Nizhniy Novgorod
City in Russia: population, location, elevation, climate and landmarks.
Nizhny Novgorod 2025-04-29 Minin and Pozharsky square 01: AlexTref871, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
Overview
Nizhniy Novgorod is a city in Russia, in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast. About 1.3 million people live in the city proper, making it the 5th largest city of Russia in our atlas.
It lies at 56.33° N, 44.00° E, about 141 m (463 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: Nizhniy Novgorod. Green dots: other major cities of Russia. Map data: Natural Earth.
Climate
Nizhniy Novgorod 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 -16°C (4°F). Around 722 mm (28 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
- Kazan · 321 km
- Moscow · 398 km
- Samara · 512 km
- Voronezh · 596 km
- Ufa · 757 km
- Perm · 777 km
- Volgograd · 846 km
- Saint Petersburg · 933 km
- Population, coordinates, elevation, time zone: GeoNames 520555 (CC BY 4.0)
- Wikidata Q891 (CC0)
- Climate: NASA POWER 2001-2025 climatology
Text written by Geographical Effect from these sources.
- Nizhny Novgorod 2025-04-29 Minin and Pozharsky square 01: AlexTref871, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- NN-16-05-2022 11: Алексей Трефилов, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Стадион Локомотив в Нижнем Новгороде: Polina Kiseleva, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Чкаловская лестница. Вид со стороны Нижне-Волжской набережной: WildPea, CC0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Nagorny Trade Union Sport Palace: Алексей Трефилов, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- NN-16-05-2022 33: Алексей Трефилов, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- NN 30-06-2022 Dmitrovskaya Tower of Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin 01: Алексей Трефилов, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
