Kharkiv
City in Ukraine: population, location, elevation, climate and landmarks.
Успенський собор взимку, аерофото: Ekaterina Polischuk, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
Overview
Kharkiv is a city in Ukraine. About 1.4 million people live in the city proper, making it the 2nd largest city of Ukraine in our atlas.
It lies at 49.98° N, 36.25° E, about 94 m (308 ft) above sea level, and keeps time on the Europe/Kyiv time zone.
Location
Red dot: Kharkiv. Green dots: other major cities of Ukraine. Map data: Natural Earth.
Climate
Kharkiv has a continental (hot summer) climate (Köppen Dfa). The warmest month is usually Aug, with average highs near 29°C (83°F); the coolest nights come in Jan at about -11°C (13°F). Around 583 mm (23 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 UkraineNational dishes, street food, desserts and drinks on Intercontinental Chef.Nearby major cities
- Dnipro · 189 km
- Donetsk · 244 km
- Zaporizhzhya · 250 km
- Luhansk · 268 km
- Kryvyy Rih · 308 km
- Kyiv · 412 km
- Mykolayiv · 451 km
- Odesa · 553 km
- Population, coordinates, elevation, time zone: GeoNames 706483 (CC BY 4.0)
- Wikidata Q42308 (CC0)
- Climate: NASA POWER 2001-2025 climatology
Text written by Geographical Effect from these sources.
- Успенський собор взимку, аерофото: Ekaterina Polischuk, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Metalist Stadium Kharkiv: Aleksandr Osipov, CC BY-SA 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Будинок держпромисловості, Харків DJI 0057: Konstantin Brizhnichenko, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Будинок держпромисловості (ДЕРЖПРОМ): Anna Leonenko, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Будинок "Слово" 1920-30рр., вул. Культури, 9, м.Харків: Denis Vitchenko, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Драматичний театр: Vladimir Khalev, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Kharkov art museum: Ace^eVg, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Художнє училище 1913р., вул. Червонопрапорна, 8, м.Харків: Denis Vitchenko, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Kharkiv Theater: EvgenyGenkin, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
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