Saint Petersburg

Overview

Saint Petersburg is a city in Russia, in St.-Petersburg. About 5.4 million people live in the city proper, making it the 2nd largest city of Russia in our atlas.

It lies at 59.94° N, 30.31° E, about 11 m (36 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: Saint Petersburg. Green dots: other major cities of Russia. Map data: Natural Earth.

Climate

Saint Petersburg 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 -12°C (11°F). Around 800 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

Palace SquareCentral city square of St Petersburg, Russia

Tauride PalacePalace

Mariinsky PalacePalace in Russia

Popular sights within a few kilometres of the city centre, ranked by how widely they are documented on Wikipedia.

Nearby major cities

• Moscow · 617 km
• Nizhniy Novgorod · 860 km
• Voronezh · 1,042 km
• Kazan · 1,143 km
• Samara · 1,332 km
• Perm · 1,458 km
• Volgograd · 1,475 km
• Rostov-on-Don · 1,505 km

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