Svetlyy Yar climate — normals and trends
Svetlyy Yar (Russia) has a hot-summer humid continental climate (Dfa) under the Köppen-Geiger classification. Its mean annual temperature is 8.9 °C and it receives 345 mm of precipitation per year.
These figures are normals computed over 86 complete calendar years, from 1940 to 2025, using ERA5 reanalysis data from the Copernicus programme.
The warmest month is July (24.7 °C on average) and the coldest is January (-6.8 °C). Rainfall peaks in May.
Svetlyy Yar averages 128 frost days, 44 hot days (≥ 30 °C) and 76 rainy days per year.
Svetlyy Yar has warmed by +2.6 °C between 1940 and 2025, or +0.30 °C per decade. This trend is statistically significant.
The number of frost days there went from about 142 to 114 per year over the period.
The hottest day of the period reached 42.7 °C (on 7 August 1940) and the coldest -36.0 °C (on 9 January 1940).
Data from ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus Climate Change Service), redistributed under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. Normals are recomputed whenever the archive is updated.
Climate normals · ERA5
Svetlyy YarVolgograd Oblast
- coords
- 48.47°, 44.79°
- period
- 1940–2025 · 86 yrs
Mean daily temperature
8.9°C
Average daily high
13.3°C
Average daily low
4.6°C
Annual rainfall
345mm
Sunshine / day
8.2h
Mean relative humidity
67%
Average peak wind
19.0km/h
Seasonal range
31.5°C
Frost days (< 0 °C)
128 d/yr
Hot days (≥ 30 °C)
44 d/yr
Rainy days (≥ 1 mm)
76 d/yr
Annual snowfall
61.4 cm
Average feels-like high
10.1 °C
Average feels-like low
1.3 °C
Average peak gust
35.1 km/h
Tropical nights (≥ 20 °C)
25 d/yr
Solar radiation
12.9 MJ/m²
Has the climate changed?
One stripe per year, 1940 to 2025
+2.6 °C
since 1940
+0.3 °C per decade · r² = 0.38 · p = < 0.001
Trend fitted by linear regression (ordinary least squares) on annual means. A trend is shown only when it is statistically significant (p < 0.05).
A climograph overlays rainfall (bars) and temperature (line): the standard reading in climatology, where you can see at a glance whether the warm season is also the dry one.
Records for the period
Hottest day
42.7 °C
7 August 1940
Coldest day
-36.0 °C
9 January 1940
Wettest day
72 mm
15 June 1988
Windiest day
55.8 km/h
4 March 2006
Strongest gust
96.8 km/h
15 October 1956
Hottest feels-like
41.8 °C
24 July 2001
Coldest feels-like
-41.2 °C
9 January 1940
Snowiest day
17.6 cm
25 March 2021
Sunniest day
15.6 h
26 June 2010
Normals computed over complete calendar years 1940–2025.
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Across the whole year
Month by month
| High | vs. normal | Precipitation | vs. normal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 2.6 °C | +6.7 °C | 13 mm | -17 mm |
| Feb | -1.8 °C | +1.5 °C | 25 mm | -2 mm |
| Mar | 11.0 °C | +7.4 °C | 26 mm | -3 mm |
| Apr | 18.3 °C | +3.0 °C | 19 mm | -9 mm |
| May | 23.9 °C | +1.2 °C | 38 mm | +3 mm |
| Jun | 27.4 °C | -0.2 °C | 21 mm | -9 mm |
| Jul | 33.5 °C | +3.5 °C | 21 mm | -5 mm |
| Aug | 30.6 °C | +1.5 °C | 11 mm | -11 mm |
| Sep | 23.6 °C | +1.4 °C | 3 mm | -22 mm |
| Oct | 15.3 °C | +2.2 °C | 40 mm | +11 mm |
| Nov | 9.8 °C | +5.5 °C | 13 mm | -19 mm |
| Dec | 0.7 °C | +2.1 °C | 15 mm | -19 mm |
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Frequently asked questions
What is the climate of Svetlyy Yar?
Svetlyy Yar has a hot-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfa). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 8.9 °C and it receives 345 mm of precipitation per year.
What is the hottest day ever recorded in Svetlyy Yar?
The hottest day measured in Svetlyy Yar between 1940 and 2025 was 7 August 1940, reaching 42.7 °C.
What is the coldest day in Svetlyy Yar?
The coldest day measured in Svetlyy Yar between 1940 and 2025 was 9 January 1940, at -36.0 °C.
Does it snow in Svetlyy Yar?
Yes. Svetlyy Yar gets on average 61.4 cm of snow per year and has around 128 frost days.
Has the climate of Svetlyy Yar warmed?
Yes: Svetlyy Yar warmed by +2.6 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.
What is the wettest day in Svetlyy Yar?
The wettest day measured in Svetlyy Yar between 1940 and 2025 was 15 June 1988, with 72 mm of rain in 24 hours.
What was the windiest day in Svetlyy Yar?
The windiest day measured in Svetlyy Yar between 1940 and 2025 was 4 March 2006, with winds reaching 55.8 km/h.
What is the warmest month in Svetlyy Yar?
The warmest month in Svetlyy Yar is July (24.7 °C on average); the coldest is January (-6.8 °C).
How much does it rain in Svetlyy Yar?
Svetlyy Yar receives on average 345 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 76 rainy days.
Is it sunny in Svetlyy Yar?
Svetlyy Yar gets on average 8.2 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 2,993 hours per year over 1940-2025.
What is the biggest single-day snowfall in Svetlyy Yar?
The heaviest 24-hour snowfall measured in Svetlyy Yar between 1940 and 2025 was 25 March 2021, with 17.6 cm.
Are there tropical nights in Svetlyy Yar?
Yes: Svetlyy Yar has on average 25 tropical nights per year (temperature staying above 20 °C), over 1940-2025.
What was the most extreme apparent temperature in Svetlyy Yar?
In Svetlyy Yar, between 1940 and 2025, the highest apparent temperature reached 41.8 °C on 24 July 2001, and the lowest was -41.2 °C on 9 January 1940.
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