Kholodnogorskiy Airfield

RU-0309 · Stavropol’ Kray, Russia

Climate Kholodnogorskiy Airfield 2020-2024

Climate and trends: average temperature, flight conditions, precipitation, wind speed and direction.

Calculated from historical METAR data of Stavropol Shpakovskoye Airport (URMT) between 2020 and 2024.

VFR conditions (%)

Month Average 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020
January 53.3 72 57 56 66 45
February 56.7 61 60 60 59 72
March 57.3 52 67 48 42 79
April 85.9 95 81 88 71 93
May 85.3 87 80 82 89 87
June 94.2 94 93 91 91 97
July 94.4 96 93 91 96 97
August 95.8 98 99 96 92 95
September 89.9 85 91 93 82 94
October 76.4 71 93 72 61 85
November 53.1 70 51 61 48
December 49.6 53 31 65 22
Average 77.8 82.9 80.2 75.6 75.2 80.0

VFR conditions during daylight period

Percentage of observations where the VFR minimums for ceiling and visibility are met: visibility of 8 km or more and a ceiling of 3,000 ft or more. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.

Marginal VFR conditions (%)

Month Average 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020
January 70.6 83 83 79 73 69
February 72.6 74 80 83 69 86
March 80.0 76 86 82 75 90
April 93.4 96 93 99 83 96
May 94.5 99 93 90 99 96
June 99.4 100 100 100 98 99
July 99.2 99 100 99 100 100
August 99.6 100 100 99 99 100
September 96.3 93 98 99 93 97
October 90.3 87 100 95 85 93
November 70.4 84 70 79 61
December 60.3 65 45 77 34
Average 88.2 92.1 91.6 89.7 87.7 88.0

Marginal VFR conditions or better during daylight period

Percentage of observations where the MVFR minimums for ceiling and visibility are met: visibility of 5 km or more and a ceiling of 1,000 ft or more. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.

Maximum temperatures (°C)

Month Average 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020
January 2.2 2 3 3 5 3
February 4.0 7 2 7 3 6
March 8.2 8 11 4 5 13
April 16.1 22 15 18 14 14
May 20.3 19 19 18 22 21
June 26.8 28 25 27 26 28
July 29.6 32 28 27 31 31
August 29.6 30 31 31 30 29
September 23.7 25 24 23 19 27
October 16.5 15 19 15 12 21
November 8.3 12 9 10 6
December 4.5 7 3 6 1
Average 16.0 18.9 16.3 15.6 15.1 16.5

Average highest temperature per day

The maximum temperature is typically observed some hours after noon.

Minimum temperatures (°C)

Month Average 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020
January -5.8 -6 -4 -4 -3 -3
February -4.8 0 -5 -1 -5 -3
March -1.7 0 2 -4 -2 1
April 5.3 9 6 6 6 2
May 10.0 9 10 9 11 9
June 15.7 17 15 15 15 15
July 17.7 19 17 16 18 18
August 17.1 17 18 18 19 17
September 12.0 13 12 12 10 13
October 6.8 7 7 7 5 9
November 1.1 4 3 2 1
December -2.4 0 -3 -1 -4
Average 6.5 8.4 6.8 6.5 6.2 6.4

Average lowest temperature per day

The minimum temperature is typically observed just before sunrise.

Precipitation (%)

Month Average 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020
January 20.1 18 5 33 10 25
February 19.3 10 25 14 34 14
March 15.8 5 12 28 30 6
April 5.7 1 5 6 15 0
May 9.9 8 8 16 10 7
June 3.0 4 0 6 3 3
July 3.4 0 1 8 5 2
August 1.3 2 0 1 2 2
September 4.7 3 1 10 12 1
October 5.8 8 3 9 5 1
November 13.0 22 7 7 13
December 13.2 13 17 10 13
Average 8.7 5.1 6.9 11.9 11.2 6.1

Precipitation during daylight period

Percentage of observations with observed rain, drizzle, snow or hail. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.

Wind speed (knots)

Month Average 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020
January 9.8 8 14 10 8 10
February 10.5 14 10 9 10 12
March 11.3 11 10 12 13 11
April 10.7 11 12 11 9 10
May 9.1 10 8 10 9 9
June 8.3 8 8 8 8 8
July 8.8 10 10 9 7 10
August 10.1 11 9 12 8 9
September 11.1 16 11 9 9 12
October 10.1 9 9 11 13 11
November 10.1 11 11 10 9
December 10.5 11 14 9 13
Average 9.9 10.7 9.9 10.2 9.2 10.1

Average wind speed

Excluding wind gusts. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.

Prevailing wind direction

Month 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020
January 242° 138° 275° 161° 292°
February 146° 273° 209° 292° 246°
March 103° 301° 041° 290° 088°
April 087° 091° 007° 332° 315°
May 091° 060° 322° 344° 309°
June 338° 023° 076° 355° 071°
July 079° 298° 356° 099° 077°
August 082° 061° 101° 078° 051°
September 105° 096° 285° 090° 108°
October 032° 283° 301° 103° 117°
November 242° 120° 172° 106°
December 249° 121° 194° 122°

Prevailing wind direction

Average wind direction, weighed by wind speed. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.