Climate - Zaporizhzhia (Ukraine)

The climate of Zaporizhzhia (formerly Aleksandrovsk) is continental, with very cold winters, in which the temperature is often below freezing, and hot summers.
The city is located in southeastern Ukraine, at almost 48 degrees north latitude, on the banks of the Dnieper River (or Dnipro). To the south of the city, the river widens to the point that it becomes practically as wide as a lake.
Precipitation is not abundant, in fact, in Ukraine the rains decrease as we proceed from west to east and from north to south. From May to August, the rains are a little more abundant and can occur in the form of thunderstorms.
Winter is cold and gray. Snowfalls are frequent, but generally not abundant.
Sometimes there can be cold spells from Siberia, which were once more frequent and during which the temperature can drop to -20 °C (-4 °F) or even below. The coldest record is -29.3 °C (-20.7 °F) and was set in January 2006.
Summer is warm, with a good number of hours of sunshine and some thunderstorms, more frequent in the first part. Although the weather is usually not too hot, there can be very hot periods, usually of short duration, during which the temperature can reach or exceed 35 °C (95 °F). In August 2010, during an exceptional heat wave, it reached 40.2 °C (104.4 °F).

Zaporizhzhia - Climate data

In Zaporizhzhia, the average temperature of the coldest month (January) is of -3.0 °C (26.5 °F), that of the warmest month (July) is of 23.2 °C (73.8 °F). Here are the average temperatures.
In Zaporizhzhia, precipitation amounts to 515 millimeters (20.3 inches) per year: so, it is at an intermediate level. It ranges from 30 mm (1.2 in) in the driest month (February) to 60 mm (2.4 in) in the wettest one (June). Here is the average precipitation.