Khabarovsk weather by month
The best time to visit Khabarovsk is May, June and September — 90/100 in June, 23°C and 14 rainy days. The best season is summer, June to August (81/100 on average).
The worst month is December at 29/100 — freezing, dry, clean air. See December →
Updated September 2026 · climate normals from ERA5 reanalysis
Planning the wider trip? Best time to visit Russia →
Best season: June to August (81/100 on average) · worst December (29/100)
- Days
- 23°C
- Nights
- 13°C
- Wet days
- 14
- Sun
- 9.8 h
- Humidity
- 76%
- Daylight
- 16 h

Khabarovsk, month by month
Comfort score out of 100 for the kind of trip Khabarovsk is best for, the average high, rainy days and hours of sun a day from the climate normals, and how busy it tends to be.
What's on in Khabarovsk through the year
Festivals, natural spectacles, holidays and the seasons to watch out for — curated and sourced. The month pages carry the detail.
- January
- Ice Fantasy sculpture festival1–31 Jan (usually)Festival
- February
- Maslenitsa16–22 FebFestival
- May
- Victory Day9 MayHoliday
- Amur boat season15 May – 15 Oct (usually)Opening
- November
- Amur frozen over20 Nov – 15 Apr (usually)Season
- December
- New Year holidays31 Dec – 8 Jan (usually)Holiday
- Deep winter1 Dec – 25 Feb (usually)Season
Crowds in Khabarovsk in June
How busy the place itself is — school and mass holidays, the months an editor tagged, and how sought-after the weather makes them. Never part of the comfort score.
Busyschool holidays in 3 of the markets that fill it, one of its best months for weather(estimated)
Peak crowdsBusyShoulder seasonQuiet
Traveller notes on Khabarovsk
What people who have been say about the place — the year-round notes first, then month by month.
Forum posters describe Khabarovsk, on the Amur River in Russia's Far East, as a genuinely worthwhile stop with a walkable riverside embankment and a noticeably different feel from European Russia further west. Posters flag Russia's Far East summer as running warmer and more humid than its reputation for cold might suggest, with June sitting at the start of the region's wetter early-summer stretch influenced by the same East Asian monsoon pattern that affects nearby China and Japan - real rain most days is a normal feature rather than an exception. Posters generally recommend packing for warm, muggy days with a rain layer on hand, rather than assuming the cold-Russia stereotype applies to a Far Eastern summer visit here.
Detailed December-specific trip reports for Khabarovsk are sparse on the forum, with posters mostly discussing nearby Russian Far East destinations like Vladivostok and Lake Baikal in winter rather than Khabarovsk itself. Given the limited destination-specific detail, this note is grounded in the well-established regional pattern for this part of Siberia's Far Eastern District: December brings serious continental cold, well below freezing with real snow cover, and posters discussing the wider region consistently emphasize dressing in genuine cold-weather layers regardless of exact destination. Posters generally describe this part of Russia as offering an authentic, tourist-light winter experience for visitors prepared for the deep cold.
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