85 | 78.9 |
| Avg. rainy days | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 3 | 9 | 17 | 20 | 21 | 19 | 8 | 1 | 0.4 | 99.5 |
| Avg. snowy days | 23 | 21 | 20 | 14 | 7 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 9 | 19 | 24 | 138.0 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 0 | 33.6 | 120.9 | 183.0 | 192.2 | 228.0 | 235.6 | 155.0 | 90.0 | 46.5 | 6.0 | 0 | 1,291.1 |
| Source #1: Pogoda.ru.net | |||||||||||||
| Source #2: HKO (sunshine hours) | |||||||||||||
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