Luhansk
City in Ukraine: population, location, elevation, climate and landmarks.
Музей истории Луганска: Кишко Юрий Николаевич, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
Overview
Luhansk is a city in Ukraine. About 397,677 people live in the city proper, making it the 11th largest city of Ukraine in our atlas.
It lies at 48.57° N, 39.31° E, about 104 m (341 ft) above sea level, and keeps time on the Europe/Kyiv time zone.
Location
Red dot: Luhansk. Green dots: other major cities of Ukraine. Map data: Natural Earth.
Climate
Luhansk has a continental (hot summer) climate (Köppen Dfa). The warmest month is usually Jul, with average highs near 30°C (87°F); the coolest nights come in Jan at about -9°C (15°F). Around 520 mm (20 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.
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- Donetsk · 126 km
- Kharkiv · 274 km
- Dnipro · 313 km
- Zaporizhzhya · 318 km
- Kryvyy Rih · 440 km
- Mykolayiv · 565 km
- Odesa · 670 km
- Kyiv · 678 km
- Population, coordinates, elevation, time zone: GeoNames 702658 (CC BY 4.0)
- Wikidata Q134279 (CC0)
- Climate: NASA POWER 2001-2025 climatology
Text written by Geographical Effect from these sources.
- Музей истории Луганска: Кишко Юрий Николаевич, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)