Kryvyy Rih
City in Ukraine: population, location, elevation, climate and landmarks.
Kryvyi Rih Old Town: Igor Kvochka, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
Overview
Kryvyy Rih is a city in Ukraine, in Dnipropetrovsk. About 603,904 people live in the city proper, making it the 8th largest city of Ukraine in our atlas.
It lies at 47.91° N, 33.39° E, about 84 m (276 ft) above sea level, and keeps time on the Europe/Kyiv time zone.
Location
Red dot: Kryvyy Rih. Green dots: other major cities of Ukraine. Map data: Natural Earth.
Climate
Kryvyy Rih has a continental (hot summer) climate (Köppen Dfa). The warmest month is usually Jul, with average highs near 30°C (86°F); the coolest nights come in Jan at about -8°C (18°F). Around 489 mm (19 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
- Zaporizhzhya · 128 km
- Dnipro · 137 km
- Mykolayiv · 147 km
- Odesa · 252 km
- Kharkiv · 314 km
- Donetsk · 328 km
- Kyiv · 354 km
- Vinnytsya · 395 km
- Population, coordinates, elevation, time zone: GeoNames 703845 (CC BY 4.0)
- Wikidata Q157137 (CC0)
- Climate: NASA POWER 2001-2025 climatology
Text written by Geographical Effect from these sources.
- Kryvyi Rih Old Town: Igor Kvochka, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Десять заповедей: Andrey Stryuk, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
