Kazan
City in Russia: population, location, elevation, climate and landmarks.
KAZ Collage 2015: A.Savin, Ilya Tsvetkov, Денис Петьовка, NoPlayerUfa, TY-214, AlexTref871, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
Overview
Kazan is a city in Russia, in Tatarstan Republic. About 1.2 million people live in the city proper, making it the 6th largest city of Russia in our atlas.
It lies at 55.79° N, 49.12° E, about 61 m (200 ft) above sea level, and keeps time on the Europe/Moscow time zone. At this high latitude, summer days are very long and winter days very short.
Location
Red dot: Kazan. Green dots: other major cities of Russia. Map data: Natural Earth.
Climate
Kazan has a continental (warm summer) climate (Köppen Dfb). The warmest month is usually Jul, with average highs near 24°C (75°F); the coolest nights come in Jan at about -17°C (1°F). Around 645 mm (25 in) of rain and snow falls in a typical year, spread fairly evenly through the year.
Bars: average daily high and low (°C) for each month; blue columns and figures: average precipitation (mm). Gridded 2001-2025 averages from NASA POWER, so mountain and coastal spots can differ from local station records.
Landmarks and places to see
Popular sights within a few kilometres of the city centre, ranked by how widely they are documented on Wikipedia.
What to eat in RussiaNational dishes, street food, desserts and drinks on Intercontinental Chef.Nearby major cities
- Samara · 293 km
- Nizhniy Novgorod · 325 km
- Ufa · 443 km
- Perm · 509 km
- Moscow · 718 km
- Yekaterinburg · 727 km
- Voronezh · 770 km
- Chelyabinsk · 771 km
- Population, coordinates, elevation, time zone: GeoNames 551487 (CC BY 4.0)
- Wikidata Q900 (CC0)
- Climate: NASA POWER 2001-2025 climatology
Text written by Geographical Effect from these sources.
- KAZ Collage 2015: A.Savin, Ilya Tsvetkov, Денис Петьовка, NoPlayerUfa, TY-214, AlexTref871, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Borongi bolgarlar Gaziz cover: G. Gaziz, Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
- Astronomy Observatory of Kazan State University 2 wiki: Короткий Станислав Александрович, CC BY 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Театр имени Камала: TY-214, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Kazan zoo-botanical garden (entrance): Lumaca, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Kazan-aquatics-palace1: Kazaneer, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
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