Novosibirsk
City in Russia: population, location, elevation, climate and landmarks.
Novosibirsk view: Alex Polezhaev, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
Overview
Novosibirsk is a city in Russia, in Novosibirsk Oblast. About 1.6 million people live in the city proper, making it the 3rd largest city of Russia in our atlas.
It lies at 55.02° N, 82.93° E, about 113 m (371 ft) above sea level, and keeps time on the Asia/Novosibirsk time zone. At this high latitude, summer days are very long and winter days very short.
Location
Red dot: Novosibirsk. Green dots: other major cities of Russia. Map data: Natural Earth.
Climate
Novosibirsk has a continental (warm summer) climate (Köppen Dfb). The warmest month is usually Jul, with average highs near 24°C (76°F); the coolest nights come in Jan at about -24°C (-11°F). Around 516 mm (20 in) of rain and snow falls in a typical year, most of it in Jul.
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
- Omsk · 609 km
- Krasnoyarsk · 646 km
- Chelyabinsk · 1,368 km
- Yekaterinburg · 1,435 km
- Ufa · 1,716 km
- Perm · 1,730 km
- Samara · 2,097 km
- Kazan · 2,153 km
- Population, coordinates, elevation, time zone: GeoNames 1496747 (CC BY 4.0)
- Wikidata Q883 (CC0)
- Climate: NASA POWER 2001-2025 climatology
Text written by Geographical Effect from these sources.
- Novosibirsk view: Alex Polezhaev, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Novosibirsk zoo: Squeamish, Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
- Lenin Square in Novosibirsk (May 2025): Vyacheslav Bukharov, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- 100flat: Blunt at Russian Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Дом Аэрофлота, Новосибирск 01: К.Артём.1, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Дом артистов, Новосибирск 01: К.Артём.1, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Dimitrovsky Bridge, Novosibirsk 01: К.Артём.1, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
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