Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd (Петроград) and later Leningrad (Ленинград), is the second-largest city in Russia, after Moscow, the nation's capital. Situated on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea, its area of 1,439 square kilometers (556 sq mi) makes it the smallest administrative division of Russia by area. The city had a population of 5,601,911 residents as of 2021, with more than 6.4 million people living in the metropolitan area. Saint Petersburg is the fourth-most populous city in Europe, the most populous city on the Baltic Sea, and the world's northernmost city of more than 1 million residents. As the former capital of the Russian Empire, and a historically strategic Baltic port, it is governed as a federal city.
- Country
- 🇷🇺 Rusia
- Elevation
- 0 m
- Population
- 5,351,935
- Time zone
- Europe/Moscow
- Coordinates
- 59.94, 30.31
Weather in Saint Petersburg month by month
The best months to go: May · Jun · Sep
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| high | 5° | 4° | 13° | 21° | 27° | 30° | 31° | 30° | 24° | 18° | 9° | 8° |
| low | -41° | -34° | -24° | -12° | -2° | 2° | 7° | 6° | 1° | -13° | -30° | -29° |
| rain | 49 mm | 41 mm | 43 mm | 52 mm | 69 mm | 90 mm | 98 mm | 98 mm | 63 mm | 73 mm | 66 mm | 58 mm |
2019–2023 average (ERA5, Open-Meteo). Monthly rainfall total.
How far Saint Petersburg is from other cities in Rusia
- Moscú635 km✈ 1 h 31 min · 🚗 10 h 35 min
- Nizhniy Novgorod896 km✈ 1 h 51 min · 🚗 14 h 56 min
- Voronezh1,072 km✈ 2 h 3 min · 🚗 17 h 52 min
- Kazan1,199 km✈ 2 h 13 min · 🚗 19 h 59 min
- Ulyanovsk1,251 km✈ 2 h 17 min · 🚗 20 h 51 min
- Saratov1,348 km✈ 2 h 24 min · 🚗 22 h 28 min
- Tolyatti1,355 km✈ 2 h 24 min · 🚗 22 h 35 min
- Izhevsk1,369 km✈ 2 h 25 min · 🚗 22 h 49 min
Photo from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) · Data from GeoNames, Open-Meteo.