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Saint Petersburg weather

St.-Petersburg · 5,351,935 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 21:14

Overcast
8°
Overcast
Feels like 7°C
Wind
5 km/h
Gusts
14 km/h
Humidity
90 %
Pressure
1023 hPa
Clouds
95 %
Storm
No
Rise 08:13 Set 17:11 Day 8 h 58 min UV 1 · Low

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Evening
Overcast
Overcast
8°
Feels like 7°
Wind ↑ S 6 km/h
Gusts 17 km/h
Humidity 88 %
21:00
Overcast
8°
S 5
00:00
Overcast
7°
S 5

Saint Petersburg forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +3.4° warmer than usual
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
0°3°6°8°11°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed7°2°Thu 29 Oct: max 9° · min 7° · normal 3.3°Fri 30 Oct: max 9° · min 7° · normal 3.2°Sat 31 Oct: max 9° · min 7° · normal 3.0°Sun 1 Nov: max 8° · min 6° · normal 3.0°Mon 2 Nov: max 7° · min 3° · normal 2.9°Tue 3 Nov: max 7° · min 2° · normal 2.7°Wed 4 Nov: max 7° · min 2° · normal 2.6°

Hourly detail

ThuFriSatSunMonTueWedThu0°6°11°9°2°02
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Saint Petersburg climate: what a normal year looks like

From 18 h 50 min of daylight in late June to 5 h 53 min in late December.

Nights typically freeze from November to March, the coldest averaging −9 °C in February.

The hottest stretch is July, when afternoons average 21 °C; the coldest is February, when nights average −9 °C. Between those two months the average temperature changes by 24 °C.

There is no real dry season: monthly rainfall stays between 40 mm and 80 mm on average.

The coming week looks normal for October: forecast highs average 8 °C, against a usual 8 °C.

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan−3 °C−8 °C51 mm
Feb−3 °C−9 °C40 mm
Mar1 °C−6 °C42 mm
Apr9 °C0 °C46 mm
May14 °C6 °C56 mm
Jun18 °C10 °C74 mm
Jul21 °C14 °C77 mm
Aug20 °C12 °C80 mm
Sep15 °C8 °C61 mm
Oct8 °C3 °C68 mm
Nov2 °C−1 °C63 mm
Dec−1 °C−5 °C57 mm
Whole year8 °C2 °C720 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 59.94° N, 30.31° E, 1991–2020. ERA5 averages over a 0.25° grid (about 25 km): hills, a coastline or the heat of the city itself can shift local values by a degree or two.

Air you breathe in Saint Petersburg: pollution and pollen

2/6
Fair
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.515µg/m³
PM1021µg/m³
O₃10µg/m³
NO₂38µg/m³
SO₂12µg/m³

Pollen

AlderNone
BirchNone
GrassNone
MugwortNone
OliveNone
RagweedNone

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Saint Petersburg

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Saint Petersburg, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.

Full-screen rain radar and next-hour rain on RainAtlas
Rain radar Last two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline

Moon over Saint Petersburg

Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise — Set 21:18
Fri 30/10 79%
Sat 31/10 69%
Sun 1/11 59%
Mon 2/11 49% Last quarter
Tue 3/11 38%
Wed 4/11 28%
Thu 5/11 19%
Fri 6/11 12%
Sat 7/11 6%
Sun 8/11 2%
Mon 9/11 0%
Tue 10/11 1% New moon

Moonrise and moonset in local time (Europe/Moscow); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Sea and tides near Saint Petersburg

Tide station used: St Petersburg · 3 km away

🌊 Sea surface
8.5 °C
satellite, 29/10
Sea state
Rippled
waves 0.1 m
Period
3 s
Swell
0.1 m
TodayThu 29/10
High tide 04:44 0.3 m
Low tide 13:22 0.1 m
TomorrowFri 30/10
High tide 05:38 0.3 m
Low tide 15:26 0.2 m
SatSat 31/10
High tide 06:47 0.3 m
Low tide 19:32 0.2 m
SunSun 01/11
High tide 08:17 0.3 m
Low tide 20:02 0.1 m

Indicative heights above chart datum. Coefficient: 20 for the weakest tides, 120 for the strongest. · more tide detail on TidesAtlas

Look up a past day in Saint Petersburg

Curious about the weather in Saint Petersburg on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.

Saint Petersburg weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Saint Petersburg, St.-Petersburg: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “overcast”, it is 8 °C (feels like 7 °C) and the wind blows at 5 km/h.

Expected range today: 7 °C to 9 °C and a dry sky. The forecast comes from the AtmoAtlas engine, which combines ECMWF-AIFS, NOAA GFS and DWD ICON, adjusts cloud cover with METAR reports and uses convective energy (CAPE) to flag storms, plus the tide times for St Petersburg.

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