Perm
City in Russia: population, location, elevation, climate and landmarks.
Overview
Perm is a city in Russia, in Perm Krai. About 982,419 people live in the city proper, making it the 15th largest city of Russia in our atlas.
It lies at 58.01° N, 56.25° E, about 149 m (489 ft) above sea level, and keeps time on the Asia/Yekaterinburg time zone. At this high latitude, summer days are very long and winter days very short.
Location
Red dot: Perm. Green dots: other major cities of Russia. Map data: Natural Earth.
Climate
Perm has a continental (warm summer) climate (Köppen Dfb). The warmest month is usually Jul, with average highs near 22°C (72°F); the coolest nights come in Jan at about -20°C (-3°F). Around 778 mm (31 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
- Yekaterinburg · 287 km
- Ufa · 363 km
- Chelyabinsk · 439 km
- Kazan · 486 km
- Samara · 643 km
- Nizhniy Novgorod · 744 km
- Omsk · 1,061 km
- Moscow · 1,124 km
- Population, coordinates, elevation, time zone: GeoNames 511196 (CC BY 4.0)
- Wikidata Q915 (CC0)
- Climate: NASA POWER 2001-2025 climatology
Text written by Geographical Effect from these sources.
- Views of Perm (July 2024) - 4: Vyacheslav Bukharov, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Russia stamp 2023 № 3059: Капранов С., Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
- Perm Museum of Contemporary Art: Bestalex, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Theatre at the Bridge: User:DDDmark, Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
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