Location

St.-Petersburg is located in Nort-West part of Russian Federation, on the Baltic sea coast. On the Baltic sea coast are also located: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, the Kaliningralsky region of Russia, Poland, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland.

The city is located at 59°57' Latitude North width which passes through a southern part of Alaska, Chukotka and Greenland. Stockholm, Oslo and Helsinki are approximately placed at the same width, in each of them influence of a warm Gulf Stream affects weather. The Pulkovsky meridian (30°19' Longitude East width) crosses St.Petersburg, the meridian also comes nearby Kiev, Istanbul and Cairo.

The relief is various. To the southwest from St.Petersburg the Izhora height is allocated, to the north heights of Karelian Isthmus and Primorsko-Vuoksinsky lake area are allocated.

Climate

St.Petersburg is characterized by an intermediate (from nautical to continental) climate. It is quite mild and humid with frequent fogs and rains. There can be quite dry and hot periods in summer time, when the temperature goes up to +25°C - +30°C, but they last for a week maximum. Precipitation is not too plentiful, being 550 - 600 mm per annum. August is the rainiest month. High humidity is the result of the lack of sunny days. The average July temperature is + 17.8°C. The weather conditions of the city are much different from what you can see in the most North European cities.

White nights come on the coast of the river Neva in May (25-26th) and come to an end in July (16-17th), proceeding more than 50 days. The longest day is June, 21-22st.