Samara
City in Russia: population, location, elevation, climate and landmarks.
Samara - Port (2008-07-13): Vlad Volkov, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
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Overview
Samara is a city in Russia, in Samara Oblast. About 1.2 million people live in the city proper, making it the 9th largest city of Russia in our atlas.
It lies at 53.21° N, 50.14° E, about 107 m (351 ft) above sea level, and keeps time on the Europe/Samara time zone.
Location
Red dot: Samara. Green dots: other major cities of Russia. Map data: Natural Earth.
Climate
Samara has a continental (hot summer) climate (Köppen Dfa). The warmest month is usually Jul, with average highs near 28°C (83°F); the coolest nights come in Jan at about -17°C (2°F). Around 504 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.
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 · 294 km
- Ufa · 424 km
- Nizhniy Novgorod · 535 km
- Volgograd · 624 km
- Perm · 670 km
- Voronezh · 747 km
- Chelyabinsk · 781 km
- Yekaterinburg · 806 km
- Population, coordinates, elevation, time zone: GeoNames 499099 (CC BY 4.0)
- Wikidata Q894 (CC0)
- Climate: NASA POWER 2001-2025 climatology
Text written by Geographical Effect from these sources.
- Samara - Port (2008-07-13): Vlad Volkov, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Theater samara: Grigory Shklyar, Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
- Оперный театр - panoramio (6): Сергей Секачёв, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Монумент Славы, установленный в честь воинов-земляков: Rod vlad, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Raketa Samara: G-Max, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Дача Головкина 2026 4: Nyuhn, CC0 (Wikimedia Commons)
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