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Solar data for Russia

Across the 980 places in Russia the best fixed tilt for solar panels runs from 32° in Derbent to 54° in Yakutsk, and flat ground gets 1.9 to 4.0 peak sun hours a day. Every number is computed for each place.

Solar power in Russia at a glance

Averages over 980 places with climate data, for a fixed array facing south.

Best panel angle43°average, facing south
Peak sun hours3.13a day on flat ground
1 kWp makes1,196kWh a year at the best angle
Off-grid angle76°average, for the darkest month
MoscowNovorossiysk (most sun)
  • 1.93–2.33
  • 2.33–2.74
  • 2.74–3.15
  • 3.15–3.55
  • 3.55–3.96

Peak sun hours a day on flat ground. Each dot is one place (the 900 largest).

The sunniest place in Russia is Novorossiysk (Krasnodar Krai) with 3.96 peak sun hours a day on flat ground; the least sunny is Polyarnyy with 1.93. A 1 kWp array at its best angle makes from 758 kWh a year in Polyarnyy to 1,664 kWh in Krasnokamensk — 1,196 kWh on average.

The best year-round tilt runs from 32° in Derbent to 54° in Yakutsk. Off-grid systems are sized for the darkest month and do better steeper, at 76° on average: at 70° that month brings 0.00 kWh per kWp a day in Murmansk and 3.52 kWh in Aginskoye.

Size an off-grid system or open any place below for its sun path, monthly table and tilt curve.

Sunniest places in Russia

Ranked by peak sun hours on flat ground: the yearly average of a day's sunshine energy (NASA POWER climatology). Output: 1 kWp at its best year-round angle.

RankPlaceRegionSun hours/daykWh per kWp a yearBest tilt
1NovorossiyskKrasnodar Krai3.961,36334°
2KrasnokamenskZabaykalskiy (Transbaikal) Kray3.951,66448°
2AnapaKrasnodar Krai3.951,35633°
4GelendzhikKrasnodar Krai3.941,36234°
5BorzyaZabaykalskiy (Transbaikal) Kray3.911,66349°
5AbinskKrasnodar Krai3.911,35234°
5KrymskKrasnodar Krai3.911,35234°
8AkhtyrskiyKrasnodar Krai3.901,35134°
8TuapseKrasnodar Krai3.901,34734°
10KholmskiyKrasnodar Krai3.891,35034°

Least sunny places in Russia

RankPlaceRegionSun hours/daykWh per kWp a yearBest tilt
976NikelMurmansk1.9980049°
977ZapolyarnyyMurmansk1.9879249°
978MurmanskMurmansk1.9677447°
979SeveromorskMurmansk1.9576647°
980PolyarnyyMurmansk1.9375847°

Solar by region in Russia

Averages of the places in each region, sunniest first. Darkest month: what 1 kWp of off-grid panels at 70° makes a day in the worst month of the year.

RegionPlacesSun hours/daykWh per kWp a yearBest tiltDarkest month at 70°Sunniest place
Krasnodar Krai543.851,34335°1.88 kWhNovorossiysk
Adygeya Republic43.841,34536°2.00 kWhEnem
Astrakhan Oblast53.811,36037°1.63 kWhAstrakhan
Kalmykiya Republic13.801,33236°1.58 kWhElista
Karachayevo-Cherkesiya Republic53.781,37137°2.67 kWhCherkessk
Zabaykalskiy (Transbaikal) Kray63.771,60849°3.36 kWhKrasnokamensk
Dagestan113.751,29533°2.17 kWhKhasavyurt
Chechnya93.751,30434°2.24 kWhAvtury
Stavropol Kray313.751,31935°2.08 kWhNovoaleksandrovsk
Primorye163.731,47244°2.66 kWhLesozavodsk
North Ossetia–Alania53.701,30235°2.32 kWhVladikavkaz
Ingushetiya Republic103.691,29035°2.21 kWhSurkhakhi
Jewish Autonomous Oblast13.661,55849°3.01 kWhBirobidzhan
Rostov283.651,29036°1.46 kWhSal’sk
Kabardino-Balkariya Republic83.631,29636°2.50 kWhTyrnyauz
Amur Oblast83.621,55350°3.17 kWhBlagoveshchensk
Republic of Tyva13.621,48447°2.54 kWhKyzyl
Volgograd Oblast183.591,30939°1.42 kWhVolgograd
Orenburg Oblast143.531,36043°1.79 kWhYasnyy
Buryatiya Republic43.481,44048°2.55 kWhKyakhta
Altai Krai143.471,38846°1.99 kWhGornyak
Saratov Oblast153.461,29741°1.40 kWhNovouzensk
Khabarovsk83.431,41147°2.71 kWhKhabarovsk
Altai23.411,37846°2.23 kWhGorno-Altaysk
Voronezh Oblast183.411,25540°1.27 kWhBoguchar
Belgorod Oblast103.381,23439°1.22 kWhValuyki
Samara Oblast133.291,25643°1.35 kWhNeftegorsk
Tambov Oblast83.291,24042°1.20 kWhUvarovo
Kursk Oblast63.281,20840°1.16 kWhShchigry
Khakasiya Republic43.271,31045°1.88 kWhSayanogorsk
Lipetsk Oblast63.261,22442°1.16 kWhUsman’
Penza Oblast83.241,23342°1.27 kWhSerdobsk
Novosibirsk Oblast163.221,30446°1.66 kWhKarasuk
Oryol oblast33.221,20241°1.16 kWhLivny
Irkutsk Oblast203.201,32748°2.11 kWhIrkutsk
Omsk Oblast43.191,31048°1.73 kWhIsil’kul’
Bashkortostan Republic243.181,23544°1.45 kWhSibay
Ulyanovsk53.161,20743°1.24 kWhBarysh
Mordoviya Republic33.141,19943°1.15 kWhRuzayevka
Kurgan Oblast53.121,26047°1.64 kWhKurtamysh
Bryansk Oblast113.111,15340°1.00 kWhTrubchevsk
Kuzbass223.101,24846°1.62 kWhTashtagol
Tula Oblast163.091,17242°1.06 kWhYefremov
Ryazan Oblast83.091,17743°1.05 kWhRyazhsk
Sakhalin Oblast63.081,18042°1.88 kWhNevel’sk
Tatarstan Republic203.071,18644°1.14 kWhBavly
Chelyabinsk263.061,21846°1.60 kWhKartaly
Chuvash Republic53.011,15243°1.02 kWhAlatyr’
Tyumen Oblast62.981,21647°1.43 kWhIshim
Kaluga Oblast82.971,12042°0.94 kWhKozel’sk
Smolensk Oblast72.941,10742°0.92 kWhRoslavl’
Mariy-El Republic42.941,12844°0.94 kWhVolzhsk
Kaliningrad Oblast72.931,08940°0.81 kWhBaltiysk
Nizhny Novgorod Oblast172.921,12143°0.92 kWhSarov
Vladimir Oblast172.881,10944°0.87 kWhMelenki
Moscow Oblast862.871,09943°0.86 kWhZaraysk
Krasnoyarsk Krai232.871,16848°1.23 kWhShushenskoye
Kamchatka32.871,17147°1.83 kWhYelizovo
Udmurtiya Republic82.861,11745°0.97 kWhMozhga
Moscow102.851,09043°0.84 kWhShcherbinka
Tomsk Oblast52.851,17248°1.19 kWhSeversk
Ivanovo Oblast92.821,09544°0.81 kWhShuya
Sakha72.791,22953°0.97 kWhNeryungri
Pskov Oblast42.781,06643°0.75 kWhNevel’
Yaroslavl Oblast82.781,07944°0.71 kWhPereslavl’-Zalesskiy
Kirov Oblast82.771,07845°0.81 kWhVyatskiye Polyany
Sverdlovsk Oblast422.761,11147°1.15 kWhTalitsa
Tver Oblast122.761,06444°0.72 kWhRzhev
Kostroma Oblast72.741,06444°0.70 kWhVolgorechensk
Magadan Oblast12.681,16951°0.90 kWhMagadan
Perm Krai192.671,04945°0.80 kWhChaykovskiy
Novgorod Oblast62.651,02644°0.58 kWhStaraya Russa
Vologda Oblast62.631,02245°0.51 kWhGryazovets
Khanty-Mansia212.621,07349°0.52 kWhUray
St.-Petersburg112.5899444°0.36 kWhLomonosov
Leningradskaya Oblast'232.5799344°0.38 kWhLuga
Yamalo-Nenets82.471,02750°0.08 kWhNoyabrsk
Chukotka12.461,08553°0.25 kWhAnadyr
Karelia62.4294246°0.18 kWhSortavala
Arkhangelskaya112.3892345°0.15 kWhKotlas
Komi102.3292748°0.12 kWhEzhva
Nenets22.1687249°0.00 kWhNar'yan-Mar
Murmansk122.0581648°0.00 kWhKandalaksha

Largest places in Russia at a glance

PlaceLatitudeBest tiltOff-grid tiltSun hours/day (flat)
Moscow55.8° N43°80°2.85
Saint Petersburg59.9° N44°82°2.57
Novosibirsk55.0° N46°77°3.17
Yekaterinburg56.9° N46°82°2.82
Nizhniy Novgorod56.3° N43°81°2.89
Kazan55.8° N43°81°3.03
Chelyabinsk55.2° N46°81°3.08
Omsk55.0° N47°77°3.27
Samara53.2° N43°79°3.30
Rostov-on-Don47.2° N36°70°3.68
Ufa54.7° N44°76°3.07
Krasnoyarsk56.0° N47°81°2.96
Voronezh51.7° N41°77°3.33
Volgograd48.7° N38°75°3.68
Perm58.0° N45°82°2.69
Krasnodar45.0° N35°66°3.85
Saratov51.5° N41°78°3.46
Tyumen57.2° N47°82°2.95
Tolyatti53.5° N43°79°3.25
Izhevsk56.9° N45°82°2.91

Daylight and clock time in Russia

In Talnakh (69.5° N), the northernmost place, the longest day of the year lasts 24 h (midnight sun) and the shortest 0 h (polar night); in Belidzhi (41.9° N), the southernmost, 15 h 14 min and 9 h 08 min. Russia does not use daylight saving time: the clocks stay the same all year.

Time zonePlacesUTC offsetClocks change in 2026
Europe/Moscow563UTC+3no daylight saving time
Asia/Yekaterinburg165UTC+5no daylight saving time
Asia/Krasnoyarsk28UTC+7no daylight saving time
Asia/Vladivostok25UTC+10no daylight saving time
Asia/Irkutsk24UTC+8no daylight saving time
Asia/Novokuznetsk22UTC+7no daylight saving time
Europe/Samara21UTC+4no daylight saving time
Europe/Volgograd18UTC+3no daylight saving time
Asia/Novosibirsk16UTC+7no daylight saving time
Asia/Barnaul16UTC+7no daylight saving time
Asia/Yakutsk15UTC+9no daylight saving time
Europe/Saratov15UTC+4no daylight saving time
11 more time zones with fewer places

Questions about solar in Russia

What is the best angle for solar panels in Russia?
Facing south, between 32° and 54° depending on the place — 43° on average over 980 places. Off-grid systems that must get through the darkest month do better steeper, at about 76° on average.
How many peak sun hours does Russia get?
From 1.9 hours a day in Polyarnyy to 4.0 in Novorossiysk on flat ground, averaged over the year; 3.1 on average.
How much electricity does 1 kWp of solar panels produce in Russia?
About 1,196 kWh a year at the best fixed angle on average, from 758 kWh in Polyarnyy to 1,664 kWh in Krasnokamensk. These are long-term climate averages; a single year can be several per cent higher or lower.
Where is the sunniest place in Russia?
Novorossiysk (Krasnodar Krai) gets the most sun of the 980 places: 3.96 peak sun hours a day on flat ground, so 1 kWp there makes about 1,363 kWh a year.
Does Russia use daylight saving time?
Russia does not use daylight saving time: the clocks stay the same all year.
How long is the longest day in Russia?
24 h (midnight sun) in Murmansk; the shortest day lasts 0 h (polar night) in Murmansk.

All places in Russia

Chukotka

Jewish Autonomous Oblast

Kalmykiya Republic

Magadan Oblast

Mordoviya Republic

Oryol oblast

Republic of Tyva