Yekaterinburg
City in Russia: population, location, elevation, climate and landmarks.
Views of Yekaterinburg from Vysotsky viewpoint - 12: Vyacheslav Bukharov, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
Overview
Yekaterinburg is a city in Russia, in Sverdlovsk Oblast. About 1.5 million people live in the city proper, making it the 4th largest city of Russia in our atlas.
It lies at 56.86° N, 60.62° E, about 278 m (912 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: Yekaterinburg. Green dots: other major cities of Russia. Map data: Natural Earth.
Climate
Yekaterinburg has a continental (warm summer) climate (Köppen Dfb). The warmest month is usually Jul, with average highs near 23°C (73°F); the coolest nights come in Jan at about -20°C (-4°F). Around 626 mm (25 in) of rain and snow falls in a typical year, most of it in Jun.
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
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- Ufa · 367 km
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- Samara · 754 km
- Omsk · 801 km
- Nizhniy Novgorod · 1,010 km
- Volgograd · 1,332 km
- Population, coordinates, elevation, time zone: GeoNames 1486209 (CC BY 4.0)
- Wikidata Q887 (CC0)
- Climate: NASA POWER 2001-2025 climatology
Text written by Geographical Effect from these sources.
- Views of Yekaterinburg from Vysotsky viewpoint - 12: Vyacheslav Bukharov, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Ipatjew-Haus2: unknown, Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
- Vysotsky skyscraper (August 2022) 01: Vyacheslav Bukharov, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- SKB-Bank Arena 2015 (8): SysMusDes, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Iset Tower: Фальшивомонетчик, CC BY 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Padel-arena: Информационный портал Свердловской Области, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Усадьба Расторгуева-Харитонова Екатеринбург: Митрохина Марина, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Keyboard monument: Тара-Амингу at Russian Wikipedia, Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
- Ural State Technical University (July 2023) - 5: Vyacheslav Bukharov, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
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