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Russia: frost dates by city

The average last spring frost and first autumn frost in 26 cities of Russia, from ten years of weather. The last spring frost comes earliest in Krasnodar and latest in Krasnoyarsk.

CityLast spring frostFirst autumn frostFrost-free days
Krasnodar21 March18 November242 days
Rostov-on-Don29 March9 November225 days
Stavropol3 April1 November212 days
Volgograd3 April29 October209 days
Vladivostok8 April5 November211 days
Saratov14 April26 October195 days
Samara20 April21 October184 days
Voronezh21 April29 October191 days
Kazan26 April13 October170 days
Kaliningrad27 April14 November201 days
Moscow29 April14 October168 days
Chelyabinsk30 April4 October157 days
Khabarovsk30 April16 October169 days
Ufa30 April1 October154 days
Nizhny Novgorod1 May18 October170 days
Saint Petersburg1 May20 October172 days
Tula1 May15 October167 days
Barnaul3 May29 September149 days
Omsk5 May28 September146 days
Perm6 May2 October149 days
Yekaterinburg9 May28 September142 days
Yaroslavl10 May10 October153 days
Irkutsk14 May30 September139 days
Tyumen14 May1 October140 days
Novosibirsk17 May28 September134 days
Krasnoyarsk19 May27 September131 days

Median of 2016–2025 for the 25 km grid cell of the city: the last day at or below 0 °C in spring and the first in autumn (ERA5 reanalysis via Open-Meteo). In a cold year a frost can come a week or two later — Greenly warns 48 hours ahead.

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