The best time to travel to Karelia

When is it better to go to Karelia: in summer or autumn, spring or winter? On excursions, behind mushrooms and berries, fishing, just relax and enjoy unity with nature? The best time for a trip to Karelia: the weather, the presence and absence of mosquitoes, the prices in hotels and at camp sites than to do – Eurotraveler studied the issue in detail!

Karelia is a huge and still little-studied region in the north-west of Russia. Rich in natural attractions and providing the widest opportunities for a calm, truly health rest.

From the point of view of tourism, it seems to have become popular in recent years. But at the same time, storing a lot of riddles – the tourists for the mass, if they heard that you can and even need to go there, still have little idea of ​​what time it is better to go to rest in Karelia.

Well, that is, in the summer they will not trample them even on distant approaches to Ruskeal? And will it not be a big mistake to go to the republic, say, at the wrong time: in April or May? Are we no longer talking about November or winter?

Only the inhabitants of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region (and Karelia-naturally) at least approximately imagine when navigation on Lake Ladoga begins and the bathing season in other local reservoirs starts. When you can already go to the forest, there is a chance to pull out of the water not a small roach, but a whole pike perch?

Well, again – when can you go to Karelia so as not to meet mosquitoes or minimize the consequences from this meeting? We will tell you how things are with ticks – the forests here are almost everywhere – wild, and herbs grow to the waist.

Summer

If you reason logically, this is the most correct time to travel to Karelia with both children and exclusively for adults. However, not all summer months are suitable for this equally well.

Because in June it is cool in Karelia – even the day of air temperature above +20 ° C is more exception than the rule. You can’t even find snow even in the forests at the latitude of Sortavali and Priozersk, but you will certainly want to get dressed in other days on other days.

Again, at the start of summer, rains often go here. Typically non -senior, but often long. So if you do not want to get wet on a sortaval tour or, for example, in Ruskeal, take umbrellas with you, or better, a raincoat in general.

Clear days also happen, and not 1-2 per month, but more. In other years, already in mid-June it became possible to bathe in some lakes of Karelia, since the water there warms up to +18-19 ° C

Mushrooms in the forests only appear – so you will be lucky if you can dial a chanterel or rahs. But the berries: blueberries, strawberries, raspberries are not yet there.

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But in early summer you can go fishing to Karelia – due to the lack of heat, this lesson will bring only positive sensations. You can catch the usual fishing rod or spinning in the lakes and rivers of the republic: roach and perches, scavengers, pike or even pike perch.

Calls of valuable fish breeds: trout and salmon, a siga without special permissions in June is prohibited (spawning)

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In the forests and on the banks of ponds at this time, these insects begin to actively multiply only when both raw and warm (especially at night). Since in Karelia in June both rules are not fulfilled at the same time so often, you are not too large the chance of being (strongly) bitten mosquitoes.

But to pick up the tick, walking in local forests and meadows, at the beginning of summer it is very possible. So either spray the clothes with the appropriate sprays before the trip, or after each sortie on the nature, carefully check the hair and skin.

Remember that ticks do not fly. Unlike the same “moose fly”, very harmful, but seemingly relatively safe for people to create, which is very active in the summer and even autumn period.

July and August

They are considered the ideal time to travel to Karelia. Naturally, the expensive ones – camps and hotels during this period demonstrate maximum loading despite the maximum prices.

The weather in Karelia in July and approximately until mid-August contributes to a long stay in the air: atmospheric temperatures fluctuate within +20-30 ° C, the water in the lakes warms up to +22-24 ° C and above.

In a word, good conditions for the development of rotavirus are created. Therefore, in general, we recommend that you follow bathing children and try not to swallow water yourself.

As for entertainment

Then in July and August their line is most diverse, and the cost of tours in Karelia reaches peak values. So, probably, you should not completely abandon amateur performances: one day you can visit Kizhi Island on Lake Onega, and in the other, make a trip to the Valaam archipelago. Which, as you know, is in another large pond – Lake Ladoga.

By the way, you can examine the monastery and the monastery on Valaam by going on a cruise on Ladoga on a ship from St. Petersburg. What are quite natural, at this time of the year, rivers and lakes of the region are actively plowing.

There are enough in Karelia and other interesting places.

As easily accessible to independent travelers: you can get and see for a day Petrozavodsk or Sortaval without any special training. So those where it is still wiser to go with an escort-for example, on a walk in Ladoga sabers.

Mosquitoes grow in number simultaneously with an increase in air temperature. As for the ticks, their activity freezes at that time-the bloodsuckers are banal to crawl somewhere in the “heat”.

There are many mushrooms and berries in the forests, but it is better to fish during this period in the morning or in the “night”. Since the fish with hot weather also reduces activity.

Autumn

Like the local summer, it cannot boast of the same or at least similar weather condition. That is, for example, in September in Karelia it is warm and at times very sunny, and in November they go here with the only intention – just to get out of the strangling embrace of the metropolis.

Therefore, even under the doubtful weather conditions, all this sculpting snowfall and the near -mowl temperatures of the camp site in the republic for the November holidays are never empty. After all, many people want to renounce the fuss for a while, sit by the fireplace, take a steam bath in the bathhouse?!

Very good in Karelia and October. The month when the children were already bent into science with might and main, and adults – with all their might earn a living and the next vacation.

Since in mid -autumn the weather in the region is sometimes very sunny and warmly smiles. And the price tags for tours and excursions are reduced almost to a minimum due to a significant drop in demand.

And how beautiful are the forests dressed in gold and oconial outfits – cannot be conveyed in words. So we definitely advise you to visit Karelia in the fall even on the weekend.

By the way, you should consider that navigation on Lake Ladoga usually ends only in November. So until the November holidays you can not only vanish through the forests, but also get to the boat to Valaam, for example.

Very good during this period and

Fishing

– The fish is actively feeding, riding fat before winter. Lovers of “quiet hunting” will receive the desired-up to noticeable night frosts, which usually happen in the second half-end of September, you have every chance to get a whole basket of mushrooms.

If you are ready to walk a lot and even crawl through the Karelian forests, you can bring berries from there. Brusnik and cranberries come to the fore in the beginning of autumn.

Do not forget to only take a cell phone with you and (or) compass – with them a chance to get lost significantly less. If you have a coating in your mobile operator (it is better to familiarize yourself with the appropriate map in Karelia in advance, before you delve into the forest that was not superimposed before) you can call for help and rescuers.

Winter

– A great time for a trip to Karelia of winter sports lovers. As well as those who simply love clean air and unmarried pacifying natural landscapes.

Despite the opportunities opening, in December the republic is not crowded with tourists. But to meet the New Year in Karelia from all regions of the country. Especially often here you can meet the capital’s residents – getting by car from Moscow to Petrozavodsk is quite simple.

If you want to know exactly whether it is cold in Karelia Winter, read our detailed material on this topic. In it, by the way, the best ski centers of the region are listed.

Well, we move smoothly to Karelian

Spring

And we state that this time of the year, in our modest opinion, is not in the best way for a rendezvous with Karelia. First of all, due to unstable weather: that minus is a plus, as well as an abundant snow cover, which finally goes only at the end of May.

To fall into a snowdrift knee -deep and get stuck with your foot (it would be nice in a rubber boot) in the earth that was filamented after spring thaw – this happens in the spring all the way.

At the same time, the period has important advantages that in your eyes may well outweigh the described shortcomings. In particular, there are few tourists, and the prices have not yet left winter hibernation

Therefore, in principle, travelers who love a calm contemplative vacation willingly go to rest in Karelia in April. Yes, and family tourists will find where to walk around on the weekend: Ruskeala Park every new year, for example, gives new opportunities.

The trip to Karelia in early May promises positive impressions, when the duration of the day exceeds 16.5 hours.

After all, it is actually cool – to sit with friends by the fire on the shore of the lake, observing how the sun sits out by the tops of the fir trees, breathing so clean and such fresh air. To fry kebabs and fish, sing songs under the guitar, talk … forget about gadgets and work, leave in some other, unreal world, excitement and care.

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