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Weather extremes
Moscow's weather extremes
The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest days Moscow has recorded — the outer limits of what its weather can do. This station's daily record ended in 2022, so these are historical extremes from that period, not records updated to today.
The four kinds of extreme
The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest single days Moscow has recorded — each shown against what a normal day that time of year looks like.
That is about 24°F hotter than a normal July afternoon in Moscow (typical high near 77°F).
The three most extreme on record
About 56°F colder than a normal December night in Moscow (typical low near 20°F).
The three most extreme on record
More rain in a single day than Moscow usually gets in the whole month of August (typical August total about 3.2 in).
The three most extreme on record
How hot and cold it gets, month by month
The shaded band is the normal range of daily temperatures for each month. The dots show the most extreme it has ever been — so you can see how far beyond a normal day the records really sit.
Moscow's record heat sits well above even a hot day for the season — July's 101°F is about 24°F beyond a normal hot afternoon. Its record cold is just as far below a normal winter night — the dots mark how rare each extreme really is.
In plain terms
Methodology & sources
Temperature & precipitation — 1991–2020 normals computed from 29 years of daily observations at Moscow, a weather station, about 9 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.