Karelia in July and August 2025 – Is it worth going on vacation? Weather and reviews, air temperature in Petrozavodsk and Sortavala, is it possible to swim like dressed, prices in hotels and tours. Are there mosquitoes in Karelia in the summer, what to see – in the material of Eurotraveler.
At times, it is worth only the external borders of Russia to close in full or partially, the top -end internal tourist destinations – the resorts in the Krasnodar Territory and the Crimean Peninsula – are rapidly overflowing with vacationers. Especially in July and August, the hottest in the literal and figurative sense of summer months.
As a result, having returned back, people publish angry reviews – they say, “everything is crowded”, “prices are space”, and “how can it be”? And then, a little cooled, they pretend-was it worth it to go somewhere to another place? That is, it will not work to rewind it back, but the next time, taught by bitter experience?
And here Karelia comes to mind – in July and August, sometimes warmed by the sun and not so that drowning in atmospheric sediments. Extensive, sometimes wild, very attractive.
What is there – just beautiful! Not without reason, even accustomed to automobile armchairs and sofas, people are happy to roam her forests on foot?
And also – Karelia is replete with clean lakes and thick forests.
And as a weighty bonus, it offers a territorial proximity to the “northern capital” of Russia. Very inspiring, by the way, both in July and in August, St. Petersburg, like many other millionaire cities, is significantly empty
What is Peter –
Diversity for the sake
You can get to Valaam or go to Kizhi – and yourself. To go fishing on Ladoga or Onega, to discover the cozy charm of sortavals, which retained many beautiful houses, see Petrozavodsk in a day.
To climb onto quite noticeable slides and admire far from tiny waterfalls. To visit the Ruskeala Park, broken in place of a career where marble was mined for St. Petersburg palaces.
And to do this not in a banal way, having arrived on a guide bus from the center of St. Petersburg. And certainly ride on Ruskeal express on steam traction! A natural picture from the distant past, setting down on the road from the Sortavalsky station.
But stop, put everything in the “shelves”: cutlets separately from flies. And let’s start with the most urgent question:
Weather in Karelia in July
Even a notorious optimist will not call her hot. The usual air temperature in the region, even in the afternoon with a creak, creeps through the line +20-22 ° C. And if there is a period with a heat of the order of +26-28 ° C, it is just right to talk about a global climate change.
At night, by the way, it is much colder-usually +12-16 ° C. But if there is +8-12 ° C, no one will be particularly surprised. Of the locals, of course.
In general, Carelia in Karelia promises to climate Not too much. Even if we are talking about the southern regions of the region: around Sortavala and Petrozavodsk.
The first, in the east, in the middle of the summer, a day. Much more often gives residents and guests sunny days-an average of 13-15 times in a month. It is very optimistic and therefore easily falls in love with itself. Especially if you initially decide on the direction and tuned in to skewers and waterfalls.
Petrozavodsk character is more severe. And if the air warms up to +24 ° C (rarely), then the completely cloudless sky here is perceived as a small holiday.
Precipitation and …
He will rain, however, not so often-within a maximum of 6-8 days. For precipitation during this period of the year traditionally specializes in the shower of the “mushroom format”. Sometimes strong, but passing quickly.
And in most cases, not requiring special equipment, even if you gathered on a long -hour excursion to Marcial Waters and Kivach Park. The umbrella is enough in the vast majority of cases: raincoats and rubber boots are completely unnecessary!
Komarov, however, in Karelia in July a lot. Well, they, like tourists, love warmth – especially after the rain!
Note that if you go north, towards the Arkhangelsk region, you will understand that for the local summer you need to come up with some other term. In any case, synonyms like hot and sultry are not at all suitable. Harsh and majestic – so much better!
Interestingly, that
In the St. Petersburg, not much south of St. Petersburg in July, is much more hot (usually, there are years-exclusion). Tourists begin to disappear with the sun -baked central streets, preferring squares with fountains and museum halls. And the townspeople themselves temporarily disappear in the direction of the Krasnodar Territory or Crimea.
However, some, on the contrary, prefer to admire the white nights north of St. Petersburg. And during even a brief trip to Karelia, they get so many impressions that the southern seas never dreamed.
Water temperature
Can I swim in Karelia in July? At times, this is permissible – if warm, not rainy weather has been established. After all, water in small lakes and sand quarries warms up to +19-22 ° C-the only question is how you measure it.
The large Ladoga Lake, even in the summer, preserves ice impregnability (maximum +18-19 ° C and then-near the shore). It equally recommends that the neighboring Onega Lake is exclusively fishing and not to plunge.
- Prices for daily rent of apartments in Petrozavodsk
Karelia in August
The final month of summer in the republic is slightly more dry, clouded, but cool. The air temperature during the day can sometimes reach +22-24 degrees Celsius, but more often prefers to live in another range below +20 ° C. At night usually +10-14 ° C, but the street thermometer can easily show +6-8 ° C.
The precipitation rate is reduced, but their intensity also falls – Livni with thunderstorms become in August Karelia not a rule, but exception. People with sensitive hearing probably patry, but an experienced traveler grinds rather.
After all, this means the increased probability of long tedious rains. Not shy to “bite off” from your vacation day or two.
However, August in Karelia and more generous on impeccably clear days. When you want to fasten the zipper on the jacket in the morning in the morning, and during the day you begin to complain about the overly scorching sun. The nature around just does not sparkle, flaunting the brightest shades.
Such moments are remembered … Especially if it is on this day that you planned a forest walk with a visit to “stunning” species points.
Prices 2025
They do not have particularly strong pressure on a tourist wallet. That is, by pockets of travelers with any level of prosperity – if he is ready not to buy a tour indiscriminately, but can organize a trip on his own
Suppose you decided to equip the database for trips in Sortaval, and even just spend the night there once. Prepare from 3,500-4,000 rubles per night if you travel with a company of 2-3 people-find well-equipped apartments in the Sortaval for such an amount is not a problem at all. Especially if you guess to book them before the onset of the high season!
A place in a campsite on the shore of Ladoga will cost from 2,500 rubles per person. Moreover, there are not many suggestions, and therefore they quickly end.
Have you heard that “somewhere here” can you rent an equipped house, in a picturesque place or even on the lake? And this is true!
How to dress and what to take
From the above, the idea logically follows that when visiting the region, albeit one -day, it is difficult to get by with one T -shirt and trousers. Even in July and August, a waterproof jacket with a hood, a raincoat, an umbrella, rubber boots may be required.
You can take with you a lot more – you practically going on an autonomous campaign!
Convenient shoes on non -slip soles will definitely be in place. A shirt with sleeves and our scarf – mosquitoes in the July Karelia are not just there, they feel like the “masters of the taiga.”
By the way, do not forget about blood -sucking insects and exposing on the shore of local reservoirs. If not mosquitoes – they prefer bushes, then the blind and other flying evil spirits are hunting Karelian beaches.
The easiest way will be those who intend to explore the region independently – today you can quickly get to the car from Moscow to Karelia. Since all things indicated above will be fitted into a microscopic trunk.
It will be somewhat more difficult to buy a 2-3 daytime tour of the region. For everything will have to be dragged in the suitcase literally “on yourself”.
The process of laying baggage takes a decent time. Yes, and take the preparation procedure especially carefully! Since any, even short walking in the Karelian forests and rocks, requires suitable ammunition.
If it is supposed to walk for several days in a row and generally exist autonomously from the outside world, one common sense cannot be done, knowledge will be required.
What to do
The monastery archipelago of Valaam is the most famous and therefore visited by the pearl of Karelia. Reasonably-you can get to Valaam from St. Petersburg by public transport.
The most hasty go to the monastery island through Priozersk, which is still in the Leningrad region. More thorough – plan a trip with an overnight stay in Sortaval, because in this town there is something to see. Or generally buy a tour with a visit to both Valaam and Ruskeals and Kiji!
They include Valaam in the program of brief excursions! It is tempting to visit the legendary archipelago, starting from the very center of Peter, from the Square of the uprising?
Often, a visit to Valaam provides for a cruise program on Lake Ladoga from St. Petersburg. Often for a company with another Ladoga island, a horse, where an old male monastery is located.
After a 2-3-day walk along Ladog, the motor ships return to the Neva, to the pier. Well, or float further – along the Svir River to the Onega Lake.
On which there is another famous attraction of the republic – Kizhsky Pogost. The one that is “without a nail.”
Earlier, we have already mentioned in recent years a very visited Ruskeal – both bus and individual excursions are brought here from St. Petersburg. Do not forget about the Karelian waterfalls: Kivach and Girvas, which are actually only the “elbow of the iceberg.”
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With a full list of places you need to visit in Karelia to a tourist, you can get acquainted in our detailed material!
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