Russia Weather Records in 2020

13,318 weather records set or tied in Russia in 2020, by type, with the calendar of record highs and lows and the records that still stand.

Key Facts for Russia in 2020

13,318 weather records were set or tied in Russia in 2020.
8,997 were record highs and 1,147 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
23,593 records set in 2020 still stand in Russia.

Records per Year, by Type

2020 outlined

Records set or tied in Russia each year from 1906 to 2026, stacked by type. 2020 had 13,318.

Weather records per year in Russia, stacked by type, 2020 outlined
Year	Highest daily maximum	Lowest daily maximum	Highest daily minimum	Lowest daily minimum	Heaviest daily rainfall	Deepest snow cover	Total
1906	0	0	0	0	9	0	9
1907	0	0	0	0	6	0	6
1908	0	0	0	0	4	0	4
1909	0	0	0	0	3	0	3
1910	0	0	0	0	4	0	4
1911	0	0	36	38	213	0	287
1912	0	0	55	44	277	0	376
1913	12	2	71	23	285	0	393
1914	43	10	89	21	295	0	458
1915	8	31	93	51	392	0	575
1916	12	8	66	41	300	0	427
1917	10	18	91	67	240	0	426
1918	6	11	97	94	323	0	531
1919	11	30	69	105	312	0	527
1920	59	40	318	172	246	0	835
1921	69	34	249	130	277	0	759
1922	22	27	185	140	340	0	714
1923	40	38	348	140	354	0	920
1924	53	44	252	185	326	0	860
1925	100	29	445	161	481	0	1,216
1926	65	60	403	338	482	0	1,348
1927	75	56	418	295	526	0	1,370
1928	20	76	303	265	489	0	1,153
1929	78	121	376	491	469	0	1,535
1930	124	86	596	389	579	0	1,774
1931	75	105	431	354	608	0	1,573
1932	134	69	743	234	650	0	1,830
1933	52	130	353	417	509	0	1,461
1934	136	77	540	259	470	0	1,482
1935	170	76	558	270	637	0	1,711
1936	166	77	748	266	549	0	1,806
1937	171	59	687	283	570	0	1,770
1938	230	64	1,048	199	624	0	2,165
1939	139	86	608	325	601	0	1,759
1940	151	136	669	536	729	0	2,221
1941	72	277	352	645	674	0	2,020
1942	58	246	429	524	557	0	1,814
1943	190	72	881	215	644	0	2,002
1944	269	132	858	341	647	0	2,247
1945	132	283	494	479	683	0	2,071
1946	253	192	701	488	743	0	2,377
1947	330	280	690	580	838	0	2,718
1948	730	230	1,303	325	880	0	3,468
1949	513	268	762	496	765	0	2,804
1950	568	505	980	685	989	0	3,727
1951	816	442	1,048	573	914	0	3,793
1952	469	617	687	733	968	0	3,474
1953	599	439	866	484	1,086	0	3,474
1954	684	445	924	524	1,082	0	3,659
1955	926	727	995	864	1,327	0	4,839
1956	450	927	600	816	1,167	0	3,960
1957	996	717	1,035	639	1,335	0	4,722
1958	694	975	726	983	1,240	0	4,618
1959	783	654	991	480	1,208	0	4,116
1960	703	777	909	623	1,182	0	4,194
1961	871	633	1,067	573	1,375	0	4,519
1962	1,421	527	1,396	500	1,498	0	5,342
1963	1,145	843	1,119	822	1,406	0	5,335
1964	824	1,116	845	1,099	1,358	0	5,242
1965	870	1,160	809	873	1,337	0	5,049
1966	2,149	3,037	2,189	2,701	5,918	0	15,994
1967	3,615	1,942	3,334	1,766	5,724	0	16,381
1968	3,056	3,596	2,971	3,700	6,478	0	19,801
1969	2,196	5,736	2,137	4,875	6,207	0	21,151
1970	2,470	2,528	2,479	2,439	7,095	0	17,011
1971	3,229	2,784	3,269	2,229	6,763	0	18,274
1972	2,873	3,005	3,264	2,750	6,404	0	18,296
1973	3,158	2,501	2,742	2,063	6,427	0	16,891
1974	2,968	2,542	2,856	2,246	6,226	0	16,838
1975	4,526	1,484	4,264	1,441	6,082	0	17,797
1976	1,987	3,938	1,794	3,624	5,732	0	17,075
1977	2,906	3,201	3,216	2,742	6,599	0	18,664
1978	2,398	3,236	2,656	2,784	6,428	0	17,502
1979	3,162	4,072	3,152	3,260	7,192	0	20,838
1980	2,267	2,565	2,564	2,144	6,239	0	15,779
1981	3,985	2,010	4,111	1,407	6,316	0	17,829
1982	3,426	2,617	3,502	2,196	6,300	0	18,041
1983	3,594	1,749	4,331	1,341	6,446	0	17,461
1984	2,819	2,780	3,245	2,104	5,723	0	16,671
1985	1,797	2,623	2,224	1,998	5,902	0	14,544
1986	2,790	2,280	2,716	1,665	4,973	0	14,424
1987	1,981	4,012	1,986	2,972	5,766	0	16,717
1988	3,451	1,502	3,756	1,305	5,629	0	15,643
1989	5,433	1,765	5,220	1,635	7,044	0	21,097
1990	7,557	1,635	7,582	1,220	8,998	0	26,992
1991	4,770	1,811	5,571	1,392	7,882	0	21,426
1992	3,727	3,870	3,863	3,194	7,941	0	22,595
1993	3,576	4,187	3,875	2,891	5,799	0	20,328
1994	3,656	2,730	4,146	2,345	7,136	0	20,013
1995	8,075	1,659	7,971	1,349	6,994	0	26,048
1996	4,468	3,042	4,323	2,773	5,651	0	20,257
1997	5,689	2,650	5,257	2,403	4,979	0	20,978
1998	6,707	4,817	5,939	3,594	4,945	0	26,002
1999	6,113	3,840	5,379	3,111	4,577	0	23,020
2000	4,732	2,250	5,067	1,684	4,097	0	17,830
2001	6,412	2,915	5,542	2,317	4,167	0	21,353
2002	8,524	2,945	7,102	2,339	4,304	0	25,214
2003	5,168	2,228	4,840	1,746	3,614	0	17,596
2004	5,310	2,333	5,040	1,571	4,383	0	18,637
2005	5,499	1,364	5,648	945	3,570	0	17,026
2006	5,801	3,560	6,157	2,555	3,781	0	21,854
2007	9,126	1,146	8,215	943	3,940	0	23,370
2008	8,039	1,771	7,045	1,181	3,847	0	21,883
2009	4,068	2,661	4,079	2,156	3,760	0	16,724
2010	10,063	2,650	8,019	2,126	3,811	0	26,669
2011	5,019	1,574	4,895	1,468	2,949	0	15,905
2012	5,772	2,048	6,043	1,656	4,539	0	20,058
2013	4,140	1,116	5,761	1,165	5,624	0	17,806
2014	5,464	1,252	5,489	2,272	4,217	0	18,694
2015	7,358	1,000	6,334	1,174	4,717	0	20,583
2016	5,310	1,690	6,536	1,627	4,919	0	20,082
2017	4,683	1,146	5,324	1,414	4,533	0	17,100
2018	4,634	1,325	4,081	1,518	4,271	0	15,829
2019	3,761	1,275	3,139	1,090	3,602	0	12,867
2020	5,102	622	3,895	525	3,174	0	13,318
2021	3,602	1,441	2,861	1,253	3,290	0	12,447
2022	2,254	647	2,096	720	2,949	0	8,666
2023	3,750	999	3,140	1,111	3,156	10	12,166
2024	2,880	621	2,477	596	2,681	1	9,256
2025	3,093	491	3,213	373	2,336	16	9,522
2026	134	80	577	38	104	0	933

Warm to Cold Ratio by Decade

Record highs per record low by decade in Russia: 1910s 1.3 to 1, 1920s 1.4 to 1, 1930s 2.0 to 1, 1940s 1.5 to 1, 1950s 1.2 to 1, 1960s 0.9 to 1, 1970s 1.1 to 1, 1980s 1.5 to 1, 1990s 2.0 to 1, 2000s 3.0 to 1, 2010s 3.7 to 1, 2020s 4.1 to 1.

Record highs per record low in Russia, by decade
Decade	Highs per low
1910s	1.29 to 1
1920s	1.37 to 1
1930s	2.02 to 1
1940s	1.46 to 1
1950s	1.20 to 1
1960s	0.91 to 1
1970s	1.08 to 1
1980s	1.53 to 1
1990s	1.99 to 1
2000s	3.00 to 1
2010s	3.67 to 1
2020s	4.12 to 1

Standing Records by Year Set

2020: 23,593

Records still standing in Russia by the year they were set. 23,593 of them were set in 2020.

Standing records in Russia by the year they were set, 2020 highlighted
Year set	Standing records
1874	1
1875	4
1876	2
1877	5
1878	3
1879	5
1880	4
1881	145
1882	166
1883	151
1884	193
1885	205
1886	177
1887	164
1888	271
1889	264
1890	447
1891	446
1892	523
1893	588
1894	458
1895	487
1896	617
1897	532
1898	925
1899	594
1900	697
1901	972
1902	1,208
1903	695
1904	706
1905	531
1906	635
1907	646
1908	725
1909	877
1910	889
1911	1,057
1912	1,632
1913	956
1914	1,134
1915	1,735
1916	1,472
1917	1,636
1918	1,323
1919	1,112
1920	1,096
1921	813
1922	839
1923	994
1924	884
1925	1,128
1926	1,474
1927	1,655
1928	1,372
1929	2,114
1930	2,226
1931	2,327
1932	2,061
1933	2,369
1934	1,912
1935	2,453
1936	6,441
1937	7,453
1938	7,103
1939	6,718
1940	8,243
1941	8,373
1942	7,441
1943	6,109
1944	6,871
1945	7,046
1946	7,681
1947	8,582
1948	10,036
1949	11,439
1950	14,394
1951	14,102
1952	15,666
1953	16,247
1954	19,643
1955	22,982
1956	17,881
1957	17,835
1958	17,115
1959	13,966
1960	17,189
1961	16,948
1962	18,245
1963	20,716
1964	18,941
1965	17,583
1966	24,153
1967	21,360
1968	24,806
1969	43,970
1970	28,863
1971	23,318
1972	15,688
1973	32,464
1974	26,561
1975	30,817
1976	36,072
1977	32,760
1978	28,281
1979	36,225
1980	27,217
1981	29,485
1982	29,903
1983	28,434
1984	29,276
1985	27,577
1986	25,910
1987	36,220
1988	28,168
1989	31,470
1990	36,800
1991	31,538
1992	32,451
1993	30,615
1994	26,789
1995	26,589
1996	20,750
1997	20,689
1998	28,611
1999	24,546
2000	17,047
2001	23,119
2002	25,815
2003	16,319
2004	17,849
2005	15,194
2006	22,582
2007	21,580
2008	19,840
2009	17,632
2010	28,910
2011	16,929
2012	34,147
2013	31,159
2014	28,478
2015	31,837
2016	34,302
2017	29,128
2018	28,011
2019	23,293
2020	23,593
2021	23,303
2022	19,048
2023	23,595
2024	21,903
2025	20,153
2026	4,097

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Sources: Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Global Historical Climatology Network Daily (GHCN-Daily). Records are computed by World Extreme Weather Monitor and are not official NOAA products. (US Government open data (NOAA NCEI)) Made with Natural Earth. Public domain map data. Borders are Natural Earth's de facto depiction. Data as of 2026-10-13 (13 October 2026). Records are computed by this site and are not official.

Data as of 2026-10-13. Last revised 13 October 2026 (2026-10-13).