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General information about the weather in Norilsk (climate in Norilsk)

The site contains information about the weather in Norilsk since 2014. This page talks about the weather in Norilsk

in general, that is, about
the climate in Norilsk
.
More detailed weather data in Norilsk
can be obtained, for example, from the following links:

• Weather in Norilsk in December,
• Weather in Norilsk in December 2021,
• Weather forecast in Norilsk

Each page contains detailed information about temperature, humidity, wind rose in Norilsk

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Geographical location and history of Norilsk

Norilsk is located in the north of the Krasnoyarsk Territory and is the administrative center of the district.
After Krasnoyarsk, the city ranks second in population, despite the fact that it is located in a harsh climatic zone and has the status of the northernmost city.

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Note 1

The city is closed to foreign tourists; they need special permission to enter it. Similar measures were taken in 2001, although from 1991 until this date Norilsk was open to the public.

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The city territory includes several districts - Central District, Talnakh, Kayerkan, Oganer, Snezhnogorsk, which differ from each other.

The Central District was built first, others later.

The city received its name based on its geographical location - along the nearby Norilka River, and it itself is located near the Norilsk Mountains.

Note 2

The region is a zone of continuous distribution of permafrost rocks, the thickness of which is 40-80 m. This is one of the coldest cities in the world. It is much colder than Murmansk, despite the fact that it is located almost at the same latitude.

Norilsk is located 300 km north of the Arctic Circle, 2,400 km from the North Pole, and 1,500 km from the capital of the Krasnoyarsk Territory.

The geographical location of the city is inconvenient and leads to various problems, one of which is transport accessibility.

There is no land connection with other cities, with the exception of the port of Dudinka.

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Passenger and cargo traffic, if navigation along the Yenisei is closed, is transported by plane from Alykel airport.

The second very acute problem is the high pollution of the atmosphere, into which enterprises annually emit large amounts of sulfur dioxide, phenols, and heavy metal particles.

Norilsk is on the list of the dirtiest cities on the planet. For air poisoning in Canada, Norilsk enterprises pay compensation to her.

The first expedition to this area was made by a group of geologists led by N. Urvantsev in 1920 to study the deposits of the territory.

During the second expedition, in 1921, the first wooden house was built at the foot of the mountain, and already in 1939 Norilsk became a workers' village.

It received city status in 1953. The city was built by political prisoners of the Gulag system, most of whom remained here, considering the city their second homeland.

By this time, the following were built in the city:

• hospitals,
• schools,
• clubs,
• cinema,
• stadium.

The warmest, coldest, sunny and snowy month in Norilsk

As weather statistics

,
the warmest month in Norilsk is July
with an average temperature of +14.1°C.
The second place is August (+11.4°С), the third is June (+9.2°С). Accordingly, the coldest month in Norilsk
is January.
The average monthly temperature in January is only −27.1°C. Norilsk has the most sun
in February.
Thus, February is the sunniest month in Norilsk
.

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Weather in Norilsk by months (table)

Below is a table of weather in Norilsk by month. In the table you will find such climate parameters in Norilsk as the average temperature in Norilsk by month

, average humidity in Norilsk by month, average wind speed in Norilsk by month,
number of sunny days in Norilsk
by month,
number of rainy days in Norilsk
by month and other information.

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We went to Norilsk this weekend (56 photos)

Norilsk is a city in the north of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, located in the southern part of the Taimyr Peninsula, approximately 90 km east of the Yenisei. One of the most environmentally polluted cities in the world. The environmental danger for the population of the city and adjacent areas is due to the fact that the city is a “derivative” of one of the world’s largest mining and, at the same time, metal-producing plants (the so-called city-forming complex). There are no analogues of the Norilsk industrial area (including the city) anywhere else in the world.

It is located above the Arctic Circle and is one of the northernmost cities in the world, geographically located in the Taimyr (Dolgano-Nenets) region of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, administratively a city of regional subordination. In 2004, two satellite cities (Talnakh, Kayerkan), as well as the village of Snezhnogorsk, were annexed to the city of Norilsk.

The climate of the city is subarctic. Winter is very long and cold, summer is short. The warmest months are July and August.

Average annual temperature: ?11 °C Average January temperature: ?36 °C Average July temperature: +13.6 °C Minimum recorded temperature: ?61 °C Maximum recorded temperature: +32 °C Average duration of frost-free period: 84 days Number of days with precipitation: 170 Number of days with snowstorms: 130 Average duration of snow cover: 244 days (from 7.5 to 9 months)

Change of day and night: from November 30 to January 13: polar night (45 days), from January 13 to March 27: normal day and night change (73 days), from March 27 to April 26: twilight nights (30 days), from April 27 to May 19: white nights (23 days), from May 19 to July 25: polar day (68 days), from July 25 to August 15: white nights (23 days), from August 15 to September 15: twilight nights (30 days), from September 15 to November 30: normal day and night cycle (73 days).

To assess the weather in the far north, not only air temperature, but also wind strength is often used. For this purpose, “Weather Hardness” is calculated - the temperature equivalent of a person’s sensations when simultaneously exposed to frost and wind of a certain strength.

The conditional scheme for assessing the severity of weather is as follows: every meter per second of wind is equivalent to two degrees of frost if the temperature drops below? 40 °C. Determining the severity of weather is relevant for Norilsk, since frosts are often combined here with strong winds (in December 1976, at a temperature of -47 °C, wind gusts of up to 25 m/s were recorded).

This is how the terminal leading us to board the Moscow-Norilsk flight at Domodedovo Airport saw us off before departure.

And after 4.5 hours of flight, we were met by Alykel airport.. On an early frosty morning and with a temperature of -46 degrees.. The local guys who met us at the airport even managed to relieve themselves behind a snowdrift :))))

There is not a single road leading to Norilsk, not a single train runs, so you can get here only in two ways - by plane or by ship.

The airport operates according to actual weather conditions. This means that the weather changes so quickly that it is monitored hourly. This is especially true for wind. Now it could be 3-5 m/s, and in an hour 15 with gusts up to 20-25. Due to storms, flights can be delayed for up to a week. The airport is located in the satellite town of Kayerkan, which is translated from the indigenous language as “Death Valley”.

The road from the airport to Norilsk is about 50 kilometers, passes along the abandoned village of Alykel, where all that remains from all its former life are empty abandoned nine-story panel buildings, past Kayerkan itself and the metallurgical plant with the ironic name “Nadezhda”.

The closer we got to the city, the more we plunged into heavy fog, which was an unusual phenomenon for me in such frosty weather. In the city itself, visibility was about several tens of meters.

Having checked into the hotel and rested for a couple of hours, we went on our first walk through this harsh city at -42.. The temperature drop was more than 70 degrees..

Most of the houses in the city are built on stilts driven into perpetual soil, since it is impossible to build a foundation there.

And towards evening, we made another foray into the city at night. The frost became stronger, and visibility dropped even more due to the fog.

Polar bears dutifully guard their city:

This is how our first day in Norilsk went. Arriving at the hotel room, we were stunned by the heat and opened the windows.. It was about +30 degrees in the room, while it was -42 outside. Due to the very dry air in the hotel, everything emitted static electricity, and I want to say, very strongly, with a bang. Once again I didn’t want to touch anything like the TV or batteries)))

The morning of the next day was also foggy, but a light wind that rose outside was still able to disperse the haze a little and open access to the sun.

Norilsk Polar Drama Theater:

And we even went down the hill in the city center:

Behind us is the building of Norilsk Telecom, a local Internet provider. Internet prices here are the highest, which is easily explained: all communication between the city and the outside world is carried out via satellites. Due to permafrost, it is impossible to lay a cable here. The delay when talking on the phone can be up to 2-3 seconds