What is the climate like in Russia?

Russia is located at 30 ~ 180 east longitude and 50 ~ 80 north latitude. It spans Europe and Asia, located in the east of Europe and the north of the Asian continent. Most of its European territory is the Eastern European Plain. It is bordered by the Arctic Ocean in the north, the Pacific Ocean in the east, the Atlantic Ocean in the west, the Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Finland in the northwest. Land neighbors are Norway and Finland in the northwest, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Belarus in the west, Ukraine in the southwest, Georgia, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan in the south, China, Mongolia and North Korea in the southeast (Lithuania and Poland only border Kaliningrad, an enclave outside Russia). The coastline is 37,653 kilometers long.

At the same time, Russia faces Japan, Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Sweden and the United States across the sea.

Most areas are located in the north temperate zone, and the climate is diverse, mainly temperate continental climate, but the north of the Arctic Circle belongs to the cold zone climate. The temperature difference is generally large, with the average temperature of-18℃~- 10℃ in June and1-27℃ in July. The annual average precipitation is 150 ~ 1000 mm. Siberia has a high latitude and a long cold winter, but it has long sunshine time and suitable temperature and humidity in summer, which is beneficial to the growth of coniferous forests.

Oymyakon village, located in the northeast of Russia, is one of the coldest settlements in the world. The average temperature in June of 1.2℃ is -50℃, which is the lowest in history.

The continental climate is gradually strengthened from west to east; The coast of the Arctic Ocean has a tundra climate (cold zone climate) or (polar climate), and the coast of the Pacific Ocean has a temperate monsoon climate. From north to south, it is polar desert, tundra, forest tundra, forest, forest grassland, grassland belt and semi-desert belt.